Website/docs/md/spt-aki/faq.md

Launcher related questions

The launcher closes as soon as it opens

Copy-paste from EscapeFromTarkov_Data/Managed/ into the same directory where Launcher.exe is located:

• 0Harmony.dll
• Assembly-CSharp.dll
• Newtonsoft.Json.dll
• NLog.dll
• NLog.SPTarkov.Common.dll
• UnityEngine.dll
• UnityEngine.CoreModule.dll
• UnityEngine.ImageConversionModule.dll
• zlib.net.dll

The launcher reports that no servers are available

Make sure that Server.exe says that the server is running. After this, press the refresh button.

The launcher reports that no connection can be established

Make sure that Server.exe says that the server is running.

Object reference not set to an instance of an object reported by launcher

1. Start server
2. Start EscapeFromTarkov.exe
3. Wait about 10 sec on loading screen
4. Close game (Alt+f4)
5. Start Launcher.exe

If this does not solve your issue, make sure that you've also ran the game from your Official Tarkov installation.

Server related questions

Where is the mods folder located?

In user/mods/. If it's not located there, create a folder mods in the user folder of the server.

TypeError: Cannot read property 'menu' of undefined

In order to fix this error, you need to download the language you're using here, The language you're using is shown above the error.

eg:

/client/menu/locale/ch <-- is the language you're using, so download the language mod according to your version.

TypeError [ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE]: The "data" argument must be of type string or an instance of Buffer, TypedArray, or DataView. Received undefined

In order to fix this error, you need to either uninstall your current NodeJS version and install NodeJS v12.16.3, or if the error is coming from logger.js then:

1. Open core/util/logger.js.
2. On line 43, replace fs.writeFileSync(filepath); with fs.writeFileSync(filepath, '');.
3. Save the file and re-run server.

Input string 'number' is not a valid integer.

⚠️ If you want to make any changes in your character profile file, close both the game and the server, none of these should run ⚠️ .

If you encounter this error, you need to:

1. Go into user/profile/yourProfileID/character.json.
2. Search for the number appearing in the error
3. Remove the ".5" of the number
4. Save the file
5. Start the server

How do i recache my server ?

Before recaching your server, make sure to have both the game and server not started.

In order to recache your server you need:

1. Head to ServerDir/user
2. Delete the cache folder
3. Head to ClientDir/
4. Delete the cache folder
5. Start the server

Can i play with friends on SPTarkov ?

In order to play with your friends, you need to buy an Escape From Tarkov copy at https://www.escapefromtarkov.com/preorder-page

SPTarkov will never hold multiplayer capabilitys.. So no you will not be able to play with your friends using SPTarkov. Even if you find videos that show people playing with other people on it, it's not made by SPTarkov tarkov team, and it's absolutely not related to it too.

Where is the bots_ffolder?

Building from source questions

When building the modules project I get a "code 4" error

Check the directory path where you are building the project, it should not have any spaces in it e.g.

C:\This is a bad directory name\modules\project

See below for a good example of a directory structure.

C:\SPTarkovDev\modules\project\

Unrelated questions

Where can i download the last version of SPTarkov ?

Just head over the #tutorials section in the SPTarkov guilded.

Link : https://www.guilded.gg/senkospub

The game is stuck at the loading page

This means your assemblies version is wrong or your client version is wrong. Use the lastest files available only in the SPTarkov guilded.

How do i clean my temporary EFT folder ?

For cleaning this folder, open the windows start menu and search %temp%.

Open this folder and look for Battlestate Games. Delete this folder and it's done!

Can i use the underbarrel grenade launcher ?

No you can't, the grenade launcher is having issues when reloading which blocks your character of doing anything else in a game. It's not meant to be useable, otherwise it would be available on the official game.

I don't have any bots that spawn in my raid

That's normal, in order to get bots to spawn, you need to check the "Enable PVE" checkbox in the raid screen.

I'm stuck in the right click menu UI

In order to fix this, you can reduce your mouse right click speed in the windows options.