[Responded] 'Target instance no longer open to new players'

This has now happened to me twice, once maybe a couple of weeks ago when I didn't think much of it, and again today. The rough sequence of events below is based on today's experience, I can't remember whether details were 100% the same last time.

• Logged in with no trouble, selected a character who had logged out in Outlaw's Run earlier today, Start On World Map.
• Character started in Mistrendur as expected, went to the cross-continent galleon, selected Ardoris.
• Toggled to my browser window to do something else for 30 seconds while I waited for the loading screen to clear (as I normally do).
• When I toggled back the loading screen was stalled at 50% and the message below said the target instance was no longer open to new players and I should get my friends to teleport to me (or words to that effect, I forgot the exact phrasing). Note that I was still waiting for the galleon to drop me off in Novia.
• I was then fully logged out as if the game had loaded for the first time - back to the start screen, select Play Game, enter my password etc. My character was still in Mistrendur standing by the galleon, this time he had no trouble getting to Ardoris.

I don't know whether this is definitely a problem with the overworld, I guess it could be to do with moving between Ep1/Ep2 continents. I managed to grab a copy of the log and pulled a chunk which appears to cover the period from just before I was kicked out to when I logged back into Mistrendur, I can forward the full log if it would be useful.

Spoiler: sota_log extract

Fallback handler could not load library C:/Program Files/Portalarium/Shroud of the Avatar/Shroud of the Avatar_Data/Mono/MouseLib
Fallback handler could not load library C:/Program Files/Portalarium/Shroud of the Avatar/Shroud of the Avatar_Data/Mono/MouseLib.dll
Fallback handler could not load library C:/Program Files/Portalarium/Shroud of the Avatar/Shroud of the Avatar_Data/Mono/MouseLib
Fallback handler could not load library C:/Program Files/Portalarium/Shroud of the Avatar/Shroud of the Avatar_Data/Mono/libMouseLib
Fallback handler could not load library C:/Program Files/Portalarium/Shroud of the Avatar/Shroud of the Avatar_Data/Mono/libMouseLib.dll
Fallback handler could not load library C:/Program Files/Portalarium/Shroud of the Avatar/Shroud of the Avatar_Data/Mono/libMouseLib
PushLevel: Added level Novia, spawnPoint: PlayerSpawnLocation_Ardoris, hex:5522,5502
NetworkingPeer: LeaveRoom
Can not play a disabled audio source
(Filename: Line: 446)
SceneServer: OnStatusChanged: Disconnect
PlotManager: SceneServer disconnect. Load status = Initialized
NetworkingPeer: LeaveComplete. Disconnecting.
NetworkingPeer: Connecting to "38.140.214.157:5055"
AsyncLoadSequence begin. SceneToLoad: Novia: PlayerSpawnLocation_Ardoris
15:54:18: Loading Scene...
10
15:54:18: Level load loop started.
Unloading 3 Unused Serialized files (Serialized files now loaded: 63)
UnloadTime: 579.948200 ms
GameManagerSceneObject.Awake. 09/04/2022 15:54:21
NavMeshLoadTime SceneId=Novia , Time=0.5515671
Pathfinding: Load Loaded
Camera: CameraRig_Universal (NOVIA SETTINGS - DO NOT REVERT) (CameraController)
Sub-emitters must be children of the system that spawns them
(Filename: Line: 3273)
Unloading 33071 unused Assets to reduce memory usage. Loaded Objects now: 611623.
Total: 1151.243000 ms (FindLiveObjects: 52.042400 ms CreateObjectMapping: 22.818200 ms MarkObjects: 987.241100 ms DeleteObjects: 89.140400 ms)
Unloading 0 Unused Serialized files (Serialized files now loaded: 63)
GC.Collect() took 0.1 seconds
15:54:24: Level loaded.
15:54:24: Scenario init completed. Scenario:
Checksum for Novia: 2307596331
Unloading 0 unused Assets to reduce memory usage. Loaded Objects now: 611623.
Total: 944.987100 ms (FindLiveObjects: 42.664400 ms CreateObjectMapping: 22.914800 ms MarkObjects: 878.774200 ms DeleteObjects: 0.632900 ms)
Game does not exist
(Filename: C:\buildslave\unity\build\Runtime/Export/Debug.bindings.h Line: 45)
joinGame failed, client stays on masterserver: GameIdNotExists.
(Filename: C:\buildslave\unity\build\Runtime/Export/Debug.bindings.h Line: 45)
JoinRoom: Received OnPhotonJoinRoomFailed(GameIdNotExists,onGameServer:False) from server while loading scene Novia. gameId:b8cdbb71-4ba2-43f2-a07e-53a7e035ccfc
AsyncLoadSequence begin. SceneToLoad: DemoStartupScene:
15:54:55: Loading Scene...
15:54:56: Level load loop started.
Unloading 2 Unused Serialized files (Serialized files now loaded: 61)
UnloadTime: 446.408300 ms
GameManagerSceneObject.Awake. 09/04/2022 15:54:57
Pathfinding: Load Loaded
Camera: CameraRig_OverworldDemo (CameraController)
Unloading 333 unused Assets to reduce memory usage. Loaded Objects now: 437182.
Total: 759.106800 ms (FindLiveObjects: 29.855700 ms CreateObjectMapping: 16.717400 ms MarkObjects: 704.944900 ms DeleteObjects: 7.588600 ms)
Unloading 0 Unused Serialized files (Serialized files now loaded: 61)
GC.Collect() took 0.1 seconds
15:54:58: Level loaded.
15:54:58: Scenario init completed. Scenario:
Checksum for DemoStartupScene: 2930168668
15:54:58: login level loaded.
Unloading 0 unused Assets to reduce memory usage. Loaded Objects now: 437178.
Total: 748.708600 ms (FindLiveObjects: 30.185000 ms CreateObjectMapping: 16.245400 ms MarkObjects: 701.726900 ms DeleteObjects: 0.550700 ms)
15:54:59: Waiting for NPC Spawn
15:54:59: Finished NPC Spawn
15:54:59: Hiding Loading Screen...
TimeToLoadLevel, SceneName=DemoStartupScene, TimeToFadeIn=3.9, PreloadTime=0.8, SceneIOLoadTime=0.0, SceneUnloadTime=0.8, SceneActivateTime=1.1, JoinTime=0.0, DecoLoadTime=0.0, AvatarLoadTime=0.0, FinalizeLoadTime=1.2, RelatedInfo, PrefabLoadTime=0.0, ResourceLoadTime=0.0, GameManager=0.1, JoinDownloadTime=0.0, VideoMemory=6103, SystemMemory=7545, FirstTime=False, UserId=##redacted##
15:54:59: Fading in...
15:55:00: AsyncLevelLoad Completed!
GroupServer: OnStatusChanged: Disconnect
ChatChannelManager: OnDisconnectedFromGroupServer: chat channels cleared
NetworkingPeer: Connecting to "38.140.214.157:5055"
StateMachine (LoginManager): State (LoadCharacters): SceneName: DemoStartupScene ,
StateMachine (LoginManager): State (LoadCharacters): SceneName: DemoStartupScene ,
Knowledge: Loaded 3346 character flags, 4 user flags
PushLevel: Added level Episode_2_Continent, spawnPoint:, hex:5522,5502
AsyncLoadSequence begin. SceneToLoad: Episode_2_Continent:
15:55:16: Loading Scene...
15:55:17: Level load loop started.
Unloading 1 Unused Serialized files (Serialized files now loaded: 61)
UnloadTime: 4.691300 ms
GameManagerSceneObject.Awake. 09/04/2022 15:55:20
NavMeshLoadTime SceneId=Episode_2_Continent , Time=0.1599731
Pathfinding: Load Loaded
Camera: CameraRig_Universal (NOVIA SETTINGS - DO NOT REVERT) (CameraController)

Reproduction Rate: very low
Blocker? kind of - forced relog
Steps to Reproduce: unknown
User Specs:
OS: Windows 10 (10.0.0) 64bit
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 4600H with Radeon Graphics (12) System RAM: 7545
GPU: AMD Radeon(TM) RX 5600M Series GPU RAM: 6103
SotA.Win.64.1525.Date.04.06.22

 

@Vaentorian, i showed this to @Chris and he thinks this is due to system resources. current minimum specs list 12GB ram and you show less than 8, some of which may be taken by the integrated gpu.

 

Okay, thanks for passing that on @Alley Oop , I was unaware of the current minimum requirements. I don't suppose it makes any difference that I'm showing 15.3GB available virtual memory (from SSD) in Windows' system info?

Still seems a bit odd that within minutes of launching the game there would be a RAM issue when the only other program running is Chrome... but I can live with it if it's not a bigger issue than my relatively lightweight machine!