FAQ - njthomson/SrvSurvey GitHub Wiki
- Can SrvSurvey run twice in parallel?
- Is there a way to make donations?
- Errors about Diagnostic counts [2, 2, 2, 2]?
- Locked out of your Raven Colonial systems?
This is called "multi boxing" where you run 2 copies of the game on the same PC. SrvSurvey can help track progress in each account, but the way to achieve this is not so obvious.
Before you begin:
- Make sure that setting
Preferred Commander
is set to "(no preference)". - Make sure you've used SrvSurvey with each account individually first, with only 1 instance of the game running.
To run twice in parallel:
-
When you then start a 2nd instance of the game, click this chevron button in the top right corner of the main window:
-
Use button
Float overlays over next window
to control which game window overlays attach to. There's a green box above each window to make it really obvious which one has focus: -
Select and hit
Start
for Commander in the other game instance - a 2nd copy of SrvSurvey will begin that is forced to run against only that account. -
You'll then likely need to hit the chevron button in that 2nd SrvSurvey so you can use
Float overlays...
to make this match the other window. -
You can also run
SrvSurvey.exe -fid <fid>
from the command line to force SrvSurvey to watch a specific account.
Everything should then work properly but be aware things will act a little glitchy:
- Both game instances write certain things to the same file, like status.json - hence when you start an FSD jump it is possible you will see the FSD jumping overlay appear briefly on the other window.
- If you are focused on colonisation, there is a new setting
Suppress non-colonisation overlays
that will help reduce such visual glitches.
If you would like to help with server costs for Raven Colonial or buy me a fresh coffee, donations may be made through PayPal or Patreon.
Thank you 😎
~ CMDR Grinning2001
If you have installed the Windows App store build and you see an error similar to this (albeit with different numbers):

This can usually be solved by:
- With SrvSurvey not running
- Create folder
%appdata%\SrvSurvey\SrvSurvey\1.1.0.0\
- Restart SrvSurvey
If the problem remains:
- With SrvSurvey not running
- Delete folder
%appdata%\..\Local\Packages\35333NosmohtSoftware.142860789C73F_p4c193bsm1z5a\LocalCache\Roaming\SrvSurvey\
- Restart SrvSurvey
This can also be solved by installing and running a GitHub build: https://github.com/njthomson/SrvSurvey/releases/
Once fixed this issue never returns.
(What's really going on here is: the Windows OS knows this is an App store app and for some reason when reading files from %appdata%\SrvSurvey\SrvSurvey\1.1.0.0
the OS is silently redirecting it to %appdata%\..\Local\Packages\35333NosmohtSoftware.142860789C73F_p4c193bsm1z5a\LocalCache\Roaming\SrvSurvey
. This is a problem as when SrvSurvey is removed or you start using the GitHub build, your survey data may be lost. SrvSurvey attempts to correct this by creating the right folders automatically, but it does not always work)
With Frontier allowing us to change our Commander names, Raven Colonial will now update your systems automatically when you next login. Hit the top/right button, then Login
If you changed your Commander name before first logging into Raven Colonial, or you're still blocked in any way - please let me know the following details and I will get you sorted:
- Old Commander name
- New Commander name
- One system name where you are the architect
