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title: Configuring your StarRupture server with DSSettings.txt
description: Learn how to configure your StarRupture server using the DSSettings.txt configuration file.
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# Configuring your StarRupture server with DSSettings.txt

Learn how to configure your StarRupture server using the DSSettings.txt configuration file.

StarRupture offers a configuration file called `DSSettings.txt` that can be placed in the root of your server directory, alongside `StarRuptureServerEOS.exe`.

This file is a JSON file and exposes a few config options for tweaking your server, and an example of this configuration looks like this:

```language-json
{
  "SessionName": "SESSIONNAME",
  "SaveGameInterval": "300",
  "StartNewGame": "true",
  "LoadSavedGame": "false",
  "SaveGameName": "AutoSave0.sav"
}
```

## Options

### `SessionName`

This controls the session name on the server. It'll be the folder in which the world gets saved.

### `SaveGameInterval`

This controls how frequently the server saves the game, in seconds. `300` for example equates to every 5 minutes.

### `StartNewGame`

When `"true"`, this will generate a new world save when set. When `"false"`, it will instead load a previously generated save.

### `LoadSavedGame`

Similar but inverse to to `StartNewGame`, when `"true"` this will load a previously generated world save. And when `"false"`, will generate a new save.

### `SaveGameName`

This controls the name of the world save file. These can be found in `/StarRupture/Saved/SaveGames`  and then the `SessionName` you configured, such as `/StarRupture/Saved/SaveGames/MyServer` .