my game is corrupted beyond belief

[bold mountain]

This is gonna be a long one tech support get ready

Ive been keeping this open

A lot of crashes happen instantly now, unlike before where the game dragged itself out

Errors 3,4,5,6 on start up, sometimes just one or two

Before it was worse, the errors went to the hundreds somehow, my character was meshed up like a blob and the zombies were black tar goops

Also unmodded

Ive verified game files three times today

Experimenting with Ram

Optiplex 3010

Awaiting any help

Three files failed validation and are being acquired

[sage pewter]

Can you share your logs.zip file found in C:\Users\YourUserName\Zomboid?

[bold mountain]

I can do that

The debug log has 5 documents which one should be seen first

[sage pewter]

The logs.zip file is enough

[bold mountain]

Do you need me to send it here?

[sage pewter]

Your PC does not fulfill the minimum requirements for the latest version of the game

I can only recommend switching to the older "Legacy" game versions by going to your Steam Library > Right click Project Zomboid > Properties > Betas > Select the Legacy 40 or older versions.

[bold mountain]

It ran perfectly fine last year do you know the cause of whats doing this

I would prefer a more in depth explanation

[sage pewter]

Your graphics card crashes and errors out

That is basically it

Last year we still had the old game version

[bold mountain]

If I were to update my graphics card or install an extra one what would be the games response

[sage pewter]

Which I referred you to

Installing a better graphics card would fix you issue, assuming it fulfills the requirements as written on the steam page

[bold mountain]

An intel 9 graphics card would fix this issue ?

[sage pewter]

You currently do not have any graphics card, you are using the integrated one from the processor

[bold mountain]

I see

[sage pewter]

And the processor is fairly outdated, you have a HD 2500 graphics. The absolute minimum supported is HD 5000, and even then it wont run great

[bold mountain]

Yes but how did my game run so smoothly without the minimum

[sage pewter]

Old game version

You can switch to it as I said

[bold mountain]

What build introduced the tartan golf cap to the character creation screen

[sage pewter]

I have not followed the tartan golf cap developement, so I would not know that

[bold mountain]

Thank you for your participation

I’m going to begin peeling my pc apart to see what I can do with it

[sage pewter]

Its a fine PC except the lack of a GPU

You could also try following this guide that I found:
https://github.com/pal1000/save-legacy-intel-graphics

Basically explains what the issue is and links custom driver that might improve the graphics a bit

[bold mountain]

What build do you recommend I play on while I start the upgrading process

[sage pewter]

40

[bold mountain]

Alright will do, thank you very much

This isn’t a very big jump backwards is it? Its just the regular zomboid without all the new fancy things?

I’m unaware of what was added in the string of updates

[sage pewter]

Depends what you mean by "fancy new things"

There have been a lot of changes between the updates

[bold mountain]

Never mind I am an idiot, sorry

which build 41 is the earliest 41 build, I am testing my cards limit

[sage pewter]

41 68, just follow the numbers

[bold mountain]

Something I did while peeling my pc apart mustve been arcane, because the current build runs at maximum 40fps and hasn’t shown me a single error