PZ won't open again.....

[sly cliff]

and i did notice the game was updating about 100kb on steam, but im not really check what kind of update was it, i just straight up restarting my pc immediately.

[proven marten]

Those updates are usually for workshop mods. How much RAM do you have? Did this issue start after adding any kind of mods?

[sly cliff]

nope i didnt have any mod

i actually new at this game i got only 30hour on steam

also this is what it said when i try alternate launch

[sly cliff]

i have 8gb of ram

Gtx 750 ti
Intel Core i3 gen 2

on task manager it keep stuck on low memory

[proven marten]

are you launching with -cachedir still in the launch options or without?

[proven marten]

Can you check what the "xmx" number is in your steam game folder, right click and edit "projectzomboid64.json"

[sly cliff]

i did try both still the same

[sly cliff]

this?

[proven marten]

Yes, have you tried verifying integrity of game files?

[sly cliff]

yep im doing that right now its still loading, i will tell you when it's finish

[ripe sundial]

You having the same problem I'm having? Where to game says it's opening but dosen't open the game?

[sly cliff]

yeah, the app is detected on task manager but just doesn't able to load or something

[ripe sundial]

Huh, I have no clue why this is happening

I've re-download the game like 25 times now.

[sly cliff]

last night i was able to play it tho

[sly cliff]

dayum....

[ripe sundial]

Yep. Cleared cache, re-download, verify, re-download steam, restart computer, re-download steam again. Full 9 yards.

It's a new pc I just built so I know that's not the problem

[sly cliff]

are you able to play it when the first time you bought it?

i mean bought the game

[ripe sundial]

Yep, but that was like a few months ago

I'm just now trying to get back into it and so far nothing

[sly cliff]

maybe, try updating your gpu, could be the case but im not sure neither

[sly cliff]

is this a bad sign, well it seems so i think

[ripe sundial]

Yah I've gotten that so many times.

Even when I validate and play the game the 1 item won't validate.

[sly cliff]

i just want to play the game too, i mean i did spend a quite amount of money..

[proven marten]

Its good, it will patch and verify it

[sly cliff]

so it will verify by itself?

[proven marten]

Is it not verifying/downloading?

[sly cliff]

oh yea it did download something

let me try it first

[ripe sundial]

Yah it dose it automatically.

I might try it on my laptop, it dose work on there

[sly cliff]

did it twice still nothing

[ripe sundial]

Let me know when you get it working I got work tomorrow

[sly cliff]

i got you man

[proven marten]

We can try a few more things. One would be setting that xmx number to "5g" instead of 3072. Next would be uninstalling and reinstalling java.

Also check your graphics drivers if they are up to date.

Since you have nvidia, I would check geforce experience for updates

[sly cliff]

already update it

[sly cliff]

like this?

[proven marten]

Yes, it seems your game isn't utilizing the available ram, you can try this to change it from 3gb to 5gb to see if that works.

Is your ram showing up fine in task manager?

[sly cliff]

change it? how?

[proven marten]

by changing and saving the Xmx like you did above, save the file and try launching the game

[sly cliff]

still the same

the game didn't take any of my ram

i will try the java method

[proven marten]

is your ram showing up in task manager > performance?

[sly cliff]

yes, it's only avaible about 3gb the rest 5gb got taken by other app

[proven marten]

can you send a screenshot?

[sly cliff]

wait a minute

[proven marten]

Can you input this "-Xms3072m -Xmx6144m" in steam when launching game? in launch options

also check if you have 64 bit java installed, 32 bit is limited to less ram

[ripe sundial]

It's strange this is the only game I have that's like this.

I remember having problems a long time ago with the game.

[sly cliff]

nothing happen

[sly cliff]

idk but when i try to verify the integrity game files it always has 1 files failed

wait it works idk how but maybe because the verify files made it work?

[sly cliff]

nope the bug still here, i tried to join my friend an then it say conection to server lost, it tell me to exit to dekstop, i tried to open it again then the problem back again??

[sly cliff]

this problem wont gone i keep verifying it and it still here

[ripe sundial]

Damn, we be playing nothing I guess

[night birch]

Try moving the game to a different hard drive if you have any

[sly cliff]

im only have one hard drive

[night birch]

Are you able to join other servers?

[sly cliff]

didn't able to open the game actually just like usual

[sly cliff]

stuck like this

[night birch]

You mentioned here that you loaded into the game and then couldnt join

So, you were able to load into it at some point, right?

What did you do that allowed you to load in?

[sly cliff]

i assumed maybe because there's one file that corrupted

[sly cliff]

the problem did again like 2 days ago, cannot run the game

maybe i will try to reinstall it again later

[night birch]

What changed since the time it ran fine and when it broke again?

Since something must have changed on the system

Such as different applications running, stuff being connected to it etc

[sly cliff]

im not sure, i was trying to verify the integrate files, start it again, and suddenly it able to run the game

im immediately tell my friend to host a server to play together, and then it said conection to server lost tell me to exit to dekstop, start the game again and the problem back

[night birch]

Hm, can you check your Antivirus to see if any files are being blocked?

Since its possible it is deleting that one file that you keep verifying

[sly cliff]

did that, i'm using Avast

but it doesn't delete anything about PZ

[night birch]

Tried pausing it, then verifying files, then launching the game?

[sly cliff]

didn't work

[night birch]

Does the alternate launch stay at this even after a few minutes?

[sly cliff]

nope, still same

wait around 5 min, still look the same

[night birch]

Try going to your Steam Library > Right click Project Zomboid > Properties > Set Launch Options > Type -cachedir=C:\Zomboid > Start the game

[sly cliff]

same thing, didn't work

should i just reinstall it at this point?

[night birch]

Sure

[ripe sundial]

Hey I'm having the same problem as he is.

I've done just about everything to try and fix it.

I've re-download, verified, ran aa administration, re-downloaded steam, the whole nine yards.

[night birch]

Make your own thread and provide the same info as was provided

[sly cliff]

hey i noticed that i can actually play the game, but there's something weird

i need to wait up to 15 min to actually open the game

after waiting 15min the game work beautifully

is there a way to fix this issue?

[night birch]

Do you have any sort of antivirus? McAffee perhaps? Or Avast?

It could be slowing down the loading

[sly cliff]

yes i have one of those antivirus

especially avast

what do i need to do with it?