Hi when i click play on steam it tries to load but after like 3 seconds nothing happens and lets me click play again but even if i try again nothing happens.
Have tried using alternate launch deleting user zomboid folder even reinstalling etc but nothing seems to work. Something to adds is that when i switch to b41 it loads normally.
#B42 wont start help
vagrant oar
Also i took off mods everything but nothing seems to let me play :c
topaz marsh
Did you load a broken mod from workshop folder? can you start in debug mode? Did you do a restart? Try uninstall and reinstall or verify files. Could be local corruption if not mods.
vagrant oar
about loading broken mod i dont thiknk i did i deleted everything and unsubcribed from all mods before reinstalling, i got into b41 and there are no mods
Debuf mode i dont know what that is.
I did restart pc many times
i have uninstalled and reinstalled and also verified files
maybe that line where says cant find dependent libraries
the issue? i dont really know much about that kindda stuff but since says cant i asssume something not going right xd
topaz marsh
Can you get it to crash and then post or share the entire console.txt file?
The exception could be much higher in the file that is causing that one I would be happy to take a look if you provide the entire file after a crash or when you see the issue.
topaz marsh
Yep let me take a look.
You may need to get this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170 if it is not present on the system. It also seems that your username has a weird character which may be causing an issue you could try making a new user without a special characer and seeing if it works on there.
vagrant oar
i see will try both things and hopefully it works thanks!
it seems i have the program that u linked visual c++ and aobut the new user my user name is just my name no special chars
so idk if i really need to change it
topaz marsh
Okay yeah if your username doesn't have special characters you are good but it does seem odd how it appears there I haven't seen that before.
Good luck!
vagrant oar
hi how do i change that tho
heavy kettle
then click in the address bar of explorer and type cmd:
Then
that won't change it permanently, but it should show if the path to temp is the problem
vagrant oar
so i type cmd: and all that text?
heavy kettle
type cmd into the bar and hit enter, it should open the black screen
then type
md c:\temp
set temp=c:\temp
projectzomboid64.exe
and if that doesn't just work right away i'll stop wasting your time, but it trying to find that temp folder and failing because of ? in it is the reason
vagrant oar
i tried it like this
heavy kettle
hit enter between each line
and yeah, that emoji in your username, that's the problem
heavy kettle
well let's try
in that black box type
md c:\temp (hit enter)
set temp=c:\temp (hit enter)
projectzomboid64.bat (hit enter)
(i changed to the .bat instead of .exe because it'll give better output)
heavy kettle
oh, it didn't open in the game folder
vagrant oar
doesnt have that emoji
heavy kettle
did you open explorer by right clicking the game in steam, manage?
At some point it created your profile with it, so no clue on the history of it, but.... it's there, for sure 😉
vagrant oar
did you open explorer by right clicking the game in steam, manage?
i just tried that way
heavy kettle
I'm trying to do this in the most temporary way possible, so I'm not changing anything about your profile, just the temp path for that one command prompt
topaz marsh
Ahh yep there it is that coffee cup is the killer. Easy fix is to make another user and launch from there. But I think Wulf is having you change the temp directory, which could be a great fix, so listen to everything they say 🙂
heavy kettle
@tall oriole I guess this would be a bug report about PZ being UTF8 and choking on a unicode character.
topaz marsh
That is crazy that Windows let you use an emoji there, I wonder if that is still a thing?
Seems like the worst idea in design ever!
heavy kettle
Yeah, I wouldn't have thought CMD was even capable of showing it
topaz marsh
Wow that is nuts I am sure it isn't just PZ that can get bonked by that, a new user would be a good option if you are having issues on other software too.
heavy kettle
so Cafecito, which step in my instructions were you last able to complete as I said?
Do you have an Explorer open window to the project zomboid folder?
vagrant oar
well let's try
in that black box type
md c:\temp (hit enter)
i ran this and it worked but game didnt open
ended up like this
heavy kettle
i ran this and it worked but game didnt open
ok
type in:
echo %temp% (hit enter)
vagrant oar
done
heavy kettle
what did it say?
vagrant oar
its running although black screen still
heavy kettle
getting farther than before?
vagrant oar
yes
heavy kettle
yay
vagrant oar
wouldnt open at all before
heavy kettle
@tall oriole Setting environment variable tmp to a hardcoded path got him further
(summarizing to save you time)
vagrant oar
it show the mouse icon like the hand of the menu
but all is black and i cant hear anything
heavy kettle
ok, close the game, and try open it again?
some people report it opening to black screen first try
heavy kettle
ok, so the things we did are fully temporary, and gone when you close that black box again.
topaz marsh
🍕 Nice!
heavy kettle
Your TMP env variable needs to be set to something, but I'm not the dude to be walking another dude through permanent system settings
It's not hard, but annoying to fix if messed up 😉
vagrant oar
does all that mean that is basically the emoji in my name making it not work?
heavy kettle
so until @Beard gives you a better method
The summary of what we did is
Manage game in steam, to get to its folder
click in address bar, type cmd, (enter)
set tmp=c:\temp (enter)
projectzomboid64.bat (enter)
heavy kettle
does all that mean that is basically the emoji in my name making it not work?
Yup. The game doesn't understand emoji characters in file paths
vagrant oar
asnd i guess i can figure out how to change that name
topaz marsh
I think you might be able to make a custom .bat file that makes that change and launch from there? I forget exactly how tho.
heavy kettle
The annoying part is that even if you change it everywhere else, Windows is gonna remember that folder path forever until you remove and re-add the user, or mess around in your system settings
topaz marsh
Just a side note Cafecito, that emoji is likely to cause issues in other java software as well. So making a new user could be something you want to do in the future if you see other crashes in java (or python) software.
heavy kettle
Editing it here should fix it permanently, but again, I'm just a dude on the internet.
Don't trust me for permanent system setting changes.
vagrant oar
all good and appreciate ur time to help me out. and yes i have to get that fixed since like u said might cause issues in the future but now that i know thats the problem i can relax a bit haha
once again appreciate ur time 😄
heavy kettle
Enjoy, and kill some zombies for me =]