Game crashes when trying to join multiplayer server. | Project Zomboid | Page 1

astral parcel Mar 11, 2026, 9:43 PM

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Simple as, the game shows no error messages, just crashes back to desktop, tried joining my boyfriend, the game crashed basically as soon as I connected, I tried joining a random server to troubleshoot and it had the same behavior. We're on the unstable branch.

verbal flint Mar 12, 2026, 12:15 PM

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Can you share your logs.zip file found in %UserProfile%\Zomboid?
And can you share all “hs_err_pid” files found in your main game folder “Steam\steamapps\common\ProjectZomboid”?

astral parcel Mar 12, 2026, 1:24 PM

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Yeah, I'm gonna do that later today!

astral parcel Mar 12, 2026, 8:54 PM

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📎 logs.zip 📎 hs_err_pid4628.log 📎 hs_err_pid15984.log 📎 hs_err_pid16736.log 📎 hs_err_pid2472.log

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Here, should have everthing you asked for.

verbal flint Mar 12, 2026, 10:45 PM

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Hm, these are several different crash errors.. though we can try from the simplest one and see if that fixes it overall

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Try going to your Steam Library > Right click Project Zomboid > Properties > Set Launch Options > Type -novoip > Start the game
If that does not help, can you try typing -nosound instead? This is to check if it is a sound related issue.

astral parcel Mar 12, 2026, 11:12 PM

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okay, let me see

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it worked!

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so, i guess i can't use voice chat?

astral parcel Mar 12, 2026, 11:33 PM

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And NOPE, it didn't work.

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I now crashed when I was gonna spawn.

astral parcel Mar 13, 2026, 12:47 AM

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the -nosound fixed it.

astral parcel Mar 13, 2026, 1:25 AM

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so, do i really have to play without sound now or..?

verbal flint Mar 13, 2026, 10:40 AM

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astral parcel the -nosound fixed it.

That points us to some of your sound devices causing issues, what sort of audio hardware do you have?
And can you make sure all of the hardware is set to us 44 100hz or 48 000hz sampling rate? Other values are not supported.

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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/3962572/how-do-you-change-the-sample-rate-in-windows-setti

How do you change the sample rate in Windows settings permanetly? -...

So my headset sounds like a tin can on the windows "default" sample rate of 8 channel, 16 bit, 44100Hz. I have to change it to 2 channel, 16 bit, 44100Hz. I have to do this every single time I turn my headset off and on again or do a computer…

astral parcel Mar 13, 2026, 12:59 PM

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Huh, okay, I'll do that later. I just have a headset and desk mic.

astral parcel Mar 13, 2026, 8:55 PM

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Well, it worked.

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So weird that I have to do that in order to play normally.

verbal flint Mar 13, 2026, 10:43 PM

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Basically all sound devices are 44 100hz or 48 000hz already. Only some very specific ones set it higher, and some users also manually set it higher.

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So most people do not need to do this

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