42.15.3 Local host multiplayer crashes on launch

[light iron]

Basically the title. Been playing a save for a week or two idfk and hopped on this evening and the game crashes within 30 seconds of hosting the world

Giving it 9GB of ram. Zero mods at all. No crash logs that I know about.

need advice please 🙏 Finally can forge sledge hammer and dont wanna start fresh yet

[slate crow]

Can you share your logs.zip file found in %UserProfile%\Zomboid?

And with crash issues, can you share all “hs_err_pid” files found in your main game folder “Steam\steamapps\common\ProjectZomboid”?

[shut birch]

What about when you try to join other server?
My friend have similar problem, but it also crashes when he tries to join any server. He tried to delete Zomboid folder and Steam Project Zomboid folder, changed version to 41B.
Nothing helps.

[light iron]

By "crash" It stopped responding and only accepted being closed every time.
If that distinction matters

[wind whale]

you use not standart java client?

[light iron]

I use whatever steam gave me when I pushed install

[wind whale]

what version java in folder - C:\Program Files\Java\ ?

[light iron]

21.0.4

[wind whale]

@slate crow Are game success running in Java JDK ?

[slate crow]

Put this file in your game install folder, then run the game with the ProjectZomboid64.exe

[slate crow]

I have no idea what you mean by that question.

[light iron]

I'll give it a shot here in a little bit ty

[light iron]

I'm able to launch and play now thanks!
What was the issue and how should I go about fixing / avoiding it going forward?

[light iron]

Whatever it was wiped out my map exploration

Not the end of the world. Just thought id note it

[slate crow]

The file just increases the RAM assignment to the game, it seems like whatever was wrong with your save, any possible corruption, took a lot of RAM

So increasing it allowed you to load basically