Game crashes randomly during startup

[keen radish]

Whenever I start the game it randomly crashes during the startup (before the main menu but during the black screen where everything loads). It worked perfectly fine last time I played it so idk what's causing it. I did install a few new mods, but they were never enabled and I even tried uninstalling them, to no effect. Any help is appreciated!

[cursive frigate]

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”?

[keen radish]

All log zip files or just recent ones?

Didn't see this one at first

It's just Project Zomboid, but if that changes anything

[cursive frigate]

Just the logs.zip file

[keen radish]

Where can I find the logs file?

[cursive frigate]

As specified, in the %UserProfile%\Zomboid folder

If you have issues accessing the User folder, you can follow these guides.
https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000109.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pACz0dZzmok

[cursive frigate]

The last log just shows a crash that is likely related to mods. I suggest you go to “%UserProfile%\Zomboid” and delete the "mods" folder.

Then test if the crash issues persist on an unmodded game

[keen radish]

Does that delete all mods I have installed?

Or just disable the enabled mods?

[cursive frigate]

It disables them, unless you have manually installed mods

Outside of the Steam Workshop