steam-bugs-discussion

[marble wolf]

Oops, my fault then.

[gilded sluice]

you can always use Forcedelete Glowingmushroom

and tell it to only delete those

but BACKUP first

[drifting tree]

ok, thank you. How do i backup? because if i just save it doesnt show up in manage saves @gilded sluice

[drifting tree]

It worked, big thanks u need a raise

[gilded sluice]

nice

[grim karma]

I stopped playing Valheim for a few months after logging 5K hours the last few years. Swore I was done. Uninstalled everything from my gaming laptop. After going through regret/withdrawal, I tried playing again. I can load the mods, but can not connect to any server (Have tried 3 different ones). I keep getting a "65000" error and not able to connect. Have tried uninstallling, deleting the bepinex folders, no effect.

[Error : Unity Log] ArgumentException: Mesh can not have more than 65000 vertices
Stack trace:
UnityEngine.UI.VertexHelper.FillMesh (UnityEngine.Mesh mesh) (at <49bb92c18012429a9df399f241c8071d>:0)
UnityEngine.UI.Graphic.DoMeshGeneration () (at <49bb92c18012429a9df399f241c8071d>:0)
UnityEngine.UI.Graphic.UpdateGeometry () (at <49bb92c18012429a9df399f241c8071d>:0)
UnityEngine.UI.Text.UpdateGeometry () (at <49bb92c18012429a9df399f241c8071d>:0)
UnityEngine.UI.Graphic.Rebuild (UnityEngine.UI.CanvasUpdate update) (at <49bb92c18012429a9df399f241c8071d>:0)
UnityEngine.UI.CanvasUpdateRegistry.PerformUpdate () (at <49bb92c18012429a9df399f241c8071d>:0)
UnityEngine.UI.ScrollRect:LateUpdate()

[Error : Unity Log] ArgumentException: Mesh can not have more than 65000 vertices
Stack trace:
UnityEngine.UI.VertexHelper.FillMesh (UnityEngine.Mesh mesh) (at <49bb92c18012429a9df399f241c8071d>:0)
UnityEngine.UI.Graphic.DoMeshGeneration () (at <49bb92c18012429a9df399f241c8071d>:0)
UnityEngine.UI.Graphic.UpdateGeometry () (at <49bb92c18012429a9df399f241c8071d>:0)
UnityEngine.UI.Text.UpdateGeometry () (at <49bb92c18012429a9df399f241c8071d>:0)
UnityEngine.UI.Graphic.Rebuild (UnityEngine.UI.CanvasUpdate update) (at <49bb92c18012429a9df399f241c8071d>:0)
UnityEngine.UI.CanvasUpdateRegistry.PerformUpdate () (at <49bb92c18012429a9df399f241c8071d>:0)
UnityEngine.Canvas:SendWillRenderCanvases()

[marble wolf]

#mods-issues

[grim karma]

I posted there, but I assume this is actually steam....

Azumat responded last night, but still no fix.

[stark meadow]

This channel only focuses on vanilla issues. No mods.

[grim karma]

Roger that.

[dull kestrel]

Hello, good morning,

Can anyone help?

Every time you enter the Ashlands, the game crashes, just like my friends' games, falling to the bottom or crashing under the ocean, unable to move. Does anyone know anything about this?

[stark meadow]

remove floating items mod

[dull kestrel]

I will try this

[gilded sluice]

you got mods aswell ^

[solar thistle]

It seems right now in the public test I noticed in the frost caves the Ulvs hit box for arrows maybe be bugged or not very good. Im playing with no mods and arrows seem to go right through them unless you hit them in the head or very close to the head

[marble wolf]

O!ptb

[grim lantern]

Please keep Public test spoilers in the #valheim-public-test channel and feedback in the #call-to-arms-update-feedback-only.
To gain access to the public test, you go to id:customize and click the Public-test role

[marble wolf]

We need another bot to summon Odin.

[solar thistle]

I gave no spoilers

[marble wolf]

PTB feedback still goes in the PTB channels.

[solar thistle]

I noticed in the frost caves the Ulvs hit box for arrows maybe be bugged or not very good. Im playing with no mods and arrows seem to go right through them unless you hit them in the head or very close to the head

[marble wolf]

On live or PTB?

[fresh yew]

Just been exploring and I first died on the day 27 island, went back to get my things and carried on exploring and then died on the day 28 spot… I respawned on the previous island I was on even tho I never set a spawn point or built anything 😭 and when I went back to the day 28 death to get my stuff, it wasnt there 🙃

[stark meadow]

Sounds like you closed the game abruptly in between that

[fresh yew]

I didnt 😭

[stark meadow]

Send me your player.log and player-prev.log, before you launch the game again

located in: %username%\AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim

[fresh yew]

I already launched it again and I dont know where to find that 💔 Im playing with my boyfriend so he does all the technical stuff

[stark meadow]

Who was hosting the world?

And you didn't disconnect or closed the game between those two deaths?

[fresh yew]

My boyfriend

[bright coral]

Well, one option available to you is to go to Manage Saves in the main menu, select characters, your character and see if any of the backup timestamps might be representative of your items you died with. If one is, you could restore that backup as your current character save.

[cunning edge]

Known bug? Disappearing shield paint. For context I'm pretty sure the walls underneath had just been set ablaze, idk if that has anything to do with it. It's tradition to hang the first shield up for hours and weeks and months and it's never happened before.

[regal dagger]

Im having a mic issue with discord rn, i have tried multiple different fixes but none have worked

[stark meadow]

You mean network connection issues when you play multiplayer so others can't hear you when you talk?

[regal dagger]

when im in a party with my friends in discord it lags my audio than plays it all at once, this is the only game it does it on so im not sure whats wrong, i also have connection issues where i cant join the server if i leave

i tried another fix on google where i disabled exclusive control on the
mic

ill get back to u

ill try turning off audio enhancments after

neither worked :b

[stark meadow]

All these are network connection issues. Your home router probably improperly priorities Valheim traffic and disregards Discord. You will probably have to enter your home router settings and enable QoS features. Then tweak Discord by going to the Voice & Video, scroll down and enable Quality of Service High Packet Priority.

[regal dagger]

roger will do now

[fickle heron]

It lags the audio in Valheim then plays all at once or discord?

[regal dagger]

No, in the discord audio

[fickle heron]

But you hear everything people say? It's not like talking to someone on a phone and parts of what they say are lost?

[regal dagger]

My friends here a garbled mess

I hear em all just fine

[fickle heron]

Wired or wireless?

for your network

[regal dagger]

Wireless

Can’t have wired rn bc my kitten chewed through it

[fickle heron]

Are other people using the internet connection?

[regal dagger]

No and it’s only with Valhiem so I don’t think it’s a traffic issue

I’m trying to do the priority rn but I have panoramic with cox and it sucks

[gilded sluice]

report Those bugs on the correct place

O!ptb

[grim lantern]

Please keep Public test spoilers in the #valheim-public-test channel and feedback in the #call-to-arms-update-feedback-only.
To gain access to the public test, you go to id:customize and click the Public-test role

[tall saddle]

Same thing happened to me!

[gilded sluice]

what exactly happend ?

you placed it and it dissapeared?

logged out?t

teleported?

[tall saddle]

Just like in the video, I placed the shield on an item stand (a wooden shield with the blue pattern), and one day I logged in and saw it without the blue skin. Fixing it was simple I just had to take it off and place it again but it's kind of annoying if it happens often.

It happened one day after an update release (not the combat one, just another update). Maybe the shield skin ID just decided, ‘Ok, I’m going back to my default ID since I lost the skin pattern ID after the update,’ and it replaced itself with the original ID, I guess.

[gilded sluice]

Hm..

so you could have placed it before PTB, then when you swapped client over to PTB, that could be it

also. please reports issues in the PTB in the correct channels

O!ptb

[grim lantern]

Please keep Public test spoilers in the #valheim-public-test channel and feedback in the #call-to-arms-update-feedback-only.
To gain access to the public test, you go to id:customize and click the Public-test role

[candid laurel]

PTB update or regular steam update? If regular steam update and IG didn't make one maybe it's a shader cache thing like steam likes to update a lot?

If PTB then yeah goes in other channel

[gilded sluice]

@candid laurel you know I am a developer right? 🤔

[candid laurel]

Yeah but it didn't sound like they were talking about PTB

[gilded sluice]

well. looking on Yacko's video. it clearly is in the PTB

and sir_sirian reported "same happend to me" and the text tells they are on the PTB

but what I mean is

there is no need to parrot me when I already said the exact same thing 😄

[tall saddle]

It was on regular steam client not PTB

[gilded sluice]

Yacko's issue happend on PTB tho

but not yours?

[tall saddle]

Nop, this happened out of PTB like 2 months ago

also it happened with the iron shield too

[gilded sluice]

Hm.. 🤔

did it "flip" when you logged in?

or when you came through a teleporter?

or both?

[tall saddle]

this one

[gilded sluice]

Hm... ok

and no mods?

or friends with mods?

[granite flint]

True, I also found tetra on a mountain close to a cave #valheim-public-test message

[tall saddle]

@gilded sluice no mods just vanilla. I noticed one day i logged in and saw it. and it happened another day i loged in

[gilded sluice]

playing solo or multiplayer?

[tall saddle]

solo

[gilded sluice]

Hm.. nice 🤔

easy to test

[marble yarrow]

Awright, so it seems that since I was last at the point where I make an iron cooking station something has changed. It is no longer possible to place a cauldron together with an iron cooking station over a hearth (or any other location, flat ground or campfires). This has always worked in the past so I am mentioning it here in case it is an unintended change. It makes the hearth stupidly large if all you can use it for is placing one cooking rack. If it is an intended change I suggest adding a half sized stone fireplace too in addition to the hearth.

[crystal ibex]

The spinning wheel doesn't produce what it's supposed to if you leave render distance. Vanilla, multiplayer, crossplay. ( also does it when I'm on the server alone)

[slate geode]

Found bug yesterday when we fought Queen. If you stand in right place she can send you through the walls in to the sky. There is a clip of it in clips section that explains it better than I can

[stark meadow]

You'll have to restart the server.

[stark meadow]

It's a known issue, but if you find a way to reliably reproduce it every time, let me know.

[slate geode]

If i'm not mistaken, it needs to be that same corner of the room and queen needs to send you flying towards the wall, I'm no sure if I remember right, but when queen first came to public servers I think I got the same bug. But it has been awhile and I'm not sure anymore if it was some1 elses clip of it or was it me who played 😄

[stark meadow]

I've seen players get through the walls on multiple places, so don't think it's wall related.

[slate geode]

oh, ok. That is kinda interesting bug then. But it was nice to see you can survive it and still manage to play

[stark meadow]

You should be able to cool on multiple stations and same fire. You are probably smothering it.
Or it might be some of the known bugs with fire remaining active when it's out. Re-construct your stations and restart the server. Try in single-player.

[stark meadow]

Yeah, it's a known issue. Not related to PTB

Styelised equipement will reset to default when you load into a server and hover it via hammer.

[marble yarrow]

There is nothing going on with the fires, it is the cauldron and iron cooking stand that will no longer allow to be placed together. In all my previous bases I have placed the cauldron in one end of the hearth and the cooking stand over. Not possible anymore. At first I thought it was something in the building interfering, but I tried outside too, on flat ground. On a solo world, not a server.

[stark meadow]

Just tested it, works for me without issues. Are you using mods?

Share a screenshot of your setup. Try it in the open as well.

[marble yarrow]

No mods, and I did try out in the open, on flat ground. Going to take some screenshots later tonight when at the computer!

[marble yarrow]

Tried again last night, still the same behaviour. There's no angle or method by which I am allowed to place the cauldron with the cooking station in place - or the other way around. Like I said, all vanilla, solo world.

[gilded sluice]

don't report any PTB bugs or issues on the normal places

O!ptb

[grim lantern]

Please keep Public test spoilers in the #valheim-public-test channel and feedback in the #call-to-arms-update-feedback-only.
To gain access to the public test, you go to id:customize and click the Public-test role

[gilded sluice]

you need to place it more in tbe back of the hearth

I just tried

[marble yarrow]

This is just one screenshot, been fiddling around trying everything. But that placement has worked perfectly well in the past. About to reset world modifiers and try again and see if that affects it.

[gilded sluice]

🤔

might depend on how you rotate it. but I could cram 6 cauldrons even if I placed it almost dead center line

[marble yarrow]

Ah well, whatever it is it is a me problem...

[gilded sluice]

try flipping it 180 degrees 🤔

[stark meadow]

This is pre-Mislands version of Valheim, same behaviour...

[gilded sluice]

order might be a thing, place the cauldron first, then the rack 🤔

[marble yarrow]

Well, after restarting without world modifiers I could place it like above, which is good enough for me. I'll just write it down to me taking crazy pills and remembering things wrong. But I'll hop on some older worlds later and look at my fireplaces there to see if I've just been wasting your time... 🙂

[gilded sluice]

which world modifiers had you changed? 🤔

[marble yarrow]

Fire hazards and no portals

Shouldn't make a difference, right? So I don't think it's that

[gilded sluice]

in theory, it shouldn't 🤔

[marble yarrow]

I think it was definitely a me-problem

[gilded sluice]

could be the game having a bad game

I just flipped those 2 settings on, and no issue 🤔

we can blame monday I guess 😄

[marble yarrow]

Yeah, that makes sense 🙂

[ripe oracle]

Ope. My bad. 😬

[gilded sluice]

👍

[severe dove]

Tabbing back into valheim after a while may cause it to freeze and require a restart, for some reason

[gilded sluice]

in PTB or normal client?

[severe dove]

PTB

[gilded sluice]

AMD graphics card?

[severe dove]

I think I've seen this happen outside of PTB as well but I'm not super clear on that

NVIDIA

[gilded sluice]

no mods right?

[severe dove]

nope

[gilded sluice]

could be a caste of missing directX files

[severe dove]

I have installed mods in the past but they're not active rn

[gilded sluice]

on PTB. they can still cause issues even if you don't have them active

[severe dove]

oh huh

well theres a lot of weird mods that have been installed due to a server I joined ago that was modded to hell

so if they can have an effect despite that then maybe thats it

[gilded sluice]

usually delete your entire install folder, and ask steam to validate game files

[severe dove]

I'll try that if this issue gets worse, thanks

[stark meadow]

You have to update your Nvidia drivers, during which select custom install + perform clean profile

[severe dove]

alright I'll do that as well

[keen delta]

Troll Caves flip direction 180 degrees
(Live 0.220.5)
Upon entering or exiting a Troll Cave, the direction you are facing as can be seen in the minimap is flipped 180 degrees.
Should be kept consistent just like it happens with, for instance, Burial Chambers (useful for tracking The Elder from vegvisir stone when playing without map).

[stark meadow]

As far as I remember it's not consistent with burial chambers either. You still have to use the hammer method to orient yourself.

[keen delta]

I've just tested three chambers nearby.
They did keep direction.

[stark meadow]

Oh, I see what you mean now.
It's gonna be very low priority to fix tho.

[gilded sluice]

what does it matter tho? 🤔

[cinder hare]

Hello. I was just playing on the PTB. I have an NVIDIA 2080 Ti. My game crashed and I lost progress, but the Player.log doesn't give any further info about it other than a Boar spawning before the crash.

[gilded sluice]

O!ptb

[grim lantern]

Please keep Public test spoilers in the #valheim-public-test channel and feedback in the #call-to-arms-update-feedback-only.
To gain access to the public test, you go to id:customize and click the Public-test role

[gilded sluice]

@cinder hare

[balmy echo]

Hi, I'm playing the vanilla game because the latest beta is too unstable, but now (I've reinstalled the game from scratch) it's still unstable and crashes every 20 minutes. Any ideas?

[stark meadow]

What are you system specs? On which version are you playing now?

[balmy garnet]

Blast this guy ^^ helped me out a ton when I had similar issue macar will know what u need to do

[gilded sluice]

blast? 🤔

[balmy garnet]

I was to lazy to say full name as i cant even pronounce it

[gilded sluice]

yeah but blast MaCarBra? 🤔

https://tenor.com/view/started-blasting-gun-eyeglasses-so-anyway-i-started-blasting-gif-16955226

[balmy echo]

Nombre del dispositivo
Procesador AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core Processor (4.50 GHz)
RAM instalada 32,0 GB (31,1 GB usable)
Identificador de dispositivo
Id. del producto
Tipo de sistema Sistema operativo de 64 bits, procesador basado en x64
windows 11 pro 24H2 Game version: 0.220.5

[stark meadow]

Do you also have a GPU?
Start → type and open dxdiag → Under display tab check which GPU you have
So now you are playing non-PTB but still crashing?

[balmy echo]

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

[stark meadow]

You'll most likely just need to update your Nvidia drivers (select custom install and to preform clean profile)
Best to use Nvidia app to update. Were you getting game freezes, Valheim not responding when crashing?

[balmy echo]

Exactly that. The graphics card is up to date. I've been playing Valheim for several years with and without mods and haven't had any problems until now, and it was after trying the new beta.

[stark meadow]

Can you do me a favor actually by updating your drivers first by not selecting custom install + clean profile option.

Just update them regularly via Nvidia app.

Wanna see if that alone would be enough to make the bug go away.

[gilded sluice]

plenty if nvidia drivers have been broken this spring/summer. so update to 581.15 or newer is recommended

and the PTB uses unity 6

[prime kayak]

is the issue with boats disappearing on the list to be fixed?

its excessive and extremely frustrating to have our longships just disappear for no reason

[stark meadow]

There are no known issues with boats disappearing.
It's either them getting destroyed by enemies when players leave them unattended, or because someone messes with saves/crashes so boat position is on a different place than exspected.

[gritty pebble]

lol!

[candid laurel]

O!ptb

[grim lantern]

Please keep Public test spoilers in the #valheim-public-test channel and feedback in the #call-to-arms-update-feedback-only.
To gain access to the public test, you go to id:customize and click the Public-test role

[fallen moss]

I don't know if this has been reported before, but

• Summoned skeletons rapidly take heat damage, from wading ankle-deep in the Ashlands. And they are not smart enough to avoid the water.

This makes them often-useless.

Since monsters don't seem to be damaged by immersion in the Ashlands, a reasonable fix would be for summoned creatures to not take heat damage from this source.

[tepid wedge]

the game is not optimised, when fader attack walls with spikes, the game run to 1fps, impossible to play and it's very annoying

[proud verge]

When I am dry and portal into the Ashlands during a storm, the wet debuff gets applied to me if my portal is not sheltered. Like some moist ash falls on me and I am wet for 2 minutes.

[stark meadow]

Yeah, it's a known issue. A quick workaround was implemented so that Arena doesn't spawn close to Forts in new worlds.

[stark meadow]

How was your experience with them and lava?

[stark meadow]

You don't get wet status when you portal when there isn't a storm?

[balmy echo]

The game has been crashing too often lately, I'm about to give up.

[stark meadow]

What are your PC specs? On which game version are you playing (number in bottom right corner of starting menu)?
In what manner are you crashing? (pc restart, black screen, crash to desktop, apps stops responding, picture freezes, etc..)

[balmy echo]

I send all this information days ago.

Procesador AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core Processor (4.50 GHz)
RAM instalada 32,0 GB (31,1 GB usable)
Identificador de dispositivo
Id. del producto
Tipo de sistema Sistema operativo de 64 bits, procesador basado en x64
windows 11 pro 24H2 Game version: 0.220.5 (editado)

@Blastoiser

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

[stark meadow]

Oh right, sorry, you indeed did.

So what did you do since last time we spoke?

[balmy echo]

Can you do me a favor actually by updating your drivers first by not selecting custom install + clean profile option.
[11:40]
Just update them regularly via Nvidia app.
[11:40]
Wanna see if that alone would be enough to make the bug go away.

All this is do, but... today two crashes

[stark meadow]

What exact driver version you are on? (not "the latest" but the number)

[proud verge]

Correct. I don’t get the wet debuff when portaling into the Ashlands with no storm. Like it takes a moment for the game to transition from regular rain to ash rain when I get there, so when I get there I end up with a 2 minute debuff.

[stark meadow]

Send me your player.log file next time your are available to do so.
You can navigate to the file by opening show player.log button available in Valheim starting menu (bottom left corner under the patch notes). The a folder will open where you will see the Player (Player.log) file. Send me a personal message and drag and drop that file there.

[fickle heron]

It seems Valheim is getting input from somewhere when it lsoes focus.

That somewhere would appear to be my gamepad even though I have gamepad input disabled

Confirmed. With Gamepad Enabled unchecked and my Switch Pro controller connected, alt-tabbing away from Valheim results in the game continuing to receive input. I can also navigate menus with Gamepad Enabled unchecked but part of me feels like that's intentional so Gamepad users can still check the box ?

[gilded sluice]

there is a new issue with windows which affects millions of "gamers"

[lucid geyser]

The bug is also knows under code name "Windows 11"

[gilded sluice]

worse

[fickle heron]

I'm rockin Windows 10 still.

[gilded sluice]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWTZkB9rVU0

[fickle heron]

They'll pry it from my cold dead hands. The unnecessary UI changes in Windows 11 have me debating going Linux/Proton

[gilded sluice]

the latest windows updates... is a huge headace

[fickle heron]

I haven't had an update in 2 years. It's a minor annoyance at worst but I'm 99% sure that's not the cause.

I disabled Windows Update to prevent them from forcing Windows 11 on me

[gilded sluice]

hehe

not yet..

but this one is a major problem for NVME drivers and wireless input devices

[fickle heron]

I feel like I'm in an abusive relationship with Microsoft. They do stuff like open-sourcing .NET and all the cool stuff but then they Windows 11 me

"Baby I only do this because I love you" NO YOU JUST WANT TO CONTROL ME

Me and my therapist are working through it, I'll get there eventually

Been awfully quiet in here since 9am my time. I wonder why that is.

Speaking of I have some needles to thread and a kingdom to conquer. I'll see you guys when Deep North comes out (jk)

[fallen moss]

I don't recall trying them near lava; gave up on skeletons after the problem on the shores.

I notice that charred take minimal damage from walking over lava, which makes sense.

Seems likely that "improve pathfinding/AI so that they avoid shallow water" is more difficult than granting damage reduction/immunity from water immersion, but better pathfinding would be good too.

I think that what's going on, is that

• on lava, creatures get set on fire, and take Fire damage (very resistant), but are immune to Heat damage.
• in water, player skeletons are not immune to Heat damage, and so take damage at the same rate as a player. Which means quite swift death. Incongruous when wading ankle- or shin-deep.

[stark meadow]

Yeah, last input before deactivating window gets stuck. Known issue, most problematic on steam deck. Input managemen needs some enhancements.

[wind dust]

It loads like this all the time

can you help me with something?

[bright coral]

You'll likely have a hard time hosting or connecting to servers using Crossplay without a VPN or or other means of proxied connection to the Internet. If not, you'll want to look for a native Steam server, i.e. marked "Dedicated". This is usually a political issue. I won't go into detail here, but you're welcome to DM me if you need more context.

[hexed breach]

Hi i cant even make a character and i just bought the game? internet isnt helping much

[hexed breach]

any suggestions for my issue ive tried disabling cloud an dverify files but none are workin

[stark meadow]

What error are you getting when trying to make a character?

[hexed breach]

i cant even create it. i just bought the game but i cant click done or start a world

tried multiple methods from reddit and forums but no luck

[stark meadow]

You can't confirm the character selection step? Or you can confirm it but nothing happens after?
Did you put in at least 3 letters/characters for your character name?

[hexed breach]

ohhhh i didnt know it had to be 3 or more

thank u

[distant valley]

Lord Reto a little bit... broken? Killed him with the Primal Zerker Axes... after he got rooted the 2nd time he just went and stared at the wall for a while, even after the root wore off

[stark meadow]

It's not just him. There's an pending unwanted behaviour to be investigated where enemies wander off sometimes during combat.

[lucid reef]

anybody else crashing non stop after update ?

[gilded sluice]

yes 😄

for nvidia you probably need to update drivers with a clean update
for AMD. don't use Vulkan

we don't have any kind of ETA about vulkan and AMD since it's out of our hands. but we have done what we can on our end to put this issue forward to those wo need this info

[turbid wedge]

went to the elder location, elder isnt there. is it because of the new update?

i got a elder location stone before the update fyi

[stark meadow]

You'll have to interact with Elder vegvisir again

[turbid wedge]

ah oki ty!

[glacial vigil]

I'm on arch linux with hyprland and I just cant click in the menus, I can use my arrow keys for the main menu but for the inventory and other ui I can't click making the game completely unplayable. This was fixed on the second patch of the ptb but is broken again on the full release

[short magnet]

I'm running the same setup without issues.
Did you make sure to do a cheeky -Syu? Nvidia had an update

If AMD, read the messages about issues with Vulkan

[glacial vigil]

just updated and did a restart, it's still not working

I had to change the resolution and it fixed itself, not sure why but I'm not complaining

[stark meadow]

Ultra wide monitor?

[glacial vigil]

nope just a regular fhd monitor

[short magnet]

Weird.. granted I am using a different resolution than my native (5k2k)
I'll try if I can recreate the issue when running native res

[glacial vigil]

going fullscreen breaks it again but i am just using the fullscreen hyprland has but its still odd

[short magnet]

Just another day in 'experimental compositor' world :P

[stark meadow]

Any difference with openGL compared to Vulkan?

[glacial vigil]

does the same thing on both

[slow pasture]

Version 0.221.4 had the following issues:
・In Japanese mode, the Japanese portion of player names containing Japanese characters did not appear in the player list displayed by pressing the F2 key.
This made it impossible to identify who was causing trouble and who should be banned.

[frail mist]

Why does this last update feel like it was rushed onto live branch without proper testing?

• Missing German translation for all the new items and receipts?
• A bear model that looks stitched up (it was possible to have proper deer and boars, so why did it have to be a terror bear instead of a proper grizzly?)

These are just the first things that jumped in my face when trying out the new update today... 😢

[native sequoia]

my cart dissapered, i looked arround it was not destroyed , and it wastn gone downhill, i was making paths to the forsaken stones with the hoe and when i returned to smelt anotherroun it was gone

it is vannila , no mods problem appeared today ,

[native sequoia]

i was using hoe maybe it clipped trhough the terrain , but i was usng the hoe to make path a bit far from the cart...

[outer flower]

I couldn't play with a friend, I checked everything I could, the Internet is connected, it works well, I checked the files, reinstalled the game, the second update has already been released since this error, but for some reason it didn't help, I also didn't find a solution to the problem on the Internet. Version 0.221.4 (n-35)

[bright coral]

Unfortunately you won't be able to connect to servers using Crossplay unless you have an alternate path to the Internet (like a VPN service). It's a political issue rather than software I so won't go into details here but feel free to DM me if you want more context.

[outer flower]

can you recommend a way around this error?

[bright coral]

If this is just you and your friend, I recommend having your friend disable Crossplay and send you a Steam invitation while you are waiting in the character selection screen. That way you will avoid Crossplay and Steam will facilitate direct connectivity if possible.

If this is a dedicated server instead of an in-game server, they can disable Crossplay if all players are using the Steam version of the game. They would also be responsible for making the server directly accessible from the Internet (e.g. UDP port forwarding if using a NAT router).

If Crossplay must be used (e.g. to support an Xbox or Apple App Store user), then like I said you would need a VPN or other proxied path to the Internet through a different country.

[outer flower]

Thank you so much for your reply, I was able to solve the problem!!!

[red rain]

So uhm... Valheim devs? Did you test the bear necklace on female vikings? and the Vile ribcage?
It's.. uhmm.... kinda revealing...

[ivory glade]

Making full use of the 12+ rating I see💪🏿💪🏿

[gilded sluice]

yes

our glorious graphical artist Lisa made a good job as always making all the games armors and weapons

[cursive mango]

no interaction between those, is it intended?

[gilded sluice]

yes

it's a training dummy @cursive mango

for you 😄

[cursive mango]

yes i tested it on public test i want to try if was possible to raise blood skill with skellets 🙂

[gilded sluice]

they are just manifestation of your skill

they don't have any kind of skill by themselves

if you are strong, they are strong

[cursive mango]

amazing work on the update keep up!

[next atlas]

Anyone else crashing alot?

[plain violet]

I am constantly crashing while playing with my friend

lol perfect timing

[next atlas]

LOL

[plain violet]

this was happening before this update for me

[next atlas]

3 crashes just today alone

It wasnt for me

[plain violet]

I made sure my ram and such isnt the problem

or at least shouldnt be

[gilded sluice]

you on....

AMD + vulkan?
or Nvidia?

[gilded sluice]

same questions to you

[plain violet]

Intel no vulkan

[gilded sluice]

intel 😮

Hm..

[plain violet]

intel 12600kf

[gilded sluice]

graphics card

[plain violet]

3080ti

playing on max settings with capped frames

[gilded sluice]

what drivers version?

[plain violet]

whatever the newest nvidia driver is

[gilded sluice]

Hm.. ok

got any mods?

[plain violet]

nope

[gilded sluice]

can you send me your player.log file?

[next atlas]

Intel with nvidia

[gilded sluice]

In this hidden folder in windows:
C:\Users\ <username> \AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim

nvidia drivers have been rather unstable since early 2025. but rescent drivers should be working for most again

[plain violet]

what if appdata isnt in that user?

[gilded sluice]

it should

it's a hidden folder

[next atlas]

Do you need my player.log aswell

[plain violet]

uhhhhhhhhhhh

[gilded sluice]

I can look at it

I assume you're the same situation?

no mods atm, no mods previously?

[next atlas]

nope never had a mod

[plain violet]

this is my log

[gilded sluice]

Hm.. 🤔

Try doing a "clean" reinstall in the nvidia drivers app

or try to start the game with Vulkan

[night citrus]

Hoping this is a bug, translucency of signage has changed dramatically #building-screenshots message

[low ocean]

Tip: Much easier way to get to that folder is this:

%APPDATA%\..\Locallow\IronGate\Valheim\

If you copy that to explorer folder bar, you magically go to the right location. Windows key + e opens explorer.

That %appdata% is an environment variable which points to users roaming data folder, .. puts you back away from there and then the rest is the locallow and so on. no need to think what username is and so on

[arctic bear]

is this where I post this top-priority-level game-breaking visual bug with the slayer?

[urban anchor]

After the update I have none of the greydwarfs spawning in the black forest, all other creatures are fine, also the dwarfs spawner is ok ( the only way they spawn now.
Greylings are fine.

No mods were used and also didn't have the PTB version either

[red rain]

That's great! When wearing the ribcage only (not the necklace) it seems like there's nothing underneath it.

[bright coral]

Just wanted to make aware that a few of us having trouble updating, with Steam denying free access to the prior manifest: #dedicated-server message

[gilded sluice]

correct

[stark meadow]

Not a bug, but signs gor fixed. You'll have to adjust transparency yourself for your signs now, instead of it being improperly applied for every colot like before.

[woeful nacelle]

After picking up cooked bear meat, I got "1 New unlocks in message log", yet there's nothing that I can find that shows up. Unless it's for the serving tray for being able to place it, but I don't think it is. It could just be a left over placeholder, and didn't get removed.

[pseudo bear]

Hi, anyone else having problems with controller controls on Steam?

[gilded sluice]

cooked bear meat 🤔

it should be because it's placeable with the serving trey yes

[woeful nacelle]

It's a little too ambiguous. I thought the serving tray said "placeable" when new foods showed up... It's been a while since I had new foods to pick up.

[gilded sluice]

yeah... not everyday no 😄

[night citrus]

OK so transparency can be set with the color (as in <#RRGGBBTT>) but so far that doesn't have the same effect - unless we have to find the same setting it had by default before? That would be handy to know. So far it looks like it won't produce the same result. Previously all textures viewed through a white sign would be in greyscale, and lighting/environmental effects were invisible.

Note the colour difference viewing through a large white sign: #screenshots message

[gilded sluice]

yes

the whole feature isn't intended from our side as developers

we just don't block it since people use it in a creative way

[night citrus]

We sure did, I have some very interesting use cases that are more than decorative. I'm just not clear how to achieve the same result as it was before

[gilded sluice]

if you can't, you can't

and it's not something that will likly change :/

[urban anchor]

Is there a way someone can help with a bug?

"After the update I have none of the greydwarfs spawning in the black forest, all other creatures are fine, also the dwarfs spawner is ok ( the only way they spawn now.
Greylings are fine.

No mods were used and also didn't have the PTB version either"

[gilded sluice]

the PTB version isn't a issue

since we pushed the PTB -> live version

but they aren't spawning from spawners or you just can't find any in the forrest?

[urban anchor]

Can't find them in the forest, I didn't had the PTB version prior to yesterday's update. Everything was fine until yesterday

[gilded sluice]

go out at night and look

and don't go near your own workbenches or such

[urban anchor]

I did and nothing

[gilded sluice]

I have noticed fewer during the day, but I ran around and then I got swarmed (as per usual)

so it was just my own imagination 🤔

try hitting pickaxes into the ground, or axe hit the trees

they will hear that

[urban anchor]

Not the case here, we farmed a copper vein and nothing came to us

[bright coral]

Had you added a workbench or fire to your mining area?

[urban anchor]

No, nothing, no matter where you go in the black forest or how long, or what you do in a black forest there is no greydwarfs or shawman or brutes spawning. It's the only ones not spawning all the rest is fine

[gilded sluice]

what monsters do you find the black forrest tho?

dear? boar? trolls? birds? bears?

[urban anchor]

Skeleton, bear, troll, deer, black birds

[gilded sluice]

could I see your player.log file?

[urban anchor]

Sure however i will only be able to send it later today

[gilded sluice]

that's fine

the log file shows if things spawn in

[urban anchor]

Ok I will send you as soon as possible, you want it DM or here is fine?

[gilded sluice]

DM

[urban anchor]

Okay

[gilded sluice]

just drag-n-drop player.log and player-prev.log 🙂

[urban anchor]

👍

[urban anchor]

My wife did it for me so I sent it to you already

[pseudo bear]

Solved was my template problem

[urban anchor]

So after me viewing the files they do spawn however it is still weird that all those 20 minutes of gameplay in the black forest only 3 of them spawned compared to 2 trolls, 5 bears... So something is definitely broken

[stray flame]

Anyone else having problems with the new TWIG? Am I missing some commands? My normal keyboard commands are no longer working. Help Please.

[gilded sluice]

try spending like 2-3 ingame days in the biome.

but sometimes you have alot of enemies already, so the game don't want to over-spawn and have to many critters either at the same time

[urban anchor]

I can try that but honestly it felt very empty, maybe 3 deers 2 trolls 5 bears, few birds... Compared to before where I have 10 dwarfs chasing me plus a troll, deer... I mean I don't think the overspawn is the issue

All this in a big BF area, I also travelled to another island with BF undiscovered and the same problem there

[gilded sluice]

I don't think it's a problem. if there was a problem, it would be more wide spread in other biomes aswell 🤔

and I find plains now to have massive numbers of deathsquitos. but it's probably just my imagination

[urban anchor]

I haven't gone to other biomes yet maybe I'll have to check there too

[gilded sluice]

playing solo or multiplayer?

[urban anchor]

Multiplayer as I host and my wife joins

[gilded sluice]

try playing solo and see if there is any diffrences 🤔

[plain violet]

@gilded sluice Played for hours last night with no crashes, boot it up thius morning and almost immediately crash

[gilded sluice]

did you do a clean graphics driver update?

[plain violet]

I reinstalled last night and this morning using the nvidia app, I guess idk what clean install exactly means

[gilded sluice]

it's a button in the "custom" installer

[plain violet]

Alright I did it and it still crashed

[gilded sluice]

Can I see your player.log file?

[grand creek]

Can someone tell me what this is about?
"now getting block list from file blocked_player. got these users: Steam-[REDACTED]
Permission ViewUserGeneratedContent was denied for user Steam_[REDACTED]: The user is blocked locally"
(put redacted as the user id). - We cant find any file called blocked_players and really dont know what to do about this. We just wanna play without having to unblock eachother after every login 😄

[gilded sluice]

do you guys use blocklist?

as soon as you use it, all people who should have access, you need to have them on the permitted list

[grand creek]

You mean on the Server?

[gilded sluice]

yes

[gilded sluice]

Hm.. I can't really see what the problem could be 🤔

https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/uq9b8x/my_valheim_is_crashing_fix_for_crash_guide/

see if anything in this guide can help

[grand creek]

I wouldnt know about any blocklist. We can both connect to the Server. The log i showed was from his local client and his client only.

My Steam friend and I play Valheim together on a dedicated server (no mods).
Every time he restarts his game, I am automatically marked as blocked on his client.
He can unblock me manually in the ESC menu → then everything works again.
But after the next restart, I’m blocked again. This loop has been going on for months.

[gilded sluice]

so he is the host?

[grand creek]

No, im the owner of the dedicated Server

[gilded sluice]

is it a paid hosting?

[grand creek]

Yes, its paid. But it doesnt matter which server we are playing on. Its always the same. Always me who is getting blocked for some reason

[lucid geyser]

Only your hosting provider would know how they set up the free Valheim Dedicated Server they sell to you.

[grand creek]

Uhm, what?

[lucid geyser]

I think you will get closer to solution if you ask the company you rent the server from.

[grand creek]

As i said, it doesnt matter which server we are on. It can also be just a hosted game by another friend. The logs also state, that i am blocked locally in a file called "blocked_players"

[gilded sluice]

you both should look for 2 files in your vaheim folder

permittedlist.txt
blocked_players.txt

In this hidden folder in windows:
C:\Users\ <username> \AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim

if either, or both, of you have these.
you can probably delete both of those files and see if you still have that problem

[grand creek]

Both our permittedlist.txt say "// List permitted players ID ONE per line"
But none of us can find a file called "blocked_players.txt"

[gilded sluice]

HM....

[grand creek]

I found a line in the logs

now getting block list from file blocked_players. got these users: Steam...
there was no local user, instead using cloud users! Steam...

Do you think it could be fixed by creating a txt file called blocked_players.txt and putting "// List blocked player IDs one per line" into it?

[gilded sluice]

try it 🤔

but those files should be local

[grand creek]

Update: Creating an empty blocked_players.txt locally (with // List blocked player IDs ONE per line inside, set to read-only) prevents the game from falling back to the Steam Cloud version. This stopped the auto-blocking issue completely.

Dont know why both of us never had this file. But unlike his client, mine never searched for blocked_players in the logs. His client does

[fallow sky]

Anyone ever have a issue where u can't use w and shift and jump all at once

[crisp raptor]

Do you also?

[candid laurel]

spider bear?

[crisp raptor]

yep)

So it's okay

[gilded sluice]

so case closed? 😮

[indigo trench]

hey has some one had the problem of the game crashing cause of some fatal error, i have lowered the settings, updated drivers, cpu temp is good, i have extra memory i dont know what to check next

[gilded sluice]

any mods?

[indigo trench]

no

base game

[gilded sluice]

AMD graphics card?

[indigo trench]

nvidia

[gilded sluice]

try to do a clean re-install of your drivers

most drivers that came earlier 2025 crashes

and valheim finally is on the newer unity 6 game engine versions, so the game now want newer drivers

this is in swedish, but the buttons are the same place

click 2nd install option, then click the "perform a clean install"

[indigo trench]

okay ill give it a try

[candid laurel]

I would really like to know why almost all of my Player.log is this same line over and over again The LiberationSans SDF Font Asset was not found. There is no Font Asset assigned to Text.

[grand creek]

Yes, case is closed. Might be a good workaround for anyone who also gets this problem in the future 😄

[gilded sluice]

the issue is. basicly if you open the files and accidently add a tiny space or something. the game will activly start blocking people 🙁

[grand creek]

Yea i mean.. The problem here was, that there was something inside the steam cloud, which the game then used because there wasnt anything locally. I dont know why or how that happend, especially because we never modified our games. But by providing the file that the game wanted, it stopped using the cloud and therefore stopped blocking people

[gilded sluice]

yeah. wierd 🤔

[grand creek]

Well, whatever. The important thing is, that it works now 😄 It didnt really bother us the past months, but since the new update, it started blocking the user generated content too, therefore he wasnt able to read any signs inside our storage, which is bad if you got multiple chests for every item in the game haha 😄

[thick scarab]

Has anyone got issues the game crashing after ALT+TAB?

[brave pond]

So this bug still persists, but I've noticed it only happens in 4k if anyone else is running into the same

[stark meadow]

And it's still about getting black screen? No other types of crashes?

[stark meadow]

A lot of player with Nvidia cards. Update your drivers with emphasise on selecting custom installation + clean installation options.

[brave pond]

Full blown system crash to bluescreen; I do have latest drivers installed

Oh, that was to the other guy :|

[stark meadow]

I wouldn't exclude your i9 13900k dying now. Did you ever crash outside of the game or in other games?

13th and 14th gen Intel CPU are known to have high failure rates.

[brave pond]

All other games run solid and I have the mobo patch for my cpu

It's exclusively valheim in 4k

My buddy has the same build and has no problems in 1080p

[stark meadow]

What ever you have, is almost certainly not a Valheim issue.

I've seen multiple cases where mbo BIOS update didn't stop already degraded CPU to degrade further, including in my brother's case. If you have the warranty active, you should think about doing some serious stress tests and replacing the CPU asap.

[brave pond]

Valheim is the only game I have problems with, and only in 4k, but cool

[stark meadow]

Blue screens are serious hardware problems, BIOS related, driver related or corrupted system files, never games.

[brave pond]

Don't deny the devs good debugging info

And yes, software can cause kernel level crashes? I'm a software engineer

[stark meadow]

Most players who had dying 13th and 14th CPUs started crashing only in Valheim, cuz they didn't play many other games with stutters (low to high FPS jump). I can link you 50 such players. All of them replaced their CPU, and issues went away. After few months, those that didn't replace their CPU, started having their crashes happen in other games and even Windows.

[brave pond]

In only this game, only running 4k

Fuck this

[stark meadow]

Since launch, we never had a single report about blue screens being caused by Valheim, nor after this engine update. You are not the only one playing in 4k

The only blue screen crash that I remember that was software bases was related to bitdefender antivirus.

[bright coral]

Are you or your friend launching Dedicated Server with the Steam UI? If so, you may be conflicting with your own license from Coffee Stain. A quick fix is to run the server anonymously, so running the shell script or batch file outside of Steam.

[stark meadow]

Are you using mods? Or have you used special characters when editing signs?

[stark meadow]

Before (left) the SSAO effect was being applied to text on signs, and now it isn't (right), how it should be. So yeah, you can't get the same effect like before, for which I hope you see why it was broken.

[night citrus]

For my use cases it is the other way around, they are now broken. Perhaps a mod will restore the old functionality. Good to know what the effect was

[stark meadow]

Signs were working as on the right for about a year, then an particular engine update messed them up (right), now they got fixed again (left). So yeah, there is almost 0 chance this will be "fixed", and I would be suprised if you manage to find a mod that would restore the old functionality. As Smiffe said, editing signs in this way was mistakenly allowed in the first place, and is still in consideration would it be removed or not. Most likely it won't be tho, as many players are using it.

[candid laurel]

Its a mod causing it. Found and reported it to author

[gilded sluice]

We solved that one. It was the block list on his friends steam cloud being the issue

[bright coral]

A strange one that. I am curious how it got like that.

[gilded sluice]

sometimes when you open the blocklist file and add a space bar or something. it automaticly triggers the block/white list features

it's a easy misstake to accidently do

and then it got synced to steam cloud

[bright coral]

Interesting, thanks!

[gilded sluice]

you can probably see the file(s) in the steam cloud local folder

[grand creek]

Nobody really knows how it ended up like 😄 Never touched any files ourselves. Maybe a hiccup during data transfer at some point

[gilded sluice]

could been a failed files update or something

[inner thistle]

Dunno if this counts but the Big mistland hammer has a graphic bug at the hilt you can see it above the antlers where you can see right through the model

[gilded sluice]

yeah. it's separating. so be careful with it

[inner thistle]

Yeah it flew off in the last infested mine and i was stuck there beating off the seekers with a stick (It just broke)

[thick scarab]

i have a laptop with 1050, not many options in my situation (financially)

solution : run the game normally, not using Vulkan

[stark meadow]

Did you try updating Nvidia drivers like I mentioned? Best to use Nvidia app

[blissful creek]

Acclimating and tamed boars often remain perpetually running around even after the alarmed indicator and combat mode have long since passed.

[graceful lintel]

i'm gonna go out on a limb and guess thats.. not the latest version?

I just tried to update my dedicated server, after my local machine updated and it says incompatible version.. and my dedicated server reports its version 0.221.4....

[final condor]

Thats the same version I have? It matches the patch notes update

[candid laurel]

if you have wooden weapons then you have the latest update. bears should be spawning but maybe theres too many other things already spawned. go kill stuff

[graceful lintel]

disregard i'm a noob and my steamclient was in offline mode 💀

[final condor]

Lol no worries

[haughty bough]

Latest version all up to date. Just got the small tomb stone, after a raid from the swamp I died. I cannot get my armour back so I went to back up.. Now I have double all my weapons. This is on a solo game no dedicate server. Last time I played on a dedicated server this happened often... I'm using comfyquickslots mod so there is the problem I guess

[candid laurel]

sound like you are using a buggy mod, find a replacement

[fair iris]

Sup yall

I don't talk much

[haughty bough]

this was my replacement for equipmentandquickslots mod which is now out of date. Any ideas for a replacement ?

[candid laurel]

I dont actually know much about comfyquickslots but maybe somebody in #mods-issues will know more about how it handles the extra inventory space and tombstones

[haughty bough]

thnx

[visual oak]

Hello MaCarBRe. I see this poblem listed as "in progress" in the Known Issues in the official web page (I guess is the one titled "Unify workbench build radius and PlayerBase effect area"). Wanted to ask something to be sure and you seem well informed and active in here. I relied on the artisan table to prevent spawns in the sacrificial stones (as they have a big no-build radius around and I've integrated that place in my city). Actually, creatures are constantly spawning on the sacrificial stones and it's a nuisance. Do you know if, when they say "unify" the radius, they mean to made them all the same (small 20m)? Or do they mean preserve each different build radius but make sure the spawn block capability to be like the build radius?

[low ocean]

So, no freezecrashes today either, we played for four hours. Nvidia 4050 and newest drivers cleanly installed. 581.29 released Sep 10. Looking good so far.

Yesterday we played for seven hours. Previously took like 2 hours for freeze to occur. Good good.

[stark meadow]

Not sure how it will turn out in the end. Probably 40m build area and 40m suppression.
To avoid enemies spawning there, switch to hammer when you enter you base. Only when hammer is equipped is when 40m supression is applied.

[visual oak]

Thanks for the fast answer. But when you mean "enter your base" you mean when the zone is loaded? I don't think that's going to work for me, my base sprawls too much and the stones are actually in one of the corners; when I'm moving around my base I can be entering and exiting the zone where the stones are 😩 I hope they let it as it was before and that the fix could arrive soon.

[stark meadow]

There was never a point the artisan table provided consistent 40m of spawn suppression.
Before it offered 40m build radius + 20 spawn suppression.
After Hildir patch if offered 40m build area + 40m spawn suppression from the moment you equip your hammer.

Yeah, it you constantly walk out and in from loading that zone because you base is wide, then it's not a good workaround for you

[visual oak]

hummm, curious... 🤔 What you say is not coherent with what I've been experiencing. I finished the building on that zone 14 months ago. At the beginning I had the same problems with spawns and gjust bear them because I din't know what to do. But some months later somebody remembered me about the artisan table higher radius. I recall putting them there around December and spawn problems immediately disappeared until recently. And for sure most times I was not walking through/teleporting to/logging in my base with the hammer equipped. So, for quite the time the artisan spawn block area was for sure higher than 20m on a continuous effect.

[stark meadow]

https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/19ed987/artisan_table_spawn_prevention_radius_does_not/

[visual oak]

Don't get me wrong, It's not at all that I don't trust your words, on the contrary. But what I experienced is what I just explained. Weird. 🤨 With the exception of the last 2 months approx, I played very intensively on that world for years; so I'm confident what I noticed wasn't just by chance. When I came back to it after this update I noticed the change thus I came here to ask and fond your message , that's mostly the reason I asked you. Thanks again for all the info. I just hope the final resolution allows me to keep those pests out of my base.😤

[gilded sluice]

Hm..?

[daring ice]

Hello! I noticed a slightly annoying feature of the new two-handed weapon in "call to arms". When it is on the wall weapon rack it takes up too much space, unlike the same two-handed hammer from the misty lands.

[stark meadow]

Yep, known issues

[daring ice]

I didn't know, but I guessed! :standby mode on:

[wary shard]

uhm, wheres the german translations for the call to arms update? 👀

[frank spruce]

Hey, I need a little help please, I don’t think this is supposed to happen, the graphics just don’t wanna load

[stark meadow]

press alt+enter two times

[frank spruce]

Oh wow it worked, thanks!

[nimble estuary]

I found this weird bug

I do not know if this is where I post this

[stark meadow]

Yes, you usually post it here. It's a known issue, should be fine if you restart the game

[nimble estuary]

Ok thanks

[round trench]

Hi everyone,
I’m new here on the server, but I’ve been playing Valheim for quite a while and recently started again. Since then I’ve been running into a problem I never had before:
My game keeps freezing completely (both in singleplayer and when joining someone else’s world(Client not Host)). After that, it either stays stuck or Windows says valheim.exe is not responding. somtimes i see a Unity Window for a minimal period of time.

I’ve already: verified files, done a completely clean reinstall, updated Windows version, reinstalled all motherboard drivers, reinstalled GPU drivers (tryed Game ready and Studio), closed all background programs, disabled overlays – the issue is still exactly the same.

My specs: Windows 11 (latest), Intel I5 10400F, EVGA RTX 2070 SUPER (latest driver), 16 GB G.Skill TridentZ RGB, game is on an M.2 SSD.

I’m running out of ideas – does anyone know if there are current issues causing freezes like this, or have any suggestions what else I could try?

I play on Steam, so I posted this here – apologies if this isn’t the right channel.

Thanks a lot!

[stark meadow]

Try downloading Nvidia app and re-installing your drivers with emphasis on selecting custom installation + clean installation options.

[round trench]

I did that already, didnt work 🙁
but thanks for the idea 🙂

[stark meadow]

Re-installing drivers is not enough if you haven't done custom install.

[round trench]

i did a clean reinstall using DDU or what do you mean?

[stark meadow]

It's just the fact many players and not clear on what they did. Re-installing drivers as a sentance means nothing in the context of this issues

So, you used DDU to reinstall your drivers now?

Did you run DDU in safe mode?

[round trench]

yes i did (used a tutorial so im not sure about the safe mode lol)

[stark meadow]

Then you might want to repeat that part. Best would be:

1. Disable Windows installing drivers automatically
   Start → type and open "advanced system settings" → Hardware → Device installation Settings → Select "No" option
2. Disable (iGPU if present) in BIOS
3. Use DDU in safe mode to un-install graphic drivers (Start → type and run msconfig (system configuraton) → Boot → Safe boot (minimal)
4. Boot normally
5. Install Nvidia drivers via Nvidia app
6. Don't optimise Valheim in Nvidia app

Did you have freezes on previous patches?

[ruby minnow]

Is it just me, or is multiplayer unbearable after they released the Ashlands update? Even in the meadows, I am having severe latency and rubberbanding issues, that I did not have before that update

[stark meadow]

No reports of other biomes being affected after Ashlands update.
Have you done any tests to check your connection and your friend's connection?

[round trench]

nope but skipt so im not 100% sure

[round trench]

okok ill try that an be back later

[round trench]

should i install studio or game ready drivers?

[stark meadow]

most that got the issue resolved installed game ready drivers

[round trench]

okay

[cinder slate]

I've found that bear trophies can sometimes clip through the ground when they drop. I saw the "take bear trophy" prompt right before it fell through the world. Happened twice in a row. If I see it happen again, I'll be sure to grab a video.

[round trench]

okay thank you so much
it works so far! is there anything i can do if it starts to crash again, only if ofc?

[stark meadow]

So far nobody reported crashing again after updating drivers properly, but you never know.

Let us know if you start crashing, as it might also be someting else

[round trench]

okayokay thank you 🙂

[round trench]

I'm getting back to you in case it happens again. Thanks!

[visual oak]

just by curiosity; what you mean with wall weapon rack? You mean the vertical item stand to stick objects to walls?

[daring ice]

Absolutely right! Try placing these objects on the wall, and then place the new axe among the other objects. You can only interact with the new weapon, which covers everything else.

[visual oak]

Ah, so its "hitbox" to take it from the wall covers a lot of space then?

[daring ice]

I'm looking at the two-handed sword but the hitbox of the axe from the update overlaps the hitbox of this sword.

[stark meadow]

It's a known issue, there's no need to further discuss it. This is not a general chat channel.

[valid garnet]

I everyone im french, and my valheim game crashed ! Can i have help ?

[gilded sluice]

first to try is to update your graphics card driver, unless you have any mods installed

[valid garnet]

I download the udapte yes

Maybe its this

[gilded sluice]

usually doing a clean re-install helps

choose "custom install" and then pick "perform a clean reainstall" helps

[round trench]

Hey, it crashed again :/ – the behavior is exactly the same. Do you have any idea what else I could try?

[stark meadow]

You're still getting app not responding freezes? No other types of crash like crash to desktop, black screen?

[round trench]

most of the time just app not respondin, yes. one or two times i got this

[stark meadow]

It's probably still GPU issues, you might need to tweak GPU clocks, power or frequency (e.g. #steam-bugs-discussion message)
However before you do that, I would suggest resetting your BIOS settings to default.
Are you using any overlays except Discord, Steam and Nvidia? (e.g. Medal)

[round trench]

my gpu is completely stock and as far as i know there are no changes in my bios since i updated it what would you recommend to tune?
no im not using any overlays at all

If it helps, the game sometimes freezes already in the menu.

[stark meadow]

You sure that you updated mbo BIOS, you didn't mention that above. Requires downloading laters bioms from mbo site and instaling it via USB.

When it comes to GPUs, it wouldn't be my first time seeing unstable stock GPU, hence I linked you the above example

[round trench]

yea flashed it like 3-4 weeks ago when i updated to windows 11

[round trench]

nope thers nothing done to anny of my parts no tunes no tweaks

[stark meadow]

I understood that the first time you mentioned it. I'm not sure if you are understanding me. Some GPU, on stock, are not stable.

Nvidia included, most common on super and Ti cards

Regarding BIOS, you don't have anything to use by just doing a BIOS reset. It just reset settings to default.

App freezes in Valheim however are rarely related to CPU and RAM clock, so most likely not the issue, but you never know.

[round trench]

im going to reset my bios now i already turn up the power and voltage on gpu, do you think this is enough or should i also tune something else?

[stark meadow]

There are no rules here. It's basically trial and error. I've received all kinds of reports from players. Some downvolted their card and it stopped the crashes, some overclocked, some just lowered voltage, keeps frequency the same, etc... Undervolting might be the way to go, but you might undervolt too much or too little and wrongly conclude that's not the way to go. Generally it helps finding out someone on youtube who did the same in Afterburner for the exactly same card so that you at least have some reference.

Btw. check start → type and open "view reliability history" and see if any other errors pop up during these crashes

[round trench]

all errors some how time related to valheim have code 141

[stark meadow]

Can you screenshot those events for the last day?

[round trench]

sure

[hardy oyster]

I've noticed some clipping on the Fenris chest armor while sitting down

[round trench]

the errors look all the same

[stark meadow]

Any other non-crytical issues not related to Valheim?

E.g. via input software from logitech or razer

[round trench]

no nothing just 3 warnings related to windows

[stark meadow]

Screenshot for those?

[round trench]

an this is yesterday today none at all

[stark meadow]

We can't really see the full names, but probably not worth concerning about if it's from yesterday

btw. let's continue this in DMs

[round trench]

alr

[candid laurel]

im getting crashing on steamdeck now 😢

[stark meadow]

Launch in OpenGL, Vulkan has some issues atm which is default on Linux

[foggy crescent]

Has anyone noticed since Call To Arms update boats randomly taking hits of 10 damage at a time consistently without any heavy waves or attacks hitting the boats?

[gilded sluice]

I have not 🤔
do you have any mods running? or is the game very slow running? Press F2 to see ingame FPS counter

[foggy crescent]

60-100fps depending on where I am, and yes some small number of mods but nothing overly invasive - I can certainly try replicating while disabled

[lucid geyser]

You might check with #mods-issues, since some of the mods are pretty old.

[fallen moss]

I noticed recently, that Wolves don't seem to eat raw Bug Meat.
Is this intended?

[gilded sluice]

yes

[distant coral]

Hey um I dont seem to have access to some of the trinkets. I am in the mistalnds for example and i dont have access to the pustulating earing,
are trinkets supposed to be in the workbench as well because i can only make a handful of them in the forge

[gaunt mist]

Forge and Black Forge.

[distant coral]

Ahhh i am really annoyed i missed that thanks. i had seen videos and they were making this stuff in a workbench so i was hella confused. maybe that was in the beta test.

[gaunt mist]

It was at first, then it was changed during PTB to those work stations.

[distant coral]

ahhhhhh okay then makes sense, thanks again hahaha

[balmy garnet]

The game has been crashing out on me a lot here after the new patch.

It just freezes midgame.

[gilded sluice]

either mods or do a clean re-install of your GPU drivers

[waxen orbit]

i dont know if this already a known issue but bear helmet clips with wolf cape

[balmy garnet]

The only Mod I'm using is the planting tool.

I've uninstalled and re-installing. I'll see if that works.

[hard hazel]

is this the bug report channel or just talking about the bug

i found something hularious but dont want to repeat post it if it's been reported

I started a brand new seed on the latest version of the game less than 10 minutes ago, and then noticed some odd behavior about the spawn area

[candid laurel]

try without mods

[hard hazel]

shoot do i have mods loaded? i havent played or instaleld any in years

oh so i do

yeah let me remove thjem

[balmy garnet]

I removed the only mod I had. The cultivator tool. Uninstalled the game, reinstalled and made a brand new world. On Day 2 the game crashed out again.

[craggy skiff]

is there any devs
[8:37 PM]
i need help im about to loose my mind ive tryed everything im not jokeing when i say ive tried everything read every reddit post and steam post
[8:38 PM]
asked people in the vc i need actual help

[balmy garnet]

I disabled the cloud connection and just saved it to the puter. Seems to be working find up to day 5.

Going to start trying to load more programs to see if it's still stable.

Ha, the game crashed again. I only have discord open, no browsers.

Discord, steam, Valheim, and it freezes again mid game.\

I might try to play again tomorrow but I'm tired.

What can I do to help prevent crashes?

Is there a way I can provide helpful data about my crash?

[stark meadow]

Re-install your graphic drivers via Nvidia app, choose custom installation + clean installation options during installation process.

[gilded sluice]

we aren't awake 5:38Am, but I'm here now

[balmy garnet]

I get it. No urgency. It's 1:47 AM my time so I'm about to sleep.

0147

[balmy garnet]

Thanks for the Advice. The NVIDIA App wasn't even downloaded but I'm updating and I'll try again tomorrow.

[gilded sluice]

you need to click the custom button

this is what it looks like for me (in swedish)

[balmy garnet]

Got it brother. Thank you.

Looks like this will take awhile so I'll check back later and see if this helps. Good Night.

[thick scarab]

try running it without vulkan

[wet musk]

Whenever I try to run Valheim from Steam it shows a black screen and colored squares as it plays the mainscreen theme, any idea of how can I fix this?

[stark meadow]

press alt + enter two times

[wet musk]

let me try

[wet musk]

It worked! Thanks!

[crisp oar]

Looks like Valheim is unplayable for me. Ive done every option in the discord here and nothing has worked.

[bright coral]

Well, tell us what you're observing and what you've tried.

[crisp oar]

The game freezes up after logging into the world, anywhere from 15 seconds to a minute and 30 seconds. It just freezes up and will not close at all. I've checked all the files I can. I've done a complete reinstall of the drivers and tried running it as admin. I've considered uninstalling the game and doing a fresh install but I don't believe that will help. I have never installed any type of mods.

[stark meadow]

How exactly did you reinstall your drivers?

[crisp oar]

Using the Nviada App

[stark meadow]

Express install?

[crisp oar]

It was Custom and did a reinstall

Like Smiffe suggested to another individual

[stark meadow]

Which GPU do you have?

[crisp oar]

Nvidia Gforce GTX 1080Ti

[stark meadow]

Try installing a driver from April 30th:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/results/

[crisp oar]

working on it now Thanks

[crisp oar]

Bummer, did not work, I double checked on the app to make sure the 576.28 driver version was the one installed and it was. Should I try an earlier version?

[stark meadow]

Doubt it would help. It doesn't seem like your crashes are driver related. Did you ever tweak your card clock in afterburner?

[crisp oar]

No I didn't.

[stark meadow]

You might need to. Try lowing frequency only, like it did the trick for these players: https://steamcommunity.com/app/892970/discussions/1/3814034023687498589/

[crisp oar]

Thanks for all your help and I think you are correct. Something else is going on. Its only with Valheim tho. All other games are fine. Thanks everyone who tried to help. I appreciate your efforts.

[long ermine]

I'm having an issue where I've failed to connect to a server I've previously had no issue connecting to,
I've tried the basics of restarting and verifying files as well as a modem reset but nothing has changed thus far

[noble dagger]

Us 2

My buddy (Xbox) and I (steam pc) are trying to crossplay on my server. I’m in the world active no problem but my buddy (Xbox) can’t join my running server

[broken pivot]

Same issue here

[candid cosmos]

host is on windows, I'm on mac. we played earlier today, no problem

bummed :o( can someone ping me when it's fixed pls

[novel sinew]

#valheim-public-test found a bug - when you block with the wooden sword with no shield it sounds like actual swords

[craggy pewter]

Stuttering sounds in Ashlands: entering putrid cave triggers it, and it continues outside. Returning to Meadows seems to reset it, bt then going back to Ashlands starts it up again, seemingly randomly.

[gilded sluice]

it's a known issue
the issue is actually fixed in a more rescent unity 6 game engine update, and we are sooo close to that version

[blissful creek]

1. I encountered an actual undead skeleton on the border between plains and black forest that had been killed, dropping bone fragments and no longer having a visible model, yet which still had a name tag with combat mode indicator (SKELETON !), still made clanking and shreiking noises, and had fulings, lox, etc. attacking the ground where it was / had been. The indicator couldn't move or attack, so it was partly dead and partly still there. I don't recall having observed that ever before.

2. I had posted in the past that initial fire damage could be blocked, but once a player was already on fire, any additional fire damage would be taken unblocked, even if the character did a blocking move. Since the CTA release, it appears that fire damage cannot be blocked at all. While this is more consistent, I would like to know if this was intentional.

[balmy garnet]

Thanks for the help Jijoo I tried it again today and everything is running smoothly.

[stark meadow]

The first one is probably network related issue. Second is unintentional, but kinda like it.

[thick scarab]

im glad it helped :D

[craggy pewter]

YAY!!! Thanks for that info! 😍

[mystic cedar]

Is there any way to fix ashlands audio just completely breaking? It cuts out and glitches so much, doesnt happen in any other biome and it honestly makes the area so much more tilting

Happens to my friend too, his PC is lower end afaik, mine is able to run valheim high FPS in most cases (120 fps cap)

If theres any mods that can fix it that’d be nice, but preferable if theres a setting or something to turn off to fix it

[bright coral]

#steam-bugs-discussion message

[mystic cedar]

Oh its literally right above my message man, i searched the discord and everything 💀

Hope that comes sooner rather than later, but unity issue so not much they can do I suppose

[bright coral]

Just reporting that the SteamCMD anonymous mode download issue mentioned in this patch is back for many of us:
https://valheim.com/news/patch-0-219-16

Past two dedicated server releases, people have been unable to update their servers in anonymous mode without deleting their installation and redownloading. It seems like grabbing the prior manifest is blocked, preventing files comparison. I've reported the issue upstream, but I don't carry the weight of a game studio or publisher: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/0/597411554294506565/

I also want to make sure it's not an issue with the publisher Steamworks config.

[stark meadow]

We didn't notice an increase reports for failed updates via SteamCMD. Cache or partial installation files issues can always be a problem, and as long as complete re-install works for people, don't think there's a reason to bother Steam about it.
Last time we had that "No app info for AppID 896660" reinstalling SteamCMD didn't even help, and don't think we actually pinged Steam back then either. It just got resolved on its own.

[bright coral]

We as in Iron Gate?
#dedicated-server message
#dedicated-server message
#dedicated-server message
https://github.com/lloesche/valheim-server-docker/issues/752#issuecomment-3288491435
https://github.com/lloesche/valheim-server-docker/issues/752#issuecomment-3288583665

Everyone is getting the same error we got back in November, basically.

[stark meadow]

It's not the same error, especially if reinstalling helps, and I see that I happens when using a custom docker.

[bright coral]

You won't be able to reproduce it unless you're upgrading a prior version (anonymously).

[stark meadow]

There hasn't been an increase in reports on bug tracker, compared to last time in November, and I personally don't have an issue on my systems, and did last time.

[bright coral]

You upgrade your server with SteamCMD anonymously?

[stark meadow]

Yes, we are talking about SteamCMD, which 99% of players use in anonymous mode.

Are you also using lloesche docker container?

So far I'm only seen players using it specifically, having issues updating.

[bright coral]

Yes, but I'm able to reproduce it on bare Linux. Haven't tried on macOS or Windows yet.

[bright coral]

Certainly possible that lloesche's image has things in common with other systems affected. I'll try to dig deeper.

Good to know yours is working though, thanks, that's helpful info regardless

[stark meadow]

I found an old Valheim dedicated app installation on one of my linux systems which had the same updating issue as you mentioned. Got resolved after I wiped Valheim installation folder and I can now switch between versions (default_precta, default_old, public) without issues.

As long as clean install works, think it's fine.

[bright coral]

Yeah, it's just the issue will come up again on next update if the version you're upgrading from isn't the HEAD of the branch.

[stark meadow]

But I don't have issues if I switch to previous game versions and then try updating to new

Didn't have this issue on Windows, only Linux (haven't tested Mac)

[bright coral]

If you're switching using branches, I don't think it will trigger the issue (on the affected systems)

[balmy garnet]

The bears have an interesting reset feature. I tamed some wolves and took them to a tower in the black forest tower. The bear would have his attention on the wolves so I got plenty of free strikes. It kept resetting back to its spawn area and runs aimlessly during an encounter at times.

[dreamy orchid]

Hey there, is there anyone else having issues starting valheim on Steam under Linux after updating to Call To Arms and maybe having a hint how to resolve this?
Currently running Linux Mint with newst drivers.
Valheim Dir is only containing the needed files and no mods are installed.
Neither standard nor OpenGL modes does run (no window opening, just the button in steam returning to "play" without the game creating a log)

[bright coral]

Does your launch command include the executable name? If so, there was a major rename done in a stealth release two days ago: valheim.x86_64 became Valheim.x86_64.

Changes: https://steamdb.info/patchnotes/19985618/

[dreamy orchid]

thanks for the hint, but in steam I have no launch cmd set, so if steam isn't messing something up I don't think this was the problem, also I tried to manually start the game by starting the mentioned file via terminal, which gave me this error: FindDataPath: Player data not found!

Since I never tried this before, so I don't know if this is supposed to happen

[bright coral]

Alrighty. Are both Valheim.x86_64 and the Valheim_Data dir capitalized in your local installation?

[dreamy orchid]

nope, the dir is with small letter, should it be capital?

[bright coral]

Yep. I'm inclined to recommend an uninstall and reinstall.

[dreamy orchid]

I'll try with a reanming of the dir, if it doesn't works I will try the reinstall

[bright coral]

Sure. If you do that, make sure there are no pending updates for the title in Steam first

[dreamy orchid]

okay, after renaming the game at least tries to start and fails with a BTD, I'm gonna reinstall xD
Thanks

Reinstalling did the trick, thanks for the quick support!

[bright coral]

We saw similar issues a year ago during the macOS rename. Glad you got it working.

[dreamy orchid]

On last OT question: do I have to do something special besides picking up some wood to be able to craft the new weapons? (just sseing the wooden sword and the bow target)

[bright coral]

Hehe, that is outside my area of expertise. They were added after I'd explored much of the map. #valheim-help will surely know, and the Valheim wiki on fandom probably has some details (but also spoilers)

[dreamy orchid]

okay, thanks anyway

[untold patio]

hey all. i'm having crash every 20 minutes or so since the last update.
No mods, no vulkan, drivers up to date. Win 10, 2060.

DirectX 12

[lucid geyser]

What does your player log say?

[swift fern]

Apperantly copper is rich in minerals firs need to thrive

Hol up heres a picture where you can see it

[lucid geyser]

Yes, the meshes can clip. Totally normal

[swift fern]

(Just in case yall did not notice)

[untold patio]

Where can I find this file ?

[swift fern]

Oh mb its not clear enough

[lucid geyser]

Main menu, lower left corner

[swift fern]

here

Can yall see the fir now?

[lucid geyser]

Piccasso, this is normal

[swift fern]

👍

Im going to free it

Freed it

[untold patio]

thanks, right now the previous log only shows when i started the game and closed it correctly after the last crash. I ll have to wait for another crash to occur to get it on a new log. I ll keep you updated

[stark meadow]

You sure that you are launching the game in dxd12? default is dxd11
In what manner are you crashing? Apps stops responding when you click into the game windows after inactivity?

[untold patio]

The game freeze for a second and then a message appear saying an error occurred. And it crashes. It usually happens after a while, 20 to 30 minutes. It doesn’t matter what I do in game. It happens even if I ve been afk the whole time with the game paused.

[stark meadow]

It crashes on its own while you are afk, or it crashes the moment you get back and try to activate it?

[untold patio]

While afk.

[stark meadow]

Hm... then it doesn't conform to typical crashes we've been seeing since an update to Unity 6 engine. Which CPU do you have?
Are you running any overclocking software like afterburner, asus armory crate, evga precisionX?

[untold patio]

Intel i7 10700k.
2060
No overcooking.
I had no trouble until the last update

[stark meadow]

Will DM you about this

[untold patio]

Ok thanks

[noble mirage]

Hello everyone! Trying returning to Valheim with a friend, I am hosting server (not dedicated) and there is only two of us right now, but lags are terrible - enemies teleport from one place to another, items are not picked up and many more similar server related bugs. I would expect such behaviour in Ashlands, but we barely touched the meadows and it's already pretty laggy. I've tried relaunching server, clearing cache, verifying game integrity via steam, but it didn't help. My PC is quite powerful and network connection is good, so I am out of ideas. Any suggestions on what should I do?

[stark meadow]

Anyone from the two of you on WiFi?
Compare your score to your friend's https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat

[noble mirage]

Will ask and check. Could it be that friend's connection is affecting the whole server?

[stark meadow]

That's how it is in Valheim, all parties have to have a stable connection for smooth gameplay, not just the host.

[noble mirage]

That's damn sad, thanks

[bright coral]

Crossplay can amplify network/compute latency issues, especially if one of you is far from the chosen Crossplay relay. You can try using the Steam/non-Crossplay mode if both of you are using Steam.

If you're not super network savvy, sending a Steam invitation while the other player is in the character selection screen will handle the hard parts for you.

[lucid geyser]

About Crossplay / Playfab; Is there a way we as players (solo/server) can influence how the Playfab part of the connection turns out? Can we trace the session to see in what part of the world a session is routed? Can we choose a preferred Playfab array? Or blacklist some?

[low ocean]

Stealth release? You mean game updated without notification like usual? Patchnotes etc

[bright coral]

Right

[low ocean]

Oh really? They do that... well... great if it fixes things

[noble mirage]

Nope, both players are Steam PC players, crossplay is disabled.

[bright coral]

You can't really influence it without changing your apparent route to the Internet. I'm assuming Microsoft uses either a GeoIP-like database or a geo-DNS decision up-front. You can see what region that's been selected for you. In the server logs, when you see:

Joined PlayFab Party network with ID "<uuid>|<base64 blob>"

you can decode the Base64 blob and after some unintelligible bytes you'll find a UTF-8 exclamation point followed by the selected Azure region.

I think that same ID w/ base64 blob appears in the periodic refresh messages as well.

[oak quartz]

yo guys i got a new PC and when i installed valheim, my steam cloud is in sync and everything, but i was welcomed with my main save "deleted" and my main world "deleted", when i recovered them, only one backup was there and its from 1 years ago (still in mountain biome and i was near ashland on my actual save), is there a way i can recover my actual save or do i have to start back at the mountain biome??
I do not have access to the older computer and it already has been sold

[bright coral]

Well, you can check Steam cloud itself: https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorageapp/?appid=892970
If this world had been locally-managed (i.e. with the floppy disk icon, stored in worlds_local), then it would not have been synced to the cloud

[keen yarrow]

I returned to the game after a while and umm the tomb stone glitching off comeptlely still happens ? To be fair I only put 300 hours and it only happened twice.

[solar hearth]

Vile and Bear enemies cannot hit the player when the player is directly in front of them. The lunge appears to have a broken hitbox? Not sure what is causing it but these enemies can't fight at all

[stuck laurel]

I have a question guys. So I play valhiem on my deck and pc. My world runs fine on my steam deck for hours. But that same world crashes on my pc after 5-10 minutes of play
but I tried making a new world on PC and no crash
has anyone had this issue?

[untold patio]

my game crash a lot since the last update too. So far no solution..

[tight stump]

hi guys so for a while i had an issue with the spot on the bar of utility i can use it unless i click on the item when oppening the inventory i tried uninstalling and re instaling but nothing works i would like to fix it cause its getting enoying specially in a no death runs

if any one can help

[stark meadow]

What are your PC specs?

[stark meadow]

What do you mean by tombstone glitching?

[stark meadow]

Can you clarify what the problem is? You can't click on certain portions of your hotbar?

[tight stump]

@stark meadow ye sure give me a sec i will send u a clip

u see the hot bar i cant use it

the bow slot

[stark meadow]

Probably related to your discord overlay misbehaving. Try disabling overlay for Valheim specifically then restart Discord.

[tight stump]

no i checked

it all started when i got disconected from a server ages ago and clicked on the 3 rd slot

i uninstalled the game and re installed it

same thing

@stark meadow

[stark meadow]

Have you tried completely closing Discord?

Mustn't be running as small icon next to the clock

[tight stump]

let me see

[true void]

Hello, I got some issues. I downloaded the game again after a couple of months but unfortunately when trying to chose my character, they appear with no gear on them, one is local and one is cloud, I got plenty of cloud space. When trying to make a new character, I can change sex, but can't change skin color, hair and beard, I give it a name, press Done but it won't create my character. I tried using my old character to boot up in a world but then I press Start on a couple of old worlds I have, both cloud and local. Then I tried to make a new world but the start button won't work. Any ideas?

[stark meadow]

Sounds like you should do a clean installation of the game. Open installation directory first, then manually delete all files and folders that are in there. Any only then install the game again via Steam. Launch the game via Steam as well.

[true void]

Will that affect local files of my characters and worlds?

[stark meadow]

No, this won't affect saves. They are on another location.

[lucid geyser]

It could be un-related, but: I have had issues with pressing key "3" for ages in Valheim. When I pressed it, it could "double tap" and I had problem equipping my bow. Not running Discord app on my computer, though it was the key-switch it self that might went wacky. Because when I bind key "3" to a G-key on my Logitech G-915, I have no issues.

[tight stump]

Same shit @stark meadow still can't use it

@lucid geyser it works on other games I have checked the settings

Not the keyboard

[lucid geyser]

My "3" key work well in other games, as well.

[tight stump]

I don't have Logitech

[stark meadow]

Can you manually select the item at nb3 spot via mouse?

[tight stump]

Yes

I can use it when opening my inventory and selecting it

@stark meadow

[stark meadow]

Have you ever bound any keys via chat or console to execute commands or emotes?

When you test your nb3 key here: https://en.key-test.ru/ do you get only nb 3 as result?

[tight stump]

Nope

Let me check

might be the keybord

[stark meadow]

Is it a laptop or external keyboard?

Thinking it might have some function key active that puts those keys in another mode.
Or maybe spilled some water recently on it?

[true void]

@stark meadow goat, you fixed me, have a good night!

[tight stump]

laptop but using an external key bord

and they key bord is new

not even a month

[stark meadow]

Do you also use external mouse? If so, then try to manually disable your entire touchpad to see if it fixes things.
Sometimes laptops send like multiple keys (e.g. mod middle mouse click gesture)

[tight stump]

i will try and see

[brittle vapor]

usé el fermantador y 3 veces seguidas no me tomó la receta, sin mods, full vanilla

y algunos cofres no abren

[stark meadow]

English only please. You will have to restart your server.

[urban condor]

Just fyi, I had stability issues with the new update (crash after a few mins) while it was perfectly stable before. I solved that by removing all steam launch options I had added. Can't remember exactly what they were but at least three were related to perf optimizations as seen in multiple guides (two were related to window mode and one was enabling multi core).

[daring steppe]

my game is crashing pretty often, how exactly do i see a crash report ? i dont understand what to look for in the player.log file, and there is no crash report folder whatsoever in local\temp\irongate\valheim, only one file that seems unrelated

[lucid geyser]

There isn't a crash-report, unless you're looking in Windows Event Viewer. The player log can contain Error / Warnings, that might give clues what in the game caused the crash. So I would start at the end of the log, see what the game did, just before it crashed. Remember that you only have 2 log-files, so on the 3rd boot, the 1 is overwritten.

[daring steppe]

ohh okay, good to know thank you

[stark meadow]

Did you have any tweaks in boot.config ini as well?

[stark meadow]

What are your PC specs? In what manner are you crashing? (black screen, app freeze, crash to desktop, error pops up, PC shuts down, etc..)

[daring steppe]

4070 laptop, 13th gen i7 13700hx, 32gb ram. the game just freezes then closes itself, tho i tried not running through vulkan and it didnt crash afterwards

[urban condor]

I don't think so. This evening I tried with "-console" as the only option and Vulkan as the backend and everything went fine for a few minutes then a crash. Went back to default (so DX11 or 12?) and played for more than 1h without problems. Maybe this is more about the new Unity & Vulkan and less about options?

[smoky sequoia]

I have a really weird issue, Not sure if this is the place to post for some help because im new to this DC server. Any chance at someone directing me to where i should post to ask for help about dedicated server version mismatch problems?

[bright coral]

Using Steam or SteamCMD? Using any mods? On macOS, Linux, or Windows?

[bright coral]

And had you previously participated in the public test branch?

[stark meadow]

Check Section 2 in this guide on how to grab log files, in a case where you would crash again: https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/uq9b8x/

In your case, launching the game in Vulkan might spike you temperatures, so would be useful to know what whcih MAX temps your CPU and GPU reach when you play Valheim in Vulkan.

I usually recommend running HWiNFO tool to check that out.

There are some known issues with AMD and Vulkan, but we are not excluding that crashes can happen on Nvidia side as well when running Vulkan.

[stark meadow]

And what system specs do you have?

[urban condor]

I5 2500k, 8Go RAM, GTX970Ti with < 4 months drivers, Win10.

[tropic marlin]

so, i'm experiencing this glitch where my boat will only go in reverse, does anyone know what could be causing this?

[stark meadow]

Maybe you tried to go against the wind will full sails? I'm assuming your rudder icon shows you selected going forward, but boat starts going in reverse? Using any mods?

[granite karma]

I play with Letix, the boat initially works fine but once you start going in reverse you cannot stop it. Doesn't matter which speed setting you use it will keep going in reverse. We play with a couple most downloaded mods but none of them affect boats.

[teal patio]

The way of holding a crossbow seems a bit strange, not bug really, but if it were possible for the character to hold it like in game then it would be better imo 🙂

[stark meadow]

Sounds like a mod issue. Have you tried controlling the boat in single-player world?
You can also copy your installation file (backups mods as well), then reinstall the game to try vanilla (use new saves as well), then after testing past that installation folder you backed up previously back into the original installation directory (should restore mods).

[stark meadow]

Yeah, a lot of weapons and tools look weird in main menu. Not easy to fix I've been told so probably won't be fixed any time soon.

[teal patio]

Oki then 😄 its purely cosmetic anyway

[cedar edge]

Steam just re-enabled steam cloud for the second time in the last few months, despite me explicitly disabling it since nearly a year ago.
I was doing frequent restarts of the game while i tinker with various things, none of which can influence steam in any way, and suddenly its unable to launch the game with no reason or dialog.... so I restart steam and see the problem.
Posting this here to see if anyone else sees this happening or knows of the reason. And for documentation purposes.

[cosmic niche]

Anyone having a stutter issue? I updated my GPU drivers (NVidia) to latest version and now the game stutters. Yesterday no issue with previous ver. drivers. Both times on the latest game version

[cedar edge]

@cosmic niche yep, i was good on (linux) 570, and anything more recent is garbage... and at some point it refused to let me revert too. Evidently some update, or tweak i tried and forgot about in the interim has allowed me to do so because i'm currently 570.181.
Earlier today i tried 580 and it seemed better than a ?week? ago, but still felt slightly laggy or maybe slidey on the controls. It would probably also have stuttered hard if i started desktop recoding with ffmpeg, or discord streamed. Strangely; omething that is never reflected in my mangohud fps readout.

Following this: #steam-bugs-discussion message
While headbutting the PlanBuild mod to figure out why it seems I can never make it work properly...and consequently doing lots of game restarts: the game stopped starting entirely. After plenty of wtf i figured out it was the insidious lets just silently capitalise Valheim.x86_64 BS that someone thought would be a good idea. Of course valheim_Data also silently became Valheim_Data without warning. So that was fun.
#linux message
Confirmed: symlinking the original leading-lowercase binary and directory to leading-uppercase variants works fine.

If whoever did ImPrOvEmEnTs like that could at least notify us filthy casuals that its been done, that would be great.

[cosmic niche]

I'm on 581.29. I didn't have any issues with 581.15 (the most recent previous version)

[cedar edge]

ah, so I guess you are on windows... inter-OS versions are different, with different problems. Current linux is:

nvidia-driver-580-server-open/noble-updates,noble-security 580.65.06-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 amd64
  NVIDIA driver (open kernel) metapackage

[somber flare]

I am in the Sealed Tower under Hildir's request and I think the Traps are tripping on the floor above me when I walk around inside. I entered the tower through one of the windows about half way up and am working my way to the top before descending.

[somber flare]

I made a mistake. I believe it was one of the barred wall-dividers. I ran across one of these on another floor. It was fragile. There is a possibility that the broke it down themselves.

[cosmic niche]

oddly enough, waiting a couple hours fixed the issue 🧐

[young anvil]

Hello. Had a world I just logged out of suddenly say "missing db." I've got a db file and a fwl file from a couple hours ago that I want to revert to, but when I restore the backup, it still says "missing db."
I would appreciate any advice on how to get the backup restored.

[lucid geyser]

Share screens of your Worlds menu in Valheim, your actually local folder, and your steam cloud : https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorageapp?appid=892970&index=0
@young anvil

[spare galleon]

Not sure if this is the place for this, but my friends and I were playing and recently all ran into issues in the Ashlands performance wise. It was mostly sound stuttering/cutting out. I've seen some complaints about this but other people have said they had no issues. Does something in particular cause this? Frostner? Ice spells?

We have some mods but they're mostly QoL mods. Things like bigger inventory, small gameplay tweaks, etc. nothing crazy. Tried restarting my PC and the problem persisted. Didn't have any problems in other zones...

[stark meadow]

Yep, it would be better if you could screenshot your in-game backups first for that world, before you try restoring any older backups.
Manage saves button in the starting menu → worlds tab → expand backups for your world → screenshot

[stark meadow]

The current engine versions has audio stuttering issues when too many sounds are playing, which is also very common in Ashlands.
Unity devs recently fixed the bug thanks to our reports, but Valheim still has to update its engine version to match the one with the fix.
Updating engine usually comes with other issues, so not something that will be done soon.
In the meantime disabling music while playing in Ashlands might help a bit.

[stark meadow]

For which system specs this happened?

[cosmic niche]

Windows 11, 3060ti, Ryzen 7 5700X, 32GB of memory, game installed on SSD, 1440p monitor

[balmy garnet]

Hey Fellas I'm back again. This time I've got a screen shot. The game worked great for a while. I made it to the swamp without so much as a crash but this morning when I went to fire up the game through steam I got this error. I'm not using any mods, not using vulkan, or cloud saves. However, I did download a new OBS update, but that wouldn't have anything to do with it, right? I have nothing else major running in the background. I also downloaded and updated my NVIDIA graphics card so I'll try resetting and try again.

[stark meadow]

There have been cases in the past where OBS caused crashes if installed with Overwolf plugin for overlay, so I wouldn't be suprised it has something to do with it

What are your system specs?

[balmy garnet]

I'm not an overwolf user. I find the program too kosher for my tastes, ya know, being a viking and what not.

Processor: AMD RYZEN 5 2600X Six-Core Processor 3.60 GHz

Installed Ram 32.0 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB (6 GB)

Windows 10 Pro

By the way I did reset my computer and it did start, then I fired up OBS and it's still on the start game screen.

I'll play today and see if there are any crashes.

I just thought that was interesting how I tried to start after upgrading OBS and it crashed instantly.

[spare galleon]

Do you know of any mods that might help with this? what about making enemies passive? do any weapons make this issue worse like frostner, staff of fracturing, etc?

[lucid geyser]

Nope. You'll need to wait for an update of the Unity Engine in Valheim.

[spare galleon]

Thanks. Just curious, how come some people report they have no issues with it?

[stark meadow]

They might play with less players, use weaons that don't produce as many sounds, don't have a base in vicinity, not have lots of enemies around.
Vultures are one of worse sound makers.

[spare galleon]

thanks for the information. I see this mod called SilencePleace. Does muting the individual sfx, like sfx_vulture_wing_flap which plays a lot, help this issue? or do you think muting it doesn't fix it

[stark meadow]

I'm not sure if it would help as I don't know how the mod works. I'm guessing the sounds would still have to be processes by the CPU so wouldn't help.

[spare galleon]

one last question. is there an easy way to turn off the ability for enemies to damage trees and rocks? if you know of a mod by name etc. I think doing that would improve ashlands performance too

[trail zodiac]

Game crashing atm. Stuck not responding, but was able to tab out. It's using barely any resources so doubt it'll snap out of it. Anything I can do?

Probably a GPU driver crash - a web page now told me my browser does not support webgl. Latest NVidia drivers, Valheim might have stressed it to happen but might not be directly to blame

[stark meadow]

Try pressing Windows key + Ctrl + Shift + B if it happens next time

Does the app stop responding while you are playing or when you are inactive and you return to the game by alt-tabbing into it?

[stark meadow]

Not sure, try asking in#mods-discussion

[trail zodiac]

It froze in the middle of placing some build pieces - so while playing. Then after like 10 seconds, things went black (even on second screen where nothing was up - taskbar disappeared). I thought I was going to BSOD since that did happen once before (similar initial symptoms) and reflexively tabbed out to see if anything was responding. Could navigate other windows just fine. Then when I tried to focus on Valheim again it told me it wasn't responding. Left it like that for a few minutes but no change.

Sound kept playing the whole time, though I can't say if it was the same music/ambience that just kept going or if game logic was still happening and me just not seeing it.

[stark meadow]

Yep, seems like it's related to GPU. That key combo resets GPU driver. Which GPU?

[trail zodiac]

RTX 4070 Super, driver version 581.29

[acoustic arch]

not sure if this a bug or not or just bad luck. But just killed my 100th bear and haven't gotten a trophy yet. It's supposedly a 10% drop chance

[stark meadow]

It's just RNG

[stark meadow]

Do you know if you were playing in Vulkan or d3d11? (can be checked in player-prev.log)

[trail zodiac]

Never once ticked the Vulkan option, so that's easy! Whatever the non-Vulkan option is 🙂

[wary shard]

Why cant wolves eat bear meat?

[bright coral]

I went ahead and created a support ticket re missing release notes since it affects so many.

#steam-bugs-discussion message being the first case we saw in here I think

[cedar edge]

Players in same area as each other get logged out, others in a 3rd location may not, the instant a player who is not near any of them disconnects/crashes.
Something I have seen twice in the last few days.
Possibly related to a player being on chinese VPN displaying obvious packet loss and connection-longevity problems.

[stark meadow]

Think Steam is messing up installations on Linux due to previous download cache, and not being case sensitive. Probably the same reason why SteamCMD fails installing dedicated server app, but haven't confirmed yet. Tried hopping between builds on Linux, and it appears there a high chance Steam won't put properly named files. Only way I consistently get correctly named files is if I wipe download cache before I switch between builds.

[bright coral]

Yep, there is definitely an upstream bug with Steam and case renames. Good to know it might be cache related. It might be separate from the SteamCMD prior manifest retrieval issue.

[cosmic niche]

My stutter/lag/glitchy bug is back... Honestly no idea what the cause is

[dusty garden]

Is there something with fulings giving double adrenaline? Using a mace should only give 2 per hit, but each hit is giving 4

Using Krom. wasnt sure if this was talked about anywhere yet

Im also getting it using a bronze sword against greydwarves. Is it a world setting?

[vestal topaz]

Couple of issues I've seen since the latest update. The first may just be incredibly bad luck: killed almost 100 drakes, no trophies. The other is definately a bug. If I run my smelter then leave the chunk, the coal gets scattered over a large area; if I stay there, it comes out normally.

[dusty garden]

Oh does it have something to do with rested giving bonus regen?

[upbeat geode]

Bug

😂😂😂

[stark meadow]

Does you PC go into standy-by mode? If so, try disabling fast boot. Some laptops have issues with drivers properly starting after stand by, so something similar might be happening to you. Also would be a good idea to eliminate thermals as being an issue. I recommend running HWiNFO tool to check which MAX temps your components are hitting when playing and this issue happens.

[pallid vault]

What are the chances of this being fixed any time soon?
I wanna build a mountain castle with the grausten steep stairs as a roof, but they behave kinda stupid atm, as they don't cast a snow shadow.
ashwood stairs for reference.

[stark meadow]

There's a list of items that don't behave properly like that, so they all gonna be fixed in one go for 1.0, probably not before

[pallid vault]

aw rip. thank you for the answer.

[stark meadow]

With a mace regular attack you get 1 Adrenaline + 3 Adrenaline of top of that if you stagger an enemy with your attack

[stark meadow]

How large is that large area for you?

[cosmic niche]

I disabled standby mode and automatic sleep mode. Thermals definitely aren't an issue

[crimson sierra]

i tried wipeout mod file,appdata and install unity6000.somthing
but nothing happen

just game launch loading
error sign
shutdown immediately

[lime plank]

Not sure if its a bug or intended but the dead raiser skeletons will not attack TWIG/Battle brother

[lucid geyser]

Why on earth should they attack a dummy? They are smarter then that. They have no skills to train. So my guess it's intended.

[lime plank]

Ain't got no brain in that bag of bones maybe he wants to hone those sword skills let him dream a little

[stark meadow]

Did you try manually deleting all the files and folders in the installation directory, and then re-install?
Be sure to also launch through Steam library after.
Usually happens when you still have some left over mods or some 3rd party app being incompatible with Valheim (e.g. antivirus or recently reported OBS).

[violet marten]

Is this a good spot to report localization mistakes?

[trail zodiac]

Just had another crash to blackscreen while playing. Image froze, sound kept playing for a few seconds, stuttered and then stopped.
Screen kept turning on and off, but only a black image when on. Win+ctrl+shift+B did nothing at all, no alt tabbing or ctrl-alt-deleting. Eventually had to force power off.

Not really sure how to troubleshoot this.

[bright coral]

Yep, though with the Europe weekend already starting, I would just file a ticket using the iframe in https://valheim.com/support/ to ensure it has the right eyes on it

[trail zodiac]

Tried a clean driver install and will give the Vulkan option a try for a while - see if it helps. Haven't had this issue in any other game (although to be fair I haven't played other games for a little while 🙂 )

[trail zodiac]

Almost immediate crash... Only Valheim this time though. GPU load was like 70% and dropped to zero instantly. Game stopped responding

[stark meadow]

Not here, please report it on the link Justin provided you, under tab translation errors

[violet marten]

Just did 🙂

[stark meadow]

Are you on w11? If so, try repairing your windows by: Settings → System → Recovery → Fix problems using Windows Update

Although black screens are usually related to power delivery problems, but worth a shot cuz it helped someone else recently

[trail zodiac]

Hmm. Thanks for the tip! I'll give it a try... and remember to save often

[stark meadow]

DM me if it doesn't help so we can figure it out faster

[trail zodiac]

It is a little bit inconsistent - sometimes it's happened right away, other times I can go for 10 hours without an issue. But I will report back. Last thing I did was verify game files via Steam. Played for about an hour after that without it happening, but that might be good luck.

[tulip trench]

Is there a way to see p2p connection logs in Valheim?
Am I understanding correctly that WebRTC is running and there's a UDP connection between the "server" (me) and the client?
We're trying to play with a friend, but we're constantly freezing. It seems like some packets are getting lost. I'd like to see the logs.

[bright coral]

I think some early wiki writers may have confused RPC with RTC; Valheim doesn't use WebRTC for gameplay as far as I know. It either uses Steamworks' networking protocol or PlayFab Party's protocol for RPC, depending on whether the server is operating in Steam mode or Crossplay respectively. Both protocols are over UDP for primary gameplay. Being UDP they don't really have "connections", but your operating system and router will keep track of what endpoint replies should go to. Both sides will use timeouts waiting for replies to determine a "disconnected" state.

In the case of Crossplay, the communication is not between the game client and server, but between game client and a 3rd-party relay server and between the Valheim server and the 3rd-party relay server.

In Steam mode, you should be able to see the IP address you're connecting to in the game client's Player.log. You'll also be able to see the PlayFab lobby queries to check for a Crossplay server first in that same log file. Newer versions of Dedicated Server do not log IP addresses, but will cover player identity information as users connect. The dedicated server's PlayFab Lobby ID can be used to gleam information about what relay server was selected in Crossplay mode.

If you need to go deeper, you'd be better off using something like Wireshark or tcpdump.

I will say that if you use Steam invitations with the in-game server, it does do some WebRTC-like steps to try NAT traversal to make that communication happen.

And finally here are some of the basics to run through for networking lag or freeze issues before diving that deep: #dedicated-server message

[tender pike]

Hey guys! Have any of you encountered an issue with the sap extractors? I have 3 extractors on a root and while I'm next to them, they all work. once I'm away, only one extracts, the other 2 are empty until I'm next to them (only then do they start extracting and even that after I've emptied the filled one).

[obsidian folio]

Hello! I have a serious problem. After downloading the 39.6 KB mini-patch, my world completely reset. Houses, portals, Power Stone trophies—NOTHING remains. Everything I'd earned and built while adding new lands simply disappeared. I thought it was a bug, so I restarted the game and arrived at the place where my house should have been, only to find a completely different landscape. It feels like the world itself has regenerated and erased all my progress. Is there any way to roll back the world or the update? Or what should I do in this situation?

[stark meadow]

There was no update recently, so what ever update you had was probably Steam syncing something.

You can restore prevous world and character save backups via manage saves button in the starting menu.

It would be a good idea to manually backup your files before doing anything to save files

Backup files from these locations:
https://i.imgur.com/mTVKf1J.jpg?4
plus download from here:
https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorageapp/?appid=892970

[obsidian folio]

Yes, I already restored the world backup.

[twin cedar]

hello, i have this game breaking bug thats causing me to have 200/300 weight even when carrying nothing
does anybody know whats causing it and how to fix it?

nvm i kms and it got fixed

[gaunt mist]

In the future if you are having problems while using mods, https://discord.com/channels/391142601740517377/1202550198174486599 is right place to ask about them. This channel is for Vanilla problems.

[prisma solar]

Since the last update, I can't click on anything in the UI with the mouse unless game window is on the display connected to the first port on the GPU. According to some Steam discussion, on Linux builds this has also happened around 2023, and touches both X and Wayland across different compositors. Is there a temporary fix currently, other than unplugging every monitor but the one I need?

[stark meadow]

I have no issues launching the game on my Linux Mint regardless of the primary monitor

What Distro? What GPU do you have? Both monitors on HDMI? Monitors with different resolutions?

[prisma solar]

As far as I understand, it's because I configured a non-primary monitor to be primary. Whatever the game uses to determine which monitor is primary reports the one connected to the first DP output, but I set HDMI to be primary, and that probably creates a conflict

[stark meadow]

I also have DP and HDMI and have no issues no matter which I select as primary. Card has 3 DP ports and one HDMI

[prisma solar]

It shouldn't really matter, but sure. Fedora, AMD, DP and HDMI, same res 100% scaling

[prisma solar]

Then we need to figure out the pattern

I'm trying to find the steam discussion that I saw earlier, but for some reason it disappeared. Wonders of search engines

Found it https://steamcommunity.com/app/892970/discussions/1/3934517938648762889/

I also think this may be a Unity thing

IIRC patch notes said engine upgraded

Which on Unity always means something bad will happen

[stark meadow]

Try launching via OpenGL and proton?
It would be a good idea to also wipe all install files manually, clean Steam download cache, the install the game again.
There are currently some issues on Linux regarding Steam cache and folders being re-named. Shouldn't be related to this issue tho.
Also try deleting prefs file in /home/steam/.config/unity3d/IronGate/Valheim/
There you should also be able to change UnitySelectMonitor variable to choose on which monitor the game with launch

I currently have a different issue. I can't seem to launch the game on not preferred monitor. The game always launched on preferred monitor and then I can only move to it another monitor, in which case is also works. Configuring prefs file does nothing.

[prisma solar]

I did have to reinstall because it didn't launch at first

OpenGL doesn't fix it, Proton obviously does

I will try messing with prefs though

Because running through Proton is not a fix

[stark meadow]

Clean steam cache and manually wipe files before reinstall

I had cases where clean installations also didn't work until I wiped cache

[prisma solar]

Which files to wipe manually

[prisma solar]

That variable gets reset

[stark meadow]

For me as well. So I'm not sure how does you game then remember on which monitor it should be launched

[prisma solar]

It doesn't, it just runs on primary every time

[stark meadow]

Try adding a launch argument to Valheim properties in steam library -screen-fullscreen 1 -monitor 2

[prisma solar]

-monitor is ignored

And -screen-fullscreen makes the game forget prefs for some reason

Anyway I found a fix, but it is so incredibly stupid

Run the game windowed and force fullscreen through compositor

When it's windowed, mouse works on any display, and I can just fullscreen the window through my compositor

[stark meadow]

Not for me. Can use it to force the game to laucnh on non primarly monitor
Regardless, something is off, as the game normally remembers on which monitor it can laucnh on previous build, but not on this one
I guess the issue just manifest on your setup differenty, using x11 or wayland or?

[prisma solar]

I blame engine upgrade

[prisma solar]

I think in the discussion I linked earlier someone said they have the same issue on X, I am on Wayland

[crisp grove]

hey i have a friend who keeps playing the game but it eventually crashes after 10-20 minutes for no apparent reason

we have 4 crash logs from them all is it cool to post them here

[stark meadow]

What are their system specs?

[crisp grove]

Intel i7-12700F
16GB Ram
RTX 3060 Ti

w about like 1200gb of space

we checked for most recent drivers, verified game integrity and reinstalled a few times

[stark meadow]

In what manner are they crashing?
Error popps up?
Game freezes and they are forced to close it?
Black screen?
System shutdown?

You can DM me the log files

[crisp grove]

game freezes and then it auto closes after a second or two

sounds good

[prisma solar]

Suggestion out of the blue - check RAM

[crisp grove]

unless theres something wrong with one of the sticks i think its good bc it never hit 100% or anything

[prisma solar]

Run memtest

If one of the sticks has a bad block, it could cause a lot of issues

On my system 32MB of bad memory caused me a lot of pain, but not as much as a bigger region would

[stark meadow]

Could be an issue, but there's more likely things to chekc first

We are troubleshooting it in DMs

[prisma solar]

Such as? Not familiar with esoteric crashes in this game

With that kind of hardware I'd expect either driver/OS issues or unstable RAM. Which is less likely, but happens more often than you would expect

[stark meadow]

Could be RAM, but it's more likely that BIOS is improperly configured, or some 3rd party app is incompatible with Unity engine

Lately after engine update, there have been some weird GPU related freezes as well, we still collecting info on those

[prisma solar]

The only thing you can improperly configure in bios that would lead to this is RAM. At least for most normal software. Considering how fragile and just bad Unity is, I wouldn't be surprised if any random option would break it

[stark meadow]

Rarely anyone messes with RAM timing, and over time it's more likely that CPU becomes degraded than RAM
You can just see that on the example of Intel 13th and 14th gen CPU failures
Bad sectors on RAM do happen, and I've encountered players with needing to replace RAM, but it pails in comparison with amount of CPU failures

[prisma solar]

That issue is unique to 13th and 14th generations of Intel CPUs. And also there's usually no need to replace RAM, you can just lock the bad parts. Unless you're on Windows, of course. Most CPU-related issues also stem from RAM. As a rule of thumb, when checking hardware, always make sure it's not RAM first

[stark meadow]

All CPUs degrade over time, more common than RAM, and more common one all CPU that boost only few cores, which is not specific to Intel only

I'm speaking to you from perspective of helping Valheim players fix their crashes since 2021 and writing guides on how to troubleshoot them.
RAM sectors are last thing I check