Game stuck on initializing resources

[regal tendon]

Every time I try to load into any map the game gets stuck on the loading screen that says initializing resources. The game used to work fine yesterday but today it seems like it is not working anymore anyone got a solution?

[pastel moat]

I don't know about "initializing resources" but for me it gets stuck at "Loading map" & refuses to go any further: heck I can't even click on the game to cancel the loading or make it start not responding like it usually does!

[regal tendon]

Here is the screenshot of my problem

[regal tendon]

It gets stuck on that screen forever until I close the game

[distant river]

i also have the same issue that started happening today

[distant river]

i tried loading in to a map with most of my addons disabled and it worked but idk which addons are causing it

[sick halo]

Just bribe the game with cookies or something

[versed lion]

I would love to know any good temporary solutions until a hotfix is issued

[pastel moat]

For me it's playing with not all your addons enabled, just a few (this isn't ideal of course but it's all we can do for right now seemingly).

[versed lion]

no offense, was looking for "good" solutions but yeah I know it works if you do -noworkshop and -noaddons

[pastel moat]

Facepunch must have screwed something with the addon system up in the latest update then.

[versed lion]

just hoping for a swift fix so I can actually play it on my extended weekend

[pastel moat]

Same here, hopefully Facepunch will see all the hubbub going on & quickly take action.

[glacial pier]

checking task manager, what seems to be happening is that it get stucks at a certain number of memory being stuck at the same digits for minutes on end

i assume this is a new form of "mod-troll"
its caused by a mod, and its obviously on purpose
it seems to be mostly only when GMA is being loaded, so i do assume it's just a mod and it's some sort of troll mod like a screamer, but instead of a flashing image it just doesnt let you load, as for how its done exactly im not sure

it has not left 3.9k for 5 minutes

defintiely some dickhead who just decided to update his mod after 5 years just to fuck with gmod players

[versed lion]

I disabled all the recently updated mods without effect, so no, that isn’t it

It also stops using cpu beyond ~1% for me at the freezing point

[glacial pier]

that's strange

disabling addons is an instant fix for me

i guess this goes deeper than i thought

[versed lion]

Yes, I think it’s some resource allocation problem with addons

[glacial pier]

i did run menu_cleanupgmas so its obviously something thats still not banned

or that garry and the gmod team fucked something up

[versed lion]

The latter is certain

But I can promise it isn’t some mod troll this time

The timing with the update to 64x isn’t coincidental

[pastel moat]

I don't believe it's an addon as I tried disabling most of my recently-obtained & updated ones & it didn't make any difference.

[pastel moat]

Pretty sure that's what we're dealing with here.

[versed lion]

It’s not one addon in particular, I think. Perhaps the update just made a few addons incompatible by mistake?

[pastel moat]

As I said above, something with the game's addon system had to have gotten screwed up with this latest update.

[glacial pier]

maybe,

ill make a 2nd download on my d drive that has 0 addons overall and load it up

for me disabling works, but i still recall ze's friend talking about a new trick he cooked up for GMA that prevents all forms of loading custom files

[pastel moat]

Already tried that as well as with very few addons: Gmod'll load maps as long as you don't have too many addons enabled or installed (I have a total of 1591 & it worked fine with this number before).

[versed lion]

People were yelling about a “neurobase/neuroplanes” addon on steam discussions that they said caused the problem for them

[glacial pier]

that was 2018 right?

neuroplanes is far outdated by lfs and whatever the fuck is around now

i do recall the guy who made neuro being called out in 2016 for developing cheat softwares though

sooo

[versed lion]

I just checked the discussions and that’s what they said recently

[glacial pier]

who the fuck is still using neuroplanes

i dont

thats like 2015 era crap

[versed lion]

Nevwr heatd of it before but whatever

[glacial pier]

yeah its lie

like*

[pastel moat]

A lot of Neuro addons have military vehicles like tanks that you can't get anywhere else, so those are more-or-less not outdated for one.

[glacial pier]

imagine LFS, an easy to understand flight sim

but the year is 2015

thats neuroplanes

[glacial pier]

their netcode is so ass that playing on multiplayer with them is like trying to get 2 computers to communicate in the year 1951

thats why it died

[pastel moat]

Last I tested them I believe I did encounter problems with them (forget what they were though). Any idea what went wrong in their creation?

[glacial pier]

thats not the discussion

but anyways, yeah it seems like the issue is caused by the loading of GMA

[versed lion]

I don’t really know or care lol I just want to be able to play gmod with the stuff I had that worked like 2 days ago

[pastel moat]

Well that's obvious since like I said playing Gmod with very few or no addons enabled or installed allows it to load maps fine.

For some reason no one at Facepunch seems to be aware of this very serious problem affecting Gmod players everywhere though.

[glacial pier]

one thing im still concerned that

[versed lion]

It’s only for 64x

[glacial pier]

what is causing the memory to freeze up

[glacial pier]

no, bullshit

i ran it on 32, still did the same

[pastel moat]

Regardless, they should still know about it & fix it since a lot of people use that branch.

[versed lion]

Oh

[glacial pier]

its not for x64

[versed lion]

Somehow was convinced it was only happening on 64

[glacial pier]

thats what im concerned about

[pastel moat]

Really? Alright then, nice to know that it's a bigger problem than we thought (so that hopefully Facepunch will learn about & fix it faster/sooner).

[glacial pier]

freezing up memory, having issues that are inconsistent between users?

big issue here

[pastel moat]

Most certainly!

[versed lion]

Going to give rubat or whoever it was working on the update my best wishes and check back later

[glacial pier]

what im abit concerned about is

since not everyone is complaining

i hope its not a hardware issue either

[pastel moat]

I would have pinged him yesterday when this thread started but I believe you're not supposed to ping staff as per the rules (which creates a problem in times of serious issues like this one).

[glacial pier]

well it is a major bug

i've done testing for games before, we'd classify this as a serious issue

[pastel moat]

Oh most definitely!

[sick halo]

Just kill it with a shoe

[severe pasture]

I'm glad I'm not alone on this issue.

[pale totem]

worked fine couple days ago then this, fix plz facepunch

[bitter breach]

Is it possible to see the resource initialization log somewhere?

[wraith anvil]

The only thing that changed in the last few days was x86-64-temp branch being deleted, and x86-64-temp being pushed to x86-64 as it lacked a years worth of updates.
Make sure it didn't default you to mainbranch with temps deletion as 32bit gmod literally cannot use more than 3-4gb ram
"garry and team" is just rubat. Garry abandoned this years ago.

You can read the commits here so you stop thinking someone changed addonsystem #garrysmod-commits message

So, singleplayer only- affecting x86-64? It affecting main doesn't make much sense as the update is out next week for that

[wraith anvil]

Fp is EU/UK, that was 1am. "everywhere" Doesn't affect me, works fine and I have <100 addons, I'll look into the coincidences and see what turns up

[bitter breach]

Yep, Broken only 64 branch, the single player does not run at all (endless initialization of resources), if you open a local game, it runs, but many models are not displayed "Error creating '(spam in the console a large number of models)' (Make sure the file is AddCSLuaFile'd and there aren’t any errors)
For example, I can’t see c-hands

the problem is only in the correct loading of addon resources

[versed lion]

gonna check out the latest update and see if it fixes things

[chrome skiff]

should be fixed

[versed lion]

can confirm it launches into singleplayer, thank you rubat!

[pastel moat]

Can confirm that Gmod will load with all addons enabled again, thanks Rubat! (if you're the one that fixed the problem of course)

[wraith anvil]

rubat is always the one who fixes the problems

[pastel moat]

Yep, probably because he's the only one still actually working on Gmod.

[foggy mulch]

guys i figured out the problem just switch to normal beta load game then load a map just in case. then go back to 86-64 bit i tyed that and it worked

[pastel moat]

From what we know Rubat fixed the problem.

[wraith anvil]

yeah rubat fixed it, changing beta just probably updated his game lol

[regal tendon]

[NOW FIXED] Game stuck on initializing resources

[zinc kiln]

you should mark it as solved rather just putting a new title