Jagged Alliance 3

Jagged Alliance 3

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Ishtar Feb 6, 2024 @ 2:24pm
Endless loading screen since patch.
Yesterday the game was working just fine and today i am locked in an endless loading screen when the game starts.
I added no new drivers , repaired the installation and after that reinstalled the game.
Nothing has been working so far.
Is this an isolated incident? i tried to look it up and this seems to have happened before, but the trouble-shooting advice was as trivial as it was not helpfull: it is probably your fault because of out of date cpu-drivers or else. Well all those drivers are up to date and my machine is working accordingly, no problems , everything works seemlesly , but .......
well this game does not. Also i do not have this issue with any other game i am playing.

Any help would be appreciated.
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zion6 Feb 6, 2024 @ 3:29pm 
Same-fixed after clearing the game cache and checking integrity of game
https://gameserrors.com/jagged-alliance-3-stuck-on-loading-screen/
BTW it deleted my mods too
Last edited by zion6; Feb 6, 2024 @ 3:44pm
TangSuijin Feb 6, 2024 @ 5:59pm 
Do you have any mods enabled?
Ishtar Feb 6, 2024 @ 6:47pm 
well i do, but the mods do seem to be only a part of the problem.
i did delete my saves file, saved it beforehand and started the game after that.
And while the game now starts , it is laggy AF. i started a new testround without mods just vanilla and holy cow does it not work well at all.
i never had these problems before , was running seemlesly before.
now sometimes i get stuck in loadingscreens sometimes not.

i worked a bit with the settings whiche where set to ultra , but no matter how much i lower it ,it still lags AF. Also there was no graphics update so why did it work the last nearly 300 hours and all of a sudden it does not. i also tried some mods and while some again caused the endless loading screen other work just fine. But the performance is from hell no matter if i try with or without mods. btw the only game i have issues with on my computer. so i guess they messed up the patch.
For me at the moment that is not playable.
TangSuijin Feb 6, 2024 @ 7:09pm 
Originally posted by Ishtar:
well i do, but the mods do seem to be only a part of the problem.
i did delete my saves file, saved it beforehand and started the game after that.
And while the game now starts , it is laggy AF. i started a new testround without mods just vanilla and holy cow does it not work well at all.
i never had these problems before , was running seemlesly before.
now sometimes i get stuck in loadingscreens sometimes not.

i worked a bit with the settings whiche where set to ultra , but no matter how much i lower it ,it still lags AF. Also there was no graphics update so why did it work the last nearly 300 hours and all of a sudden it does not. i also tried some mods and while some again caused the endless loading screen other work just fine. But the performance is from hell no matter if i try with or without mods. btw the only game i have issues with on my computer. so i guess they messed up the patch.
For me at the moment that is not playable.
please use the in-game bug report, without mods, so the devs can see what's wrong
Nomadik_Medic Feb 7, 2024 @ 10:37pm 
Yo, same thing happened to me. Had to do complete re-install, delete steam download cache, also manually unsubscribed from all mods, and start a new save. Was pretty painful, considering I had just gotten over half-way through with all my mods finally working and then this update had to crap on it all lol.
Ishtar Feb 8, 2024 @ 8:51am 
yeah , think about it , the night before the patch came i was playing a only story mercs playthrough (Flay, Pierre , Larry , speedy or what his name is and spike aka major) and had just gotten the major and was only 2 missions down to the finish line , this sucks so hard.

But there is some update i have, the endless loading screen and the need to end it via tast manager had somehow impact my graphic drivers. i noticed that , when also rogue trader all of a sudden was very laggy. so i re-installed the gra-ca-drivers and now at least the very vanilla version of the game does work normally again. i thought i should share that.
BackdireinEis Feb 8, 2024 @ 1:13pm 
I had the very same bug. It was the mod "drop everything but 25 % of it". After unchecking that mod in the games properties, normal launch was possible again.
permanent666 Feb 8, 2024 @ 2:07pm 
Deactivating mods from a heavily modded savegame will exactly lead to this kind of behaviour.
Ishtar Feb 8, 2024 @ 6:22pm 
Originally posted by permanent666:
Deactivating mods from a heavily modded savegame will exactly lead to this kind of behaviour.
what kind of behavior ? how about ur a little more specific , then just ominously inexact ?
My game was not heavily modded. It had a handfull of small ones. And where exactly do mods lead to behavior ? What exactly were you trying to say? Because as of now your answer is astonishingly useless.
Ishtar Feb 8, 2024 @ 6:47pm 
Allright you happy party people , thanks for all the help, my game finally works fine again.
Most of your ways on how you fixed it and myself looking for solutions gave a combination that finally worked .

My Problem obviously was ,that i had to close the game via Task Manager , which had an impact on my graphiccard drivers. That and the fact that the 1.5 Version of the game did not work with some of the old mods. Here are the steps that helped me, for those who still have trouble.

1. In your savefiles under computer -> user -> username - > save games -> jagged alliance 3 folder there are 2 files you need to delete, so you do not have to delete all of your save games (hoping that the mods you used will be updated and maybe those saves work again soon , who knows). The files are

account.dat
account.dat.bak

What this does is essentially putting your game into default mode , like when it was started for the very first time. It also deactivates every mod you have.

2. Before that i had repaired the installation , as this did not work i reinstalled and emptied the steam-cash. All that did not have the preferred outcome , since i still had my settings saved in the account.dat files.
For all of you who think they have to de-♥♥♥ each and every mod in the workshop : you don't have to do that. deleating the files as described in step 1 is enough.

3. Since i had massiv lags and it turned out later these also happened in other applications , i reinstalled the graphic drivers. This could be just me, but i happened after the game was not working anymore , so i put it inhere just for a complete oversight for those who might have similar problems , even so i assume this is one of the rather rarer happenings.

4. After that my vanilla game was working perfectly fine again.
Having accomplished that, i now started to reactivate my mods in smaller numbers. like i added 2-3 mods , saved , tried out. if it worked rince and repeat. If it did not , i had to delete the account.dat and .bak again, and did not add those mods anymore the seemed to be trouble.
As so far my personal findings are ,that mercs in general seem to be no problem, as long as they use vanilla equipment and are not tied to mods like unlimited weapons and the like. for me all the mercs from the modder "key" who adds mostly only mercs from JA2 that have not been implemented yet have worked flawlessly.
Some others did so too, but in general merc-mods seem to work.
Others that chance equipment , droprates and such do not work anymore.
These are only my observations but i wanted be as precise as possible, so it might help others, just as others helped me out.

So thank you for your input guys, it definetly helped me sorting out my problems.
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Date Posted: Feb 6, 2024 @ 2:24pm
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