Project Zomboid

Project Zomboid

Sifright Oct 30, 2018 @ 12:16pm
Multiplayer server wont start.
When launching a local server I get to the click to start screen and then cannot proceed any further. Once I hit click to start i have audio that begins to play from what sounds like the game world but the click to start screen remains present with the words blinking in and out the server remains unjoinable for my friends and there's no indication that anything is actually happening in the game world.

I can host an entirely different game world but for obvious reasons I really don't want to start fresh any idea what I can do to resolve this?
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Sifright Oct 31, 2018 @ 2:53am 
Processor: i5-6600k
16gb of memory
Radeon 570

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UyTsfY9-X1pQlI6RRGRqOqeY_9Sj3t9o

I'm running the following mods on the server
Hydrocraft, pump power, POS and ORGM.

I did some testing of my own and it seems like the problem is confined to the map data as I made a copy of the server and ported parts across bit by bit. With only the player data copied to a duplicate server everything loads fine so it seems like something is going wrong with the map data as it's only when copying that across to the duplicate that the problem reoccurs.

Edit: The server in question that wont start is labeled Rob+Paul the duplicate of this server isn't showing up in the log files. Are there any debug launch settings I could turn on to make logging more verbose or will that not be an issue?

P.S

I've since gone to the duplicate server and disabled all the mods. The issue still persists. Once the server has reached the click to start screen, clicking on the screen starts and atmospheric effect where the wind blows on the audio nothing else changes and the click to start text and black screen remains with the text pulsating.
Last edited by Sifright; Oct 31, 2018 @ 3:17am
Sifright Oct 31, 2018 @ 5:58am 
Correct if I have a fresh clean map it works. The timing of the error leads me to believe it's something changing in the core game though as it was directly after the new build came out.

Edit: To clarify, it doesn't matter whether I have the mods active or not the problem persists.
Last edited by Sifright; Oct 31, 2018 @ 8:02am
Sifright Oct 31, 2018 @ 10:01am 
Any suggestion on what I could do to fix this? For that matter is there any way to know what map chunks correspond to what parts of the world map? So I could try deleting and replacing individual chunks of the map and porting clean ones in?

If my last suggestion is possible the problem area is likely around the Large farm area west of Riverside.

Shown in this link
https://map.projectzomboid.com/#0.49679493432405103,0.0862535028054954,171.7131899593243

Knowing the filename for the chunks around there would give me a chance to fix it.
Sifright Oct 31, 2018 @ 11:54am 
Well I believe I've found the chunk that's causing the game to not load. As deleting it allows the server to start properly. Would you like a copy of the chunk in question to take a look at?

Edit

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1oCbPDHv1go7KcNG33FaIjEkdvcAUWnq-

Link to file in question.

Odd bug though, I presume there's some kind of interupt in the graphics engine being triggered by something in the map piece.
Last edited by Sifright; Oct 31, 2018 @ 11:59am
Sifright Oct 31, 2018 @ 3:07pm 
Ah interesting so should I put the chunk back in?
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