Endless loading screen

[Maldruin]

I recently reinstalled after not playing for a few months and now im having an issue where randomly ill get stuck on an endless loading screen, its not every loading screen sometimes its the first time sometimes i go through like four before it happens, i tried verifying my files i tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game and i even turned off cloud saves and deleted my local save files and its still happening, I looked and found some threads from 2022 about it and i tried what they said but nothing has worked.

[MisterBazoo]

Yea I'm going through the same issue as you are. I do get to play though after 2-3 minutes of loading screen but if you find a solution let me know.

[Maldruin]

Originally posted by MisterBazoo:

Yea I'm going through the same issue as you are. I do get to play though after 2-3 minutes of loading screen but if you find a solution let me know.

ive waited over half an hour and have not gotten past loading screens they are truely stuck for me

[Sparhawk 59]

things to try verify game files check drivers are up to date if its windows 10 in search type CMD run as admin then in new box flashing icon type sfc /scannow

if you tried that post pc specs inc windows 10 or 11 as their have been issues with both over last couple months

[dark-breed]

Are you use a third party Antivirus?

[Sparhawk 59]

This is dark breed our go to IT expert on these issues

[purpl3 h4z3]

Originally posted by dark-breed:

Are you use a third party Antivirus?

I don't use any 3rd party anti virus and this sometimes happens too between one invasion and another, but only when i am invading tho. While in coop, this never happens.

[Sparhawk 59]

Originally posted by purpl3 h4z3:

Originally posted by dark-breed:

Are you use a third party Antivirus?

I don't use any 3rd party anti virus and this sometimes happens too, but only when i am invading.

Many of us get crashes still best to do a CMD prompt to check if windows files are damaged

[dark-breed]

Originally posted by purpl3 h4z3:

Originally posted by dark-breed:

Are you use a third party Antivirus?

I don't use any 3rd party anti virus and this sometimes happens too between one invasion and another, but only when i am invading tho. While in coop, this never happens.

a endless loadingscreen points to a problem in the system this can be caused by a lot of additional stuff, specific if it happens during invasions it could also be caused by the other end but normally if something goes wrong during connect there is a death timer that would close the game process, there are situations where it could ends in a endless loop but this should be rare.

primary a third party antivirus, firewall or other security software can cause such problems, additional to this windows internal malfuctions can cause this (a check of the time it happens and analysis of the event viewer logs could show a connection between a windows internal thing and the problem).
sometimes instable drivers cause this (a check of the device manager by show hidden devices would show if something is wrong).
it is also possible that the EAC installation in windows is not updated correctly (it is now reported multiple times for windows 11 that the registry keys are not updated or only partly updated causing a lot of different problems) and a clean reinstall with delete the registry keys is needed.
powermanagement can cause strange behavior (usb selective powersaving, CPU powersaving and some others are known for causing delays in the system that can break the netcode flow).
finally other background apps can cause a short delay window that cause that the netcode runs into a response timeout.

just to add at windows 10 was a silent windows update that has caused strange processing behavior at some systems, lagging and stuttering, freezes and some input reading changing behavior, for some it got resolved by set the start_protected_game.exe (sorry wrong file previous) in taskmanager to realtime but at some systems this is not possible and you have to use a registry change (looks like since the last EAC update it no longer works), what points to a cpu time order change in the process management. i have this problem since 3 weeks now with my testsystem and for older games at my newer systems, also for elden ring random (depends on how long the system did not got a restart of windows).

[nfinite.recursion]

Originally posted by purpl3 h4z3:

Originally posted by dark-breed:

Are you use a third party Antivirus?

I don't use any 3rd party anti virus and this sometimes happens too between one invasion and another, but only when i am invading tho. While in coop, this never happens.

Happens to me sometimes in both invasions AND co-op, though it's significantly less often in co-op.

This is always due to the host having trash-tier internet. When connecting to the host, the loading progress bar doesn't just indicate loading assets into memory, but also how much world-state data has been sent from the host. Stuff like their build, equipment loadout, cosmetics, which enemies / bosses are still alive, etc. If the host's PC isn't sending this data, then you'll be staring at a slowly moving or completely unmoving progress bar until the connection times out. Would be great to have a way to manually cancel being summoned while in the loading screen.

[Maldruin]

Originally posted by dark-breed:

Originally posted by purpl3 h4z3:

I don't use any 3rd party anti virus and this sometimes happens too between one invasion and another, but only when i am invading tho. While in coop, this never happens.

a endless loadingscreen points to a problem in the system this can be caused by a lot of additional stuff, specific if it happens during invasions it could also be caused by the other end but normally if something goes wrong during connect there is a death timer that would close the game process, there are situations where it could ends in a endless loop but this should be rare.

primary a third party antivirus, firewall or other security software can cause such problems, additional to this windows internal malfuctions can cause this (a check of the time it happens and analysis of the event viewer logs could show a connection between a windows internal thing and the problem).
sometimes instable drivers cause this (a check of the device manager by show hidden devices would show if something is wrong).
it is also possible that the EAC installation in windows is not updated correctly (it is now reported multiple times for windows 11 that the registry keys are not updated or only partly updated causing a lot of different problems) and a clean reinstall with delete the registry keys is needed.
powermanagement can cause strange behavior (usb selective powersaving, CPU powersaving and some others are known for causing delays in the system that can break the netcode flow).
finally other background apps can cause a short delay window that cause that the netcode runs into a response timeout.

just to add at windows 10 was a silent windows update that has caused strange processing behavior at some systems, lagging and stuttering, freezes and some input reading changing behavior, for some it got resolved by set the start_protected_game.exe (sorry wrong file previous) in taskmanager to realtime but at some systems this is not possible and you have to use a registry change (looks like since the last EAC update it no longer works), what points to a cpu time order change in the process management. i have this problem since 3 weeks now with my testsystem and for older games at my newer systems, also for elden ring random (depends on how long the system did not got a restart of windows).

I play offline so it has nothing to do with invasions or co-op and i havent run any third party security software since the most recent download, my drivers are all fine and like i said ive done a clean reinstall

[Maldruin]

I'm actually on linux which will probably get blamed, but it ran fine on the same linux install a few months ago when i had it installed before.

[dark-breed]

Originally posted by Maldruin:

I'm actually on linux which will probably get blamed, but it ran fine on the same linux install a few months ago when i had it installed before.

Linux is a other Story, i'm a Windows expert for Linux i have no idea where to start.
I just know that not all proton versions work and for elden ring a specific Version has to be set.
Nfinite.recursion is far better for troubleshooting in Linux.

[Maldruin]

Originally posted by dark-breed:

Originally posted by Maldruin:

I'm actually on linux which will probably get blamed, but it ran fine on the same linux install a few months ago when i had it installed before.

Linux is a other Story, i'm a Windows expert for Linux i have no idea where to start.
I just know that not all proton versions work and for elden ring a specific Version has to be set.
Nfinite.recursion is far better for troubleshooting in Linux.

i figured you werent but my point was more that it worked before but doesnt now even though nothing has changed, ive also tried with the three main proton versions, current, experimental, and GE,

[dark-breed]

Originally posted by Maldruin:

Originally posted by dark-breed:

Linux is a other Story, i'm a Windows expert for Linux i have no idea where to start.
I just know that not all proton versions work and for elden ring a specific Version has to be set.
Nfinite.recursion is far better for troubleshooting in Linux.

i figured you werent but my point was more that it worked before but doesnt now even though nothing has changed, ive also tried with the three main proton versions, current, experimental, and GE,

Proton 7.0-6 is the most stable Version, i can see from posts of infinite.recursion.

Finally the game is made for Windows and i have no idea how to troubleshoot it at Linux, there are no logs i could analyse and i also do not know if some form of driver conflict could appear that cause this problem.

[Jude]

Originally posted by Maldruin:

I recently reinstalled after not playing for a few months and now im having an issue where randomly ill get stuck on an endless loading screen, its not every loading screen sometimes its the first time sometimes i go through like four before it happens, i tried verifying my files i tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game and i even turned off cloud saves and deleted my local save files and its still happening, I looked and found some threads from 2022 about it and i tried what they said but nothing has worked.

Did you ever find a fix, I'm having the same issues