I'm stuck in the loading screen :(

[JiraHwang]

Hi guys, I open palia and get sent to a lobby where my character is and I click "Play" and i get stuck in the loading screen for more than 5 minutes. I tried closing the game and launching 3 times and i'm still stuck
I even restarted my PC and re-plugged the internet cable but it didn't fix anything.
I don't know what else I can do :(

[CursedXistence]

Here's something you can try.

in steam right click on palia and go to properties

you'll see a text box for advanced launch options, add this line to the box:

-dx11

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that will force the game to attempt to launch in dx11 mode, might work.

[JiraHwang]

Originally posted by CursedXistence:

Here's something you can try.

in steam right click on palia and go to properties

you'll see a text box for advanced launch options, add this line to the box:

-dx11

----

that will force the game to attempt to launch in dx11 mode, might work.

Thank you for the help, I tried "-dx11" and "dx11" but none of it worked for me.

[stretch]

It's really hard to know what's wrong without sitting at your PC ourselves.
There are a couple of standard things you can try that sometimes help with the more obscure starting issues.
Go to the game in your library list. RMB. Manage. Browse local files. RMB palia.exe Compatibility tab. Disable fullscreen optimisations and set run as admin.

If that fails then:
I have not tested this with this game but as a last resort you may wish to try changing out of fullscreen mode to launch it.
You are looking for the GameUserSettings config file in
C:\Users\yourpcnamehere\AppData\Local\Palia\Saved\Config\WindowsClient
Appdata may be a hidden dir.

Before you do anything at all backup the original file.

RMB and edit with notepad.
Ctrl F and search fullscreen.

You would normally look for the following 3 lines but I only saw the 2nd one.
FullscreenMode=0
LastConfirmedFullscreenMode=0
PreferredFullscreenMode=0

Unreal Engine documentation regarding FullscreenMode:
Game window fullscreen mode:
0 = Fullscreen
1 = Windowed fullscreen
2 = Windowed

Depending what options are set in yours change the 0 to a 1 or 2.
If that does nothing then try inserting all 3 lines with the 0 changed to a 1 or 2.
If you have a 1 or 2 then try a different one but ultimately you just want to test something other than what is failing for you now so just change it.

If that all does nothing then restore your backup. I am out of suggestions other than you googling it.

It's all a longshot as it could be any number of things from your drivers to incompatible chipset with the latest UE5 engine to obsolete runtime version etc etc etc.

The above things have helped me in the past in the rare instances I have had issues launching but it's very rare and I make no promises.

Good luck.