Gmod getting stuck on opening loading screen at "finished"

[The Gaslighter]

i just got Garry's Mod today for my self as it was on the Christmas Sale, and whenever i go to open it, the progress bar goes until a small chunk is left to download and the text just says "finished." When I go to Task Manager, it says that it's unresponsive. I've tried using solutions from other people with similar problems and it just doesn't work, and the only thing that i think is happening is something with the "awesomium_process" but I'm not sure how to do anything. any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Fearagen]

Verify Integrity of your local game files.

Right click Garry's Mod in your Library >> Properties >> Local Files >> Verify Integrity.
Sounds like something corrupted and this should repair the file(s).

If that does not work then do the following: Check your mods to make sure you don't have anything that would cause such an issue.

If you do not have a single mod that's being unstable/glitchy then try to Factory Reset Garry's Mod by going to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod" and double clicking the file named "FactoryReset-GMod.bat".

If you have went through all the steps above and the game is still acting up, try to fresh reinstall Garry's Mod. Uninstall Garry's mod via the steam library, go to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common" and delete the "GarrysMod" folder. (Steam usually does not remove game files from this folder after said game(s) was uninstalled). and then reinstall Garry's Mod, wait for all your mods to download from the workshop after launching, test a map to see if the issue is somehow still present.

[The Gaslighter]

Originally posted by Fearagen:

Verify Integrity of your local game files.

Right click Garry's Mod in your Library >> Properties >> Local Files >> Verify Integrity.
Sounds like something corrupted and this should repair the file(s).

If that does not work then do the following: Check your mods to make sure you don't have anything that would cause such an issue.

If you do not have a single mod that's being unstable/glitchy then try to Factory Reset Garry's Mod by going to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod" and double clicking the file named "FactoryReset-GMod.bat".

If you have went through all the steps above and the game is still acting up, try to fresh reinstall Garry's Mod. Uninstall Garry's mod via the steam library, go to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common" and delete the "GarrysMod" folder. (Steam usually does not remove game files from this folder after said game(s) was uninstalled). and then reinstall Garry's Mod, wait for all your mods to download from the workshop after launching, test a map to see if the issue is somehow still present.

tried all that from one of your other responses of another person asking

[emmie]

Hey! I figured out how to fix it!!! First, do the verifying integrity thing as suggested, then if you have any sort of antivirus protection (I have Norton) then you need to exclude Garry's mod files from being scanned. For me, I was trying everything suggested. When I finally checked my antivirus, it blocked a certain file EVERY time I uninstalled and reinstalled the game. The file name is PUA something, it is within the awesomium_process folder file. It kept getting blocked, I stopped (excluded it) from the scan and now it works and plays fine :)

[The Gaslighter]

Originally posted by Emmeline:

Hey! I figured out how to fix it!!! First, do the verifying integrity thing as suggested, then if you have any sort of antivirus protection (I have Norton) then you need to exclude Garry's mod files from being scanned. For me, I was trying everything suggested. When I finally checked my antivirus, it blocked a certain file EVERY time I uninstalled and reinstalled the game. The file name is PUA something, it is within the awesomium_process folder file. It kept getting blocked, I stopped (excluded it) from the scan and now it works and plays fine :)

Ill be sure to try this once my power comes back on

[magdellena]

Originally posted by Emmeline:

Hey! I figured out how to fix it!!! First, do the verifying integrity thing as suggested, then if you have any sort of antivirus protection (I have Norton) then you need to exclude Garry's mod files from being scanned. For me, I was trying everything suggested. When I finally checked my antivirus, it blocked a certain file EVERY time I uninstalled and reinstalled the game. The file name is PUA something, it is within the awesomium_process folder file. It kept getting blocked, I stopped (excluded it) from the scan and now it works and plays fine :)

Thank you for this! Had this issue, did the exclusion and it fixed it. Most appreciated.

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[Kairuku]

I'm having the same issue and also have Norton but idk how to exclude the file, can you explain how you did it?

Originally posted by Emmeline:

Hey! I figured out how to fix it!!! First, do the verifying integrity thing as suggested, then if you have any sort of antivirus protection (I have Norton) then you need to exclude Garry's mod files from being scanned. For me, I was trying everything suggested. When I finally checked my antivirus, it blocked a certain file EVERY time I uninstalled and reinstalled the game. The file name is PUA something, it is within the awesomium_process folder file. It kept getting blocked, I stopped (excluded it) from the scan and now it works and plays fine :)

[emmie]

Originally posted by Kairuku:

I'm having the same issue and also have Norton but idk how to exclude the file, can you explain how you did it?

Yeah! So open Norton, go to settings (in the top right) and then click the Antivirus tab. When you're there you will see another tab called "scans and risks" scroll down to where it says "low risks" and change that to "ask me". Then under that you can choose specific files for it to ignore during scans. I would choose awesomium_process one under gmod.

[Nickolas]

i did everything and still it Didn't Worked

[JonManArmy]

Originally posted by Emmeline:

Hey! I figured out how to fix it!!! First, do the verifying integrity thing as suggested, then if you have any sort of antivirus protection (I have Norton) then you need to exclude Garry's mod files from being scanned. For me, I was trying everything suggested. When I finally checked my antivirus, it blocked a certain file EVERY time I uninstalled and reinstalled the game. The file name is PUA something, it is within the awesomium_process folder file. It kept getting blocked, I stopped (excluded it) from the scan and now it works and plays fine :)

How do I go about stopping it from scanning the GMod folder?

[LIYER]

lol ive never been so recent on a gmod help forum, i found the folder awesomium_process folder but there is no file to select for the antivirus there is an awesomium_process.exe file that im going to try to exclude and the run the virus scan. ill keep the forum updated but i wonder if my game is missing a file

Originally posted by Emmeline:

Hey! I figured out how to fix it!!! First, do the verifying integrity thing as suggested, then if you have any sort of antivirus protection (I have Norton) then you need to exclude Garry's mod files from being scanned. For me, I was trying everything suggested. When I finally checked my antivirus, it blocked a certain file EVERY time I uninstalled and reinstalled the game. The file name is PUA something, it is within the awesomium_process folder file. It kept getting blocked, I stopped (excluded it) from the scan and now it works and plays fine :)

[Cam3toi]

Originally posted by Emmeline:

Hey! I figured out how to fix it!!! First, do the verifying integrity thing as suggested, then if you have any sort of antivirus protection (I have Norton) then you need to exclude Garry's mod files from being scanned. For me, I was trying everything suggested. When I finally checked my antivirus, it blocked a certain file EVERY time I uninstalled and reinstalled the game. The file name is PUA something, it is within the awesomium_process folder file. It kept getting blocked, I stopped (excluded it) from the scan and now it works and plays fine :)

I uninstalled notron but it's not worki

[The Gaslighter]

Originally posted by Cam3toi:

Originally posted by Emmeline:

Hey! I figured out how to fix it!!! First, do the verifying integrity thing as suggested, then if you have any sort of antivirus protection (I have Norton) then you need to exclude Garry's mod files from being scanned. For me, I was trying everything suggested. When I finally checked my antivirus, it blocked a certain file EVERY time I uninstalled and reinstalled the game. The file name is PUA something, it is within the awesomium_process folder file. It kept getting blocked, I stopped (excluded it) from the scan and now it works and plays fine :)

I uninstalled notron but it's not worki

you dont uninstall Norton, you basically go to the scan history and find where it says awesomium_process.exe and you select it, go to more options, then select "exclude this file" button

[The Gaslighter]

Originally posted by IndolentBum:

lol ive never been so recent on a gmod help forum, i found the folder awesomium_process folder but there is no file to select for the antivirus there is an awesomium_process.exe file that im going to try to exclude and the run the virus scan. ill keep the forum updated but i wonder if my game is missing a file

Originally posted by Emmeline:

Hey! I figured out how to fix it!!! First, do the verifying integrity thing as suggested, then if you have any sort of antivirus protection (I have Norton) then you need to exclude Garry's mod files from being scanned. For me, I was trying everything suggested. When I finally checked my antivirus, it blocked a certain file EVERY time I uninstalled and reinstalled the game. The file name is PUA something, it is within the awesomium_process folder file. It kept getting blocked, I stopped (excluded it) from the scan and now it works and plays fine :)

what you do is go to the Norton application, go to Device Security and press the "open" button, go to "History," go through your history until you see "awesomium_process.exe," select it, press the blue underlined "options" button, and press the "exclude this program" button, fully delete/uninstall and reinstall the Gmod folders (go to the very top where Fearagen post is and read the final paragraph to do this) and your Gmod should be up and running

[some mcdonalds worker]

Originally posted by Emmeline:

Hey! I figured out how to fix it!!! First, do the verifying integrity thing as suggested, then if you have any sort of antivirus protection (I have Norton) then you need to exclude Garry's mod files from being scanned. For me, I was trying everything suggested. When I finally checked my antivirus, it blocked a certain file EVERY time I uninstalled and reinstalled the game. The file name is PUA something, it is within the awesomium_process folder file. It kept getting blocked, I stopped (excluded it) from the scan and now it works and plays fine :)

I have done everything and it still wont work. I was playing fine earlier making pac3's and it just stopped working. Please help, i have 1.3k hours on gmod its one of my favorite games please someone