Single Player not loading

[aor1477]

I have been playing for a few days and am really enjoying the game. I logged out yesterday lunchtime to be able to go out and when I came back I was unable to reload my single player game. The game initially starts with the menu option to choose either online, single player, settings etc with no problem. I then click single player, because that is all I want to play at the moment, and am then met with one of two alternatives. The first takes me to a menu to create a new character. I don't want this, I have already created a character, built a town and want to carry on with it. The second is an endless loading screen that goes on for hours if I let it, I proved that by trying to load overnight and it was still on this loading screen when I woke up.

[Vegas]

Make sure you reboot your machine. I have heard SP game may sometimes start multiple local servers that hogs all your systems memory.

[aor1477]

Originally posted by Tex (Vegas):

Make sure you reboot your machine. I have heard SP game may sometimes start multiple local servers that hogs all your systems memory.

Thank you, unfortunately that doesn't seem to work. In fact the options I have tried are, reboot PC, reboot internet, virus scan, disk clean-up, disk defragment, ensuring all drivers are up-to-date, running the game as an administrator, shouting swearing, threatening to never play the game and then trying 5 minutes later. I did consider sacrificing next doors cat to some obscure god but unfortunately my children won't let me.

[Vegas]

Originally posted by aor1477:

Originally posted by Tex (Vegas):

Make sure you reboot your machine. I have heard SP game may sometimes start multiple local servers that hogs all your systems memory.

Thank you, unfortunately that doesn't seem to work. In fact the options I have tried are, reboot PC, reboot internet, virus scan, disk clean-up, disk defragment, ensuring all drivers are up-to-date, running the game as an administrator, shouting swearing, threatening to never play the game and then trying 5 minutes later. I did consider sacrificing next doors cat to some obscure god but unfortunately my children won't let me.

Yea, the cat idea is an unpopular one with most kids. Have you tried turned your graphics down to minimum?

As a last resort you may have to stick to playing on a server. If you want to SP experience you can try to find a PVE or ORR server with very few players on it and then go off into the boonies to rebuild. The downside is that the server may go amay or be wiped and you have no control over that. I'm sure you're already aware of the fact that the game is very early in the EA process and as such is not optimised yet and there are plenty of bugs to go around. There may be no way to get your SP game back; forcing a restart. I've had to restart almost every week since I bought the game last month. The good news is that you now know how to get started so it should not take long to rebuild.

[aor1477]

Originally posted by Tex (Vegas):

Originally posted by aor1477:

Thank you, unfortunately that doesn't seem to work. In fact the options I have tried are, reboot PC, reboot internet, virus scan, disk clean-up, disk defragment, ensuring all drivers are up-to-date, running the game as an administrator, shouting swearing, threatening to never play the game and then trying 5 minutes later. I did consider sacrificing next doors cat to some obscure god but unfortunately my children won't let me.

Yea, the cat idea is an unpopular one with most kids. Have you tried turned your graphics down to minimum?

As a last resort you may have to stick to playing on a server. If you want to SP experience you can try to find a PVE or ORR server with very few players on it and then go off into the boonies to rebuild. The downside is that the server may go amay or be wiped and you have no control over that. I'm sure you're already aware of the fact that the game is very early in the EA process and as such is not optimised yet and there are plenty of bugs to go around. There may be no way to get your SP game back; forcing a restart. I've had to restart almost every week since I bought the game last month. The good news is that you now know how to get started so it should not take long to rebuild.

It's just frustrating as I'd spent loads of time collecting materials and turning them into things like planks etc to be able to build a long railway line and have built so great buildings to complement the pre-made ones that you can buy. I understand the development of the game is more important than my little town and train tracks though, it is a great game so far though

[Bazyl]

Originally posted by aor1477:

Originally posted by Tex (Vegas):

Make sure you reboot your machine. I have heard SP game may sometimes start multiple local servers that hogs all your systems memory.

Thank you, unfortunately that doesn't seem to work. In fact the options I have tried are, reboot PC, reboot internet, virus scan, disk clean-up, disk defragment, ensuring all drivers are up-to-date, running the game as an administrator, shouting swearing, threatening to never play the game and then trying 5 minutes later. I did consider sacrificing next doors cat to some obscure god but unfortunately my children won't let me.

Same for me, tried several workarounds, but still my single player game does not load correctly. Exept that I have no cat to try the last one.

If the game does not crash, it loads without my crafting stations, just the character and his inventory is OK.
Still I like the game quite a lot, it has a good potential. As I bought it for the single player mode, I stop playing for now and I will wait for a fix, hopefully not too far in future.

[aor1477]

Originally posted by Bazyl:

Originally posted by aor1477:

Thank you, unfortunately that doesn't seem to work. In fact the options I have tried are, reboot PC, reboot internet, virus scan, disk clean-up, disk defragment, ensuring all drivers are up-to-date, running the game as an administrator, shouting swearing, threatening to never play the game and then trying 5 minutes later. I did consider sacrificing next doors cat to some obscure god but unfortunately my children won't let me.

Same for me, tried several workarounds, but still my single player game does not load correctly. Exept that I have no cat to try the last one.

If the game does not crash, it loads without my crafting stations, just the character and his inventory is OK.
Still I like the game quite a lot, it has a good potential. As I bought it for the single player mode, I stop playing for now and I will wait for a fix, hopefully not too far in future.

I love the game but after each update it takes a day or two to get in and then when I do during that time there is errors. Currently on the one occasion I did get in yesterday, some walls were there but I could walk through and had 3 train carriages visible on the tracks but my train that also had 3 carriages would drive through it. I am unable to interact with anything either by mouse, game pad or keyboard and the one occasion I logged in today I had a character that I had deleted just standing as a scarecrow. Oh and that characters buildings have been on my game for the past week yet I can't destroy them.
It's easy enough on single player to make the money quick to get gold to get a mine and gold mergeants to be able to rebuild but why should I when I have built a small town in each of the past 4 weeks and am happy with what I have. I did find that if your town is too big you get graphics issues and when you reduce it by deleting walls or floors if you decided to have roads some things return, but I found a nice big bit of flat land and wanted to use it. Also what is it with the stupid pigs and cows who can't be fed and refuse to eat leading to a field of dead livestock?

[Bazyl]

Originally posted by aor1477:

Currently on the one occasion I did get in yesterday, some walls were there but I could walk through and had 3 train carriages visible on the tracks but my train that also had 3 carriages would drive through it. I am unable to interact with anything either by mouse, game pad or keyboard and the one occasion I logged in today I had a character that I had deleted just standing as a scarecrow. Oh and that characters buildings have been on my game for the past week yet I can't destroy them.

Hi aor1477,
I seriously lowered my graphics settings, really increased the Win 10 virtual memory and put it on SSD. I have just 8 Go of RAM, but all games similar to Outlaws I play are content with this. I reboot my PC before each game start. And now, the Single Player Server loads much quicker and without any apparent problems, no hang up, no crash.

When I exit and restart the game (I can not let my computer be running permanently) my character, its inventory, level, XP are correctly reloaded. However, my constructions ARE NOT, some of them are restored, some not, without any apparent logic, like history of their building time. And frequently I cannot interact with the objects by mouse, as you.

It seems there is some serious problem with the Outlaws local Windows Server, the exit save and the communications with the local Client. Note, that the local Client works fairly well with the distant official servers in multiplayer.