[Solved] World never load

[FXFreitas]

Solved: Set Nvidia Control Panel Setting to default/automatic. Set the game to run as administrator.

After many research and testing, I've decided to make this thread to gather more info about that problem:

So what is exactly happening?
Well loading the world, any world, never finishes. It does not crash, freeze nor anything, it sits on the loading screen and I can even open F2 window. I let the game running for half a hour to see if it was just loading, and was sure that it would not happen when it gave me a auto save, on the loading screen.

My specs are not the issue, cpu and ram are more than enough and the video card is a generation behind of the minimum on steam page (gtx750ti), but I ran this game in worse cards before (geforce 430), the game was also loading a few weeks ago.

reinstalling, checking steam files, checking gpu drivers, windows drivers, anti-virus, giving more virtual memory to the ssd, putting everything on the game on low, nothing of that worked, and I have no idea why it was working before and not anymore.

[MaCarBre]

Originally posted by FXFreitas:

Most likely caused by outdates hardware, as described in this guide under Section1:Point6. How old is your power supply?

[FXFreitas]

Originally posted by MaCarBre:

Originally posted by FXFreitas:

Most likely caused by outdates hardware, as described in this guide under Section1:Point6. How old is your power supply?

Thank you for the reddit thread I'll reading it carefully.
All my equipement aside the motherboard and cpu is new, my power supply is 500w and its new.

Note: I have no issues running new games, like elden ring and such, it just feels off that valheim stopped working from a week to another at all.

Edit: FInished reading the thread it wasn't helpful at all, it was all about crashes, but the game is not crashing (does not even create a crash log), its not overloading the system, (in one of the tests I was checking the cpu, ram, disk and gpu usage, they are all below 50% except by the 85% gpu which is understandable, after reducing the graphics to minimum possible, this usage can be cut to below 70%)

[MaCarBre]

Originally posted by FXFreitas:

All my equipement aside the motherboard and cpu is new, my power supply is 500w and its new.

How can it be new when you are running gtx750ti? Is your card the only thing old in your system? Have you tested a new world with a new character?

[FXFreitas]

Originally posted by MaCarBre:

Originally posted by FXFreitas:

All my equipement aside the motherboard and cpu is new, my power supply is 500w and its new.

How can it be new when you are running gtx750ti? Is your card the only thing old in your system? Have you tested a new world with a new character?

yes and yes

[MaCarBre]

Originally posted by FXFreitas:

Originally posted by MaCarBre:

How can it be new when you are running gtx750ti? Is your card the only thing old in your system? Have you tested a new world with a new character?

yes and yes

Does your CPU by any change have a integrated video card and your motherboard a video output in which you could plug in your monitor? That could server as a test to identify if your card is the issue, which I think is most likely scenario. As I described in that guide section, it doesn't really matter that a card can run other games. It all depends what kind of games are they and how the utilize the GPU. Valheim drawn 100% of GPU utilization on old gen cards, which can puts stress on them that most other games do not. Try locking your framerate in nvidia control panel to 20fps and launching the game as a second test.

[FXFreitas]

alright I have a 1070 here that I can use to test if the gpu is the problem, even if the game was working normally a few weeks ago.
changing the fps cap in the control panel changed nothing, its loading for almost 20 minutes now and I don't think it will ever load. Anyway I noticed that my microsof store stopped working so my issue might be on windows instalation, the update might have broken something.

[FXFreitas]

tested the other gpu, and it still does not load, very weird, also restored my windows instalation that resolved my microsoft store problem, but changed nothing on valheim.
I am trying to figure out what changed from like 2 weeks ago to now that made the game stopped working on this pc.

[MaCarBre]

Originally posted by FXFreitas:

tested the other gpu, and it still does not load, very weird, also restored my windows instalation that resolved my microsoft store problem, but changed nothing on valheim.
I am trying to figure out what changed from like 2 weeks ago to now that made the game stopped working on this pc.

Hm... maybe something is wrong with desktop windows manger. I suggest doing system files check for corruption (Section4 in my guide). Is there any different when you run the game in Vulkan compared to default (d3d11)? Just to be sure, don't interact with your PC during loading process for at least 2-3 (not alt-tabbing, minimizing, clicking, typing, etc..). Have you already checked if there is something useful being reported in Windows event viewer or Valheim player.log when this happens?

[FXFreitas]

Originally posted by MaCarBre:

Hm... maybe something is wrong with desktop windows manger. I suggest doing system files check for corruption (Section4 in my guide). Is there any different when you run the game in Vulkan compared to default (d3d11)? Just to be sure, don't interact with your PC during loading process for at least 2-3 (not alt-tabbing, minimizing, clicking, typing, etc..). Have you already checked if there is something useful being reported in Windows event viewer or Valheim player.log when this happens?

Windows manager is fine (just restored my windows) vulkan did not changed anything, and all my tests were made without touching the pc while the game is loading, for at least 20 minutes, to be sure. The game does not crash so there is no crash log and since it does not finish loading, it generates no logs.

When I started the testings I had 80 hours of gameplay, with at least 2 of these hours from the start of this month, now I have almost 100 hours, more than 10 hours of watching the loading screen, monitoring my system and days of research and tests on windows, nvidia, bios, etc. I have no idea of what happened in the last 2 weeks that made the game not work here anymore and I am losing the hopes.

Just a Quick note:
"If using a Nvidia card, do a installation of Studio graphic drivers (SD), and not Game ready drivers (GRD). Be sure to select correct card, OS, etc... Do a custom installation and select check box on perform clean installation."

About this. Nivida does not have a SD driver for the 700 series on their site (its only for the 1000 and above). That could be the issue but still does not explain why the game was working before;

[FXFreitas]

Well game loaded, Idk why, but here what I did:
Set everything on nvidia control panel to automatic and restored the other configs to default
opened the game directly from the folder running it as admin (it was set to run as admin before, but anyway)

[MaCarBre]

Originally posted by FXFreitas:

Well game loaded, Idk why, but here what I did:
Set everything on nvidia control panel to automatic and restored the other configs to default
opened the game directly from the folder running it as admin (it was set to run as admin before, but anyway)

Performing a clean driver installation should anyway reset driver setting to default. If you could select things to default, that means that step wasn't executed properly before. I also have a feeling like this might be a temporarily solution. Let me know.

[FXFreitas]

Originally posted by MaCarBre:

Performing a clean driver installation should anyway reset driver setting to default. If you could select things to default, that means that step wasn't executed properly before. I also have a feeling like this might be a temporarily solution. Let me know.

Yeah probably it was a problem with one of the control panel options that was not set to automatic/default
turned off the pc for some hours and came back now, tested the game and it is still running fine, seems like my issue is fixed, thanks for your attention and time, I was about to give up.