Continual Crashes

[Dragons Tail]

Not sure what to do. I love Valheim but it continually crashes. My system is more then enought to run it (Intel i9-9900k with 3080 card), however after max of 10mins in game it just crashs. I have gone through a complete wipe and reinstall of both the game and my os (windows 10) and nothing seems to change it. Suggestions?

[Dragons Tail]

Oh i have also tested all my hardware, and its fine. No other game i play has this problem....

[sibbs]

Unity games run hot, about 6c more than other game engines. I know you've stated that you've checked your hardware but a consistent game crash after 10 minutes of play sounds like a heat problem.
Fingers crossed that you can find the answer to this glitch.

[Dragons Tail]

Not a heat issue. There is no spike in temp when i run the game. And I'm a bit off on time, last night i played no problem for awhile (maybe 20mins) today it has crash 3 times within the 10mins.

[Norco]

i usually stress test with prime95, if it passes after a few hours then your cpu/ram/psu more than likely fine, can test ram further with something like memtest86, otherwise 3dmark or heaven for testing out gpu let it run for few hours, all while this is going have soemthing like hwmonitor or hwinfo64 open so u can see the min max temps

[Dragons Tail]

This was all done by techs (That i know and trust - and actual technicians who have being doing technical work for 10+years each)last time i tried to run the game. Funny thing is on my kids machines (older systems) it runs just fine. I did just run the game for approx 45 mins right now only thing i did differ was lower the fps. im going to give that another shot...

[retsam1]

Originally posted by Dragons Tail:

Not sure what to do. I love Valheim but it continually crashes. My system is more then enought to run it (Intel i9-9900k with 3080 card), however after max of 10mins in game it just crashs. I have gone through a complete wipe and reinstall of both the game and my os (windows 10) and nothing seems to change it. Suggestions?

For the sake of more accurately clarity:

1. Go to the steam help menu, click "system information" and then copy paste all that here so we specifically see what steam detects for your rig and any potential discrepancies that may have relevance to your crash. Saying you have xyz doesnt denote much in the way of knowing what steam sees.

Saying "no other game has issues" also doesnt have much in the way of relevance as different games in relation to one's system etc are a different set of variables that another game may not trigger (not exactly a canary in the coal mine but relatively so).

2. Are you using mods?

3. "It just crashes" could use a bit more information. Are you getting any error message/report? BSOD? Just flat return to desktop? Etc etc

Start with those basics and lets see from there.

[Dragons Tail]

1)Computer Information:
Manufacturer: ASUS
Model: System Product Name
Form Factor: Desktop
No Touch Input Detected
Processor Information:
CPU Vendor: GenuineIntel
CPU Brand: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9900KF CPU @ 3.60GHz
CPU Family: 0x6
CPU Model: 0x9e
CPU Stepping: 0xd
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 3600 MHz
16 logical processors
8 physical processors
Hyper-threading: Supported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported
AES: Supported
AVX: Supported
AVX2: Supported
AVX512F: Unsupported
AVX512PF: Unsupported
AVX512ER: Unsupported
AVX512CD: Unsupported
AVX512VNNI: Unsupported
SHA: Unsupported
CMPXCHG16B: Supported
LAHF/SAHF: Supported
PrefetchW: Unsupported
Operating System Version:
Windows 10 (64 bit)
NTFS: Supported
Crypto Provider Codes: Supported 311 0x0 0x0 0x0
Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
DirectX Driver Name: nvldumd.dll
Driver Version: 31.0.15.3667
DirectX Driver Version: 31.0.15.3667
Driver Date: 7 12 2023
OpenGL Version: 4.6
Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 143 Hz
DirectX Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x2206
Revision: 0xa1
Number of Monitors: 2
Number of Logical Video Cards: 2
No SLI or Crossfire Detected
Primary Display Resolution: 3840 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 3840 x 2160
Primary Display Size: 47.09" x 13.23" (48.90" diag), 119.6cm x 33.6cm (124.2cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 10239 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x
Sound card:
Audio device: Speakers (High Definition Audio
Memory:
RAM: 65448 Mb
VR Hardware:
VR Headset: None detected
Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
Media Type: Undetermined
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 5722547 MB
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 1854746 MB
OS Install Date: Jan 23 2023
Game Controller: None detected
MAC Address hash:
Storage:
Disk serial number hash: 45b3602a
Number of SSDs: 2
SSD sizes: 2000G,1000G
Number of HDDs: 2
HDD sizes: 2000G,1000G
Number of removable drives: 0

2) No mods

3) Game freezes - i can still hear my guy doing stuff if i click but nothing changes on screen - or it just freezes totally (less often for this tho)

[Cap'n Bells]

5 Q's from me.
1: from memory the game auto saves about every 10 mins.. if you have steam cloud saves is there maybe an issue there?
2: I assume those 6T of HDU's have enough space
3 Running Vulcan does it get the same issue? ( note for me on a laptop Vulcan causes more issues than it solves)
4: have you verified files after install?
5: cant see your game play history ..So Q1: Has this only just started happening and you have hundreds of hours of gameplay.. in which case what had changed ? Updates? hardware software??
Q2 If this is your first install and havent got game working?? for more than 10 mins.. let us know here.

GL!

[Dragons Tail]

1) not sure
2) hell yes lol
3) i have tried with and without vulcan - thou with it it tends to play longer before crash
4) yes many times and uninstalled and reinstalled
5) when it first came out played beatifully, when mistalands came out i went back to game and been doing it every since

[Disaster Theory]

All of your memory sticks are matching correct? No mixing of brands or speeds?

Also... I had a friend with the same issue in another game, after 30 or 45 mins in a game his entire PC would reboot. Well that ended up being a weak VRM that was having issues maintaining a steady power delivery. What wattage is your power supply? Almost sounds like the gpu is hitting a snag and your losing video. May be a bad psu?

[Dragons Tail]

Yes my memory is fine - I have also tried reducing my memory - swapping out powersupply/video card and ram ....soo still same effect :(

[Cap'n Bells]

Thanks
I been playing since pre Plains quite a bit less recently, as im starting a new world.. re Q4 i think game saves when u sleep and i thought you could set a save time somewhere but i see it only set the number of saves it keeps.. maybe someone can help us here??

Q6) is version 217.38 (n 20)

Q7) So What changed? I been fixing IT for decades.. when a program works and all of a sudden it doesnt.. eith Hardware or software changed ..I know thats a big " Duh" But you are the closest to the issue .Since we are still working its not Valhiem as such..its something semi-local to you? new router? anything maybe your network is compromised..
Q8) and if you A: turn offf cloud save
then B: load an OLD local save. try playing that for 30 mins?
REMEMBER Cloud save is off!!
I have about an hour or so online still so let us know
GL!

[Dragons Tail]

6) latest version? there are no updates
7) well perhaps the router. but i can play it on the kids machines with zero issue and they are on same routers as i.
8) havent tried turning off cloud save will give that a shot

[Cap'n Bells]

oh by any chance do you have an Xbox controller you use for V? theres a post about checking its drivers are upto date.. it text"Windows event viewer shows valheim crashed.
But, just prior to this crash dmw.exe and Dwminit also crashes.

This is caused by Xbox controller makes windows display drivers to fail.

Sollution is to update xbox controller driver for windows.
" from https://trello.com/b/pck1nmXO/public-test

[Dragons Tail]

nope i use keyboard and mouse. so turned off auto save lowered fps to 60 (likes its 1999 again :( ) and so far no carsh since 22mins ago :)