Black screen of Death

[Defiant]

As the title says, I simply open steam, click play, and after the title card surges past with the little hammer loading in the corner. Both of my monitors proceed to go full black screen for a brief second, before my second monitor returns to normal (still frozen) while my valheim monitor stays black.

This has happened 8 consecutive times and I'm beyond frustrated. I've verified the files 3 times already, I've uninstalled and reinstalled the game, and I've repeatedly reset my computer.

I should also mention that when my computer goes to the black screen of death, my computer is completely and entirely frozen until I manually power it off.

Am I just doomed to never play this game again? I have over 700 hours in it, this isn't a new game to me or my system, and idk why it's just started happened. (Ashlands was 3 months ago, so that update isn't the problem.)

[electricdawn]

Try uninstalling the game through Steam, then go here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common

and delete the folder "Valheim", if still present.

Reinstall the game, and then try again. Let us know if that helped.

[MaCarBre]

Originally posted by Defiant:

List your PC specs. How old is your power supply?

[Sinner]

i have almost the same problem. I try to play and after 3 or 20 minutes the game freeze and does not respond after that. Any ideas ???

[Defiant]

I am quite stupid when it comes to computer stats, but essentially, after taking my computer directly to the guy who built it (my computer is 4 years old)

After rebooting my harddrive, after repairing it, after organizing my files, i'm still unable to play the game because of the "xbox" system terminating my game client with every single launch.

I've been told (by my computer guy) that the ONLY fix is buying a brand new hard drive and to physically install all of my window systems as brand new, all of my files and ALL of my data. I've been told this is the ONLY fix. so I won't be playing Valheim for atleast 3 weeks D:

P.S my brother in law is a IT nerd and even he couldn't help me.

Essentially, the problem (at first) was my hard drive going down, and becoming bad. But even after repairing the hard drive, my problem persists, I can play EVERY single game except Valheim (even AAA games like Sons of the Forests run JUST fine.)

I leave this note for everyone in the furture, enjoy the time you have with Valheim, because this too, one day, will happen to you. /cry

I had originally thought this was a Valheim only problem, but it affected everygame, now however, after every other game has been repaired with my hard drive reboot, Valheim still isnt. I can't complain because I got it for $10, but I'm just sad cause I thought I owned the game, but I don't, it owns me and my computer. /sigh

[MaCarBre]

Originally posted by Defiant:

If you don't have much experience with troubleshooting PC problems, I would suggest that you reach out to on official Discord channel[discord.gg]. It will be hard to convey the necessary information without sharing screenshots, for which Steam forums are not designed.

Are you using a old hard drive or an SSD?

[Defiant]

It's a fairly new hard drive, ordered in 2019, installed in 2020, as of writing this, I can play most games I own, but all crash the computer after 5-20 minutes of gameplay. The ONLY exception to this is the Turtle World of Warcraft private server, that appears to be the only game my computer can actually run without crashing.

I appreciate your help tho, and my new hard drive has already been ordered.

hopefully, in the future, if someone else has valheim problems, this thread will encourage them to suspect the hard drive, because I initially thought the problem was my graphics card.

[Conan]

turn off steam cloud save

[electricdawn]

Although you should always do so, this has nothing to do with that. I'm not even sure it's the hard drive. I'm more leaning in the direction of over-aggressive clocking or old thermal paste. But I could be totally wrong here.