Can't start game

A lot of people can't start their game because of mods, understandable.

I don't have ANY mods installed, it just crashes upon clicking the play button, it's been like this since the last patch, I've reinstalled, deleted all known Valheim files, reinstalled again, no fixes yet.

My friend also this exact issue since the last patch.
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GunsForBucks replied to Can't start game July 1, 2022 @ 4:55:16 pm PDT

Not having any issues here.
How is it crashing? Desktop bsod just doing nothing and steam window stays up?
What type of video card do you run?

Try different launch commands in steam to try different video solutions? Did you get the prompt to choose vulcan or whatever? After the update it asked the first time.
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GunsForBucks replied to Can't start game July 1, 2022 @ 4:59:29 pm PDT

Personally I started a new character in a new world. I have not tried to access/sync any old worlds or characters. But it sounds like you are not even getting that far?
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StrafeY replied to Can't start game July 1, 2022 @ 5:09:03 pm PDT

Originally posted by GunsForBucks:
Not having any issues here.
How is it crashing? Desktop bsod just doing nothing and steam window stays up?
What type of video card do you run?

Try different launch commands in steam to try different video solutions? Did you get the prompt to choose vulcan or whatever? After the update it asked the first time.

I use a 3070ti, also it is JUST this game that won't open.

Was perfectly fine the patch before, and since release, as you know I am incapable of opening the game without it just closing with some random error.

The error I cannot tell you what it is because it appears for maybe a second, or two before closing, then the play button on steam being visible again to click, and then that is the loop.

I've tried running windowed, fullscreen, borderless, none has worked, I'm unsure how I would change my resolution, but there is also NO prompt to run in Vulkan, I click play, it loads into the "Irongate" logo, then closes with the error described as above.
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GunsForBucks replied to Can't start game July 1, 2022 @ 5:11:14 pm PDT

Originally posted by StrafeY:
Originally posted by GunsForBucks:
Not having any issues here.
How is it crashing? Desktop bsod just doing nothing and steam window stays up?
What type of video card do you run?

Try different launch commands in steam to try different video solutions? Did you get the prompt to choose vulcan or whatever? After the update it asked the first time.

I use a 3070ti, also it is JUST this game that won't open.

Was perfectly fine the patch before, and since release, as you know I am incapable of opening the game without it just closing with some random error.

The error I cannot tell you what it is because it appears for maybe a second, or two before closing, then the play button on steam being visible again to click, and then that is the loop.

I've tried running windowed, fullscreen, borderless, none has worked, I'm unsure how I would change my resolution, but there is also NO prompt to run in Vulkan, I click play, it loads into the "Irongate" logo, then closes with the error described as above.
Hit the "print screen" button and paste that image in paint dot net or something to see the error message.

Also might want to see if you can google where logs are?
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StrafeY replied to Can't start game July 1, 2022 @ 5:16:18 pm PDT

Originally posted by GunsForBucks:
Originally posted by StrafeY:

I use a 3070ti, also it is JUST this game that won't open.

Was perfectly fine the patch before, and since release, as you know I am incapable of opening the game without it just closing with some random error.

The error I cannot tell you what it is because it appears for maybe a second, or two before closing, then the play button on steam being visible again to click, and then that is the loop.

I've tried running windowed, fullscreen, borderless, none has worked, I'm unsure how I would change my resolution, but there is also NO prompt to run in Vulkan, I click play, it loads into the "Irongate" logo, then closes with the error described as above.
Hit the "print screen" button and paste that image in paint dot net or something to see the error message.

Also might want to see if you can google where logs are?


https://gyazo.com/6196feac620ab8dbdb4e6230886f78fd

here is the link to the error, there is no other information on it, and this is all I am presented with after seeing the Irongate logo.
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OctoberSky replied to Can't start game July 1, 2022 @ 5:27:25 pm PDT

You may not be consciously using mods but that is the Unity error from mod loading engines like BepinEx due to Unity incompatibility. May need to examine how your game is launched and see if any other loader is coming into play. This latest load moved to Unity 2020.3.33 (Unity itself is Beta on 2022.5.1).
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StrafeY replied to Can't start game July 1, 2022 @ 5:35:13 pm PDT

Originally posted by OctoberSky:
You may not be consciously using mods but that is the Unity error from mod loading engines like BepinEx due to Unity incompatibility. May need to examine how your game is launched and see if any other loader is coming into play. This latest load moved to Unity 2020.3.33 (Unity itself is Beta on 2022.5.1).

I have reinstalled on two separate occasions?
I'm not really sure where I would look for any mods, or launchers attempting to use Valheim.
Any ideas?
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OctoberSky replied to Can't start game July 1, 2022 @ 5:40:17 pm PDT

Check your Valheim installation folder (Steam\steamapps\common\Valheim) and see if there is a folder called BepinEx. Re-name it if so.
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GunsForBucks replied to Can't start game July 1, 2022 @ 5:49:30 pm PDT

You stated you deleted all valheim folders before a reinstall.

That should clear out any mod or corrupted files unless you have a mod manager polluting your install when you start up.
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