wont launch

The game will no longer launch. I have reinstalled, removed everything, cloud files, everything. tried every type, old_stable, even experimental. Then I reinstalled steam. I get nothing but a black screen with an occasional flashing faint red diamond. Anyone know what the problem might be?
5:13 am, September 28, 2022
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Dragonfang1971 replied to wont launch September 28, 2022 @ 2:34:06 am PDT

Originally posted by Migz - DH:

At least one mod is causing problems for people.
Also, there seemed to be an issue where a .bat file had the file extension removed in the game, so it wasn't being read correctly. Adding the extension made it work again.

Well Im not running any mods. And more information would be useful. Which file? Im running local and it wont even get to the start screen.
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Dragonfang1971 replied to wont launch September 28, 2022 @ 2:38:14 am PDT

Originally posted by Blaadirk:
My game won't launch either. Because there isn't any new content like the original roadmap said there would be by now.

Then stay off the Valheim forums. Thanks. Wrong discussion. Go somewhere else.
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Migz - DH replied to wont launch September 27, 2022 @ 10:28:42 pm PDT

Originally posted by Yakumo_2020:
it appears that the update IG released today to enable something called "crossplay" breaks the server side of the game (even local it has a client:server setup).

From the variouse comments in these forums the patch has also borked the hosted and personal dedicated servers as well as local play.

At this time it looks like the only thing we can do is wait for IG to fix the problem. And hopefully learn from this incident and do better testing of patchs before pushing them out to players.
That can't be completely correct. I can play local right now without problems at all for example.

At least one mod is causing problems for people.
Also, there seemed to be an issue where a .bat file had the file extension removed in the game, so it wasn't being read correctly. Adding the extension made it work again.
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Horemvore replied to wont launch September 27, 2022 @ 11:39:01 pm PDT

If you using mods that have Server Sync, disable crossplay for your servers.
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Yakumo_2020 replied to wont launch September 27, 2022 @ 7:25:50 pm PDT

it appears that the update IG released today to enable something called "crossplay" breaks the server side of the game (even local it has a client:server setup).

From the variouse comments in these forums the patch has also borked the hosted and personal dedicated servers as well as local play.

At this time it looks like the only thing we can do is wait for IG to fix the problem. And hopefully learn from this incident and do better testing of patchs before pushing them out to players.
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Dragonfang1971 replied to wont launch September 27, 2022 @ 7:27:36 pm PDT

nice. thanks for letting me know.
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Wassabi replied to wont launch September 27, 2022 @ 8:02:06 pm PDT

thank you for posting this, i have been messing with this for about 2 hours and finally have some what of an answer.
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Dragonfang1971 replied to wont launch September 27, 2022 @ 8:14:12 pm PDT

same Wassabi.
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Blaadirk replied to wont launch September 27, 2022 @ 10:12:40 pm PDT

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