Harvesting Deer Crash

[slimsparky]

Greetings! Whenever I harvest anything from a deer (I haven't tried other animals yet) the game freezes almost as soon as I walk away from the carcass. The audio is still reacting to controls (I can hear myself walking, etc.) but the screen is completely frozen and I have to force the game to shut down using the task window. I've tried this in several different locations and the same result. This wasn't a problem initially but then around day 5 in game it happened once and has been happening consistently every time I harvest from a deer.

output_log.txt

[octavian]

It would help if you would upload your output_log file You can find it in ...\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld_data and attach it from here:

[slimsparky]

Alright! I added the output_log to my original post. And! Yesterday I played and was able to harvest the hide and gut from a deer without it crashing. Perhaps it's only when I harvest meat?

[octavian]

Try to:

In Steam interface, click on "LIBRARY".

In games list, right click on "The Long Dark".

Choose "Properties"

Click "SET LAUNCH OPTIONS..."

Paste into text box "-force-d3d9" without the quotes

Click "OK".

Click "CLOSE".

The game defaults to dx11 mode and I don't think integrated graphics cand handle it properly. This will hopefully solve your problems

[Jeremy JPOW Powell]

Looks like you're running a onboard graphics card as well, this probably can't run the latest DX11 so it would be best to try running in DX9 as Octavian suggested. Let me know if that doesn't help and then send me your full computer specs.

Jeremy