Game freezes when leaving Mystery lake, entering The Ravine

[shan_b]

As the title implies,

the game freezes everytime I leave mytery lake (railroad near the dam) into the ravine..

It has happened 4 or 5 times in a row yet I seem to get a little further each time, until I check my inventory or run etc...

any suggestions? all help appreciated.

Shan

[Guest mcopeman]

Hey Shan! Could you post your debug log?

On PC, the log is written to the data directory for the game. For Steam, this would look like: C:\TheDirectoryYouInstalledSteamTo\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld_Data\output_log.txt

For Mac, the debug log is written to: ~/Library/Logs/Unity/Player.log

Note that ~ above is your home folder (little house icon).

Melody~

[shan_b]

Hi Melody,

thank you for your prompt reply. I am having trouble uploading the log file, there are too many characters to post it here, and the file size is 916kb so it's too big to attach.

Solutions?

Shan

[RJIII]

I'd say split it into 2 files and post in consecutive posts. It's just a .txt file so you can use Notepad copy and paste the first half and name output_log1 and take the other copy and paste it into a new file and call output_log2. Hopefully that will fit :]

[shan_b]

Can't believe I did not think of that! thank you very much.

I have broken the file into two parts

Part 1 of 2 attached

output_log 1 of 2.txt

[shan_b]

2 of 2

output_log 2 of 2.txt

[octavian]

Right click The Long Dark in your Steam library -> Properties -> Set launch options -> paste in "-force-d3d9" without the quotes -> OK -> run the game.

[shan_b]

Thnaks for that, seems to have done the trick! I've now made it ino coastal highway.

I got caught in a blizzard but made it to the small building at the train unloading area.

However, when I entered the building the graphics have now become a little dodgy with parts "blacking out" then coming back when I walked to the specific area

Shan

[octavian]

Er, that sounds familiar too, I remember others having same problem, sadly, I don't remember it having a fix right now, so I don't know what to tell you except to wait until Monday until the testers read this :cry:

[Jeremy JPOW Powell]

What settings are you playing on?

Jeremy

[shan_b]

Hi Jeremy, I'll assume you're talking about graphics settings.

RES 1366 x 768

Quality Med

Screen mode Full sreen

Units, metric

clock 24 hour

vert sync off

HUD normal

Subtitles Off

language English

FOV 82.1

Hope that helps.

Shan

[Jeremy JPOW Powell]

Are all your drivers up to date?

Could you also take some screenshots of what you are seeing if possible? And a new output log as well.

Thanks,

Jeremy

[shan_b]

Sorry for the long wait for a reply, sometimes life just gets in the way,

Here is a screen shot

[Jeremy JPOW Powell]

Could you try going to Low settings please.

Also could you run this please. Not sure if you did or not yet I see it was mentioned.

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".

Jeremy

[shan_b]

Hi Jeremy, I'll give the lower settings a try, as per the comment left by Octavian » Sun Jul 12, 2015 1:43 am I have already used the "-force-d3d9" command

Shannon

[shan_b]

tried the graphics on low, ultra and high, no difference.

[Guest mcopeman]

Could you post your computer specs and another debug log?

Melody~

[shan_b]

Here is the output log, the graphics issue did not start, until the original problem of not being able to get through the ravine without the game freezing. Now it happens whenever I enter a building, outside is perfectly fine.

Shannon

output_log.txt