I was just hopping between offline realms to consolidate resources, and tried to join my shared realm to see if I had some extra ores. Upon trying to load into the online realm, my screen went full black and froze. The game was non responsive, so I had to alt+F4 to escape. Upon relaunching the game, it was in offline mode and would not allow me to reconnect. I click reconnect and nothing happens.
After validating my game file integrity all files were successfully validated, and I was able to reconnect. The only difference now is all of my loading times are much longer. I assume this will even out over time, but I thought I would deliver the crash reports.
I just found this thread, which is probably where I should have posted this crash repot. My bad. Can someone (probably @Silas-Inservio-Pax ) please merge this for me?
That was what I saw, but it seemed to resolve itself quickly. Let me be more descriptive.
After my hard crash, I launched into the main menu and saw that banner exactly as in the screenshot above. I clicked reconnect several times and it just flashed that banner again. I clicked realms and it just said “preparing realms” and nothing appeared.
So, I closed the game and validated files via steam. This is always the first thing I do when I have a crash that causes me problems, since there is always a chance that a crash during a load screen could result in file corruption. The files validated successfully, so I launched the game again expecting to still be offline. To my surprise, I was actually online after the validation.
I clicked the realms button, and saw the “preparing realms” screen again, which hung there for about 30-40 seconds before showing all of my realms normally. When I joined an online realm, the loading screen didn’t show immediately. It hung on a black screen for a while first, which worried me. Lo and behold, after some time passed it loaded in normally. So I realm hopped again, this time to an offline realm, only to still hang for a long time on the “preparing realms” screen.
I loaded back and forth again just to see if the black screen returned, and it does show the same black screen whenever I go back to the main menu. It does still show “preparing realms” every time, which it never did before, but the realms load in faster every time I do it.
I suppose this could be a different issue than the thread I linked, and I honestly do not know if I would have been stuck offline forever if I did not validate my steam files. All I am certain of is that I was stuck offline immediately after a black screen hard crash, and I was online after the steam validation. I did not have to change any firewall settings or any network settings. I also know that the “preparing realms” screen is something I never saw before the crash.
The scary black screen, and the “preparing realms” screen pictured here
I was trying to sacrifice item for evoking whisper but then the screen seems to overlaying the inputs. So I couldn’t seems to get it working thus the hard shutdown. After that, i tried to resume playing using another character but it shows that attempting to reconnect lost connection page.
If you are using a controller you can try using your mouse to just add something to sacrifice with the mouse or just hit the offer button directly with the mouse.
