Slow loading leads to stuck character

Wicked Bug Reporting
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  1. I just got past talking with Ellsworth and Winnick in Lowland Meadows (I believe from Lumber Mill whisper), proceeded a bit further then my game seemed to become non-responsive - see pictures below
  2. I ALT-F4 and started the game again
  3. Then tried loading my character (Sasazuka) into the same realm (First), the loading bar on the bottom filled up but it just stayed on the loading screen. I thought it was stuck so I ALT-F4 again
  4. I tried loading the same character into the same realm again but the same thing happened again
  5. Again ALT-F4 but this time I loaded another character (SasazukaCoop) into a different realm (Repair) and that loaded successfully
  6. I exited the game, verified game files successfully, and tried loading again but it was still “stuck” (in game cursor works and FPS goes into 1000s,)

Based on Silas’s recommendation, I let it “load” and it did eventually loaded (almost 4min) but character is unresponsive (cannot move, attack, dodge, eat, cast runes, etc) but I could go into the menu and move around there (tried both keyboard/mouse and controller). Per recommendation I tried loading non-problematic characters and non-problematic realms and they work just fine but the problematic character still had the same problem. So it’s the combination of one specific character (Sasazuka) and realm (First) that seems to have this issue (EDIT: seems to be the realm as other character have gotten stuck as well once reaching that zone). The game had been working mostly without issue up to this point. Continue from last whisper did move me to the last whisper but character is still unresponsive. Entered the realm with another character (SasazukaCoop) also caused that character to be unresponsive in Lowland Meadows starting whisper.

Here’s the map of the area:

map
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Here’s where I was originally stuck, I remember mining this then walking on top of the empty ore spot, and the character then was unable to move so I ALT-F4.

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Also want to add that “Quit to Main Menu” is also slow once a character goes into this bad state.

Uploaded ZIP containing:

  • Player.log (copy since game is open)
  • Player-prev.log
  • DxDiag.txt
  • DataStore folder

Yes, I know my graphics card drivers are outdated but I have personally verified this is the most stable and most performant driver. This game and other games have not had any serious problems.

This is the pastebin (https://pastebin.com/sFzaXLka) of player.log from when I first encountered the problem where I was still at the spot that this issue started.

EDIT: New pastebin of Player.log after (still slow) loading into game with unresponsive character.

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Thank you Sasazuka!

I’m going to let Moon know about this one.

Silas

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Just wanted to confirm that after Hotfix 5, issue still persists.

EDIT: Confirm Hotfix 6 still has the issue for me.

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Reached the area where my character was stuck on a different realm so I have updated first post with exact location.

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