Game stuck on black screen when pressing continue (Steam)

[Vachu 10]

I played yesterday at 12:00 EST. Everything was fine. When I started Steam today at about the same time, the game updated itself in Steam. Now when I run the game, I manage to get to the menu but when I click Continue, the game crashes. It doesn't crash to the desktop though. I have to Ctrl-Alt-Del my way out of it to see the "This program has crashed" dialog.

[Kevin 536]

On it. Need a patch for the patch...

[Numi 10]

Same problem here, I could play just fine about 6 hours ago.

[kuudou 10]

Same problem here. I believe loading my save worked yesterday when I first bought the game. I quit my game then loaded it back up just to see where the game had saved. And it worked.

Not two minutes ago I tried to Continue like you did and it crashes. Steam says Don't Starve has downloaded a non-existent patch prior to this happening (says 0 bytes/0bytes downloaded). Verifying game files does nothing to fix the problem.

And I just had just researched spears and was well on my way to research a hat.

[Shenkt 10]

I may have similar issue. I was playing earlier today but just moments ago when I tried to press 'Continue' It says "dontstarve_steam.exe has stopped working". The game has not updated between the time I stopped playing and now.

[Kevin 536]

...should be working with the re-patch I just pushed.

[CaptainCully 10]

It works! You saved my evening!

[Kevin 536]

Wooo!

Sorry about that!

[kuudou 10]

Love the fast feedback Kevin. Off to try and not starve.

[Vachu 10]

Yes! Working for me too! Thanks for the quick fix!