[Crash] Game Crashes whenever I start a new game

[Realist]

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[Crash]

Platform

• Steam

Version Number

70828

Issue title

Game Crashes whenever I start a new game

Steps to reproduce

1. Start game
2. Click Play
3. Click New Game
4. Select Wilson since you haven't unlocked anybody else.
5. Click Play
6. Screen goes black for about 2-3 seconds, then game closes.

Describe your issue

Whenever I try to start a new game it goes black for a few seconds and than closes.

Things I've done to try to troubleshoot:
1. Manually updated my graphics card drivers (I.E. went to nvidia's website and downloaded the most current drivers for my Geforce 670)
2. Exited and reopened steam.
3. Uninstalled and reinstalled.
4. Enabled and disabled Cloud.
5. Went into offline mode.
6. Restarted Computer.
7. Prayed.
8. Submitted a bug report.

[Wilson P. Higgsbury]

Are you running on an administrator account?

[Realist]

I'm the only account on the computer, so I assume so. How do I double-check?

[Realist]

I tried going to Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\dont_starve\bin, right-clicking on the Dontstarve_steam.exe and hitting Run as Administrator if that's what you meant. Unfortunately, no change.

[Realist]

After reviewing bug reports of others suffering similar issues I have now attempted the following, to no avail:

1. Going into the Don't starve folder and manually installing the DirectX executable as well as the C++ executable.

2. Running Steam in Administrator mode

3. Running Don't Starve in compatibility mode for Windows XP

This is the Log.txt:

Starting up

Don't Starve: 70828

Build Date: 2012-12-19_16-47-18

THREAD - started 'GAClient' (1264)

HttpClient::ClientThread::Main()

cGame::InitializeOnMainThread

WindowManager::Initialize

WM_SIZE

WindowManager::SetFullscreen(0, 1842, 1048, 60)

WM_SIZE

SIZE_RESTORED

SystemEvent::Resize {1842, 1048}

WindowManager::Resize [0] {1842, 1048}

SystemEvent::Resize {1842, 1048}

WindowManager::Resize [0] {1842, 1048}

cDontStarveGame::DoGameSpecificInitialize()

cGame::StartPlaying

LOADING LUA

DoLuaFile data/scripts/main.lua

DoLuaFile loading buffer data/scripts/main.lua

c:\jenkins\workspace\jobs\DontStarve_Release_Make_Steam_Package\workspace\data\scripts\main.lua(105,1) running main.lua

LOADING LUA SUCCESS

Reset() returning

SimLuaProxy::SubmitCompletedLevel()

SubmitCompletedLevel::{}

COULD NOT DELETE FILE

SimLuaProxy::QueryServer()

/anon/new - POST/{"character":"wilson","name":"Test name","size":"small"}

BLAAAAH

[Realist]

Attached is my Dxdiag.

DxDiag.txt

[JoeW]

I have sent this to the team and will be back when I have more info.

[JoeW]

We aren't seeing anything that stands out.

Are you having issues with any other games? Have you tried the demo?

Also, can you attach an mdmp file for us? (Find that here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\dont_starve\bin\)

Finally, does it still happen after you start a new world?

[Realist]

Generating a new world seems to have fixed the problem, which is odd as I tried generating a new world as one of my first troubleshoots to no avail. Perhaps one of the things I did earlier plus generating a new world worked?

Attaching an mdmp anyway, in the hopes it'll help you guys out somehow.

dontstarve_steam_70828_crash_2013_1_2T20_31_28C0.mdmp

[Wilson P. Higgsbury]

This is possibly the best bug report I've ever seen.

[Wade]

That's strange. Perhaps something in one of our updates wasn't meshing correctly with your world.

Glad it fixed itself by creating the new world though.

Cheers!

[Realist]

Beta's gonna beta.