Game gets stuck on startup, endless splash art.

Hello,

I recently came back to SP Tarkov after a long break. I've been playing it on and off for the past 2 or so years now. I've downloaded it 4 times before. I've only done manual downloads before this since the installer didn't even exist anyway. I did a manual download yesterday, and the game got stuck on the starting splash art. I copied the game to a folder, downloaded the patcher and then downloaded the SPTAKI, and it still got stuck. Today, I deleted the manual download, thinking I might've done something wrong and downloaded the auto-installer on a new folder. The same thing happened again, got stuck on an infinite loading screen. Skimmed through the forum to find answers, and saw a thread where someone suggested pressing F12 a couple of times to see if it helps, and that also didn't help.

I have quite a beefy PC as well so I don't think performance is a problem, if it has any effect on it. I have an i7-11800H along with RTX 3070 and 32 gigs of ram.

One thing I have noticed when looking through the FAQ was that on the FAQ page under game issues, looking inside the "Endless loading / Stuck on splash screen / Game crash to desktop" section, on the 4th point it's telling me to whitelist module.dll file, but inside the Aki_Data folder I have, I only have Server and Launcher folders, I don't have Modules folder. I'm unsure whether that is intentional or not or if the Aki_Data folder is the one I'm supposed to be looking at. It's in the same folder as the server and the launcher, so it's in the main folder.

I'm quite sure that on the FAQ page, step 1 is completed correctly as I've done the manual download multiple times before. I'm also quite sure that 2 wouldn't be a problem since I never managed to open the game correctly anyway. Step 3 wouldn't be a problem as I use C# and C++ for my university as well, so I always have multiple versions of .NET and its framework installed. Lastly, I have tried step 5 as well when deleting the manual download anyway, so I don't think reinstalling would change anything really. Of course, if there are no other options, however, reinstalling tarkov would be the last resort.

I don't think it would be my antivirus since I've been using the same antivirus, BitDefender, for a very long time now and it has never caused any issues before, especially when playing SPT.

Thanks for the help.

I'll work on that as soon as possible. Maybe there are some corrupt files that work just fine for online but cause some errors with the aki files.

Reinstalled the game from scratch, used auto-installer to install spt again and still the same thing, stuck on loading. Quite an interesting thing, not sure why this is happening.

I'll send my client log here:

In short, yes.

I'm unsure about what you mean by mismatched hashes. Though I can tell you that there are no visible errors anywhere.

Also, I just tried opening it with the antivirus completely disabled. Didn't seem to help.

Honestly at this point its more about helping you guys fix the problem rather than me being able to play the game, so that's fine.

Let me know if there is anything else I can try to fix it, or any other logs I might be able to provide.

Right so I quickly checked and the file path does contain a non-ASCII character. I'll try and move my game into a different folder to see if it helps with anything.

Honestly, that's kind of incredible. The word desktop, in my language, contains a non-ASCII character, so I decided to move the game from my desktop to my C disk entirely and, well, the game runs just fine now. I guess we could close this thread as the issue has been solved but that might be another thing to look into if anyone else gets a similar error now.