How long do you wait? Cause I know my game loads for a while on this screen and you can watch the server load up various files and after about 3-5 minutes it finally gets into the game.
EDIT: I timed it to see how long it took from starting the server/clicking start game (in the launcher) and into the main screen, total time waited was 3 minutes and 40 seconds. Not sure if helps or not but maybe wait a little longer and your game will load.
no, i didnt use patcher
Did you start a new folder with fresh copies of your EFT (live) and SPT? For some reason 16909 has a been giving people hiccups.
any mod made for 2.2.x should work with 2.2.3 unless otherwise stated on the mods page, im currently using Luas spawn rework to make it so only PMCs spawn on Customs, and set so that USEC PMCs will not shoot me or other USEC PMCs, have managed to get 50 PMCs on Customs at one time, its crazy and only get about 60-70FPS but its hella fun having PMC wars.
Interesting, I will look at some more mods then. I figured once on a newer launcher/etc it would be void. That PMC war does sound like a lot of fun, definitely going to look at that mod. Appreciate the feedback 
Best thing you can do from my point of view is to change the AI count in raid settings to a higher level, or use a mod like Zicoman's ai configuration to make more bots spawn at the start, though that mod changes the behavior too.
I appreciate the information, I will have to look at that mod once it is updated to 2.2.3, but after some testing, it seems that bots are on a wave generation IE kill 4 and 4-6 more spawn randomly from USEC/BEAR to Scav VS a set number of bots per map/location/area of interest. I will have to look in the JSON files a little more and see if I can't tweak it. Overall the vanilla settings aren't bad for 16909 it just takes some getting used to.
I start the server, and successful starts, then i open the aki-laucher and when i try to launch the game it start for a second and closes without any message.
i try deleting all the files and do the installation again and i get the same result.
Did you do a fresh install after deleting? I had that issue and had to copy my EFT (live) over to a new folder then the SPT into it. Seems theres a hiccup when updating the client.
EDIT: I have tried both vanilla SPT and modded and it seems to be the same on both for bot generation.
So I just updated from SPT 16584 to 16909 last night, upon entering a factory raid (day) to do some warm up raids/quests. I noticed that bots are not generating as much. When I was on 16584 they would spawn at the start (More PMCs) and now its generating 4-6 scavs and maybe 2 PMCs every couple of minutes. I have stayed in a raid till roughly 8 minutes and it had generated more bots, but noticeably less PMCs overall. Is this normal for 16909 or is there something in the code that needs to be fixed? Any help/suggestions would be appreciated!
yes awesome, i got it working. thank you guys so much for the help!
You're welcome, glad we could help you out!
I had this also, to resolve I used 7zip to extract the SPT-AKI archive, then pasted it into my chosen copy of the install.
In hindsight it was probably windows defender blocking one of the extracted files whilst it was in temp, I didn't check but worth exploring.
Just curious, have you run into very little bots generating on factory/etc? Seems like after this update to 16909 that it only spawns in 4 or so at a time vs before it was all-out war at the start of each raid.
EDIT: Seems that it is working now, only generating around 4-6 bots (on factory) at a time and frames are much better. Could be that I switched to an M2 drive vs SSD but "backend" seems smoother.
I am having the same issue, looking into the DLL file. Will update if I can figure it out.
UPDATE: So I have got my version to work with the latest SPT AKI, I went ahead and cleaned my windows temp files just in case. But what seemed to work for me is to not use windows extract tool but used 9zip instead, open the file in 9zip, click all and extract to your SPT location, click start and it should work. If you need anymore help let me know.
I am having the same issue, looking into the DLL file. Will update if I can figure it out.
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can you help me my patch dont work at all , i dont know what doing ( pic 2 ms up )
Hey there, I can try and help you out. What seems to be the problem?
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I am having an issue getting the game to launch but the server part reports all is fine.
I can see similar or potentially the same topic but they are closed/locked and the fixes mentioned haven't worked for me.
It is likely I have misunderstood but I couldn't see any other route to ask and Discord is not for support.
I have followed the instructions, copied my live folder to another place, used the patcher to downgrade my game version from 16778 to 16584 which is where the first error occurs, then applied the SPT-AKi changes, ran the server for the first time without issue, created the faux local account and on launching the game via the AKI client it warns me there may be an issue with the version and then crashes on launch back to the start game screen.
When running the patcher there are about 488 files that succeed and then it errors on one with this message:
"Failed to find matching source file for C:Users/SP Tarkov/ Documents/SPT-AKI/PatchesEscapeFromTarkov_Data/level181.delta"
When launching the game it crashes just before you would see the Tarkov loading screen and error message:
"The input file hash doesn't match the expected has. You may be using the wrong version of AKI for your client files".
I found this fix in the closed/solved threads:
"use patch files from 16778 and use "patcher.exe" file from 16770"
I deleted everything, copied the live folder back and then....
I downloaded patcher version 16770 and on this occasion I put the folder of files from 16778 and the exe file from 16770 but it had the exact same result and error messages. I then tried it the other way round and it had the same result.
I realize I am likely misunderstanding or missing something obvious, I had tried to find any other solutions or a way to comment/ask without creating a new thread but after two hours yesterday and an hour today... I'm stuck!
I have copied my game to an entirely different user account as I love EFT and am worried about my main account, could that be it, can I just find that one file and put it where it needs to be?
Could someone please tell me what it is I am doing wrong or how to resolve it?
I do not appear to have two out of three logs so it may be that I have actually got something else wrong.
Thank you and any help is very much appreciated.
Hi there, so I had this issue this morning, my (LIVE) EFT updated and so I had to patch to 16778, you need to copy your profile and mods to a separate folder and then delete your SPT AKI folder. After that make a new folder, copy over (LIVE) EFT, Patch, Copy over SPT AKI, launch server/close server, then copy over your profile and mods and enjoy!
I agree with OP, BEARs will attack and kill too quick. Thought it was maybe me just being tired and the first couple of games, but I have tried 6 raids back to back and BEARs shoot from crazy distances on factory and kill with one or two shots. Going to look in the files to see if I can't find detection. Will update if I find anything out.
Apparently, this mod will work with the latest update zicoman's AI Configuration
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