I’ve just given in that I will have to alt+tab as I launch the game. As long as the launcher is in the foreground as the game loads up, it’ll load fine. I don’t have to redo all my settings each time either. Not ideal but it is what it is.
I appreciate all your testing. You at least got me to actually playing.
Display MoreANOTHER MAJOR UPDATE!!:
After scouring the official EFT forum I found a post from 2018 where a user was describing a similar problem for Live EFT, he also mentioned he tried alt+tabbing after launching and that it only worked for him 5% of the time. I decided to give it a try just to see and it works.
After hitting start on the launcher then hitting alt+tab and giving the game time to load I get literally no freezing! It works 100% of the time for me!!!
This just raises further questions though. Like why does deleting the .ini's work on it's own, but alt-tabbing the game at launch can bypass the issues with the .ini files?!
This is still not an ideal "fix"(better than deleting the .ini files every time) especially since
A. This never happened a few months back on 3.2.5, but randomly started happening a few weeks ago when I got back into SPT.
B. Practically nobody else is having this issue/this shouldn't be happening
New list of things that I have tried to do but failed to work:
- Deleting the .ini files, then letting official tarkov generate them, then playing and restarting spt still causes the issue.
- Checked for Windows updates, found one and installed it, issue still persists.
- Tried editing my .ini files to what someone else has for 3.4.1, but freezing still happens.
If requested I can DM individuals my .ini files(via google drive link).
Minor update:
With the help of gopher#4809 from the SPT discord, him and I have narrowed down the problem to the game.ini and sound.ini files being the culprits. Deleting either/both of them let's the game launch without freezing. So maybe it's something to do with how SPT reads these .ini's that got messed up on my and _HEELS_ computers.
Seriously if anyone can offer help at all PLEASE DO SO.
Exact same for me. I can delete both or either of these files and the game launches fine. If I don’t delete them I crash at splash screen.
Display MoreANOTHER MAJOR UPDATE!!:
After scouring the official EFT forum I found a post from 2018 where a user was describing a similar problem for Live EFT, he also mentioned he tried alt+tabbing after launching and that it only worked for him 5% of the time. I decided to give it a try just to see and it works.
After hitting start on the launcher then hitting alt+tab and giving the game time to load I get literally no freezing! It works 100% of the time for me!!!
This just raises further questions though. Like why does deleting the .ini's work on it's own, but alt-tabbing the game at launch can bypass the issues with the .ini files?!
This is still not an ideal "fix"(better than deleting the .ini files every time) especially since
A. This never happened a few months back on 3.2.5, but randomly started happening a few weeks ago when I got back into SPT.
B. Practically nobody else is having this issue.
New list of things that I have tried to do but failed to work:
- Deleting the .ini files, then letting official tarkov generate them, then playing and restarting spt still causes the issue.
- Checked for Windows updates, found one and installed it, issue still persists.
Seriously if anyone can offer help at all PLEASE DO SO.
Your alt+tab method also worked for me.
Alright at least there's a better fix than restarting the computer or constantly ending the task via the task manager til it works!!!!!
Odd that we're both experiencing this problem but practically nobody else it. Weird AF, but glad it worked for you!!!!
I agree it’s weird. Wonder if it’s something obscure certain players share with their setup? You play on an ultrawide by chance?
Just got home and tried your suggestion. Holy cow it worked! SP launched fine. I changed some settings and then exited. Tried to relaunch without going back in to delete the live eft settings folder and it locked up.
So something in the live eft settings folder is crashing SP at launch.
Thank you for the update. I’m gonna give this a try. If this works for me, having to redo settings every time I play sucks but at least I’ll actually get to play. Lol.
I’ll be keeping an eye on this as I’m having the sort of the same issue. Except mine won’t load at all. Mine crashes on splash screen and locking up my primary monitor and I’m unable to even close the game. Can only be corrected by restarting my PC.
I’m at a loss on what else to do. It worked fine before I upgraded some PC components and redownloaded.
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