my PZ does not start

[dragonfoster27]

so i just bought project zomboid i could open it once and play so i just bought project zomboid i could open it once and play normally.
 until i close it and after trying to play again my game wouldn't open and the cmd just says:

 

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\ProjectZomboid>".\jre64\bin\java.exe" -Dzomboid.steam=1 -Dzomboid.znetlog=1 -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:-CreateMinidumpOnCrash -XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow -Xms1200m -Xmx2048m -Djava.library.path=./ -cp jinput.jar;lwjgl.jar;lwjgl_util.jar;sqlite-jdbc-3.8.10.1.jar;uncommons-maths-1.2.3.jar;trove-3.0.3.jar;javacord-2.0.17-shaded.jar;guava-23.0.jar;./ zombie.gameStates.MainScreenState
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassFormatError: Incompatible magic value 0 in class file zombie/audio/BaseSoundBank
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:763)
        at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:467)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:73)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:368)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:362)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:361)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
        at zombie.gameStates.MainScreenState.main(MainScreenState.java:105)

 

 

ps: sorry for the grammatical mistakes english is not my native language

[Beard]

Can you try verifying your game files?

Steam Library > Right click Project Zomboid > Properties > Local Files > Verify Local Files

If that doesn't work, try reinstalling the game completely, it seems like the file could have gotten corrupted somehow, which is preventing the game from starting.