error Can't play build 41 after a couple of hours

[Finky]

I've been playing project zomboid build 41 for a couple of hours, but after I play again, the error at the bottom right corner been popping up whenever I click "continue" or "load" on the menu I even tried to play a new game, restarted the game or reinstalling.

[Beard]

Can you share your console log after the error pops up? So we can see what the errors mean.
Go to C:\Users\YourUserName\Zomboid and attach the "console.txt" file to your message.

 

[Finky]

here

 

console.txt

Edited October 24, 2020 by Finky

[Beard]

It seems to me that the game has trouble loading the save files due to your Username having unknown characters. I would recommend changing the directory of the Zomboid folder to fix that.

Go to your Steam Library > Right click Project Zomboid > Properties  >  Set Launch Options > Write "-cachedir=C:\Zomboid" there without the quotation marks.
After that launch the game from Steam, you might need to reset your settings as this changes the folder with the settings and saved games.
You can copy over everything from "C:\Users\YourUserName\Zomboid" to this new folder in C:\Zomboid to move your saves and settings.

[Finky]

Thank you the error is now solved but it seems like I can't play the old saves, because the error comes back after I copy everything from "C:\Users\YourUserName\Zomboid" to the new folder. But overall it is all good now I will just play a new game.

[Finky]

now the one you told me seems to solve it temporarily, because the error came back, But I can fix it by deleting the new Zomboid folder but after a while or by quiting the game the error comes back again.

Here is the console if it's needed.

console.txt

[Beard]

Can you tell us if you have any antivirus software installed? Its possible that its blocking access to certain files for the game.

[Finky]

Im using bitdefender should I remove it or change it?

[Beard]

You can try temporarily disabling it if the error is still there to see if that fixes anything.

[Finky]

I uninstalled my anti virus software and I disabled the windows security but nothing fixes, but what I did is backup my save and delete the "saves" folder and then play a new game then quit to menu and I copied my backup save to "saves" it temporarily fixes the game as long as I don't quit to desktop.

[Beard]

Would you consider this issue similar to this one? The player seems to have found a way to make it work by opening the save folder before loading in, can you try doing that to see if that fixes it? It would be a clue to us if more people can fix it this way.

[Finky]

It didn't work, the only way I can play build 41 is by backing up my save and delete the saves folder and open the game and then play a new game(which works) and I will quit to menu and copy my backed up save and load the game. I do that every time I play the game so that I can progress to my save.