Since today’s patch (11/18/2021) when I go to launch the game it gets stuck on the New World screen. Nothing happens. It says it’s using CPU, Memory, and Disk space. I have uninstalled, cleaned out old files that stayed behind, and reinstalled. Twice. Rebooted PC. Restarted Steam. Nothing I have tried works.
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were you running in windowed mode?
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Same issue. Don’t have good enough internet speed to reliably reinstall to check, especially when I’m reading that’s not working for people. Also, was running in fullscreen mode last I played
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Same issue here
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This is happening to me as well. Stuck on the New World screen prior to actually getting into the game. Though it says it’s running.
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Same :C
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Im having the same issue… I verified files through steam and it just sits at the new world screen. I was not running in windows mode.
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Happend to me too, got to the character selection screen then the whole thing stopped working.
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Same issue. I get the sound of drum beating if I alt-tab, but it’s stuck at the first New World intro loading screen and I have to task manager to end it.
Edit: waiting didn’t fix it. Saw in another thread someone updated drivers, So I updated Nvidia drivers even thought I was only behind one version and it worked!
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Same issue. Verified files on steam. Just sits on New World loading screen.
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I have the same thing
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I have same problem
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Having the same issue, game is just not loading although according to task manager it is using CPU and memory resources
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I had this problem in a previous patch and then again today. It freezes before showing the Amazon Games page. I just waited 10-15 minutes and it loaded up. It was much quicker the next time I had to load the game.
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Same issue… after the first normal start i clicked to continue to the charackter screen and then nw freezed. After that i am stuck in the new world screen and nothing happens. Repaired with steam… booted… fullscreen mode. Nothing.
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Okay, just got it to work. I had the overwolf map, and I uninstalled it and game started right up. Got me to at least character select but now I’m having different issues
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I will try just waiting, I saw someone else said it took like 8 minutes, so maybe it’s just hanging up on some hardware issue
Edit: What worked for me was updating my nvidia drivers and restarting my pc after!
Confirmed, as soon as i closed overwolf the game launched.
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I just wait for 10 mins. But now i have error “unable to connect” D:
upd: all good.
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I have the same drum thing when i alt+tab at the infinite new world loading screen. I did everything (verifying, restarting) now i reinstalling. Hope updating gpu driver with the reinstall fix this issue. I will update as i try.