Fix the crashing!

Comments: 149

• 10 Feb
  Alex S

  I'm also getting consistent crashing, but my entire pc doesn't crash and I am able to retrieve crash logs. I'm averaging probably a half hour between crashes.
  
  System specs:
  5900x
  32GB PC3600 ram
  rtx 3080
  
  If there's somewhere to upload the crash.dmp file I'm happy to do that. All of my crashes have basically the same info in my error.log, with the crash being a d3d11.dll access violation
  
  d3d11.dll caused an Access Violation (0xc0000005)
  in module d3d11.dll at 0033:d57fc370.
  
  Stack Trace of Crashed Thread 10748:
  0x00007FF8D57FC370 (d3d11) CreateDirect3D11SurfaceFromDXGISurface
  ERROR: SymGetSymFromAddr64, GetLastError: 'Attempt to access invalid address.' (Address: 00007FF8842E74C2)
  0x00007FF8842E74C2 (UnityPlayer) (function-name not available)

• 10 Feb
  PZ

  I'm also having the same issue and error message like Alex S.
  All related to d3d11.dll
  ---
  Faulting application name: valheim.exe, version: 2019.4.16.23406, time stamp: 0x5fbde85b
  
  Faulting module name: d3d11.dll, version: 10.0.19041.746, time stamp: 0xfc177b9d
  
  Exception code: 0xc0000005
  
  Fault offset: 0x000000000012c370
  
  Faulting process id: 0x2450
  
  Faulting application start time: 0x01d6ff5bcc07045d
  
  Faulting application path: F:\Steam\steamapps\common\Valheim\valheim.exe
  
  Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\d3d11.dll
  
  Report Id: c4f95f10-8c0d-4efc-a2c0-997b798fa40e
  
  Faulting package full name:
  
  Faulting package-relative application ID:
  -----------
  
  It's totally random. Sometimes I can play for 8 hours straight and sometimes it crashes everything 10-30 minutes.

• 10 Feb
  Moogie

  Same here, here's what the dump says (can't paste all due to 1000 char limit):
  
  EXCEPTION_RECORD: (.exr -1)
  ExceptionAddress: 00007ff9a2d8e5e0 (d3d11!CContext::TID3D11DeviceContext_Map_<1>+0x0000000000000010)
  ExceptionCode: c0000005 (Access violation)
  ExceptionFlags: 00000000
  NumberParameters: 2
  Parameter[0]: 0000000000000000
  Parameter[1]: 00000000000000d1
  Attempt to read from address 00000000000000d1
  
  PROCESS_NAME: valheim.exe
  
  READ_ADDRESS: 00000000000000d1
  
  ERROR_CODE: (NTSTATUS) 0xc0000005 - The instruction at 0x%p referenced memory at 0x%p. The memory could not be %s.
  
  EXCEPTION_CODE_STR: c0000005
  
  EXCEPTION_PARAMETER1: 0000000000000000
  
  EXCEPTION_PARAMETER2: 00000000000000d1

• 10 Feb
  Schween

  My Game Crashes every 10 to 30 Minutes, Computer crashes also.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  i5-9600K, Nvidia 2070 OC,32 GByte

• 10 Feb
  Nille

  Crashes for me too since newest patch. Changed character and worlds, joined friends game, nothing helped.

• 10 Feb
  Patrick

  I was able to play fine for the first 2 days but then i started getting crashes every 5-15 min making it unplayable(since i will just lose all progress made in that time)
  
  my Specs:
  
  I7-9700k
  3080
  32gb 3600mhz
  Game is on a SSD
  
  The Log:
  
  Valheim by IronGate [version: Unity 2019.4.16f1_e05b6e02d63e]
  
  d3d11.dll caused an Access Violation (0xc0000005)
  in module d3d11.dll at 0033:0c31c370.
  
  Error occurred at 2021-02-10_223908.
  C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Valheim\valheim.exe, run by ---.
  
  23% physical memory in use.
  32705 MB physical memory [25171 MB free].
  3716 MB process peak paging file [3242 MB used].
  2704 MB process peak working set [2309 MB used].
  System Commit Total/Limit/Peak: 11728MB/56257MB/14835MB
  System Physical Total/Available: 32705MB/25171MB
  System Process Count: 201
  System Thread Count: 2486
  System Handle Count: 81066
  Disk space data for 'C:\Users\---\AppData\Local\Temp\IronGate\Valheim\Crashes\Crash_2021-02-10_213904194\': 330174775296 bytes free

• 10 Feb
  Bertie Wright

  I'm having bluescreen crashes randomly. Sometimes I'll be able to play for a few hours, sometimes a minute or two. I also lose a bunch of resources each time like it resets my character inventory/map back to whenever it saved last.
  
  I think this could be an issue with the GPU drivers, I get an WHEA_uncorrectable_error code which seems to be related to graphics card drivers which I uninstalled and installed the latest ones.
  
  I've also spoken to someone else having this issue, they're using a NVIDIA 20xx GPU and the 30xx series uses the same drivers as the 20xx series per the nvidia website so I think it's likely that.

• 11 Feb
  Richard S

  Strawberry, I also am having my entire computer crash at random intervals when running the game. I can't find any error logs to check and see why it is happening.
  
  System specs:
  RTX 3080
  Intel i9-10900k
  64 GB RAM

• 11 Feb
  Dominic Giardini

  Crashing is consistently happening around 2 hours in, and ranges from initiating a bug report to completely freezing my computer.
  
  Specs:
  i9 9900k
  16GB ram
  Geforce rtx 3070
  
  All manner of troubleshooting does not seem to work. I've tried:
  
  - reinstall
  
  - drivers up to date
  
  - verify game files
  
  - playing at various graphics settings / de-selecting intensive settings (e.g. sun shafts off)
  
  - stress test of GPU and memory
  
  - replaced Power Supply Unit with a spare
  
  - replaced SSD
  
  - ran as admin
  
  Games on this build have not struggled at all

• 11 Feb
  Numrollen

  Name der fehlerhaften Anwendung: valheim.exe, Version: 2019.4.16.23406, Zeitstempel: 0x5fbde85b
  Name des fehlerhaften Moduls: UnityPlayer.dll, Version: 2019.4.16.23406, Zeitstempel: 0x5fbde9e5
  Ausnahmecode: 0xc0000005
  Fehleroffset: 0x00000000006138f7
  ID des fehlerhaften Prozesses: 0x1268
  Startzeit der fehlerhaften Anwendung: 0x01d700afa623266e
  Pfad der fehlerhaften Anwendung: D:\Steam\steamapps\common\Valheim\valheim.exe
  Pfad des fehlerhaften Moduls: D:\Steam\steamapps\common\Valheim\UnityPlayer.dll
  Berichtskennung: 2b7b5431-c381-4530-b4fb-579666d8db8b
  Vollständiger Name des fehlerhaften Pakets:
  Anwendungs-ID, die relativ zum fehlerhaften Paket ist:

• 12 Feb
  Joe

  I have the D3d11.dll 0xc0000005 crash as well. It appears to be related to a "RenderTexture" call that fails in player.log?
  
  ---
  error.log:
  ---
  Valheim by IronGate [version: Unity 2019.4.16f1_e05b6e02d63e]
  d3d11.dll caused an Access Violation (0xc0000005)
  in module d3d11.dll at 0033:7c9ae5e0.
  
  ---
  player.log:
  ---
  (Filename: C:\buildslave\unity\build\Runtime/Export/Debug/Debug.bindings.h Line: 35)
  02/11/2021 22:52:32: Spawned Greyling x 1
  
  (Filename: C:\buildslave\unity\build\Runtime/Export/Debug/Debug.bindings.h Line: 35)
  D3D11: Failed to create RenderTexture (1024 x 1024 fmt 53 aa 1), error 0x8007000e
  (Filename: Line: 207)
  D3D11: Failed to create RenderTexture (2048 x 2048 fmt 27 aa 1), error 0x8007000e
  (Filename: Line: 207)
  
  d3d11: failed to create staging 2D texture w=64 h=64 d3dfmt=28 [887a0005]
  . . .
  d3d11: failed to create 2D texture id=2552 width=64 height=64 mips=7 dxgifmt=29 [D3D error was 887a0005]
  (Filename: Line: 584)
  . . .[et cetera]

• 13 Feb
  Ben W

  I'm getting the same thing. I can't play without it crashing. This is pretty bad.
  
  Faulting application name: valheim.exe, version: 2019.4.16.23406, time stamp: 0x5fbde85b
  Faulting module name: d3d11.dll, version: 10.0.19041.746, time stamp: 0xfc177b9d
  Exception code: 0xc0000005
  Fault offset: 0x000000000012c370
  Faulting process id: 0x16e8
  Faulting application start time: 0x01d701b3ff944d92
  Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Valheim\valheim.exe
  Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\d3d11.dll
  Report Id: 427d9202-f7fa-4205-9259-909712c4a2a0
  Faulting package full name:
  Faulting package-relative application ID:

• 13 Feb
  Seth R

  My game only crashes while I'm inside of Crypts, otherwise runs completely fine. Sometimes it crashes as soon as I enter the crypt, other times it will take 20-30 seconds before it crashes. I've tried re-installing, drivers are up to date, nothing running in the background, running as admin, checking file integrity, nothing seems to do the trick.

• 13 Feb
  Moogie

  ODev says that all of these crashes, with exactly the same error code, from a wide variety of systems of different specs, is "probably not a bug in the game" and he won't look into the issue. Listen, I get it: one guy, a lot on his plate right now. But let's not outright dismiss this as "lol players PCs just suck"? Please? This is CLEARLY a GAME BUG that needs to be addressed, not outright ignored!

• 13 Feb
  Swiss Sarge

  Solution to unityplayer.dll 0xc0000005 error
  
  3900x / 3090 / 3600 Mhz RAM setup here.
  
  Try to downclock your RAM - disable XMP/DOCP. This completely solved my crashes. Seems that is a bug in the Unity framework that the Valheim devs are using.

• 13 Feb
  moonG

  Same issue as everybody else, the game is crashing again and again and even bluescreened my PC once (never happened before)
  
  Running a 3080 FE, 5600X with 16GB DDR4

• 13 Feb
  Praeputii

  My Pc got died it just stops responding even to the reset button, with a terrible sound of processor death in the headphones. Yesterday it happened 4 times after which I reinstalled the game and I managed to play 5 hours in a row. Today everything is going around again, I play for 5-10 minutes and the computer dies again. I hope this can be fixed, because I forced four of my friends to buy this game, and now all that remains is to sit and watch their stream on discord.. I haven't spent my vacation so sad yet.
  Specs:
  i7 10700F
  16GB ram
  Geforce rtx 3070

• 14 Feb
  G

  Mine crashes sometimes within 2 minutes sometimes within 10-15, and every once in a while I'll get lucky and it will run for a couple hours. Freezes entire system forcing reboot. Usually doesn't save anything when I crash. Very annoying. Wish there was a manual save.
  
  AMD 8350 RADEON GTX 580 16 GB RAM

• 14 Feb
  Caio Cesar

  Having the same problem, BUT my game crashes and my pc restarts right away.

• 14 Feb
  Felix

  Always happens after a little while, sometimes crashes my full pc but most of the time just the program.
  I uninstalled all the things that the web says might cause this (Afterburner, Overlays), Windows is freshly installed so no unneccesary drivers or software.
  
  Disabled XMP, all overclocks - no change.
  
  Ryzen 3900x
  RTX 2070
  64Gb 3600mhz RAM
  MSI B550
  
  I get 4 different fault offsets:
  
  Faulting application name: valheim.exe, version: 2019.4.16.23406, time stamp: 0x5fbde85b
  Faulting module name: UnityPlayer.dll, version: 2019.4.16.23406, time stamp: 0x5fbde9e5
  Exception code: 0xc0000005
  Fault offset: 0x0000000000de9d62
  Faulting process ID: 0x3bf4
  Faulting application start time: 0x01d6fe64c0064713
  Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Valheim\valheim.exe
  Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Valheim\UnityPlayer.dll
  
  or 0x0000000000dea08b, 0x0000000000de9d66, 0x0000000000dea0fd
  
  Early access and all: please fix it :) Thanks!

• 14 Feb
  Murdochmystery

  Also having crashes that occur between 5 and 30 mins after playing. Lose all progress when I crash.
  
  rtx 3080
  5600x
  32gb 3600 ram

• 15 Feb
  Mark

  Constant crashing. Can barely make it 15 mins in game.
  
  Faulting application name: valheim.exe, version: 2019.4.16.23406, time stamp: 0x5fbde85b
  Faulting module name: UnityPlayer.dll, version: 2019.4.16.23406, time stamp: 0x5fbde9e5
  Exception code: 0xc0000005
  Fault offset: 0x00000000007281ad
  Faulting process id: 0x29f4
  Faulting application start time: 0x01d70343fa9bb3d2
  Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Valheim\valheim.exe
  Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Valheim\UnityPlayer.dll
  Report Id: b1fb470b-4cdd-47dd-b0f3-90b21abb3b44
  Faulting package full name:
  Faulting package-relative application ID:

• 15 Feb
  Kay Strobl

  Hello, I was very excited to play this game and I'm ready for a refund. I have not even gotten to play it. As soon as it gets to the menu, the game crashes, full reboot, no blue screen. All of my Nvidia drivers are up to date, running Windows 10, DirectX 12, graphics card is Geforce GTX 1050, 36GB ram, installed all C++ redistributables I could find, ran as administrator, adjusted performance settings. No overclocking. Just sadness. Please fix this!!

• 15 Feb
  Thomasrockz

  consistently crashing about 10-20 minutes in sometimes sooner or sometimes later. tried alot of different solutions like verifying files, reinstalling, switching installed drives, changing nvidia control panel settings, even reinstalling windows multiple times and still no dice.
  
  specs:
  i9 9900k
  32GB ram
  Geforce rtx 1080 ti

• 15 Feb
  Michael Lee

  Whole PC crashing right after loading into a new game (sometimes while I'm flying in on the crow, other times when I'm walking around in the first 5 minutes). When the crash happens, signal to monitors are going, audio from game and discord is gone, fans on computer still runs. I have to hold the power button on the computer to force it to turn off. Nothing out of the ordinary in player.log. Is there another place I can look for a crash log?
  
  Specs:
  Intel i5-4590 3.3GHz
  16GB RAM DDR3 1600MHz
  Radeon 280X

• 15 Feb
  p2im0

  Game freezes, I'm able to move mouse cursor, and occasionally log out of the game (after memorizing button locations) as the game appears to run for 5-20 seconds after the image freezes. If I can log out successfully my character state is saved and no crash is reported. If not, I get a crash log and my character is reverted to an earlier state.
  
  Most of my crashes are with d3d11.dll and one for UnityPlayer.dll. Crash logs and dumps available.
  
  One example:
  UnityPlayer.dll caused an Access Violation (0xc0000005)
  in module UnityPlayer.dll at 0033:8e45aef4.
  
  Error occurred at 2021-02-14_235042.
  K:\Games\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Valheim\valheim.exe, run by XXXX.
  Read from location 000001D0B428F720 caused an access violation.
  
  Call Stack for Thread 13284:
  0x00007FFBDEBEC6A4 (ntdll) ZwWaitForSingleObject
  0x00007FFBDC2AA34E (KERNELBASE) WaitForSingleObjectEx
  0x00007FFB8ECCFDC2 (UnityPlayer) UnityMain
  0x00007FFB8E671D2A (UnityPlayer) UnityMain
  ERROR: SymGetSymFromAddr64, GetLastErr

• 15 Feb
  Hein

  Yeah few minutes into the game and the whole computer just shuts down and attempts to restart and fails to, like it doesn't want to POST I have to do a hard shutdown and try again. Really odd.
  
  RTX 3080
  Ryzen 3700X
  32 GB RAM

• 15 Feb
  David

  Getting the same. Started this weekend.. I thought i was because of corrupt char or world file because it's crashes on autosave. I have tried everything, appdata folder, removing steam cloud sync, but it still happens and make the game unplayedable eventhough I love it so much.

• 15 Feb
  Graham

  Started on day one with the crashes for me. Every few hours. Losing at most an hour's work each time. Then I got a load error when trying to load my world. Had to delete the new save files and use the .old saves (lost about 8 hours work) so I started a new world. Luckily I have been manually backing up saves as I then got the world eater bug after 40 hours in this one and then to top it off the crashing has ramped up and I can't get past about 10 mins in game. Nothing fixes it.
  I7 9700k
  16gb
  Rtx 2080
  
  From all the threads I've read its pointing to the 20/30 series cards that seem to have the issue.

• 15 Feb
  bringer0death

  I am having the very same issue as everyone with the error: d3d11.dll caused an Access Violation (0xc0000005)
  
  System Specs:
  i7-7700k (overclocked to 5.0ghz)
  Asus 2080ti
  64 gb of Ram
  
  At first I was able to walk around the game for about an hour but at random my pc just rebooted itself. After that its now about 15-20 minutes like clockwork the game will freeze and I have force close the game in order to get out of it. I tested with upping voltages, turning off overclockes on both cpu and gpu but the issue remains. This is the only game I have issues with in this way. I have my system on a custom water loop so temps are not an issue. Ram was tested with Memtest and that passed fine. This makes the game unplayable for me so I hope someone resolves the issue because it seems like a great game but I am gonna have to pass on playing till this is fixed.

• 15 Feb
  J.

  habe 63 h. erfolgreich spielen können ohne irgendwelche Fehler oder abstürze. heute ist der gleiche Fehler wie bei allen vorgekommen und seid dem ist das spiel leider nicht mehr spielbar. direkt nach dem span kommt der Fehler und die Anwendung wird geschlossen.
  
  I9-10900k
  RTX 3090
  RAM 128gb

• 15 Feb
  Murky

  Getting constant crashes after anywhere from 5 to 70 minutes of playing - all with the Access Violation error.
  
  /
  
  UnityPlayer.dll caused an Access Violation (0xc0000005)
  in module UnityPlayer.dll at 0033:0736eaa3.
  
  Error occurred at 2021-02-13_132550.
  C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Valheim\valheim.exe, run by ------
  
  34% physical memory in use.
  16331 MB physical memory [10739 MB free].
  3323 MB process peak paging file [3210 MB used].
  2277 MB process peak working set [2153 MB used].
  System Commit Total/Limit/Peak: 10460MB/19275MB/10526MB
  System Physical Total/Available: 16331MB/10739MB
  System Process Count: 156
  System Thread Count: 1953
  System Handle Count: 69920
  
  Read from location 000005D30024D322 caused an access violation.
  
  /
  
  r5 3600
  16gb 3200mhz
  5700 XT

• 15 Feb
  Deximus

  Same, initially started day 1 of playing but every 5-6 hours. over the past weekend its more often sometimes 5 minutes - 2 hours in. Also more recently it freezes my computer up to the point I have to press the button to shut down. I have updated everything in this thing, software, bios, all of it. I have closed everything in the background, and still nothing. I am resorts with just running to small camps and beefing them up, not being able to raid with the bros since im a liability if i carry anything to shiny its gone.

• 16 Feb
  Seph

  These are almost certainly driver or hardware config issues. Direct3D library crashes are very rarely issues with the game they occur in.
  
  I would strongly suggest all those having these issues investigate their memory/graphics configurations (especially their memory speeds/voltages if overclocked or using XMP/AMP/DOCP profiles) and video drivers before continuing to post their issues here as a bug with Valheim.

• 16 Feb
  Holysouljah360

  Crashes every 15 min aswell 8086k 3080 32 gig ram making game unplayable cannot progress about to give it up and not look back please send a fix

• 16 Feb
  Mike R

  Game is fantastic, but keeps crashing regularly, every 10- 15 minutes if I'm lucky. I ensured my Windows 10 was updated, my Nvidia drivers were updated, I verified my game files, uninstalled and reinstalled, restarted my computer after all updates/ reinstalls. I shot my settings down to the lowest grade possible to get a few more minutes of gameplay before the inevitable crash. My computer doesn't crash, just the game. Please fix this issue so I can enjoy the game, it really sucks to be halfway through building a shelter only to crash and have to start gathering materials all over and rebuild.

• 16 Feb
  steve

  Crashing all day and night
  
  i7 9750
  Nvidia 2060
  32gb ram
  
  Fix this shitty ass not optimized ass fuckery of a game that is so fucking good for my autism

• 16 Feb
  Bix

  Problem with crashing after 15-30 mins of gameplay. Blue Screen "MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION" (Windows 10)
  
  Yesterday I've managed to play 2 hours after applying the FPS fix from this subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/lizxq9/valheim_fps_fix_benchmark_picture_guide_gained_an/
  
  But today (I re-prioritized process) problems came back, unable to play more than 10 mins, whole computer freezes (including sound), and after ~20 secs, comes the BSOD.
  No relevant info in Event Viewer, and a memory dump file of 830MB, don't have the courage to browse it.
  
  Will repost here if more info.
  
  I5-9600k - 16GM RAM
  nVidia GTX 1660 Super
  Win10 + drivers all up to date.

• 16 Feb
  caboose6565

  I have also been getting the d3d11.dll access violation crash. Longest gameplay I've had was maybe 10 mins.
  Ill probably refund if there isn't a solution or update soon
  
  Specs:
  GTX 760
  I7 4790k
  16 GB RAM

• 16 Feb
  Holdings

  Exactement le meme problème...
  
  RTX 2070
  Ryzen 9 3900X
  32 Go de RAM

• 16 Feb
  broculusrift

  Played for about 10 hours but all of the sudden today I'm not able to load into a world without the application not responding and crashing. I've tried near everything. Reinstall, verify integrity, wiped my worlds and characters, run as admin. Here's my event viewer crash log.
  
  The program valheim.exe version 2019.4.16.23406 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Security and Maintenance control panel.
  Process ID: 1dd8
  Start Time: 01d70477528e7fc5
  Termination Time: 4
  Application Path: G:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Valheim\valheim.exe
  Report Id: b30b999c-fe57-44a4-950f-1b60c8e63220
  Faulting package full name:
  Faulting package-relative application ID:
  Hang type: Unknown

• 16 Feb
  caboose6565

  No luck finding a solution so far. A Helper on the discord went through a bunch of troubleshooting with me.
  This is the crash log:
  D3D11: Failed to create RenderTexture (1024 x 1024 fmt 53 aa 1), error 0x887a0005
  (Filename: Line: 207)
  
  D3D11: Failed to create RenderTexture (2048 x 2048 fmt 27 aa 1), error 0x887a0005
  (Filename: Line: 207)
  
  D3D11: Failed to create RenderTexture (128 x 128 fmt 9 aa 1), error 0x887a0005
  (Filename: Line: 207)
  
  D3D11: Failed to create RenderTexture (128 x 128 fmt 19 aa 1), error 0x887a0005
  (Filename: Line: 207)
  
  D3D11: Failed to create RenderTexture (128 x 128 fmt 27 aa 1), error 0x887a0005
  (Filename: Line: 207)
  
  D3D11: Failed to create RenderTexture (128 x 128 fmt 27 aa 1), error 0x887a0005
  (Filename: Line: 207)
  
  D3D11: Failed to create RenderTexture (128 x 128 fmt 23 aa 1), error 0x887a0005
  (Filename: Line: 207)
  
  D3D11: Failed to create RenderTexture (128 x 128 fmt 19 aa 1), error 0x887a0005
  (Filename: Line: 207)
  
  D3D11: Failed to create Re

• 16 Feb
  André Schouenborg

  Game keeps crashing. sometimes untiy opens and start loading some error then everything crashes or just crashes without any messages

• 17 Feb
  Øysstein

  Can confirm. Keep getting BSODs or freezes. Tried everything. Gtx1080ti i7 9700k

• 17 Feb
  Black Caviar

  Also having crashes, anywhere from 1 minute in to 10 minutes in.. I think the longest I've played may have been somwhere between 10 and 15 minutes.
  
  Its not a blue screen of death or anything, everything just straight freezes and I cant CTRL+ALT Delete out, i just have to restart. Ive run a a systems overlay
  when playing and there's no spikes or anything, CPU,GPU and Ram usage is normal and temps are fine.
  
  I can play other games fine but its just Valheim :(
  
  PC Specs:
  
  i7-7700k
  Have tried using both NVIDIA GTX 1060 3gb and a AMD 6800xt with a 850W PSU
  16gb Ram 3000mhz
  
  
  I've tried,
  Reinstalling the game
  Lowering in game gaphics,
  Turning Windows game mode on and off
  Have even reinstalled Windows 10
  I've tried “Command Prompt (Admin)” sfc and no issues
  Updated Windows and GPU to latest updates (this was tested on both the 1060 & 6800xt)
  Bios has also been updated to latest version.
  Have added Valheim to the Windows graphics performance prefernce
  I've tried running steam as an admin

• 17 Feb
  kindredgarrou

  Similar issue, 10 mins of gameplay then Graphics driver crashes locking whole system, hard reboot required.
  Amd fx8350 8 core
  Amd rx480 8gb
  16gb ddr3
  Noticed 100%gpu usage when using amd monitor app

• 17 Feb
  BluntOwnage

  Having the Unity crash window popup, occasionally I get a complete PC crash as well forcing a restart. Game ran great for ~40hr, now, unstable. I can play at min settings for longer, but at max settings the game runs maybe 5-30m before crashing again. Doesn't matter what I am doing, walking, running, killing stuff, crafting, this biome, that biome...
  
  Ryzen 5900x
  RTX 3080
  16GB DDR4 3200mhz
  500GB Samsung SSD

• 17 Feb
  don porno

  I have the same crashes as everyone else with an access violation every 30 minutes, making the game unplayable. Radeon Fury X with i7 core.

• 17 Feb
  Magnus

  My game crashed constantly, every time at the menu or when starting a game and checked the error log that says:
  UnityPlayer.dll caused an Access Violation (0xc0000005)
  
  Tried everything but nothing helped until I set the CPU affinity to 2 cores in the Task Manager. Choose Details and then right click on the Valheim process and "Set affinty". That seemed to solve it for me.

• 17 Feb
  Hermann

  I played the Game for 11h without any problem .. and now it crashes everytime when i start it on the loadingscreen. already reinstalled it etc.

• 17 Feb
  Spyder

  I think I'm also getting this crash.
  RTX 3080
  AMD 5800X
  32GB RAM
  
  
  More often than not the game will not hard crash, but the screen will freeze. Other players can still see me move so the server (that I'm hosting) remains fine, and input still gets registered fine. I also hear sound from the game which is definitely not looping (I can walk on wood and hear wood footsteps, then back up onto grass and hear those steps).
  
  
  Stack Trace of Crashed Thread 7308:
  0x00007FF9FC6CC370 (d3d11) CreateDirect3D11SurfaceFromDXGISurface
  ERROR: SymGetSymFromAddr64, GetLastError: 'Attempt to access invalid address.' (Address: 00007FF95ECF74C2)

• 17 Feb
  Eric Chjon

  I'm encountering an odd crash where all graphics freeze but the music and sound keep going. If I hit escape, the mouse cursor changes to the menu (sword) and I can click on SOME options but they're all invisible (since only the frozen image is on the screen). Sometimes this results in an actual game crash but most of the time I need to CTRL+ALT+DEL myself back to the desktop.

• 17 Feb
  Joe

  Same issues as others. Played for about 40 hrs, now today I'm crashing my entire computer trying to play. Sometimes I get in and run around for 3 minutes, most other times it just shuts my entire rig down.
  Disappointed.

• 17 Feb
  Dirty Bird

  I'm having crashes now even crashes my system. Though most times it's just to the desktop.
  
  See that D3d.dll as the culprit. And seems that when one of my other games has a update come in from steam in the background the game crashes. don't know if this is relevant, or tied in with the Dll , but it is a place for the Dev's to look
  
  I played this for the first 50 hours or so without so much as a hiccup now crashes after a few min's to about 15 min's in the game. Seems the last update Borked it. Uninstalled and reinstalling the game to see if this fix's it.

• 18 Feb
  Ballig

  Not sure if anyone has mentioned, but one possible crash is likely caused by having a large page/swap file. Check to make sure your swap file isn't massive (10+ gb). Server and client crashes are likely caused by the same issue - saving characters and world files uses valloc, which can crash when a swap file is too big. Check out https://valheimbugs.featureupvote.com/suggestions/159928/

• 18 Feb
  BLAKE SOLOMONSON

  I ran into a problem today where i have been playing fine on my buddy's world its his not a online server just a shared singleplayer and ive played for the entire time ive owned this game so for 40 hours it was fine then today out of nowhere after the screen where you type the password it just loads forever but sometimes i can get in and then when im in nothing loads trees the buildings animals absolutely nothing other than the ground ive been on the games discord no one is helping or seems to really care that this is happening can i please get some help ?

• 18 Feb
  wobbla

  Mine was crashing when i first started playing, but I think it had something to do with my CPU and ram overclocking (which worked fine outside this game), once I put it back to normal it hasn't crashed since

• 18 Feb
  Max

  After the update my game crashes right before it gets to the main menu. Nothing seems to be fixing this.

• 18 Feb
  Joe

  Game constantly crashes. It honestly had happened once in a while previously, but now it is always under 3 minutes after I start usually I dont even get 10 seconds into the actual world.
  Monitor shuts down "no input" and then have to hard restart my computer.
  What gives? I have 40 hours in on this game, and it is killing my desire for this game. Especially after I hyped my friends into buying it.

• 18 Feb
  Graham

  The issue seems to be occurring for most people around the 5+ hour mark, which is exactly what happened for me. I was told by a friend that he fixed it by turning off "Continuous Music", supposedly he found out that after a certain amount of hours with the music playing on a loop, it eventually "clogs" up memory and with the memory not knowing what to do the computer shuts down under the stress. I switched it off and found that I was able to play around 3 hours with no crashes.
  
  After waking up the next day I was only able to play around 2 minutes before my computer crashed, tried again and then crash again, barely 5 minutes in-game. No one will assist on Reddit as they seem to be in denial over there that there is a clear issue with the game, the error code I am getting is 0xc0000005. If this doesn't get fixed soon I may need to request a refund as the product is clearly faulty, which sucks cause I love this damn game.

• 18 Feb
  BatChan

  Can't load my world save anymore after the update. It crashes when trying to load it. Even the recent backup is corrupted. We have an OLD save from a week ago, but that's a lot of progress gone :( Maybe another patch would fix it (I dearly hope so)

• 18 Feb
  Deximus

  Ok guys, I have reinstall, changed hard drives, updated everything down to the usb drivers, and today i reformatted my harddrive to have nothing. I installed steam I installed Valhiem, and still crashing with windows telling me its due to 3rd party crap. At this point I it could be my hardware, i due have a razor keyboard and razor are known for crashing games. I dont have a back up so will grab a new keyboard tomorrow maybe. Anyone else crashing had Razor hardware.

• 18 Feb
  Justin K

  Same problem as everyone here. It started out as random and I could play for multiple hours before a crash. Lately it has been happening more frequently.
  
  I have done everything I can think of and tried fixes posted online with no success.
  
  I have tried:
  - Uninstall and reinstall of game
  - Updated windows and all drivers
  - Lowering in game settings and disabling some lighting settings as suggested online
  - Completely wiping my PC and starting from scratch
  - Ran a RAM test multiple times with no errors
  - Took out RAM (2 x 16GB) and tried to play game with each stick individually and game crashed less than 5 minutes in each time
  - Lowered refresh rate from 144hz to 60hz
  
  I'm at a loss for a possible solution at this point. All hardware is less than a year old and updated. 72 hours in and wanting to triple that number if this gets fixed.
  
  Thanks for any help. Justin

• 18 Feb
  Tom

  AMD Ryzen 3950, RTX 3090, 64gig mem, PCIex4 SSD and DELL 32in monitor 164hz......game crashes continuously after short periods of time.

• 18 Feb
  Quinvictus

  I'm also having the game crash every 5 minutes. First 40 hours were fine, now i can't get through 10 minutes without the game crashing. tried reinstalling, scanning files, as well as changing up overlays and restarting my computer. Nothing is working.

• 18 Feb
  Celsius

  Hi, the same problem here. At first I can play without any problem. Since last update I have crashes every 2 min, so this game is unplayable. Please fix it, is a big problem and I'm thinking about refund it...

• 18 Feb
  Bruno

  Crashing between 5 and 30 minutes. My entire pc freeze, so i have to reboot everytime so is unplayable for me right now.
  i5 - 6400 2.70 Ghz
  970 GTX
  16GB DDR4 3200mhz

• 18 Feb
  Hagen

  AMD Radeon Graphics crashing a lot
  I'm running the game on a Ryzen 5 1600 Radeon RX 570 16GB of ram on an SSD on Windows 10 the game is crashing randomly every 10- 15 min sometimes and sometimes I play for hours with no problem I think that it might be the swamp area that causes more crashes since I moved my main base near the swamp the crashes are more frequent especially on crypts I had 15 crashes in the past hour trying to clear 1 crypt

• 18 Feb
  Josef

  Played for about 30 hours without issue, suddenly it's started crashing after about 15 min of gameplay.
  Tried just about everything I could find as a solution short of formatting my hard drives. Done a clean install of the gfx drivers, verified game files, fully updated windows, etc.
  
  i7-7700k
  1080ti
  32gb ram
  
  Faulting application name: valheim.exe, version: 2019.4.20.53696, time stamp: 0x601c80a6
  Faulting module name: UnityPlayer.dll, version: 2019.4.20.53696, time stamp: 0x601c8219
  Exception code: 0xc0000005
  Fault offset: 0x0000000000451a33
  Faulting process ID: 0x30bc
  Faulting application start time: 0x01d70620d82398eb
  Faulting application path: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Valheim\valheim.exe
  Faulting module path: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Valheim\UnityPlayer.dll
  Report ID: dd215b7a-8d5c-4b95-a9ad-ee696c48ce1f
  Faulting package full name:
  Faulting package-relative application ID:

• 18 Feb
  ray

  PLEASE BACK UP THE GAME! you're guys update is broken all to crap....like test things before you release them. I'd get on this or people are going to quit/unsub there servers..

• 18 Feb
  bio

  I created two portals, both called "home" (no quotes). I went to create a third (all separate biomes) and called it "home" in both the Swamp and Meadows and it WOULD NOT connect. I went back to my main base and the portal there got destroyed by a Swamp siege event. I rebuilt it and called it "home" once again and now NONE of the three portals is connected. What gives? Is "home" a bad name? My world is all spread out and requires lots of rafting which is PAINFUL -- this portal issue is making me want to shelf the game.

• 19 Feb
  Amy

  I've tried starting this game two times, both times it has crashed somewhere around 10-15 minutes into game play. This second time it crashed I saw a little window loading bar thing that said Unity on it, however, it didn't stick around long enough for me to see if there was anything else. I've got a 1080ti and pretty good specs all around. I can't even get far enough in to build a bed and actually save my progress.

• 19 Feb
  Ki

  Can add to this, exact same specs listed by OP.
  
  Blue screening after anywhere from 15 minutes to 2 hours consistently.
  Sets progress back quite a bit as well.

• 19 Feb
  Broken

  I bought Valheim yesterday and was able to play for a few hours. In that play session, my PC crashed 3 times (about every 30 min). The PC would shut down and restart (no BSOD, just normal restart).
  
  Today, I tried launching the game and I can't even get 3 seconds in the server after loading before the game restarts my PC.
  
  I can't even diagnose the problem because it doesn't give me any error before crashing.
  
  I can run every other game just fine, but Valheim nukes my pc just by booting it.
  
  Things I have done to try and fix it (nothing worked):
  -Updated Graphics Drivers
  -Updated Chipset Drivers
  -Uninstalled, cleared AppData cache and registry, reinstalled
  -Lowered resolution
  -Turned off constant music
  -Verified game integrity
  
  Here are my PC Specs:
  -CPU: 5900x (No OC)
  -GPU: 3080 FE (No OC)
  -RAM: Trident z 3600MHz CL 16
  -PSU: 850W EVGA 80+ Gold
  -MOBO: B550 Aorus Master

• 19 Feb
  Porkchopper

  Getting crashes - sometimes game hangs up completely, sometimes it gives a Unity error which results in a crash log.
  
  Valheim by IronGate [version: Unity 2019.4.20f1_6dd1c08eedfa]
  
  d3d11.dll caused an Access Violation (0xc0000005)
  in module d3d11.dll at 0033:5486e5e0.
  
  Error occurred at 2021-02-18_162356.
  D:\Steam\steamapps\common\Valheim\valheim.exe, run by user.
  
  91% physical memory in use.
  8131 MB physical memory [687 MB free].
  2879 MB process peak paging file [2710 MB used].
  2125 MB process peak working set [2051 MB used].
  System Commit Total/Limit/Peak: 12024MB/14007MB/13937MB
  System Physical Total/Available: 8131MB/687MB
  System Process Count: 202
  System Thread Count: 2288
  System Handle Count: 84126
  Disk space data for 'C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\IronGate\Valheim\Crashes\Crash_2021-02-18_212352054\': 19971751936 bytes free of 119319556096 total.
  
  Read from location 00000000000000D1 caused an access violation.
  
  Context:
  RDI: 0x0000023410177500 RSI: 0x0000000000000021 R

• 19 Feb
  Dwight

  My game keeps crashing and every time there's a 50% chance I will get a BSOD.
  I'm using the latest AMD Drivers, the lowest graphical settings possible and I even tried underclocking my GPU
  (I formatted my PC and I still have the same issue)
  
  Operating System: Windows 10
  CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
  RAM: 16 GB Dual-Channel 3200Mhz
  Motherboard: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (AM4)
  GPU: AMD Vega 64 Nitro+

• 19 Feb
  Tyoobss

  Same experience here, game starts and loads no problem, looks beautiful, plays fantastic, then crashes after 10 minutes. I usually cant get through a whole day which means it wont save any progress. I've clocked 3 hours play time on steam and I am still at the start of the 2nd day due to this. I understand the situation with the small development team and the huge blow up of the game will cause a backlog of issues like this and will take time to fix.
  
  This is a wide spread issue and will cause a ripple in the games success if left unchecked. I look forward to playing the finished version of the game with these bugs fixed.

• 19 Feb
  Bartosz

  Same here crashing as hell.
  I did manage to play some and since I am at some point in the game I go out and crash instant.
  
  Here are my PC Specs:
  -CPU: 5800x (No OC)
  -GPU: 3080 Aorus Master (No OC)
  -RAM: G.skill 3600MHz CL 16
  -PSU: XFX 1000 Platinium
  -MOBO: B550 Aorus Pro Wi-fi

• 19 Feb
  Ciaran

  2070 I7 8700 16gb
  I can play about 15-30mins or even less sometimes before crashing, my PC completely freezes up and all i hear is a brrrrrr sound. This doesn't happen on any other game apart from valheim, this makes the game completely unplayable and i will refund if its not fixed

• 19 Feb
  Shenk

  My game crashes every 10 minutes or so. Sometimes it gives me a Unity dump log, other times it's just a straight crash to desktop. I have a GTX 660Ti. I've already tried doing everything mentioned in this reddit thread, but nothing has worked: https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/lmz7qu/follow_up_on_a_potential_fix_for_valheim_crashing/
  
  error.log file: https://pastebin.com/EpnKHcAR
  Player.log file: https://pastebin.com/GJFajNYA
  crash.dmp file: https://ufile.io/igsm4cor

• 19 Feb
  Fanu

  Please use pastebin.com to publish your log files.

• 19 Feb
  Kmarie

  I am having the exact same issues everyone is having, minus the BSOD. It only crashes in a certain location of the Black Forest. I can go on for a long time in other places and not experience it freezing then crashing. I've tried basically everything under the sun that is recommended online with no resolution. What's irritating is that it's not happening to my friends who play with me on the same server. This started happening after the latest update.

• 19 Feb
  Deximus

  I have tried everything above and just recently reformatted my computer due to an endless amount of 3rd party programs. I can tell you unless its a base Microsoft program the 3rd party theory is not an excuse. I literally only had steam and Valheim, and was still crashing. Maybe hardware issue but doubt so many people are all having the same hardware issue. So whats next at this point? change peripherals? or start changing out hardware in the PC?

• 20 Feb
  ARugg265

  I crashed and lost two days worth of progress from Swamp farm... Please Irongate fix this!!

• 20 Feb
  Michael

  My game crashes pretty often.
  
  Sometimes it will crash gracefully, with Windows still functioning, but my 3rd Monitor will always lose connection.
  
  Sometimes the PC freezes with green sparkling pixels across the 2 monitors (3rd one ALWAYS disconnects) and PC requires hard reset.
  
  I've tried lowering all settings to bare minimum, updating Nvidia drivers. & I set the executable to run as admin. I've tried disconnecting all but my primary monitor. All appear to have no effect on the crashing.
  
  most common error in error log: ERROR: SymGetSymFromAddr64, GetLastError: 'Attempt to access invalid address.'
  
  i9-9900K
  64GB RAM
  RTX 2080ti

• 20 Feb
  Xavier B

  I got random crash in the game, every 5 or 10 minutes, sometimes I got 1 hour. My computer completely shutdown with no black or bluescreen, so I haven't any log. This shutdown is painfull because I loss some items and I always rollback in the game.
  
  My config :
  RTX 2080 ti
  AMD 3950X
  
  Newest Drivers Nvidia

• 20 Feb
  Fableguy

  My game now crashes at the valheim logo when starting the game. I was able to start up a game for 5 minutes the first time when I got a windows blue screen of death ^^
  Specs:
  -CPU: Core i5-8400
  -GPU: GeForce GTX 1080
  -RAM: G.Skill Aegis 2666MHz 16GB
  -PSU: Corsair HX 1000 V2
  -MOBO: Asus TUF H370-Pro Gaming

• 20 Feb
  Benoît De Caluwé

  My game crashes every now and then. Sometimes i can play straight for a few hours without crashing, sometimes it takes 30 minutes to crash.
  The time it takes to crash is very random. I noticed that the most time when it crashes, i was in a chest or into my inventory, ... Things like that.
  When the game crashes, for a few seconds after the crash i can still move my character, i can't see it because the screen is freezed but i can hear it. Also when i play with friends and my game crashes, they can still see me move --> This is takes mostly about 15-20 seconds.
  
  After this, my game shuts down completely and a window opens & says "Valheim by IronGate [version: Unity 2019.4.16f1_e05b6e02d63e]"
  
  My pc specs are:
  MOBO: X570 pro asus tuf
  CPU: Ryzen 7 3700x
  GPU: RTX 3080 MSI Gaming X Trio
  Ram: 16 G 3200 Mhz
  PSU: 750W 80+ Gold
  
  Thank you for your support!

• 20 Feb
  why me

  Same issue with PC crashing. No other game or application does this. Ran full diagnostics and benchmarks on PC, all passed flawlessly. With this game, my PC completely turns off randomly (30+ times). Attempted all the troubleshooting and settings tweaks recommended in forums, but to no avail. Played hundreds of hours of other games without a single issue. In looking through other forums, seems like a lot of people have this issue and the developer keeps responding to support tickets with "its hardware" which it is not.
  - CPU: 5800x (No OC)
  - GPU: RTX 3080 (No OC)
  - RAM: Trident z 3600Mhz CL16
  - PSU: EVGA 850 GA
  - MOBO: Asus x570 Strix-e

• 20 Feb
  JLats

  Also crashing intermittently - can go 15 mins to 3 hrs. Seems random.
  
  I have also tried almost everything listed here:
  
  -All drivers are up-to-date
  -Uninstalled/Reinstalled/Verified game integrity
  -Tried every iteration of in-game graphics / audio settings
  
  Specs:
  
  CPU: i9 9900k
  GPU: EVGA RTX 3090
  RAM: GSKILL 32GB
  PSU: 850 plat EVGA
  MB: Maximus Hero.
  
  Here is my Event Viewer Application Error data:
  
  Log Name: Application
  Source: Application Error
  Date: 2021-02-20 12:50:48 PM
  Event ID: 1000
  Task Category: (100)
  Level: Error
  Keywords: Classic
  User: N/A
  Faulting application name: valheim.exe, version: 2019.4.20.53696, time stamp: 0x601c80a6
  Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
  Exception code: 0xc0000005
  Fault offset: 0x0000000000000000
  Faulting process id: 0x1c58
  Faulting application start time: 0x01d707ae75609791
  Faulting application path: E:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\commocommon\Valheim\valheim.exe

• 20 Feb
  Shane McGregor

  I've been playing the game for the past couple of days, love it and I'm totally addicted. However, I reached Day 43 (in-game) and a message popped up to say "The Forest is Moving". I successfully killed a few of the mobs and suddenly my entire PC crashed. I rebooted, tried again and within a minute or two my PC crashed again.

• 20 Feb
  Jag

  I get random reboots, sometimes I can play for a couple of hours but most often I can only only play around half an hour. No blue screen, always a hard reboot.
  CPU: 5900x
  GPU: 6800xt
  MBO: X570 Tomahawk
  MEM: Trident 3200MHz CL14 32Mb
  
  No OC, all standard.
  All other games work like a charm.
  
  Extremely annoying, please focus is this since it happens to a lot of people.
  Would be an amazing game if not for this. Ruins the experience for both me and my friends.

• 21 Feb
  David

  PC crashing for me too. It’s very random and can happen 15 minutes in or 2 hours in. Crash forces a restart of the PC which, after login to Windows, crashes again and again and then is okay. Rinse and repeat. I have a Ryzen 5900x and 6900xt and 64gigs of memory and no power issue. Checked everything, including the monitor cable.

• 21 Feb
  Pahiro

  I'm trying out a launch option for unity since the crashes appear to be related to DX11.
  -force-d3d12
  
  Wasn't expecting it to even launch but so far so good.
  
  EDIT: Well, that didn't work.
  EDIT2: Might be worth shot anyway for those with the d3d11.dll access violation. Mine is specifically UnityPlayer.dll.

• 21 Feb
  Deximus

  POSSIBLE FIX!
  If you havent been follwing the thread, im the dude that has done everything to include reformatting and starting for scratch. Updated everything down the USB drives. Nothing worked. I had given up yesterday and attempted to move on to Battlefront. Downloaded the Origin platform which had some very strange updates to my system. Not sure what they were and didnt think anything of it. (this is the only that that is different from all other mentioned fixes) Logged in last night to help a friend his new server. Went 2 hours without issue. switch to my dedicated server we have with the boys, went 3-4 hours without issues, took a nap while leaving the game up on the menu screen (this was a long term test bc it would crash on this screen to), came back after forgetting to wake up 4 hours later, STILL up. played another 3-4 hours, STILL UP, left it open all last night about 7-8 hours. Still up.
  
  I dont know what Origin put on my PC, but so far no issues

• 21 Feb
  Will

  Game worked completely fine for the first 2 days (~ 8 hour sessions) but on the third day about 4 hours in, the whole pc just shuts down and restarts. Tried loading back in and every time I get to the Valheim loading screen my pc just gets nuked. Tried everything from updating drivers, reinstalling, monitored temps, unplugged and plugged it back in. Sometimes if I'm lucky I can get to the character select before the game kills my pc. No crash reports or anything. Other games like r6s and WoW work totally fine. Valheim is just completely unplayable :(
  
  Specs:
  i7-7700k
  RTX 2060 KO Ultra
  16 GB DDR4
  Thermaltake TR2 600W

• 21 Feb
  Mintsia01

  I've had problems similars to the above , when i play i stay good for 5-30 min and out of nothing a crash with unity and random numbers, tried underclocking everything possible (went from 3000mhz to 2000, heard that 1666 might resolve but havent testet) , went to factory defaults , did a lot of stuff until now but the problem stays , sometimes i play for 3 hours but still happens .
  
  RAM 8gb
  gpu gtx 1650
  
  I found a bug along with it , if i play in someone else server i can log in , take some stuff, log out , log in again , deposit stuff in a chest, if it crashes under some time when i log in again i duplicate the stuff i had in my inventory when i did the first log out manually(sometimes it crashes in the log out too, very weird) .
  Hope they find a fix for these bugs soon , looks like it happens only in gen 10,16,20,30 of nvidia , must be something with new gen of graphic cards.

• 21 Feb
  Suley

  Hello, I get the same issue. game fluctuates between letting me play for 10 minutes or a couple hours before blue screening. I've down the ofllowing
  
  -Updated Graphics Drivers
  -Updated Chipset Drivers
  -Lowered resolution
  -Turned off constant music
  -Verified game integrity
  
  Specs:
  
  i7-10700F
  RTX 3070
  16gb ram

• 21 Feb
  Rowan

  I'm having the same issue as the OP. I pkayed for two hours this morning with no issues. 40 min om a friends game this afternoon then the whole PC crashed. Now it crashes as soon as I get to the initial menu, sometimes before. I like the game, but I'm starting to want my money back because it is basically unplayable with this happening I've spent more time trying to track down the issue than I have playing the fucking game. The worst thing is that there is no error code to read because it crashes the whole PC. If all I had to do was restart Valheim I'd be pretty happy, but instead I have to power down my whole PC because restarting isn't enough. I am getting sick to death of unfinished bullshit getting pushed out. I want to supoort independent creators, but if this is what I get I'll go back to Ubisoft or Bethesda at least their glitches don't make thinga unplayable or fuck over my whole system.
  
  It's amazing how common this qpparently is but noone has done anything about it.

• 22 Feb
  Endless

  SO i have found another fix for unity crash and its related to windows issue so first thing u need to do its to
  Open CMD and paste this => sfc /scannow after its done with its scan paste this command => DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth it fixed my crashing issue that i was having past few days ..... Make sure u restart ur computer after the cleanup its compleated

• 22 Feb
  MRG

  im 30 hours in and havent crashed a single time so definintly seems to be hardware related.

• 22 Feb
  Ray

  Having the same problem as the person above me :/
  have tried tweaking a ridiculous amount of settings... At least I have gained some more knowledge about my system, nevertheless it's extremely frustrating.

• 22 Feb
  Aidan

  Everything was fine until I entered the first dungeon in the Black Forest. In the dungeon it crashes every couple minutes, not enough time to finish the dungeon.
  
  Specs are
  GTX 1060 6GB
  Ryzen 5 1600
  16 GB Ram

• 22 Feb
  Lorenzo g

  Playable for 2-45minutes then game crashes sometimes with utility bug and sometimes the entier pc just freeze and crash, I5 9700 gtx 1660 super 16gram
  
  everything is up todate when it comes to driver uninstalled reinstalled tried it all run in comp mode run as admin, etcetc.

• 22 Feb
  Can

  My problem is that crashes sometimes after auto save. I think problem is about " game save system "

• 22 Feb
  Fix the crashes

  RTX 3080/Ryzen 5900X, runs any game flawlessly, but crashes every 2-15 mins whilst playing Valheim. It makes it impossible to progress or play meaningfully..

• 22 Feb
  Andressa

  Crashing on the menu! Bought the game and I couldn't even play!
  
  Win10
  8GB RAM
  AMD Ryzen 5 3200Mhz
  GTX 1060 6BG

• 22 Feb
  Bridges

  RTX 3080 crashing like crazy, full PC freezes, tried forcing DX12 still had the same result, even got to the point of downclocking every component in the PC and turning down settings still crashed.
  
  Not temperature related as well forced my 3080 to run at about 1000mhz was hovering around 50C core and 70C mem.

• 22 Feb
  Mike

  No idea if it's the same cause as others, but my game can run for a long time without crashing except for when I get out of the bed after sleeping. It pretty much crashed every single time a bit after that every time I did it. So I stopped sleeping and no crashes.
  
  It was an AccessVioloation like others. If I can figure out a call stack I will as that might help narrow down the issue, at least for me.

• 23 Feb
  HunApo

  Whole PC freeze, speakers giving buzzing sound for 2-3s, then the whole system autoreboot.
  No blue screen error, no game crashing logs, nothing in windows event viewer (just a critical error ID 41, for unexpected reboot)
  
  Win 10 pro 64bit
  i5-9600k 3.7GHz
  Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB
  MSI MAG Z390M Mortar
  MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Gaming 8GB GDDR5 (256 Bit)
  
  No overclocking at all.
  Turned the graphics to medium only.
  Drivers all latest, tried earlier version of game ready driver, then updated to latest.
  Only apps running in background are discord, steam and AVG.
  Crash happened in solo play, playing with friend as host, playin with friends while they host and on dedicated server as well
  
  Sometimes i can play 3 days 7-8hours, no crash, then next day 2 crashes in less than 30 mins. Than next day crash free, than again crash.
  In 150h, i had at least 15 crashes to reboot, and only 1 bluescreen death and 1 time the app crashed and exited properly, creating a crash dump.
  Rest of the cases, nothing.

• 23 Feb
  Andy Spencer

  After trying several suggestions (verifying game files, running game in administrator mode, limiting game frame rate to 30 fps, turning off triple buffering) I was able to play the game for a couple of hours without crashing every few minutes. But now the game window does not draw (or is invisible), while sound continues to play and game seems to respond to controller and keyboard inputs (e.g. jumping or switching tools). I can't figure out how to quit game without losing progress, since no user interface elements are visible. It would be nice to have a keyboard shortcut to save and quit the game, without navigating the menu.

• 23 Feb
  I couldn't believe it

  So I bought Valheim about 1.5 weeks ago. For my first hour or so I was fine and then I started crashing. Like many others I removed any OC'ing I had in attempt to make the game stable. This appeared to work for about 2 hours until I started to crash again.
  
  Here is where it gets weird. I all of a sudden started crashing in other games, games I had never crashed in. This progressively got worse and worse until even launching a game or even a browser video would either freeze my entire computer or bsod me.
  
  At this point I thought something was wrong with my PC. I changed out the RAM and my GPU (from a 3080 to a 960) and I was still freezing.
  
  I then did a safe mode sweep of all my old drivers and reinstalled the most up to date ones...Still same issue.
  
  Finally one of my friends asked if I had uninstalled Valheim. The answer? No, because why would a game that isn't even running crash me? Well I uninstalled Valheim, did another driver reinstall and now everything works again...

• 23 Feb
  Kalde Nutter

  I'll add to the list of disgruntled folks...exactly the same, crashes constantly and can be from a minute or two in the game to more commonly 15 to 20 mins. Running 5950X with a 6900XT. In the log files I see several of these:
  
  3D11: Failed to create RenderTexture (256 x 256 fmt 53 aa 1), error 0x887a0005
  (Filename: Line: 207)
  d3d11: failed to create buffer (target 0x5 mode 0 size 2592) [0x887A0005]
  
  Followed by several of these:
  
  ERROR: SymGetSymFromAddr64, GetLastError: 'Attempt to access invalid address.' (Address: 00007FF9CFDE1A33)
  0x00007FF9CFDE1A33 (UnityPlayer) (function-name not available)
  
  And then:
  0x00007FF9CFE9CEF8 (UnityPlayer) (function-name not available)
  0x00007FF9D01C4A08 (UnityPlayer) UnityMain
  0x00007FFA118D7034 (KERNEL32) BaseThreadInitThunk
  0x00007FFA11A3D241 (ntdll) RtlUserThreadStart
  
  Which looks more like an issue with this application than RAM speed or Swap File size.

• 23 Feb
  sirnazar1

  hello, did anyone find how to make the game work?
  the system requirements for the game are ridiculous, i thought it will fly on medium BUT it doesnt want to launch.
  LET THE WITH YOU POWER BE

• 23 Feb
  Kazie

  Can add that the error "UnityPlayer.dll caused an Access Violation (0xc0000005)" happens consistently with 32GB GSkill Trident z 3600mhz ram while XMP is enabled. Have tried with two separate computers running the same hardware. With XMP disabled and the ram running at 2133mhz the crashes stop.

• 23 Feb
  Juuso

  Same issue, PC just shuts down entirely and reboots. No other game does this. Seems to be fine for a few hours after starting, then it starts happening repeatedly if I go back into the game. Didn't use to do this, might have come at a later date due to an update or our village growing in size and thus performance dropping. Only thing that seems to work for me is to not play the game for a while and then it will run again for some time before the crashing starts again.

• 23 Feb
  Saftsuze

  This really should be top priority now. So many reports on crashing -- and pretty serious crashing as well. I had trouble booting my laptop again. I need my Valheim fix but can't have it thrash my system :(
  
  AMD Ryzen 7 5800H, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop 8gb, 16gb RAM

• 23 Feb
  Mr Pink

  Windows - random crashes (1min to 5hrs) no logs
  Ubuntu with vulkan - random crashes (1min to 5hrs)
  Ubuntu with opengl - random crashes (1min to 5hrs)
  
  i7-4790k
  GTX-980
  MSI-Z97

• 23 Feb
  Fizzee

  Until today (for the week or so I've had it) the game ran without apparent problem. Today, after opening/closing a chest or using the forge/work bench, i.e. any interaction via the "E" key, the character performs a punch. The real problem, though, is that mouse button 1 is now unresponsive, meaning you can't attack etc. Key reset attempted via settings>controls menu to no avail.....

• 24 Feb
  Dylan

  Game is causing my GPU (GeForce 1660 Super) to overheat, causing BSOD with WHEA error. Was fine for the first day but not has become almost unplayable!!
  
  Would love a fix for this as I love the game and would like to be able to play it again

• 24 Feb
  Lucien

  impossible to play solo more than 20 /30 minutes, game crashing everytime. Interesting fact: this bug not happen when I play coop inside a frind's universe with him.

• 24 Feb
  lulu

  the game crash systematically when autosave happen

• 24 Feb
  Broken

  Able to play for a few hours to a couple minutes per session. My PC would shut down and restart (no BSOD, just normal restart).
  
  No error logs available due to full system crash.
  
  I can run every other game just fine, but Valheim nukes my pc just by booting it.
  
  Things I have done to try and fix it (nothing worked):
  -Updated Graphics Drivers
  -Updated Chipset Drivers
  -Uninstalled, cleared AppData cache and registry, reinstalled
  -Lowered resolution
  -Turned off constant music
  -Verified game integrity
  -Added -window-mode exclusive -screen-fullscreen to steam launch settings
  -Added gfx-enable-gfx-jobs=1 and gfx-enable-native-gfx-jobs=1to boot.config file
  -Switched to NVidia studio drivers
  -Set process priority to high in task manager
  
  Here are my PC Specs:
  CPU: 5900x (No OC)
  GPU: 3080 FE (No OC)
  RAM: Trident z 3600MHz CL 16
  PSU: 850W EVGA 80+ Gold
  MOBO: B550 Aorus Master

• 24 Feb
  Linus Neuman

  I have BSOD when playing Valheim. Sometimes it's a couple hours in, sometimes it's within 15 minutes.
  My CPU and GPU temperatures are fine. I have reinstalled Windows, ran sfc /scannow without errors. I've stress tested my PC without issues, I've ran memtest86 and the memory diagnostic in Windows, all without any issues. No other game or program BSODs. Only Valheim.
  I have tried unplugging my GPU and internet cable and then used DDU to uninstall my Nvidia driver, and then plugged in my GPU again and installed my GPU driver. All to no avail.
  
  I get a kmode_exception_not_handled.
  
  i9 9900K
  GTX 1070
  32GB RAM
  
  If it was possible to attach I would attach dxdiag, crashdumps, and logs.

• 24 Feb
  Rob

  Played for a solid 2-3 hours on my first launch, and now I get random crashes from anywhere between 2 mins and 45 mins of playtime. I've tried turning graphics settings down, turning vsync on, running the game as administrator, moving it to high priority in task manager, uninstalling/reinstalling, validating the files, updating all of my drivers, turning off steam overlay, and fiddling with my steam launch options. And still, nothing. Running it on a Ryzen 5 1600, AMD Radeon RTX 710, and 24gb of RAM with no OC at all.

• 25 Feb
  Lakkir

  I'm having the same issue, sadly.
  The blue screen messages I have gotten are the following:
  Unexpected store error
  Critical process died
  System service exception
  Memory management
  
  Issue only happens while I play Valheim
  PC freezes but Valheim seems to keep working fine (saving doesn't work tho), if I'm watcing a stream it stops loading and if I try to F5 nothing happens, after a while like that I can't even click on browser nor press the windows key, It's frozen but Valheim keeps doing ok until PC blue screens
  
  Specs:
  AMD Ryzen 5 2600
  2x8 GB RAM Hyperx fury 2400 GHz (HX424C15FB2/8)
  GTX 1660 Ti

• 25 Feb
  Instawin

  Played for 50 hour + with no crash and now I have these crashes every half hour and I lose my progress.

• 25 Feb
  Antoine

  Game crashes my whole pc anywhere between 5min to 2hr+ on either solo or playing a server
  GPU: GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700K CPU @ 3.60GHz
  Memory: 32 GB RAM (31.93 GB RAM usable)

• 25 Feb
  Nathan

  I'm experiencing crashes when running the game on Vulkan in Linux. Spontaneous crash after approx. 8 minutes of gameplay with a log file pointing at a "Failed Assertion", it seems. Appending the end of the player log here, because it's absolutely enormous otherwise...
  
  
  Debug info from gdb:
  
  mono_gdb_render_native_backtraces not supported on this platform, unable to find gdb or lldb
  src/tier0/threadtools.cpp (3553) : Assertion Failed: Illegal termination of worker thread 'SocketThread'
  src/tier0/threadtools.cpp (3553) : Assertion Failed: Illegal termination of worker thread 'SocketThread'
  
  I'm running an AMD RX590 and Ryzen 2700X on Linux Kernel Version 5.11.1, 32GB RAM

• 25 Feb
  Jeff

  Constant crashes. Just bought the game two days ago. At first, I played for a few hours without problems. Then it crashed, and has continued to crash since with a variety of errors, looks like mostly Unity errors I can see for a moment with an exclamation point, but sometimes it just immediately crashes to desktop.
  
  I have tried all the regular stuff, from verifying game files to reducing game quality, changing game priority, dropping Steam overlay, running as admin, updating all drivers, restarting, etc.
  
  OS: Windows 10 x64
  CPU: i5-9700K CPU @3.70GHz
  GPU: GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
  RAM: 16 GB
  
  Please help.

• 25 Feb
  Nachoman

  Having my pc crash and auto reboot anywhere from 15min and up to 6+ hours before it happens. (mostly like 30min-3h)
  
  GPU: GeForce RTX 3080 (gigabyte)
  CPU: Ryzen 5800x
  Latest drivers, even used DDU to reinstall, tried previous ones, tried studio drivers (not the game ready ones)
  Tried every single fix and hack and thing i found from discord, to reddit to steam to well... here.
  
  All other games (yes even Satisfactory) have no issues at all.
  Heck i tried running it in Vulkan mode and at least then i got a BSOD for a split second.
  
  This game so far crashes more than Cyberpunk, and that is a hard track record to beat.
  Joking aside, love the game, please fix a.s.a.p. => i bet it it is in the saving of the game as it seems way to close each time to a auto save timeframe.
  F5 + "save" has no issues for me (thank god, so I can solo and lose little progress)
  Also tried just sitting idle at a campfire for 2h and it crashed doing nothing but sit idle.

• 27 Feb
  Dave Zeak

  I played for 72 hours with no issues, had my first crash this morning. Running a Ryzen 5 3600, GTX 1070, 16GB RAM, and Windows 10 64 bit.
  
  Faulting application name: valheim.exe, version: 2019.4.20.53696, time stamp: 0x601c80a6
  Faulting module name: UnityPlayer.dll, version: 2019.4.20.53696, time stamp: 0x601c8219
  Exception code: 0xc0000005
  Fault offset: 0x00000000008b56d5
  Faulting process id: 0x4aec
  Faulting application start time: 0x01d70d19b65a4c7d
  Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Valheim\valheim.exe
  Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Valheim\UnityPlayer.dll
  Report Id: c6997c2d-675c-43c2-96ee-1556f38a0945
  Faulting package full name:
  Faulting package-relative application ID:

• 27 Feb
  WQQDY

  Dedicated server - Looked at a lot of posts here but none appear to mention dedicated servers though I suspect some are playing on them and don't realise it's the server at times and not their PC's.
  Our dedicated server DC's all players a lot very recently, maybe the update, maybe because we have recently killed the 3rd boss. Either way it makes it unplayable when you lose all your equipment. Fabulous game though...

• 27 Feb
  Dany St-Gelais

  I'm crashing after 10-30 min too EVERY SESSION. Also got a blue screen.
  I'm pissed of. "Ohhh we have 4 million viking now"
  This mean you made 80m $, so hire some fucking devs and fix it already

• 28 Feb
  Freddi

  I had constant crashing, within 30secs of loading the game and even in the menu.
  Potential fix try disabling cloud save in steam settings its worked for me. (after spending £320 changing parts that could have been the issue which didnt resolve the issue, however needed the upgrade so win win)

• 28 Feb
  Halfbeard

  Ever since after patch 0.146.8 I been having issues with regular crashes, got 60+ hours in the game before the patch got released and had zero crashes. Same thing with Vulkan and without. (!DOES NOT CRASH MY WHOLE PC, JUST THE GAME!)
  
  OS: Windows 10
  CPU: i5-4670K CPU @ 3.40GHz
  GPU: GeForce GTX 970
  RAM: 16 GB
  I have all the latest updates and drivers that is possible to get.

• 28 Feb
  Oliver

  Hello,
  
  I'm a big fan of the game thus far and have put in about 50 hours already without any issue. Lately I can play for about 10 minutes before my gpu fans spin to 100 and the power cuts off to my entire PC. I've tried the standard workarounds to no avail and my hardware works well enough on other games. It's unfortunate to have to put your game down until this is resolved, as I am really enjoying the game you've made.
  
  Thank you and looking forward to playing more of your game.
  
  Windows 10
  AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
  (MSI) AMD 5700XT

• 28 Feb
  Jimi AH

  Having my Pc restart whenever I enter the mountains biomes, I went to all places that i could and everything was running smoothly, except when i entered the mountains, as soon as I enter it my PC restarts. I've played so many games before and this is the first time i had this issue.
  I tried running the game on Vulkan and entered the mountains, it lasted for like 30 seconds then my PC restarted.
  
  GPU: GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
  
  Please Fix, love the game.

• 28 Feb
  Anthony

  I hope this is not buried underneath everything even though it is clearly a reoccurring issue. The game blue screens my pc. It is not a rare local issue it is widespread. I have reinstalled windows to clean the slate and ONLY installed valheim after setup and updates. Still having the same issue. 4 million copies sold. Don’t get lazy now you guys are filthy rich. If you need to outsource you can afford the best.

• 28 Feb
  Yogi

  Fixed my crashes. Love the game, but days of crashing every 4-6 minutes was spoiling the experience, and was getting rollbacks on my character for most crashes (either losing gear or duplicating). Tracking GPU on task manager, was getting a mass spike on crash so figured GFX problem. I am running a GeForce GTX 1080 TI. (I am a bit of a noob with PC's, so just tried everything others had posted). Tried Valkan, running in windows 7, re-install game in different directory, etc etc all the other suggestions. Finally fixed my crash problem today. Been playing for 3 hours now with no crashes, occasional brief lag spikes but I can live with that. I had a look in NVidia control panel, switched Max Frame Rate to 100 limit (game was running at 170+ before that). Also on Power Management Mode as adaptive. So far so good, not a single disconnect. Fingers crossed.

• 28 Feb
  Dimar

  Game crashing near sunken crypts (valheim.exe stopped working). Otherwise the game is running perfectly and i never had any issues.

• 01 Mar
  Ash

  I really like this game but the crashing is unbearable and really demotivating. I can only play couple of hours a day after my fulltime job and this is honestly like Animal Crossing or Stardew Valley to me; it's a stress reducer. Losing the progress I made with my precious time is demotivating.
  
  At first, a popup came saying `UnityPlayer.dll caused an Access Violation (0xc0000005)` and crash dump was made. The crashes after this were anonymous and didn't show a popup nor any dumps. Viewing the error on event manager, it showed `0xc0000005`.
  
  I installed Ubuntu 20.04.2.0 LTS just to play this game, only to find the crash also happens there. How ever the logs are saying:
  
  Caught fatal signal - signo:11 code:2 errno:0 addr:0x7f4b22ec5ab0
  Obtained 3 stack frames.
  #0 0x007f4baf7683c0 in funlockfile
  #1 0x007f4b22ec5ab0 in (Unknown)
  #2 0x007f4b400a6b01 in (Unknown)
  
  OS: Windows 10 Pro / Ubuntu 20.04.2.0 LTS (linux x86_64)
  GPU: nvidia 1080 / 460.39
  CPU: 9900k
  
  Please prioritize this bug

• 01 Mar
  Rich L

  Crashing Repeatedly game has become unplayable my buddy and i have gotta to the Swamp/Iron Stage of the game and i keep crashing losing my progress and losing materials because of it. We play on a Dedicated server because when i used to crash it would crash the server so now i run a dedicated server a different pc on my network. He has ZERO issues meanwhile i keep crashing and its become to the point where if i farm iron i might not make it back to our base which is like 5 min by boat. Heres a copy of the crash logs and it keeps doing same error which is a application error:
  
  Description:
  Faulting application name: valheim.exe, version: 2019.4.20.53696, time stamp: 0x601c80a6
  Faulting module name: UnityPlayer.dll, version: 2019.4.20.53696, time stamp: 0x601c8219
  Exception code: 0xc0000005
  Fault offset: 0x00000
  
  i9 10850k
  64GB Ram
  3070 Ultra FTW3
  970 Pro Nvme drive
  CPU specs are

• 01 Mar
  Jake

  My game also crashes all the time. I've updated my graphics card drivers, lowered the resolution and frame rate, lowered all the graphics to minimum settings, tracked my GPU temp (doesn't overheat), reinstalled the game multiple times.
  
  It won't crash for a few hours, but when it does (bluescreen, restart computer), that means if I try to play it again within a few minutes, it will crash almost immediately when I try to play again. Could this be from temp files? The pattern of crashing repeatedly after the first one of the day makes me think it's temp files... But it's very frustrating. I lost all my iron gear today because I had it stored on my friends server, took it out of a chest into my inventory, then crashed before it saved. Logged onto my account, player inventory has no iron armor, and chest was empty too. Very frustrating.

• 01 Mar
  Егор

  Моя игра также делает crash без ошибок,

• 01 Mar
  GP

  Had 50 hours on the game no issue, this weekend (February 27-28) pc just shuts down and reboot anywhere from 1 minute and up to 1 hour before it happens, most crashes 2-4 minutes into the game. All drivers up to date.
  
  CPU: i7-4770K
  GPU: 2070 SUPER
  MEMORY: 16GB DDR3

• 04 Mar
  Lorenzo g

  I'm still getting consistent crashing, both game and entire pc. All suggested fixes is doing nothing. Hope to hear of a solution I keep playing like this now becouse its the best game in years!
  
  I h ave noticed that before the crash game kinda jumps back in time about 3minutes of gametime as if its was shutdown long before i just kept on playing. not sure im making sense here.
  
  But that might make it a connection issuie aswell. anyone else noticed this? its happened twice for me where my char goes back 4/5minutes gameplay and teleports to another location I was standing before. Biggest spike lag ever then the game crashes nad pc sometimes.

• 07 Apr
  Curtis

  Part of Event Log from game crash. Event 1000, App Err
  Faulting app name: valheim.exe, version: 2019.4.20.53696, time stamp: 0x601c80a6
  Faulting module: mono-2.0-bdwgc.dll, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x5ffe3349
  Exception code: 0xc0000005
  Fault offset: 0x0000000000310006
  Faulting process id: 0x3048
  Faulting app start time: 0x01d72b42e9aec9eb
  Faulting app path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Valheim\valheim.exe
  Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Valheim\MonoBleedingEdge\EmbedRuntime\mono-2.0-bdwgc.dll
  Report Id: b8610a7d-cac5-46fd-b758-11eea679061b
  EventData
  
  valheim.exe
  2019.4.20.53696
  601c80a6
  mono-2.0-bdwgc.dll
  0.0.0.0
  5ffe3349
  c0000005
  0000000000310006
  3048
  01d72b42e9aec9eb
  C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Valheim\valheim.exe
  C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Valheim\MonoBleedingEdge\EmbedRuntime\mono-2.0-bdwgc.dll
  b8610a7d-cac5-46fd-b758-11eea679061b

• 09 Apr
  Bix

  I found a workaround to fix all my crashing : disabled Turbo mode in UEFI/BIOS.
  
  All details in this thread I wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/mlfm3q/blue_screens_crashes_my_fix_01487/