Even keeping a mod in the mods folder, wethers its active or not, will cause the game to crash while loading the main menu.
Everything worked fine yesterday, and today not so much.
Basically, it gets stuck at "Initializing..." and then it fades to white and I get an error saying it's not responding.
I've tried everything in this thread: https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=4805.0 (https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=4805.0) and it didnt help at all.
I'm on Alpha 15c
First, the game "not responding" is the generic Windows message given when a program is not actively "appearing" to work.
Clicking "wait for program to respond" and then giving the program time to work may be pertinent.
This happens a lot on my old computer here, and you may need to wait up to 3 minutes for a very large save game to load.
Loading a game with a lot of content, especially modded content, takes quite a while. This load time is also increased greatly with larger map sizes.
If the game still does not load within 5 minutes, please upload a copy of your "output_log" file.
Instructions for finding this file can be found here:
https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=513.0
Yep seems like it was just slow loading. It took a little over 10 minutes for it to load, but strangely enough the problem disappeared today so I'm back to the normal fast loading that I had before.
Well, I would suggest making sure that things like antivirus programs are disabled, or at least not doing a system scan, while RimWorld is running.
Antivirus programs, and the like, can eat a lot of CPU time, resulting in long loading times, or low levels of responsiveness, for a variety of programs.
In any case, I am glad that the game loaded at least, and that it is now loading more quickly again.
I hope you enjoy the digital suffering as much as I have been!