FS17 freezes at loading screen...

[NataSpawN]

First, I want everyone to know I did a modicum of poking around in the forum to find similar issues/same issues, etc All of them that were close had logs posted that were incomplete as well (same as myself). The solution for most of them were either the CPU was underpowered, or the GPU drivers were out of date. I would like to submit that if it was working up until a specific event, the CPU is not underpowered (for my situation anyway) and drivers should be up to date if updated through the provided NVidia Experience to do exactly that (I understand that I may be naive in that respect so I will learn from your assistance if I am).

Now, the situation. I was in the game on Beaver Creek Final w/ Seasons (disabled though) mowing (with a modded mower). Fell asleep, and woke up to a Windows Update in progress (good ole Fall Creators Update - 1709). Decided to go to bed. Next morning, attempted to go back in to FS17 and play some more and it froze on the loading screen. Every time I attempt to launch the game, it freezes at that point (sometimes it moves to a black screen, every time I can hear the beginning second of audio from the intro videos then nothing).

Troubleshooting steps taken:

• Reinstalled Borderless Gaming (had it installed once before, did not like it, uninstalled it.
Had similar issues, but it would eventually load if I ALT+TAB ed out and back in. No change,
so uninstalled it again.

• Verified file integrity, no change

• Ensured that all other security updates were installed for windows (currently at Version 1709
(OS Build 16299.248), no change

• Updated GPU drivers, no change

• Uninstalled/reinstalled FS17 through Steam, no change

• Uninstalled/reinstalled FS17 through Steam w/o any DLC, no change

• Uninstalled/reinstalled FS17 through Steam to a different location (both w/ DLC and w/o), no
change

• Removed all mods, repeated all previous uninstall/reinstall steps, no change at any point

• At various points, was asked if I wanted Program Directory game.xml to overwrite Profile
Directory game.xml, tried both yes/no, no change

• Turned off Steam cloud sync so that the old files were not added back to a clean install,
reinstalled to yet another new location, no change

• Adjusted the <rendering> setting in game.xml to D3D_10, D3D_90 and OGL_3 (the only change
that happened was that it consistently goes to a black screen now and I can hear 1 more
second of audio before it freezes, otherwise, no change

All of that said, I would love to try anything else to get this game working again. I would like
to thank anyone that attempts to help for your time. It is appreciated more than you know.

"incomplete" log as follows: (fresh install, no mods, no DLC)

	GIANTS Engine Runtime 7.0.0 (15681) 64bit (Build Date: Dec 7 2017) Copyright (c) 2008-2017, GIANTS Software GmbH (giants-software.com), All Rights Reserved. Copyright (c) 2003-2017, Christian Ammann and Stefan Geiger, All Rights Reserved. Application: FarmingSimulator2017 Main System CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz Memory: 16282 MB OS: Windows NT 10.0 64-bit Physics System Version: 5.9.5 Thread(s): 2 Input System Keyboard enabled Mouse enabled Gamepad/Joystick enabled Force Feedback disabled Audio System Driver: OpenAL Version: 1.1 Device: Generic Software Render System Driver: OpenGL Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation Renderer: GeForce GTX 960M/PCIe/SSE2 Version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 391.01 Shader Version: 4.60 NVIDIA Max. Texture Layers: 16 GL_AMD_depth_clamp_separate not supported Started 4 threads for threadpool 'Render threadpool' Hardware Profile Level: High (auto) View Distance Factor: 1.100000 Shadow Quality: 1.000000 Size: 2048 Filter-Size: 16 Shader Quality: 2 Skip Mipmaps: 0 LOD Distance Factor: 1.100000 Terrain LOD Distance Factor: 1.500000 Terrain Normal Mapping: Yes Foliage View Distance Factor: 1.400000 Max dynamic foliage View Distance Factor: 1.400000 Foliage Density: 0.500000 Volume Mesh Tessellation Factor: 0.850000 Tyre Tracks Segments Factor: 2.000000 Max. Number of Shadow Lights: 3 Max. Number of Lights: 512 Max. Number of Lights Per Cluster: 32 MSAA: 2 Farming Simulator 17 (Steam) Version: 1.5.3.1 b1848 Available Languages: en de jp pl cz fr es ru it pt hu nl cs ct br tr ro kr Language: en Time: 2018-03-04 05:43:20 Register configuration 'inputAttacherJoint' Register configuration 'attacherJoint' Register configuration 'frontloader' Register configuration 'motor' Register configuration 'baseColor' Register configuration 'wheel' Register configuration 'rimColor' Register configuration 'design' Register configuration 'designColor' Register configuration 'vehicleType' Game vehicle types loaded

[NataSpawN]

I should also add that I tried about half of these by launching as Admin, no change. Also, attempted various Steam Launch arguements like -windowed or -fullscreen or -w 1920 etc... all no change

[Smith Modding]

Two things I'm noticing:
It's not saying the resolution of the screen. It's supposed to do that.
Change the game.xml to look like this (just copy and paste it into it)

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no" ?> <game> <language>-1</language> <graphic> <display> <width>1920</width> <height>1080</height> <gamma>1</gamma> <fullscreen>true</fullscreen> <vsync adaptive="true">true</vsync> <userConfirmed>true</userConfirmed> <previousWidth>1440</previousWidth> <previousHeight>900</previousHeight> </display> <scalability> <gpuPerformanceClass>auto</gpuPerformanceClass> <performanceClass>Very High</performanceClass> <anisotropy>16</anisotropy> <foliageDensitySlider>1.000000</foliageDensitySlider> <foliageViewDistanceCoeff>2.000000</foliageViewDistanceCoeff> <volumeMeshTessellationCoeff>0.500000</volumeMeshTessellationCoeff> <msaa>8</msaa> <lodDistanceCoeff>2.000000</lodDistanceCoeff> <viewDistanceCoeff>2.000000</viewDistanceCoeff> <maxNumShadowLights>10</maxNumShadowLights> <shaderQuality>2</shaderQuality> <maxReflectionMaps>8</maxReflectionMaps> </scalability> <renderer>D3D_11</renderer> </graphic> <audio enable="true" volume="0.800000"/> <input> <joystick enable="true" vibration="false" deadzone="0.14"/> <mouse enable="true"/> <keyboard enable="true"/> <headTracking active="true" trackir="true" tobiieyex="true"/> </input> <logging> <file enable="true" filename="log.txt"/> <console enable="true"/> </logging> <development> <controls>true</controls> </development> <startMode>1</startMode> </game>

This is my settings and it works, though if it works for you you'll need to change the settings back. Try those things and post your log afterwords

[NataSpawN]

Thank you for the reply @SmithModding. I replaced the game.xml w/ your config, unfortunately, no change. The log has the DLC added at the bottom now (due to me attempting to purge the registry of all FS settings on one install, and then reinstalling w/ the DLC by accident while I was waiting.

New log, as requested:

	GIANTS Engine Runtime 7.0.0 (15681) 64bit (Build Date: Dec 7 2017) Copyright (c) 2008-2017, GIANTS Software GmbH (giants-software.com), All Rights Reserved. Copyright (c) 2003-2017, Christian Ammann and Stefan Geiger, All Rights Reserved. Application: FarmingSimulator2017 Main System CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz Memory: 16282 MB OS: Windows NT 10.0 64-bit Physics System Version: 5.9.5 Thread(s): 2 Input System Keyboard enabled Mouse enabled Gamepad/Joystick enabled Force Feedback disabled Audio System Driver: OpenAL Version: 1.1 Device: Generic Software Render System Driver: Direct 3D 11 Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation Renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M Version: 23.21.13.9101 (23.2.2018) Revision: 162 Feature level: DirectX 11 ON Info: Effective window resolution 1920 x 1080 Started 4 threads for threadpool 'Render threadpool' Hardware Profile Level: Custom Very High View Distance Factor: 2.000000 Shadow Quality: 2.000000 Size: 4096 Filter-Size: 16 Shader Quality: 2 Skip Mipmaps: 0 LOD Distance Factor: 2.000000 Terrain LOD Distance Factor: 2.000000 Terrain Normal Mapping: Yes Foliage View Distance Factor: 2.000000 Max dynamic foliage View Distance Factor: 2.000000 Foliage Density: 1.000000 Volume Mesh Tessellation Factor: 0.500000 Tyre Tracks Segments Factor: 4.000000 Max. Number of Shadow Lights: 10 Max. Number of Lights: 512 Max. Number of Lights Per Cluster: 32 MSAA: 8 Farming Simulator 17 (Steam) Version: 1.5.3.1 b1848 Available Languages: en de jp pl cz fr es ru it pt hu nl cs ct br tr ro kr Language: en Time: 2018-03-04 09:34:52 Register configuration 'inputAttacherJoint' Register configuration 'attacherJoint' Register configuration 'frontloader' Register configuration 'motor' Register configuration 'baseColor' Register configuration 'wheel' Register configuration 'rimColor' Register configuration 'design' Register configuration 'designColor' Register configuration 'vehicleType' Game vehicle types loaded Load dlc: pdlc_bigBudPack (Version: 1.1.0.0) Load mod: FS17_challengerMT700EFieldViper (Version: 1.0.0.0) Load mod: FS17_valtraTSeriesCowEdition (Version: 1.0.0.0) Load dlc: pdlc_kuhnPack (Version: 1.1.0.0) Load dlc: pdlc_platinumEdition (Version: 1.1.0.0)

On a side note, my game.xml had both the resolution and the previous resolution set to 1280 x 720. I did try to change the current resolution to native 1920 x 1080 w/ no luck at one point too.

[Edited by NataSpawN] Incorrect resolution listed (1280 x 1080 --> 1280 x 720)

[Guil]

Make a backup of your profileTemplate folder, not sure of the exact directory for steam but its in the farming simulator 2017 folder. At a guess from other games I have on steam it's C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common Uninstall the game and remove all local files and then restart your computer. Make sure there is no reference to fs17 and then reinstall it. On the off chance that steam will restore a 'bad' folder or files it;'s probably best to delete the log.txt and game.xml and then try start the game as normal.
Hopefully it works for you.