Stuck in loading upon startup

[Danish_gamer]

STEAM

I recently got back to playing but haven't been able to as I'm just stuck in the loading screen when you start the game. I've searched for the past 2 weeks with no solutions.

 

Image of where I get stuck: https://prnt.sc/K2XLfhPDAtdK (wasn't able to use the attachment)

 

I've tried the following things: 

• Restarted PC
• Verified integrity of game files
• Reinstalled game
• Reinstalled windows
• Updated graphics drivers
• Reinstalled graphics drivers
• Turned off any overclocking
• Uninstalling all mods that was previously installed
• Reinstalling the game onto an older version of the game (A19.6) from the current version (A20.6)
• Only having 1 stick of RAM inserted
• Downloaded the game onto a different drive
• Deleted all 7d2d files in %appdata% 
• Deleted all files in %temp%
• Disabled vsync
• Disabled EAC
• Reinstalling steam
• Disabled any anti-virus installed
• Disabled windows firewall
• And probably more

 

My specs: 

• OS: Windows 11 Home 64-bit (version 22H2)
• Motherboard: MSI B450 Tomahawk Max 
• CPU: Ryzen 5 5600x 3.7@GHz
• GPU: Gigabyte RTX 3080 Gaming OC 10GB
• RAM: 2x 16GB G.Skill Aegis 3000MHz CL16
• Storage: WD Blue SN550 NVME 2TB
• Other Storage: Seagate BarraCuda ST1000DM003-1ER162 1TB

Edited October 17, 2022 by Danish_gamer (see edit history)

[Beelzybub]

Your output log would be helpful. You can try cleaning your game from the Launcher/Tools menu.

[Danish_gamer]

6 minutes ago, Beelzybub said:

Your output log would be helpful. You can try cleaning your game from the Launcher/Tools menu.

I've tried to find them but haven't been able to do so 
It's not in the folder it should be in (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\7 Days To Die\7DaysToDie_Data)

Edited October 17, 2022 by Danish_gamer (see edit history)

[Beelzybub]

28 minutes ago, Danish_gamer said:

I've tried to find them but haven't been able to do so

Logs are in %appdata%\7DaystoDie\Logs

[Danish_gamer]

49 minutes ago, Beelzybub said:

Logs are in %appdata%\7DaystoDie\Logs

so.. after finally finding it (thank you) I've been messing around with it as it's 9MB and pastebin's max limit is 528KB or something

edit:

I found out that 50k+ lines was the exact same output which was the following:
NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
  at XUi_FallThrough.Update () [0x00121] in <ffc99a688d2b435db53bb46aed82ca49>:0 

 

I deleted I believe 58k+ lines with just that output and got it to work on pastebin https://pastebin.com/sGH1M8yu

Edited October 17, 2022 by Danish_gamer (see edit history)

[Beelzybub]

You have mod conflicts. I don't know which ones, but this is the bad variable: ArgumentException: An item with the

same key has already been added. Key: Custom Perks - Prestige Skills

 

And you are using two different mod folders. You should just use one.

Use this folder for mods: C:\Users\Mathias\AppData\Roaming/7DaysToDie/Mods

And delete this folder: C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/7 Days To Die/7DaysToDie_Data/../Mods

and any other mods folders you may have lying about.

[Danish_gamer]

1 hour ago, Beelzybub said:

You have mod conflicts. I don't know which ones, but this is the bad variable: ArgumentException: An item with the

same key has already been added. Key: Custom Perks - Prestige Skills

 

And you are using two different mod folders. You should just use one.

Use this folder for mods: C:\Users\Mathias\AppData\Roaming/7DaysToDie/Mods

And delete this folder: C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/7 Days To Die/7DaysToDie_Data/../Mods

and any other mods folders you may have lying about. 

Thank you! 
It finally works now, the funny part was that all I did was delete the "C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/7 Days To Die/7DaysToDie_Data/../Mods" and moved those files to "C:\Users\Mathias\AppData\Roaming/7DaysToDie/Mods" 

So apparently the mod ("Custom Perks - Prestige Skills") wasn't actually downloaded which I already knew from the start