Gmod crashing after hitting Play (x64 Branch)

try checking for updates. both steam and gmod.

if that doesnt work, have you recently installed any new games?

check your firewall aswell, make sure nothing is blocked steam/gmod related

hyushi123 said:

try checking for updates. both steam and gmod.

if that doesnt work, have you recently installed any new games?

check your firewall aswell, make sure nothing is blocked steam/gmod related

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steam gmod and windows are updated

latest game I installed was roblox although I don't suspect that it causes and issues

gmod is not blocked by firewall

please find and upload your crash dump

Hey there, sorry for the late reply after asking for your specs, they should not be an issue so good news is that we know it’s likely not a hardware issue!


Can you confirm the following:

When you unsubscribed from the addons, did you also uninstall them? Just being in your addon folder can cause issues (however I doubt this based on your attempts in this thread)

Which version of 64-bit have you chosen when selecting in the betas launch options? Some are more stable than others.

Do you have available space? If there is a ram spike (unlikely outcome with your specs) your computer can try to compensate by using virtual memory.

Have you deleted the cache? One corrupt cached file can screw you


Shot in the dark

This one is another shot in the dark, try a direct X fallback on your launch options: -dxlevel 95

Unfortunately this is unlikely to work based on the issues you’ve described - I’m certain you’re having an issue with workshop content or awesomium(?) usage on the server: as it is only when loading in.


The important thing

The crash log dump will be VERY helpful to determine further.

joey said:

Do you have available space? If there is a ram spike (unlikely outcome with your specs) your computer can try to compensate by using virtual memory.

Have you deleted the cache? One corrupt cached file can screw you

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I deleted every file within the steamapps/common/garrysmod folder

ram and storage is no problem

flnfreedomf1ghter said:

So I went to facepunch's discord server and posted the crash dump and i've been told that the crash log was consistent with using Proton on Linux. now i don't use proton or linux so i think it's an issue with steam and need to reinstall steam all together

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this fixed my issue

flnfreedomf1ghter said:

this fixed my issue

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Just confirm for anyone else having the issue: reinstalling steam itself fixed the issues?