Garry's mod crashes while loading in server?

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Garry's mod crashes when loading in server?
If your Garry's mod crashes while joining a server, I have some tips how to fix it.

1. Verifying Game Cache Integrity
2. Setting Autoconfig Mode
3. Deleting config file


1. Verifying Game Cache Integrity

Sometimes game files might get corrupted and a file verification is neccessary.
Open Steam
Go to the "Library"
Right-click on Garry's Mod
Select "Properties" from the dropdown menu
Open the "Local Files" tab
Press "Verify Integrity Of Game Cache" button
Wait for the process to finish
Now try to start up Garry's Mod again

2. Setting Autoconfig Mode


The -autoconfig launch option will allow Steam to configure Garry's Mod with the best settings for use on your machine.

Open Steam
Go to the "Library"
Right-click the game which needs to be reconfigured
Select "Properties" from the menu
Click the "Set launch options..." button
Remove any launch options currently shown.
Type -autoconfig in the box.
If this fixes your problems, you should repeat the steps and remove the -autoconfig setting.

2.1 Try forcing screen resolution on start up


Sometimes forcing screen resolution when starting the game fixes startup problems.

This is known to fix black screen problems.

In order to force Garry's Mod to use specific screen resolution, you must:

Open Steam
Right click on Garry's Mod and select Properties
Press Set Launch Options and enter one of the launch options from the list below
Press OK, and try to launch the game again
List of basic screen resolutions. Try one per each try, and remove anything you have added into the launch options if all tries are unsuccessful.

-w 800 -h 600
-w 1024 -h 768
-w 1280 -h 720
-w 1366 -h 768
-w 1920 -h -1080
You can also put any custom screen resolution ( or the screen resolution of your monitor ), the -w parameter starts for width, and -h for height, both in pixels. All parameters are separated with a space, for example:

-w 1280 -h 720 -window -noborder
It is also a good idea to put -window parameter in there to start the game in a window and a -noborder parameter to hide the border of the window.

2.2 Change Garry's mod DirectX versions


Sometimes something might cause the game to load a different DirectX version. You can try to force Garry's Mod to load one of the "known to work" versions of DirectX:

Open Steam
Right click on Garry's Mod and select Properties
Press Set Launch Options and enter one of the launch options from the list below
Press OK, and try to launch the game again
List of possible DirectX values. Try one per each try, and remove anything you have added into the launch options if all tries are unsuccessful.

-dxlevel 81
-dxlevel 90
-dxlevel 95
-dxlevel 100
-dxlevel 110

- DirectX 81 might be unstable

3. Deleting config file

Delete your config file for a fresh config

Open your Garry's mod local files
\Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod\garrysmod\cfg
Remove/or move config.cfg from there.
Start up the Garry's mod for a fresh config.
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Thanks for reading.
Hope It helped.

-Brightness





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