DEFOLD EDITOR Not Responding upon creating/loading new project
Sometimes upon creating a new project on disk D, the editor will go into not responding. It does the same thing when opening some other projects, but it seems to be most consistent when creating a new project.
When opening a pre-existing project and having same issue before with the war battles tutorial, renaming the .editor_settings seemed to resolve it.
Force closing defold and reopening the newly created project seems to be a workaround, except now the issue is replicating in a near empty project so that workaround isn’t perfect.
AKA the current issue is it going into not responding when trying to load the attached project.
Hmm, not sure where to begin here, the logs look absolutely normal. You said disk D, does it mean it opens fine on disk C? Could that be some antivirus misbehaving? Also, you could try to see if a project works when you don’t have the Git repository; maybe that’s somehow related? Just a guess…
Tested just now, trying the same project from disk C has the same result.
Renaming .gitignore and .gitattributes didn’t change anything it seems.
Andddd yep it was the windows antivirus based on it working after turning it off and trying to open the project again, which i didn’t know was enabled until checking just now. Adding the defold steam folder to exclusions and re-enabling antivirus, and it seems like it still works.
Issue has come back even with the defold folder being excluded. Issue gone when antivirus is outright disabled. This is the folder I added, am I meant to add a different folder?
I have exactly the same problem, however I don’t think it’s related to the antivirus and I have some more interesting details. I’m also trying to work on Steam version and Windows 11.
The bug seems to just be inconsistent overall. Even without any changes at times a project is created and opened with no issues but other times it just completely refuses. I think it’s a bit more stable on the second launch after a crash (if done quickly and not with hours apart) so maybe it has something to do with cache but it’s still very much not 100%, I was able to get multiple freezes in a row as well.
It’s not actually just Defold. When Defold stops responding, it somehow hinders the task manager work, task manager stops updating the resource usage of all processes in real-time, although at this point it still reacts to the mouse and allows ending the task (of the JDK for example). If I wait it actually stops responding as well. If I wait some more the explorer also stops responding, along with the right click, alt-tab and any actions on the desktop. Non-Windows programs like the browser continue working as long as I don’t minimize them because it’s impossible to open them back. And basically after the task manager stops responding the only way to stop all of this is to turn off the pc with the case button.
It looks like the problem is only with the Steam version (I downloaded a standalone and in like five launches it hasn’t frozen once), and I think I’ve managed to fix the issue by reinstalling Defold in Steam from system disk to another one (from C: to E: in my case), after that the issue hasn’t reappeared yet. A regular reinstall on disk C: before that didn’t help, so it might be specifically something about messing with the system disk (even though the projects themselves have been on another disk all this time).
Another update - it’s not fixed, it happened again on another disk. I’ve managed to get a freeze on Steam version, then a normal launch on standalone, then another freeze on Steam back-to-back.
And now I also started getting crashes on standalone. Here are the logs, but from my limited understanding of them I don’t see anything criminal either and I suspect all things considered it probably has something to do with JDK. I don’t know what I can do, I’d really like someone to check this again.
Hopefully last update for those who find this thread later - looks like reinstalling graphics drivers (Nvidia in my case) with “clean installation” checkmark helped (without it reinstallation didn’t help).
Thank you, this did in fact work for me as well!! At first I updated Java, which worked for a day, but then Defold kept doing the same thing happening to OP. Clean installation of Nvidia drivers worked, I guess I shoulda done that after Windows 10 ended and had to update to 11 lol
