Applies to: Windows and Linux
Topic: Linux and crashes
The game sits on a black loading screen with the spinning circle: when starting an event, leaving a car meet, or at "Press A to start" with an older save.
Try in this order
1. Wait a little longer on the first start after adding car packs. Large packs can take 10 to 15 minutes to load the first time.
2. Set the graphics to Default with a 60 fps cap (Start with Azimuth settings from the arrow next to PLAY). Experimental settings and high frame rates break loading and cutscenes. This fixed infinite loading for several players.
3. Turn mods off. Big mod lists, two mods doing the same thing (for example two weather or time mods), or a mod made for another Azimuth version can block loading. Turn them all off, then back on one at a time. See [Turning a mod off without uninstalling it](/tutorials/turning-mods-off).
4. Restart the PC. A stuck background Azimuth or shader cache sometimes clears with a restart.
5. Check the save. If a new save loads but your old one doesn't, the save may contain a car or part from a mod you removed. See [One car crashes the game](/tutorials/car-crashes-game).
Online
•Leaving a car meet before you were matched can show an error; that's harmless. Join Free Roam from the Social tab.
•Event loading: since FH2MP 1.2.0, a player who doesn't finish loading is dropped after 30 seconds, so one slow player no longer holds everyone. Update the launcher.
•Stuck on the starting grid: see [Online race stuck at the start or sent back to Free Roam](/tutorials/online-events-not-starting).
It's a hang, not a crash
A hang doesn't write a crash dump. Close the game, then send data\logs\azimuth.log, data\bin\fh2mp.log and fh2-mods\platform.log. See Which logs to send.