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Spectator mode makes screen grey forcing hard close

random1543
random1543 Member Posts: 230

SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE:
Trying to reload back into spectator mode made the game go grey but still have audio then after trying to hard close game got a unreal unengine crash

PLATFORM:

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Steam Pc

STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED:

- after dying in a match tried to re enter spectator mode to see if last person left was on steam and upon trying to renter game did what below image shows

- was in a public match, my system runs the game at capped 90fps on low settings.

Picture and crash message

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Fatal error!

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x00000000000001e8

PLAYER LOGS:

  • player logs are included
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  • StellarJay
    StellarJay Member Posts: 11

    SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: After being sacrificed in a match, I went to spectate the rest of the match but my game temporarily froze and didn't load the spectator mode. The only thing it did was darken my screen, eventually it becomes unstuck and I can spectate again. This happened in 3 different matches and each time it happened there was at least one survivor with a fog vial equipped.

    PLATFORM: PC (Steam)

    STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Get sacrificed in the game and try to spectate the match. When clicking spectate the game screen darkens and freezes for a time, each time it happened for varying lengths. After awhile the game will unfreeze and spectating can resume as normal. This happens almost every time another survivor has a fog vial equipped.

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    VIDEO:

    PLAYER LOGS:

    • Player logs are required from PC players only.
  • francesinhalover
    francesinhalover Member Posts: 376
    edited August 1

    12 tear old PC here só you can Guess...

    Not ONLY match starts with awfull FPS.

    Game runs worse Overal

    Constant lobby connection issues

    Game froze in a match and left my PC slideshow mode. I had to Open a new workplace to enter task manager to close game while using a bellow 1 fps mouse speed. PC fan went crazy and PC did weird noises like when you restart gpu driver using keyboard.

    But weird enough game was ONLY using 35% CPU on task manager…weird.

    Post edited by Coordi on
  • FreyFrey
    FreyFrey Member Posts: 50
    edited July 30

    SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: I was dead and I wanted to spectate my teammates and cant see anything. I hear my daryl running and gasping in the endscreen but also hear the sound of the round.

    PLATFORM: PC - Steam

    STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Like I said, I want to spectate and got a black screen but with the normal sounds. Look at the Video.

    VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKqzBvFkzjs

    PLAYER LOGS:

  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Member, Administrator, Mod Posts: 18,619
    edited August 1

    Could you please attach the logs?

    To find them:

    1. Press the Windows Key + R to open the "Run" command.
    2. In the text box paste the following: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\DeadByDaylight\Saved\Logs
    3. Click "OK" - this will open your Dead by Daylight Logs folder.
      • If it does not open the Dead by Daylight Logs folder, it may mean that when installing Dead by Daylight you chose to save your files somewhere else and will need to check there.
    4. The file called "DeadByDaylight.log" is your log file

    Thank you.

    Post edited by Coordi on
  • FreyFrey
    FreyFrey Member Posts: 50
    edited August 1

    @Rizzo

    Hey :)

    I can't find a file with a .log :/

    Here is a Screenshot:

    Post edited by Coordi on
  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Member, Administrator, Mod Posts: 18,619
    edited August 1
    Post edited by Coordi on
  • FreyFrey
    FreyFrey Member Posts: 50
    edited August 1
    Post edited by Coordi on
  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Member, Administrator, Mod Posts: 18,619
    edited August 1
  • MashedBroccoli
    MashedBroccoli Member Posts: 270
    edited August 1

    i had this bug too but if you press a number between 1-4 it lets you switch to a survivor thats alive. For whatever reason spectate sometimes auto spectates you even though you’re dead.

    Post edited by Coordi on
  • kaneyboy
    kaneyboy Member Posts: 349

    this happened to me too

  • LeAlmightyPanda
    LeAlmightyPanda Member Posts: 3

    Spectating seems to be broken right now. Sometimes I can spectate, other times I can't because the screen just stays black or something.

  • NateFoSho
    NateFoSho Member Posts: 6

    SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE:

    PLATFORM: Steam

    STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED:

    Get sacrificed

    Go into spectate

    Back out of spectate (wanted to look at perks)

    Go back into spectate and then this happens. Eventually you get in but youre frozen like this for about 1 min

    VIDEO:

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WESF1q0BB5atVnmNMWibuBLbkgJSCHxk/view?usp=sharing

    PLAYER LOGS:

    • Player logs are required from PC players only.
  • random1543
    random1543 Member Posts: 230

    sorry they must of not attracted

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    properly on post here you go