Game randomly freezing

I bought this game yesterday and logged about 5 hours and 15 in-game days before this issue started out of nowhere. The first few times it happened, I was attempting to move items into the shipping container and after about the fourth, the screen froze. Music continue, but everything else froze. The third or fourth time it happened, I was attempting to skip a cut scene. Game froze when I hit "Skip." Most recent time it froze, I was merely attempting to select an item from my toolbar.

The issue is that now it's gotten to the point where I really can't play because it freezes at any time. Meaning if it freezes while I'm on my way to bed to save overnight, I've lost that entire day's worth of progress and I'm back to where I started.

The error message in its entirety I receive is below, as are my computer specs. I installed the XNA Framework application, thinking that may be related to this, but the problem did not resolve. Anyone else encounter this or have any ideas?

- Start Error message -

See the end of this message for details on invoking

just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.


************** Exception Text **************

Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.NoSuitableGraphicsDeviceException: Unable to create the graphics device. ---> System.InvalidOperationException: An unexpected error has occurred.

at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.GraphicsDevice.CreateDevice(GraphicsAdapter adapter, PresentationParameters presentationParameters)

at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.GraphicsDevice..ctor(GraphicsAdapter adapter, GraphicsProfile graphicsProfile, PresentationParameters presentationParameters)

at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GraphicsDeviceManager.CreateDevice(GraphicsDeviceInformation newInfo)

--- End of inner exception stack trace ---

at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GraphicsDeviceManager.CreateDevice(GraphicsDeviceInformation newInfo)

at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GraphicsDeviceManager.ChangeDevice(Boolean forceCreate)

at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GraphicsDeviceManager.GameWindowClientSizeChanged(Object sender, EventArgs e)

at System.EventHandler`1.Invoke(Object sender, TEventArgs e)

at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GameWindow.OnClientSizeChanged()

at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.WindowsGameWindow.mainForm_UserResized(Object sender, EventArgs e)

at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.WindowsGameForm.OnUserResized(Boolean forceEvent)

at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.WindowsGameForm.Form_ResizeEnd(Object sender, EventArgs e)

at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnResizeEnd(EventArgs e)

at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WmExitSizeMove(Message& m)

at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)

at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.WindowsGameForm.WndProc(Message& m)

at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)

at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)

at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)



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mscorlib

Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0

Win32 Version: 4.6.1080.0 built by: NETFXREL3STAGE

CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v4.0.30319/mscorlib.dll

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Stardew Valley

Assembly Version: 1.0.5940.30711

Win32 Version: 1.0.5940.30711

CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Stardew%20Valley/Stardew%20Valley.exe

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Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game

Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0

Win32 Version: 4.0.30901.0

CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_32/Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game/v4.0_4.0.0.0__842cf8be1de50553/Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.dll

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Microsoft.Xna.Framework

Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0

Win32 Version: 4.0.30901.0 built by: xnabldr

CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_32/Microsoft.Xna.Framework/v4.0_4.0.0.0__842cf8be1de50553/Microsoft.Xna.Framework.dll

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xTile

Assembly Version: 2.0.4.0

Win32 Version: 2.0.4.0

CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Stardew%20Valley/xTile.DLL

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Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Xact

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Win32 Version: 4.0.30901.0 built by: xnabldr

CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_32/Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Xact/v4.0_4.0.0.0__842cf8be1de50553/Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Xact.dll

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System

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Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics

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CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_32/Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics/v4.0_4.0.0.0__842cf8be1de50553/Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.dll

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Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Input.Touch

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CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Input.Touch/v4.0_4.0.0.0__842cf8be1de50553/Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Input.Touch.dll

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System.Windows.Forms

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Win32 Version: 4.6.1038.0 built by: NETFXREL2

CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll

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System.Drawing

Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0

Win32 Version: 4.6.1078.0 built by: NETFXREL3STAGE

CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll

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System.Configuration

Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0

Win32 Version: 4.6.1038.0 built by: NETFXREL2

CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Configuration/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Configuration.dll

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Microsoft.GeneratedCode

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Steamworks.NET

Assembly Version: 7.0.0.0

Win32 Version: 7.0.0

CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Stardew%20Valley/Steamworks.NET.DLL

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Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GamerServices

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exox2ax5

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Lidgren.Network

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************** JIT Debugging **************

To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this

application or computer (machine.config) must have the

jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.

The application must also be compiled with debugging

enabled.


For example:


<configuration>

<system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />

</configuration>


When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception

will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer

rather than be handled by this dialog box.

- End Error Message -

Computer Specs:

HP Pavilion Laptop
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6200U CPU @ 2.30GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.4GHz
Memory: 6144MB RAM
DirectX Version: 12
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 940M
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce 940M

 

i think you need this. but unsure.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=20914

 

Thanks! I did actually install this, as I saw it was mentioned elsewhere this may help, but it didn't help me - my game still froze. That said I started a new file, because I really wanted to play and obviously my other file wasn't working. So far (8 in-game days later) the new file has not crashed, so maybe by installing XNA Framework did fix the issue, but didn't apply to my current file? Very strange.