Probably help for forge crashes?

[ErinT.Webs]

 

So, if anyone, if you can't guess from the image, is having problems with Forge, just do these steps:
-Uninstall Minecraft COMPLETELY, preserving files such as mods, resource packs, world saves, to another folder such as Downloads or Desktop.

-In your roaming folder, completely trash ".minecraft". Yup. Delete it and everything inside.
-Reinstall. 
-Reinstall Forge, after launching Vanilla 1.14.4 first.
-Allocate more RAM for Forge (For me, default is 2G. I upped it to 3G, and it works fine now). For this step, keep in mind your RAM. Don't allocate more than half of your RAM to Minecraft, or your PC will crash all on its own. For me, I have 8G of RAM. I can technically up Forge Allocation to 4G, but I don't wanna.

-Run! It should work fine now!

This would be for where NO logs appear in ANY folder. And if they do, read over those and try to figure out your issue before you go straight to complete re-installation. Sometimes there are other reasons beyond what I've laid on the table, so read those logs over.

Sometimes Forge just doesn't work at all. So, yeah. I guess it's help, but also off-topic considering the image.

Edited December 31, 2019 by ErinT.Webs
Reminded folks to read the log files generated by Forge.

[Cadiboo]

  On 12/30/2019 at 3:14 PM, ErinT.Webs said:

-In your roaming folder, completely trash ".minecraft". Yup. Delete it and everything inside.

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Why not make a backup of your saves...?

[ErinT.Webs]

  On 12/30/2019 at 3:30 PM, Cadiboo said:

Why not make a backup of your saves...?

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I had forgotten to. Tho I did save my mods and resource packs. To me, I can remake the other worlds. I consider it a fresh slate now.

[DavidM]

  On 12/30/2019 at 3:14 PM, ErinT.Webs said:

 

So, if anyone, if you can't guess from the image, is having problems with Forge, just do these steps:
-Uninstall Minecraft COMPLETELY, preserving files such as mods, resource packs, world saves, to another folder such as Downloads or Desktop.

-In your roaming folder, completely trash ".minecraft". Yup. Delete it and everything inside.
-Reinstall. 
-Reinstall Forge, after launching Vanilla 1.14.4 first.
-Allocate more RAM for Forge (For me, default is 2G. I upped it to 3G, and it works fine now). For this step, keep in mind your RAM. Don't allocate more than half of your RAM to Minecraft, or your PC will crash all on its own. For me, I have 8G of RAM. I can technically up Forge Allocation to 4G, but I don't wanna.

-Run! It should work fine now!

Sometimes Forge just doesn't work at all. So, yeah. I guess it's help, but also off-topic considering the image.

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Please note that you should not blindly reinstall Forge/Minecraft or allocate more RAM. Forge has logs, and the user should always act according to the log instead of guessing, as the latter can cause problems.

[ErinT.Webs]

  On 12/31/2019 at 3:55 AM, DavidM said:

Please note that you should not blindly reinstall Forge/Minecraft or allocate more RAM. Forge has logs, and the user should always act according to the log instead of guessing, as the latter can cause problems.

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This is true. This would be for where NO logs appear in ANY folder. I'll add this to the main post then.

[DaemonUmbra]

Even if the game fails to launch or crashes before latest.log and debug.log are initialized, there will be launcher_log.txt

[ErinT.Webs]

  On 12/31/2019 at 5:28 PM, DaemonUmbra said:

Even if the game fails to launch or crashes before latest.log and debug.log are initialized, there will be launcher_log.txt

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I've never found it. Then again, I'm an idiot. Sometimes even reinstallation would be needed.

[DaemonUmbra]

launcher_log.txt would be in .minecraft rather than the logs folder, as it's not a game log