whenever I begin a new world for any period of time I get a huge log.txt full of errors (see bottom of this post). The game itself runs without any major problems but if I enter caves for the first time for example, it takes a strangely long amount of time for the game to generate them (not in this log.txt but I can replicate it if necessary).

The first time I noticed this was when my crock pot didn't show its freshly cooked meals, instead it showed completely empty although I was still able to harvest it. When I looked at the log.txt at that time, I also noticed that the animation for tumbleweeds was missing (up until that time I thought it would be completely intentional from the game to not have any tumbleweeds in spring or so...). So both problems showed up simultaneously and I could fix both by a clean reinstall (Don't Starve with all DLCs, Reign of Giants and Shipwrecked + Updater!). Then, after a while, when everything seemed fine, I started adventure mode and while crock pots and tumbleweeds in survival mode were fixed, the same problems started anew while in adventure mode. Around this time I realised that regardless of mode or world I am currently in, the log.txt always shows this huge amount of errors.

Not only do the Klei Forums seem very focused on the steam version of the game but I can't find any comparable problems/solutions in their bug report history.

Running on Win 7 64bit, AMD Radeon 6800 series, AMD Phenom X4 II (3.2ghz), 4gbs ram. All Drivers are up-to-date.

Any help is much appreciated as I started to really like this otherwise very fine game.

Log.txt (doesn't fit in completely so I can only give some examples):

LOADING LUA SUCCESS
scripts/playerdeaths.lua(74,1) PlayerDeaths could not load morgue
scripts/playerprofile.lua(501,1) could not load profile
scripts/playerprofile.lua(508,1) loaded profile
scripts/playerprofile.lua(572,1) bloom_enabled false
DEVICE CAP 1463584067
scripts/saveindex.lua(121,1) Could not load saveindex
scripts/gamelogic.lua(1390,1) OnFilesLoaded()
scripts/gamelogic.lua(1379,1) OnUpdatePurchaseStateComplete
scripts/gamelogic.lua(127,1) Unload BE
Could not unload undefined prefab 0xb4e674c6 (hawaiianshirt)
Could not unload undefined prefab 0x303bfdce (axe)
Could not unload undefined prefab 0x92ccc001 (coldfirepit)
Could not unload undefined prefab 0x21e04429 (coldfirepit_placer)
Could not unload undefined prefab 0xce5a342e (firesuppressor)
Could not unload undefined prefab 0xbbba0ebc (firesuppressor_placer)
Could not unload undefined prefab 0xe2bfa46 (tophat)
Could not unload undefined prefab 0x9a6718eb (resurrectionstatue)
Could not unload undefined prefab 0x6b0c64bf (resurrectionstatue_placer)
Could not unload undefined prefab 0xdfb37276 (telestaff)
Could not unload undefined prefab 0xcd7669e5 (nightsword)
Could not unload undefined prefab 0x3f6c9ebb (diviningrod)
Could not unload undefined prefab 0xefa57cea (bandage)
Could not unload undefined prefab 0xde4bc7e7 (wall_hay_item)
Could not unload undefined prefab 0xe51acd32 (lightning_rod)
Could not unload undefined prefab 0x947bfcb8 (lightning_rod_placer)
Could not unload undefined prefab 0xb1fa364d (pickaxe)
Could not unload undefined prefab 0x34fb4f82 (pitchfork)
[...]
C:/GAMES/DONTST~1/data/scripts/map/forest_map.lua(522,1) Checking Tags
C:/GAMES/DONTST~1/data/scripts/map/forest_map.lua(652,1) Populating voronoi...
C:/GAMES/DONTST~1/data/scripts/map/object_layout.lua(418,1) Warning! Could not find a spot for Maxwell6 in node Dig that rock:0:Forest
C:/GAMES/DONTST~1/data/scripts/map/object_layout.lua(418,1) Warning! Could not find a spot for TeleportatoBaseLayout in node Make A Beehat:0:FlowerPatch
C:/GAMES/DONTST~1/data/scripts/map/object_layout.lua(418,1) Warning! Could not find a spot for Maxwell7 in node Speak to the king:4:DeepDeciduous
C:/GAMES/DONTST~1/data/scripts/map/object_layout.lua(418,1) Warning! Could not find a spot for WormholeGrass in node Dig that rock:0:Forest:BG_21:BGNoise
C:/GAMES/DONTST~1/data/scripts/map/object_layout.lua(418,1) Warning! Could not find a spot for tallbird_rocks in node Dig that rock:7:Rocky
C:/GAMES/DONTST~1/data/scripts/map/object_layout.lua(418,1) Warning! Could not find a spot for
[...]
scripts/savegamepatcher.lua(10,1) No sunken_boat in this world, adding one...
scripts/savegamepatcher.lua(49,1) Spawned the sunken_boat.
FMOD Error: Can't play event dontstarve/creatures/teasertheparrot/wreckage: An invalid parameter was passed to this function.
FMOD Error: Can't play event dontstarve/creatures/teasertheparrot/wreckage: An invalid parameter was passed to this function.
FMOD Error: Can't play event dontstarve/creatures/teasertheparrot/wreckage: An invalid parameter was passed to this function.
[...]
Manager - ORPHANED UNKNOWN RESOURCES:
anim/spoiled_food.zip - 1
anim/doydoy_nest.zip - 2
Orphaned unnamed resource. This resource must have used Add( resource ) to insert itself into the manager.
Orphaned unnamed resource. This resource must have used Add( resource ) to insert itself into the manager.
Orphaned unnamed resource. This resource must have used Add( resource ) to insert itself into the manager.

And so on.

Check that your hard disk is (check SMART values) ok, make sure that your whole path to game "DONTST~1" contains no special characters.

Thanks for your help! I just checked my hard disks SMART values via Crystal Disk Info (Status is good) and via command prompt (Status is OK).

The path to my Don't Starve Folder is without any special characters (It's short and easy, C:/GAMES/DONTSTARVE).

RAW values of offline uncorrectable, reallocated sector count, reallocated event count, calibration retries.

The situation is that data entries fail to load from disk. The problem is with filesystem.

Also could be problem with mod if you run one.

I'm sorry for my stupidity, you didn't ask for health status but for values. I uploaded a picture of my screen with the raw values. (see attachments)

It's just strange for me that my disk can die without any problems except for one game. But if that is the case I'm happy to try a new one.

I have no mods installed.

Thanks.. Your disk is okay, physically. Perhaps you want to check if for errors (chkdsk?). If there are any errors, I would recommend to check it once more and then fully reinstall the game. This is because corrupted entries in filesystem are still corrupted even after fixing.

If chkdsk runs without errors, then perhaps try to reinstall but without any updater. Just "as-is" from GOG. GOG updates this anyway to latest state, and I know that updaters can mess stuff up (I am looking at Kerbal Space Program Updater "fun").

I ran chkdsk with Automatically fix file system errors and Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors both checked. There were no errors found.

I deleted all gog-installers and re-downloaded them, then made a clean re-install without any use of the updater. The problem still persists, log.txt goes wild.

This is so weird..