Roblox Studio frequently has trouble loading places/assets

EDIT: i’ve kind of fixed the problem by clearing roblox cache files.


As said in the title, i’m frequently facing problems of this kind.

My expectation is to open a roblox game i’ve been working on, and all of my assets being loaded properly.

The problem is that it does the opposite, as 50% of the time i encounter issues loading the assets in my game or even the entire place.

Examples:

trouble with loading assets

Message that appears when studio has issues loading a place:

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I’ve searched the devforum for a pretty long time trying to find any post similar to my problem, but i’ve found nothing so far.

My only ‘solution’ to this problem is simply trying to reload the experience hoping it doesn’t throw an error.

Help is appreciated as it’s beginning to get very annoying and makes me have a bad experience trying to develop games.

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Have you checked if these assets maybe are removed? Keep in mind that your assets are not stored in your game but centrally, meaning, if Roblox removes them, e.g. due to copyright reasons, they won’t be accessible in your game anymore either.

In your example, I took two sounds and found out that the player/creator did hide the inventory and thus those sounds are not accessible.

I am not sure, but have you maybe fetched the audio just by the inventory, i.e., they maybe weren’t meant for public use? Or were those in the toolbox, too?

And regarding the place error, the place has been set to private

And

That’s because there’s nothing you can do about it. However, the best way to prevent such issues is to either use old assets, like that have been around for months or years, to only use the Roblox inbuilt Toolbox/store and, if possible, to only use assets released by Roblox (Filter → Creator → enter “Roblox”) - do not just copy the ID somewhere and also I do not recommend activating “Include unverified creators”.
Afterall, this will probably happen in the future. But

that won’t help. Replace those with other assets as it’s unlikely they will come back or, even worse, you may encouter the same issue later on and in released games that’s bad.

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I don’t think the problem is about the place being private, as i can still load private places normally.

For the example of the assets not loading i’ve joined the premade racing game on the games tab, does it still mean that it’s not made for public use?

In addition, i’ve also been facing this problem many times on the roblox app: If i just open the console tab on whatever game that has a fair amount of assets there’s surely gonna be an error of this kind.

(The problem’s also way more frequent on the roblox app)

Example:

This isn’t a game made by me btw.

Yes you can, but depending on what you try to do, the API maybe needs the place to be public. But I don’t know for sure, it just really looks like that.
// EDIT: Regarding this, maybe it helps to just keep trying but pretty sure the asset problem won’t be fixed by just waiting and hoping they get relisted.

Are you sure those were in there already? I can’t see any warnings when loading the Racing template.

Yes that’s true, I also often find that :+1: That can have several reasons like copyright reasons, creators delisting such assets etc. Either the dev doesn’t really look into the output, doesn’t even care or has fixed that in a game update.

Yeah. I’ve encountered the errors as soon as i loaded the premade place, i don’t know why you can’t see any errors.

Thanks for the help anyway, i might just try what you told me to.

Oh and if this is important, i don’t really know if what you said is correct (in my case): I’ve made an experiment with a friend of mine, where i couldn’t see a mesh hence the error trying to load it, yet it appears the error is client sided, as my friend could clearly see the mesh and there weren’t any errors in his console.