Question Empty Scene => NullReferenceException on play without Stacktrace => ???

Well, this is really curious.

In my project - in every scene - and even in an empty scene (!!) - I'm getting a NullReferenceException when starting the scene. But without any context or stacktrace:



How to figure out whats happening here? I checked the Unity Editor Log and all what can be found there is a line with "NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object".
I also tried to debug with Visual Studio - but this exception is not catched here. Every other exception is.

I guess any of my scripts or plugins is the reason for this behavior. But no scripts or plugins are triggered in this ABSOLUTE empty scene. So whats causing the Nullref? Maybe some static event?
I tested Unity 2022 and 2023.

The exception is also in the build - so the reason is not the editor.

When creating a Visual Studio solution the only catchable exception I'm getting is the following:



However, the other NullRef is still logged in the players log.

Any ideas are welcome!

-Axel

 

Does it persist after resetting your layout? I wonder if it's some weird problem in editor-land.

 

Found it! It was a function that was triggered with

Code (CSharp):

1. [RuntimeInitializeOnLoadMethod(RuntimeInitializeLoadType.BeforeSplashScreen)]

Phew...that was hard to find...

I triggered a function which set the games resolution this way. Seems this was a bad idea...

 

I think the graphics-backend might not be initialized before the splashscreen loads.