[2023] Props with launcher !!!!

Atumaj said: Now the launcher will be automatically installed again and the game will start in the launcher where everything is displayed with the DLC, settings and news from Paradox.

So launcher and games work okay under 2022.12 ?

Atumaj said: Until the launcher is updated from version 2022.12 to the new one, I have to wait until I press continue or new game.
Now everything works as usual.

And also under 2023.2.1 ?

Sorry, but I'm not understanding what problem you have. Can you explain in more detail please?  

I see, so when you said "the game will start in the launcher" and "Now everything works as usual.", you meant it was not working?

Do these games start from ck3.exe and stellaris.exe okay? If not is there an error shown?


In this folder are some .log files:
C:/users/{userName}/AppData/Local/Paradox Interactive/launcher-v2/
Please attach them here.  

Do these games start from ck3.exe and stellaris.exe okay? If not is there an error shown?


In the cpatch log we see:

2023-03-02 01:47:17 [repository] [WARNING] failed to make metadata path repository.json world writable: failed to chmod C:\Users\Mr\AppData\Local\Programs\Paradox Interactive\launcher\.cpatch\launcher-v2-bootstrapper\repository.json: No mapping between account names and security IDs was done.

Are you sure you ran steam.exe as the Windows Admin user?  

Do these games start from ck3.exe and stellaris.exe okay? If not is there an error shown?  

I don't know then. What if you make a new Windows user on this machine and log into it with that? Do you get the same launcher problem there?  

Well, either there is something loading in your original Windows user profile that is getting in the way of our launcher (whether an app, utility, or security setting), or it is corrupted. At least now you can play the game properly, with some inconvenience to be sure.

Diagnosing Windows problems like that is somewhat beyond me I'm afraid. You could boot into the original Windows user profile again and try this Windows repair tool

Use the System File Checker tool to repair missing or corrupted system files - Microsoft Support

Describes how to use the System File Checker tool to troubleshoot missing or corrupted system files in Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7 or Windows Vista. support.microsoft.com
If that doesn't help, install and run the free utility Speccy. Send its output to a text file and attach that here, thanks.