[2021] Stellaris creashes at 81% during startup at loading screen since version 2.8 [Linux]

Tommy[D] said: Would actually be good if stellaris could have more details/debugging output.

I can only agree!

Tommy[D] said: I now tried an arch linux based livecd and tried starting stellaris with that, result is exactly the same. So that does rule out any specific details with my installation.

Does running it from a command line there show anything useful?

Is there a way of doing this with Ubuntu instead of Arch?  

The upside is if it fails on Ubuntu., that's a supported platform and I can escalate the issue if it comes to that. 16.04 and above are supported versions.  

I just tried the game on my VM of Ubuntu 21.04 and it worked perfectly.

So you may well be right and this is an issue with those nVidia drivers, as obviously my VM uses an emulated GPU even weaker than that Intel.

Is there any way you can try this with older versions of that driver?