[2023] DLC owned but missing in game

Please do a full **clean** re-install:

- move any valued save games elsewhere, and user_empire_designs.txt from /Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/ if you have made any custom empires or races.
- "uninstall" in Steam-Stellaris
- manually delete both the Steam/SteamApps/common/Stellaris AND Documents/Paradox/Stellaris folders
- re-install game in Steam, run a Steam Verify when done.
- add stellaris.exe to the exceptions list of your antivirus app; ESPECIALLY if you have Windows Defender, add it to the Ransomware "Apps Allowed Through" list.
- start the game with no mods active and test

In particular you need to make sure there are no files or folders left under either the Steam Stellaris or Documents Stellaris locations, before installing again.  

What antivirus do you use? Are you sure you executed that step in my instructions successfully?  

Sorry, can't see any of those images.

I suggest you enable CFA, add stellaris.exe to the Apps Allowed Through. Then go to Steam/steamapps/common/stelaris and delete the whole DLC folder, AND go to Documents/paradox/stellaris and delete the dlc_signatures file.

Then run a Steam Verify operation against the game, then try the game.  

Go to Steam/steamapps/common/stellaris/dlc/ . Are all the DLCs physically present there? There should be a folder with two or three files in it for each one.  

SIMAS V said: I was attempting to turn off different DLC and run the game to see if any difference was made and got an error. Maybe its related?

That image shows your launcher has an update due. Is there something stopping it from updating?  

SIMAS V said: you know, I actually noticed that earlier. I simply closed the client and re-opened it and the yellow update dot did not come back.

If you'd hovered the cursor over that yellow dot it would have said to do exactly that.

Anyway back to the DLC problem (which BTW I still have no other reports of!). It is unchanged I assume?

I suppose you may as well opt into 2.5.1 - "stellaris_test" in the Steam betas tab.


If still no good I frankly do not understand what is happening here! If you revert to sat 2.3.3 is it okay?  

Do you have access to any other computer to do a test install on? This is to determine if it's local to that one computer, or maybe some weird account issue or something.