[2022] Stellaris crash on game open

TonyPlaysGames said: I have completely removed and reinstalled my mods, to prevent a corrupted mod file, and I was able to make it to about 3 years into a game, when now it crashes.

This is while mods are enabled, is that right? Because we can't help with modded games here.


Does it start okay when ALL mods are disabled? If not 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 Interactive/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.


If that doesn't help:
DXDIAG is a program you run from the Windows search box on the task bar. After running it will open a window and start collecting info with a progress bar in the lower-left corner. When it completes click the 'save all information' button and save it to a file then attach that file here.

Please attach here your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/settings.txt and pdx_settings.txt .
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/logs/ folder, attach here system.log , error.log , exceptions.log  

I see no issues in that file. Can you attach the other files I asked for please, taken just after one of these crashes.

Please report the temperatures of your CPU and video (GPU)
1/ before starting the game up and
2/ after say 10 minutes' play.
If your PC's vendor has given you no way of reading temperatures, install
SPEEDFAN http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php

And did you test with NO mods at all enabled?  

Users with low post counts cannot include links in their posts. This is a forum anti spam measure. Anything else ought to be okay, just no links.

That error log seems to think you do have mods enabled:

[21:41:20][empire_design.cpp:840]: Failed to migrate government type [gov_despotic_empire] to authority for empire design. Mods?

Can you please unsubscribe from ALL mods then 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. Then manually delete the Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris folders.  

Hmmm, not really sure then - clearly not an overheating problem though.

You may as well update that AMD video driver to the latest
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
If that doesn't help, made a new Windows user on this machine and log into it as that. Does the problem still happen then?  

What happens if you run stellaris.exe from File Explorer directly, any error show then?

I notice in your dxdiag you've had crashes in GPU Tweak III.exe , an ASUS utility apparently. Please unload that while we work on this.

And please install and run the free utility Speccy. Send its output to a text file and attach that here, thanks.  

Odd how we don't get any temperature readings for your GPU in that Speccy file.


Please report the temperatures of your CPU and video (GPU)
1/ before starting the game up and
2/ after say 30 minutes' play.
If your PC's vendor has given you no way of reading temperatures, install
SPEEDFAN http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php