[2023] Stellaris will not start

Does the game run from stellaris.exe okay?  

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 .  

Looks like you hit Save All Info too soon, as that dxdiag.txt is missing lots of information. Please wait for its progress bar to finish before doing that, thanks.

Also, Right click on stellaris.exe , properties, compatibility. Tick "disable fullScreen optimisations" untick every other box in that dialog, Apply and exit.
Then in the launcher Game Settings menu, select fullScreen display mode, Vsync off, refresh rate 60.

Any different?  

We still see no graphics/display info in there! Something is seriously wrong in Windows here.

- uninstall your nVidia driver, and all other nVidia software
- reboot
- install the 2023 one https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
- reboot again

I hope that does it!  

In future please make your own fresh thread, thanks.

I see no issue in that dxdiag.
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


Does the game run from stellaris.exe okay?  

Pantharu said: Having same issue. Installed game new. Game opening screen displays then gone. Tried uninstalling and removing common folders and then reinstalling. setting.txt does not exist.

In future please make your own fresh thread, thanks.

Please go here:

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THEN Right click on stellaris.exe , properties, compatibility. Tick "disable fullScreen optimisations" untick every other box in that dialog, Apply and exit.
Then in the launcher Game Settings menu, select fullScreen display mode, Vsync off, cap refresh rate to refresh rate 60.

If it still fails, run stellaris.exe directly from File Explorer - do you see a Windows error when it fails then?  

I see, we have no clues as to what is wrong on your machine to cause this to you then!

What if you make a new Windows user and log into Windows as that? Do you get the same symptoms then?  

Please attach it here in a text file instead, thanks.