[2023] Stellaris always crashes

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


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  

There are three crashes in stellaris.exe in that dxdiag, each unrelated to the rest, and an AppHang. That's not a good sign! That would normally mean a hardware problem, in CPU or memory.

Have you checked into those things?  

What fps are you seeing in the game now? It should not get over 60.


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  

dxzeption said: When the game is paused, I have up to 450 fps. When I play on the highest ingamespeed, it´s about 200 fps.

The settings we did above ought to have limited it to 60, I don't understand why you are getting those results.

Dxdiag does not give any hardware clues, but different crashes in different memory addresses could be almost anything I'm afraid; in order of probability I'd say memory, CPU, system board, GPU. If you can match those crashes up with entries in the Windows Event Viewer you might get a better idea!