[2023] game crashes happen regularly

Are these crashes reproducible from a save file? That is, if you load it again does it crash in the same place o you can carry on for a while?

If so please make a new thread in Bug Reports and attach it there for QA to look into.


If it's more random though; is there any particular action or event in the game that seems to trigger it?

All the folders in that attached file show as 0 bytes here ...

xixixi said: Oh wow, i had to remove the other 4 log-contents because the forum wouldnt let me save (looked like spam or whatever message... really?)

That should only happen to links, not file attachments.  

Still shows as empty, and when I try to open a folder it says I don't have permission.

There should be no problem attaching .txt or .log files here though ... ?  

I open .zip files here every day; .7z not so commonly but I don't recall having such issues before.

As you can see in those log files you're getting corrupted saved games, and other errors that I'm not seeing elsewhere. Are you 100% sure no mods are in use here?


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 - 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.
- 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 with a new galaxy, NOT any existing one


Do you get the same problem now?  

xixixi said: I`m pretty sure the AI does not work well with specific generated empires and produces errors by itself (in the decision-making stuff) which later then result in game crashes.
These access violation exceptions could also happen through mutlithreading in the AI, ThreadA is calculating some stuff while ThreadB is alread trying to access and use is (before the calculation and final decleration is finished)

If that is the problem, then you and I will not be able to fix this for you here, it would need a game patch.

But let's see how the clean reinstall goes.