[2020] Stellaris froze my system at 5% loading (Big Sur)

It's not a known problem with the game on Big Sur, no - we'd certainly know by now if it affected every MacOS 11 user that way!

Most MacBooks only have an Intel video system, which is not supported hardware for this game. If that's what yours has, probably best to seek that refund.

If however your machine has an AMD video system as well, then this should definitely not be happening!

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

Also in Steam please click on Steam-Help-System Info, and paste everything there into a text file and attach that here.

BUT keep an eye on the "You've Played" number for this game in Steam - if it gets near 2 hours STOP and seek that refund as Steam will not refund after that point.  

None of our games have been ported to native code for the M1 chip, no. But in general they run okay under the Rosetta emulation.

Yours is the identical issue, it hangs at 5%?

If I can get those log files I may be able to comment further.  

Doener23 said: Hi Andrew, yes it‘s the same issue: loading screen freezes at 5% every time and only a hard reset helps. Where do I find the log files?

I detailed that up in post #2, thanks - all 4 of those files plus the Steam info please.  

The files we generally look at at detailed in post #2 above.

Has this always happened for you? or it was okay up to some point?  

freelancelove said: I see the list of things you're looking for, just wondering how to send that to you!

When you make a post here, do you see the Attach Files button down the lower left?