[2023] Game stops responding on 79% loading.

Dragatus said: Sorry to hear about your problems, but as I play on PC and never encountered anything similar I'm afraid I have no idea what could be causing it.

Maybe you'll have better luck asking the question in the console edition subforum. https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forums/stellaris-console-edition.1018/

I think they ARE playing it on a PC, just via the Xbox app.  

JebMan12 said: I just downloaded the game from Xbox Game Pass. After turning it on in the launcher it starts loading and gets stuck on 79%. I've tried clean booting, turning on compatibility mode
for "Stellaris\Content/stellaris.exe", verifying the game files, and switching to window mode in the launcher game settings. I don't have any DLC or mods. Also, I played this game about half a year ago and it worked well without crashing, this problem arose after I reinstalled it recently.

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