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What happens if you run stelllariis.exe direct from file explorer, any Windows error show?

If not, 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   ...

If one of you are on the Steam edition and the other not, this is normal. The Steam user needs to opt into the "cross store MP" version in the launcher Game Settngs menu.  

I guess this is a game bug then! Please make a new thread in Bug Reports and attach the problem save there for QA to look into.

Then put that galaxy aside and try it as you see new game patches come out.

Sorry for that problem!  

Any mods involved?

What if you destroy that science ship and build another?  

Most likely this is a game version compatibility issue, OR a mod problem - are there any mods in use here?

If not you can revert to the game version in use back then, and load a save from that time (not one that's been updated by the current patch).

If there are mods in use, there may not be a fix - but try the User Mods forum.

Good luck!  

It's the same launcher but it has two modes. When run directly from Paradox Launcher.exe it is in a non-Steam compatible mode, and is both a client and a launcher. That is, it handles game installation/uninstalls AND DLCs, mods etc.

When run via Steam it runs in a Steam-compatible mode as a pure launcher and leaves the client stuff to Steam, it is just used to wrangle mods, DLCs etc.  

This game is no longer supported under the standalone Paradox launcher, so recent game versions and DLCs will not appear there.

You'll need to run it from the PLAY button n your Steam library.  

I don't know why this is happening to you, I am sorry, I see nothing wrong in any file to explain it. Especially why just this game, and why just on this machine not your old one.

There was another new nVidia driver a few days ago - did that help at all? As always make sure Geforce Experience is unloaded.  

You mentioned originally that the game stutters extremely when you pan around, but in that movie I really had to pay attention to see any stuttering at all!

Does it faithfully show what you are seeing with your eyes? I know that movies don't always.

And, is it only when using the keys this happens? What about edge scrolling for instance?

Does it happen at all zoom levels? In galaxy view and solar system view?  

If there are no mods involved, those errors may indicate a bug. But let's try 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

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I can't seem to get that gif, maybe a short movie instead?

Does this affect our similar games CK2, EU4, HOI4, that I see you have?  

If you have a VPN, try logging into that before starting the launcher/game. Does that change matters?  

I don't know, I'm sorry! Never needed that info in the years the launcher has been out ...

The url it goes to is https://api.paradox-interactive.com if that's of any help.  

Game patches do not in general mean launcher patches or updates, they are separate apps.

So was this perhaps after a launcher update? 2023.11 came out a couple of weeks ago.

That said, I have no idea what the interaction between it and your internet connection could possibly be. Make sure all these apps are in the exceptions lists of the firewalls in Windows and in your router:

dowser.exe (in the Steam Stellaris folder)
C:/users/{username}/AppData/Local/Programs/Paradox Interactive/launcher-v2.2023.11/paradox launcher.exe
C:/users/{username}/AppData/Local/Programs/Paradox Interactive/bootstrapper-v2.exe

Does that help?  

This does sound like a bug, I agree. Please add your info to other threads in Bug Reports on the matter. OR make your own new thread there.

Sorry about that!  

Windows has placed your User Documents folder on OneDrive, which is MS's cloud. That ought to work but OD needs to be running and syncing perfectly all the time, or you'll get those errors.

If you don't want your documents help up there, you'll need to reconfigure Windows to have your User Documents folder back in the local location, C:/users/{userName}/Documents

All the best!  

Hello!

Thank you for the report!

We have added the issue to our bug database.  

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!   ... Read more

That is disappointing, I don't have a lot more to suggest.

Would it be possible to borrow a different video card from somewhere to test out? It's a long shot I know!  

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
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