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Okay, but I'm not recommending running the Paradox Launcher as Windows Admin, just Galaxy itself, for the purpose of getting the launcher installed properly.


What launcher version shows please? can I get all 3 launcher logs?  

problemzebra said: running as admin,

Specifically, running Galaxy as Admin after deleting the launcher folder?  

Doomlord52 said: If needed, I can probably record a video of this happening.

If you can do that, and this is reliably duplicatable across platforms as yo say, then this is a great candidate for a new Bug Reports thread as it seems clear there's nothing you or I can do to fix this for you at present.

Sorry for this problem!  

Do you ever get OOS errors? OOS logs?

Or just this lag with no actual crash or error?  

If you do want to get back onto the current version please try what i suggested in my previous post, and attach here those log files again if still no good.

Thanks!  

Please try this:

- exit the Steam app entirely
- uninstall Paradox Launcher v2 from the Windows "Apps and features" utility, if still present.

Delete the following folders if still present:

- C:/users//AppData/Local/Programs/Paradox Interactive/
- C:/users//AppData/Local/Paradox Interactive/
- C:/users//AppData/Roaming/Paradox Interactive/launcher-v2/
To see the AppData folder you'll need to enable View Hidden Items in File Explorer.

- run steam.exe as the Windows Admin user

- run the game from the PLAY button in Steam

IF that doesn't help, in this folder are some .log files:
C:/users//AppData/Local/Paradox Interactive/launcher-v2/
Please attach them here.  

What antivirus app do you use?

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.  

No real idea on this one! 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/Stellaris folders
- 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

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.  

Jaxus said: Ran through the Launcher step by step, still same issue. Here is the log, if there is another in the log file folder let me know ill attach that one. I will start working on the "Game" step by step troubleshooting now.

The launcher has failed to update itself - Let's try forcing an update of the launcher.

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Jaxus said: As for the "Game" troubleshooting, the first 3 updates were already on my rig, i just repaired the files and moved down the list. The last file seemed to be absent, as it had me go through the entire extraction/install process. Still no change whatsoever. Game will not launch, same "launcher issue updating" in the corner.

But you still see missing DLL errors, you are saying? Can we see the error exactly please?  

Sounds like you have two separate issues, with the launcher and the game.


LAUNCHER: Please try this:

- exit the Steam app entirely
- uninstall Paradox Launcher v2 from the Windows "Apps and features" utility, if still present.

Delete the following folders if still present:

- C:/users//AppData/Local/Programs/Paradox Interactive/
- C:/users//AppData/Local/Paradox Interactive/
- C:/users//AppData/Roaming/Paradox Interactive/launcher-v2/
To see the AppData folder you'll need to enable View Hidden Items in File Explorer.

- run steam.exe as the Windows Admin user

- run the game from the PLAY button in Steam

IF that doesn't help, in this folder are some .log files:
C:/users//AppData/Local/Paradox Interactive/launcher-v2/
Please attach them here.


GAME:

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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/Stellaris folders
- 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

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.

That should do it for you!  

The launcher has problems with iCloud and OneDrive, it is true. It would need a fix in the launcher I believe.  

Is your MacOS User Documents folder on your local disk, or has iCloud grabbed it? If the latter, that's a problem with the launcher at the moment - can you move it back?

If that's not the issue, then it's probably a file access/permissions issue in MacOS. Go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy. Then select the Privacy tab. Scroll down to files and folder in the left column. You’ll see a list of apps and the folders they need access to. Check the box to give access.  

@Guraan I wonder if this is something you can comment on? Seems to be new with 2.6.2 and the same under 2.6.3 .  

Having not run the game since yesterday I get similar results now, 2:05 this time. A second run immediately after is only 30 seconds though, so clearly being in file cache matters hugely.

Do you find that difference too?  

For me it's almost exactly 1 minute on Windows, and I don't have an SSD there. But I have run it already today so some is probably in file cache.

I was going to blame the vega 56 video, but I guess it's unlikely to be much involved in load speed. Is there any such difference in actual play?  

Jienz said: Thank you for the pointer, the second message (from you) reads:

"I have hopes this will be fixed in 10.15.1 , if not our devs will have to look into it further."

Since it appears to not be fixed in Catalina 10.15.1, o you have an update on what the devs found?

Yeah, that info is WAY outdated by now. The Devs say it is a problem in the openGL shader compiler in Catalina. As they haven't fixed it in 10.15.4 still, it does not look good!  

This is a problem in Catalina that has affected those games, plus other unrelated games. Until and unless Apple put out a fix, there really isn't much you can do except to juggle resolutions and display modes until it works acceptably on your hardware.

You can see some discussion of it in EU4 here:
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...renders-half-black-on-macos-catalina.1270623/

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Install ALL these Microsoft modules:

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