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Do you have any sort of game controller or joystick attached? If so try unplugging those before starting the game, then test with a new galaxy.

If not, I don't really know what this could be, I'm sorry. You mention seeing other cases (here?), but I'm not recalling them despite supporting this game since release. Not that my memory is great these days, but ... !  

You could try the good folks over in User Mods, who are more familiar with save game file structures than we here are.

My guess is there is just too much going on in this galaxy for the game to cope, possibly editing some players or stars or fleets out might help.  

officermed said: I made all the changes, and it is still hesitating every few days. It looks like it may be a temperature issue (see attached). I'm going to adjust the fans in the BIOS to always on to see if that helps. Please let me know if you have any other suggestions and thank you so much.

Actually that top temp of 61c will not be causing this problem; that happens up at 80c or so. Your problem is elsewhere - unfortunately!

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filip133 said: How you rebuild your OS? I've on new laptop error with VS C++ and .NET Framework, and I can't run Stellaris :/

That is not something we can help with. But your problem is very unlikely to need that. Make your own thread here, and give full problem details and history, and system details. Thanks.  

BSoD are always Windows, driver or hardware faults I'm afraid. Next time you get one, record the text on taht screen, which should help pinpoint to cause of it.

The one in that dxdiag says:

Fault bucket 0x119_2_DRIVER_FAILED_SUBMIT_COMMAND_nvlddmkm!LDDM_SubmitCommand, type 0
Event Name: BlueScreen

Which points to the nVidia driver or hardware.

That CAN be caused by overheating, so 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 still a problem
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If you bought these DLCs from the Paradox store, as is likely, they will not automatically appear in Steam. You need to redeem the Steam Keys we sent you into your Steam account for them to be there.

Just paste your Steam Activation code AAAAA-BBBBB-CCCCC (which we sent to your email, and is in your Paradox Games menu) into the +Add a Game area of the Steam client application, and the game will be available in your Steam Library in that Client to download and install. You can also do this directly on the Steam website

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Please delete the ~/Library/Application Support/Paradox Interactive/ folder. To see it go to the Finder, hit command-shift-G (ie Go To) and paste in ~/Library/Application Support/ . Then run the game from the PLAY Button in Steam, to reinstall the launcher.

If that does not get the launcher running, we will need these files from that same folder:

Attach ALL .log files Found here ~/Library/Application Support/Paradox Interactive/launcher-v2/


Meantime you can start the game from stellaris.app directly in Finder.  

Are you saying literally any mod does this? Even ones that just give loading screens or music?  

The only potential issue I see in there is a problem with a save game file, which I assume is from your previous computer:

[18:57:19][country.cpp:925]: Failed to read key reference ap_consumers from database file: save games/klingonempire3_2045891902/autosave_2558.01.01.sav/gamestate line: 407735

As that mentions Klingons I guess that is from using a Star Trek mod? Please disable all mods AND move all saved games elsewhere, which we work on this.

If that doesn't help, please attach here those two settings files I asked for, thanks.

Then unload GeForce Experience if running, and run stellaris.exe directly from File Explorer - what happens then?  

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  

The Nightwave said: I usually play this on multiplayer and is a big issue for me, obviously… perhaps they are having trouble with their servers? Don’t know… I’ve sent a ticket. I hope they respond.

This game has a choice of Steam or Nakama MP servers, do you get this whichever one you choose?  

CHansen989 said: Anyway the main thing is, will this 'not connected to Paradox Online' in any way cause issues with my playing of the game in single player?

No.

FYI usually that message "possibly because you have logged in somewhere else." is wrong, rather it is some other communications problem. You might try connecting to a VPN before starting the game if you have one.  

Has this game ever worked for you on this computer, or it has always been like this?

If it used to work, what change or updated triggered this problem?


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 .  

Maybe add steam.exe to that exceptions list you posted.

That aside, I'm pretty much out of ideas on this one!  

The launcher crashed on Linux when it was version 2023.14 , but it ought to be okay now 2023.16 . What actual launcher problem are you having?

Are you running the Flatpack or other such installation of Steam? If so, you need to instead use the proper Steam one:

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L4MIA said: I think my computer is weird

What makes you say that? Are you having other issues with it? Because I'm not seeing anything wrong with the game, the launcher, or the settings.


Make a new Windows user on this machine and log into it with that and install and run the game there. Is that any different?  

As I don't read that language I'm not 100% sure what I'm seeing there. But disabling an AV app does not in fact fully turn it off, as that is what some malware tries to do!

You'll still have to add those .exe files to its exceptions lists.  

What antivirus app do you use? You need to make sure all these apps are in its exceptions lists:

stellaris.exe and dowser.exe (in the Steam Stellaris folder)
C:/users/{username}/AppData/Local/Programs/Paradox Interactive/launcher-v2.2023.16/paradox launcher.exe
C:/users/{username}/AppData/Local/Programs/Paradox Interactive/bootstrapper-v2.exe

IF that doesn't help, also set each of those .exe files (EXCEPT stellaris.exe !) to run as the Windows Admin user.

Then the game should run from Steam/our launcher, and enable all the DLCs.  

That /mod/ folder looks right, in general, but as we don't support modded games here I can't say whether you've installed them correctly.

moonkehh2 said: How can i checfk its on here.

I'm not sure what you mean there, I am sorry.

I suggest you post in the User Mods forum here, as they'll have more experience with manually-installed mods.

Good luck!  

What happens if you run stellaris.exe directly from File Explorer? Any Windows error show then, or does it run okay?