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Under Windows, the Vulkan option is only there for diagnostic purposes, it is not intended to play the game like that.

Does it work okay with DX11?  

Please do a full **clean** re-install:

- move any valued save games elsewhere
- "uninstall" in Steam-CK3
- manually delete both the Steam/SteamApps/common/CK3 AND Documents/Paradox Interactive/CK3 folders
- re-install game in Steam, run a Steam Verify when done.

In particular make sure there are no files or folders left under either the Steam CK3 or Documents CK3 locations, before installing again.


**File Locations on Mac OS X**
The executable and DLC folder are in Users/USER/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Crusader Kings III/
To see it go to the Finder, hit command-shift-G (ie Go To) and type in ~/Library/ .
The user files (settings.txt, error logs, saved games, gfx, mods) are in /Users/USER/Documents/Paradox Interactive/Crusader Kings III/ .

THEN test with a new unmodded campaign under the new patch. Is it any better?   ...

Please update that nVidia driver to November 2023

Download the latest official NVIDIA drivers

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You should never have to pay anyone for driver updates. What drivers are you seeing that for?

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   ...

MrLelito said: But that means that those games I start this way are not suitable for the achievements, right?

As i understand it, if you reconnect while in the main game menu, THEN start a game, you'll be okay in that respect.  

Kihonglikeshistory said: I tried the windowed mode(in both Full Screen and just Windowed). But still some parts of the screen wasn't really displayed as if they are cut off. I'm wondering if there's anyone figured out?

You have a Macbook with a notch too, is that right? If so, the above answer still applies, I'm afraid!  

This is a known issue at present, on Linux only.

Disconnect the computer from the internet then start the game. Once it is up and running, you can reconnect it again.

I assume they'll have a fix for that out soon!  

This will be a game bug, I fear!

Please make a new thread in the official Bug Reports forum here:

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I don't know then. Maybe they are embedded in cloud saves that the game still sees?

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Your paging file is pretty full, you might
expand your Windows paging file maximum size to 32gb

Optional: Increasing the paging file size on Windows computers

On computers that have 8 GB of RAM, the suggested paging file size is 16 GB. www.ibm.com
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Karellen said: I attached a screenshot with the content of the folder, no designs.txt

The file is called user empire designs.txt . You'd have to scroll down from that screenshot to see it.

I just created one and it made that file, so it should be there for you!  

As you can see in that log, many texture files are missing. Run a Steam Verify operation against the game, does that find anything to fix?  

The game is crashing in your video driver, as you can see in that exceptions log AND dxdiag:

+++ WER0 +++:
Fel-bucket 2113237885470488774, typ 4
Händelsenamn: APPCRASH
Svar: Inte tillgänglig
Kabinett-ID: 0

Problemsignatur:
P1: stellaris.exe
P2: 1.0.0.0
P3: 6557294a
P4: amdxx64.dll

It's not up to date, so please:

- uninstall it https://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMD-Clean-Uninstall-Utility.aspx
- reboot
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It's not normal, no!

Please make a new thread in Bug Reports, and attach there a save file that shows this problem.

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We are seeing crashes on Macs since the recent patch.

Please make a new thread in Bug Reports, and attach there a save file that shows this problem.

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They are held in a file user empire designs.txt from /Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/ . You are saying taht folder is completely empty? Hard to see how that's possible, as the game would not start if it could not write there.

Make sure stellaris.exe is in all the exceptions lists in your antivirus app.  

That exceptions log makes it look like a file system issue. Have you got plenty of free memory, paging file, and disk space?

Does this happen if you start and play a new test galaxy?

Any mods in use?


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.  

Actually settings are per machine, they are never imported - that would be a really dumb thing for a game to do!


They are kept in local files, Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/settings.txt and pdx_settings.txt

You could try deleting or renaming those files, so they get recreated at defaults.  

We are seeing crashes on Macs since the recent patch. Sorry about that!

Please make a new thread in Bug Reports, and attach there a save file that shows this problem.

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We are seeing crashes on Macs since the recent patch. Sorry about that!

Please make a new thread in Bug Reports, and attach there a save file that shows this problem.

Stellaris: Bug Reports

Found a bug? Does something seem odd? Share it and it will be investigated! ... Read more