AndrewT

Did you mean to post this in the Bug Reports forum, perhaps?  

What antivirus do you use? If Avast or AVG, yes, that is certainly the issue here.  

It is common for the DLCs to not work if you start the game from the executable directly, rather than the Steam PLAY button.

That aside I have no idea what caused that for you I am sorry!  

That should be okay then. You are starting on 11/11/1444 , historical nations, normal or higher difficulty?

If that stuff is okay, what if you make a new Windows user on this machine, log into Windows as that, and try the game there?  

Frankly, that's starting to sound like you have a hardware problem, most likely in the GPU!  

As you say, this is not a known bug - we'd know by now if it was!

Best to attach the affected save game file here so it can be looked into, thanks.  

Your antivirus app is getting in the way:

[23:44:24][virtualfilesystem_physfs.cpp:1193]: Could not open file: settings.txt, error: permission denied

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//AppData/Local/Programs/Paradox Interactive/launcher-v2.2022.1/paradox launcher.exe
C:/users//AppData/Local/Programs/Paradox Interactive/bootstrapper-v2.exe

Good luck with that!  

In the game launcher please set Display mode to Borderless. THEN go here:

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Unsubbing can be done with a single button, in both Steam and our mod site.

But didn't you do that already after my first reply? There's no need to do it again, if so.  

That's my guess - this was caused by implementing the DLC while playing a colony that was started without it. Not desirable of course, but perhaps they can't test every possible combination of DLC/no DLC in all circumstances!  

Has this always happened since you've had this game? Or it was okay up to some point?

Is it all DLCs you have that are affected?  

Please try this:

- 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.

- exit the Steam app entirely
- run steam.exe as the Windows Admin user
- run the game from the PLAY button in Steam
OR
- exit the Epic app entirely
- run EpicGamesLauncher.exe as the Windows Admin user
- run the game from the Epic client

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

Yet I see nothing like this in the MP forum here, several ongoing games there in fact.

Is this just when you are involved , can the other players all play together without you okay?

Do you have any ability to test this from a different location/internet connection?  

To see the AppData folder you'll need to enable View Hidden Items in File Explorer.  

This is certainly an issue from AVG. You are 100% sure both paradox launcher.exe and eu4.exe are allowed through all its exceptions lists? You may need help from their support in that.

I did get this from one AVG user:

In AVG there is a system where you can see all currently running programs so i kept that open and ran the launcher and was able to identify specific file/program that AVG was blocking and then unblock it

 

detaal said: I have -noworkshop in the launch options, but is the mod still enabled?

This is not a Unity game, so Unity launch options like that will do nothing.

detaal said: Even if it would be fully ...

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No real idea then. If you start a new test colony does this happen there too?  

There won't be a fix from the developers for your individual problem unless it turns out to be a game bug. But as the game has not changed since June last year, that seems very unlikely to be the issue here.


That error log shows some issues that should be fixed in 1.4.4 , so let's do a clean reinstall:

- move any valued save games elsewhere
- "uninstall" in Steam-CK3
- manually delete both the Steam/SteamApps/common/CK3 AND Documents/Paradox Interactive/CK3 folders
In particular make sure there are no files or folders left under either the Steam CK3 or Documents CK3 locations, before installing again.

- re-install game in Steam, run a Steam Verify when done.
- add CK3.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 campaign - NOT with any ex... Read more

Well, the game itself has not changed recently, so something else has gone on in your system between the last time the game worked okay and the first time you had this problem. Any idea what that was? New hardware, a Windows update, new antivirus app perhaps?

In that dxdiag you are now getting a lot of errors like this:

Windows Error Reporting:
+++ WER0 +++:
Hata demeti 1884365808686889055, tür 5
Olay Adı: BEX64
Yanıt: Kullanılamıyor
Kabin Kimliği: 0

Sorun imzası:
P1: explorer.exe
P2: 10.0.19041.1415
P3: 2d7da47f
P4: ucrtbase.dll

Which are Windows errors, nothing to do with the game. Would you say you are having other issues in this machine?

See if this Windows repair tool finds anything to fix:

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MazeRoy said: when it crashed the cpu was 98 degrees...

That is certainly the problem, the CPU and GPU should never get over 80c . In Game Settings in our launcher set display mode to fullScreen, Vsync off, and cap the refresh rate to 60. If that doesn't help, this is a hardware problem.

Clean out all air vents it has (compressed air cans are good for this). Make sure airflow to them is not blocked by anything like walls, books or whatever.
If that doesn't drop the temps enough, you probably have a faulty fan or a heatsink/thermal paste problem. You m... Read more