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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.


Also 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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If you run stellaris.exe directly does that happen too? If so the issue must be in the userdir.txt file there. Is that file identical between the working and non-working games?

What if you try a different folder name like D:/stellaris/ ?  

I see you got some bluescreens, including this very worrying one:

Windows Error Reporting:
+++ WER0 +++:
Fault bucket CORRUPT_MODULELIST_CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT, type 0
Event Name: BlueScreen

Are these associated with the game crash problem yu mention, or something else?

Either way according to this is is either a driver or hardware fault:

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If you can run ck3.exe directly but the launcher can't , this is usually a permissions problem.

Please right click on each of these, compatibility, and set them to run as the Windows Admin user:

ck3.exe and dowser.exe
C:/users//AppData/Local/Programs/Paradox Interactive/launcher-v2.2021.6/paradox launcher.exe
C:/users//AppData/Local/Programs/Paradox Interactive/bootstrapper-v2.exe

Good luck!  

I assure you they absolutely know about this, but so far as I know cannot change it.

However you are welcome to lodge it as a bug report in that forum if you wish.  

In that screenshot we can see that a launcher update has installed, but you haven't restarted the launcher to apply it.

Please do that - does it now show 2021.6 ? or still an older version?  

Our similar game Crusader Kings 2 is now free to play on Steam - does it have the same 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 .  

There has been no change to the game itself in that time. Did you install or update a mod that might be doing this to you?

Does the same fix work again?  

Not really, all those games should work in the same way in that respect.

All those userdir.txt files are identical?

It may be case sensitive, is that all okay?  

English only in these forums please!


Your screenshot shows a launcher update error, which is nothing to do with being able to get achievements. To fix it 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.


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You don't have the same problem, actually. In future please make your own fresh thread, thanks.

The game is crashing in poco.dll:

Windows Error Reporting:
+++ WER0 +++:
Depósito con errores 2018054904893317855, tipo 5
Nombre de evento: BEX64
Respuesta: No disponible
Identificador de archivo .cab: 0

Firma del problema:
P1: stellaris.exe
P2: 1.0.0.0
P3: 60a29fd0
P4: poco.dll_unloaded

which i believe comes with the nvidia software. Please try this:

- uninstall your nVidia driver and all other nVidia software
- reboot
- install the latest (June 2021) from here:
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If this save crashes reliably, you are all set to report it as a bug! Please make a new thread here:

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I believe this is a side effect of the new Jomini framework used in this game and Imperator, and presumably in future games such as Victoria 3.

So far as I know there is nothing you can do about it I am sorry! But you could check in the User Mods forum here, maybe they've found a way around it?  

I don't believe so, I'm sorry - the game name you choose when you started it is set for that campaign.  

All I can imagine then is that AMD have not yet optimised that new card's driver and settings in Catalyst. Certainly keep the driver and other AMD software up to date!  

You'd need to detail what you feel are the current 'inaccurate' names, in what way they are wrong, and what they should be.

However suggestions for additional names (rather than bug fixes to existing ones) would go in the Suggestions forum instead.  

FYI the launcher has nothing to do with game checksums or achievements.

I don't know what can be changing your checksums on reboot, nor deleting some file that Steam then had to re-acquire. Conceivably that could be an antivirus app doing something wrong, a Windows or file system problem, or even malware.

Anything changed in that area on this machine of late?  

Sorry, is this CK2 or CK3?  

Interesting. Do you know which of those two steps appeared to help? Or they both did a bit perhaps?

And does this only happen at the fastest game speed perhaps? Or at any speed?  

I'm not aware of any way of doing that, no. But do you know why you have this problem? A slow or unreliable internet connection perhaps?

You can of course just run ck3.exe directly, but that means no mod use.