AndrewT

Your Windows is a little behind, is there perhaps a major update downloading? I've seen that cause symptoms like this.  

In the game launcher please set Display mode to windowed.

Does that help?  

In the game launcher please set Display mode to windowed.

IF that doesn't help, Has the game ever run OK on this computer? Or never?

IF NEVER:
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I've seen other reports of that but have no idea why it happens to who or happens to.

Are you on launcher 2020.15 ?  

I see some Windows Update errors in that dxdiag, if you run the updater does it work okay? Find anything to apply?

If it's not that it's probably the video driver. Please:

- uninstall the existing driver and all other nVidia software
- reboot
- install the latest by fresh download from here:
Download Drivers | NVIDIA - reboot again

Good luck with that!  

In the game launcher please set Display mode to windowed.

IF that doesn't help, Has the game ever run OK on this computer? Or never?

IF NEVER:
Install ALL these Microsoft modules:

Download Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86) from Offic...

Read more

Did SFC scannow find anything to fix?

Maybe try a .NET repair too:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2698555/microsoft-net-framework-repair-tool-is-available  

Then there must be some difference in the mods you two use. Try both of you enabling one mod at a time, to see which one is triggering the checksum difference.  

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.

Note that you can run stellaris.exe directly from Windows Explorer, which bypasses the launcher.  

Unfortunately this is an unfixed bug on the Mac version of the game.

Please use this mod to get past it:

Surviving Mars - [Mac] Extreme FPS drop when a lake is in view

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Not sure I've seen that Windows error c06d007e before. If you exit the Steam app entirely and run stellaris.exe directly from Windows Explorer, what happens? Any error show then?

What antivirus 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.


Please go here
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads And run the x86 and x64 installers there.

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The 1.2.x patches have reduced the breadth of impact of the MP issue, but unfortunately not fixed in for everyone. Work continues every day.

Sorry about this!  

In Documents/paradox/ck3/ there should be last_save.ck3 - does that have the same problem?  

DXDIAG is a program you run from a command prompt or the Windows start menu 'run' dialog box (or 'search programs' in Windows 7 or later). 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 your Documents/Paradox/CK3/pdx_settings.txt .
From your Documents/Paradox/CK3/logs/ folder, attach system.log , error.log  

I think this is pretty much universal.

Probably best to see if you can find a thread in Bug Reports on this, and add your details - dxdiag.txt and screenshots.

Sorry about that!  

Great! It's not uncommon to overlook how power-hungry the latest video cards are. All the best!  

Please try the following:

- unsubscribe from all mods
- delete the folder Documents/paradox/CK3/mod/
- delete the file Documents/paradox/CK3/mods_registry.json
- delete the file Documents/paradox/CK3/launcher-v2.sqlite
- subscribe to a few mods
- run the game up and see if those mods are now available to you.

I hope that does it for you!  

I'm very sorry for your poor experience with this game. You are clearly having a GPU-related issue, but exactly why I cannot see.

What I suggest is this:

- uninstall the existing AMD driver with this tool
https://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMD-Clean-Uninstall-Utility.aspx - reboot
- install the one from May 2020 from here:
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The 1.2.x patches have again reduced the user population affected by this problem, but again not fixed it for everyone. Very frustrating for us as it is for you, I assure you! I'm not sure I've ever seen a problem behave as weirdly as this one.

Work continues on it every day.  

You will probably find the debug mode is actually working, but the console entry window is invisible. When you hover the mouse over provinces do you see the extra debug info in purple text?