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In the game launcher set Display mode to Borderless.


IF that doesn't help, Install ALL these Microsoft modules:

Download Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86) from Official Microsoft Download Center

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

- move any valued save games elsewhere, and user_empire_designs.txt from /Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/ if you have made any custom empires or races.
- "uninstall" in Steam-Stellaris
- manually delete both the Steam/SteamApps/common/Stellaris AND Documents/Paradox/Stellaris folders
- re-install game in Steam, run a Steam Verify when done.
- 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.
- start the game with no mods active and test

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

That should do it for you!  

The launcher has problems with iCloud and OneDrive, it is true. It would need a fix in the launcher I believe.  

Is your MacOS User Documents folder on your local disk, or has iCloud grabbed it? If the latter, that's a problem with the launcher at the moment - can you move it back?

If that's not the issue, then it's probably a file access/permissions issue in MacOS. Go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy. Then select the Privacy tab. Scroll down to files and folder in the left column. You’ll see a list of apps and the folders they need access to. Check the box to give access.  

@Guraan I wonder if this is something you can comment on? Seems to be new with 2.6.2 and the same under 2.6.3 .  

Having not run the game since yesterday I get similar results now, 2:05 this time. A second run immediately after is only 30 seconds though, so clearly being in file cache matters hugely.

Do you find that difference too?  

For me it's almost exactly 1 minute on Windows, and I don't have an SSD there. But I have run it already today so some is probably in file cache.

I was going to blame the vega 56 video, but I guess it's unlikely to be much involved in load speed. Is there any such difference in actual play?  

Jienz said: Thank you for the pointer, the second message (from you) reads:

"I have hopes this will be fixed in 10.15.1 , if not our devs will have to look into it further."

Since it appears to not be fixed in Catalina 10.15.1, o you have an update on what the devs found?

Yeah, that info is WAY outdated by now. The Devs say it is a problem in the openGL shader compiler in Catalina. As they haven't fixed it in 10.15.4 still, it does not look good!  

This is a problem in Catalina that has affected those games, plus other unrelated games. Until and unless Apple put out a fix, there really isn't much you can do except to juggle resolutions and display modes until it works acceptably on your hardware.

You can see some discussion of it in EU4 here:
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...renders-half-black-on-macos-catalina.1270623/

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Install ALL these Microsoft modules:

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What antivirus app 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.  

Crimsonlyger said: Correct. The game does not run in fullscreen. It starts to launch and then immediately goes to not responding in task manager. Running in Windowed, or Windowed Bordlerless, at any refresh rate presents the same effect.

That is a shame, as full Screen would probably fix this I think. Your initial paused frame rates in the 400s are - staggering!

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If Steam is really the issue, you could have all players opt into the stellaris_test version now in the Steam Betas tab for the game. This uses Paradox MP services instead of Steam's.  

So you are in Windowed mode, no Vsync, and desktop at 144hz.

Does the game run in fullScreen for you? If so can you please try changing to enable Vsync and set the game to 60hz?  

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/Stellaris/settings.txt and pdx_settings.txt .
From your Documents/Paradox/Stellaris/logs/ folder, attach system.log .


Please report the temperatures of your CPU and video (GPU)
1/ before starting the game up and
2/ after say 10 minutes' play.
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CoffeeKitty said: as i said in the first post, that was one of the first things i've tried, directly launching executable does not help

and no sadly it does not work in any windowed, borderless, or fullscreen mode, vsync on or off.

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.

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I will bet then it was a glitch in the Xbox world.

All the best!  

I don't know Avast at all, I'm sorry. You may need to contact their support to determine how to allow apps through it - usually there is an Exceptions list or something like that.  

jvtuta said: If i run only eu4.exe without paradox launcher i get error 0xc00000007b

Does it mention a DLL as well, or just that error number?

When you ran those 4 Microsoft installers, where they any errors or problems?  

Okay, well make sure these apps are all allowed through it:

steam.exe
eu4.exe
dowser.exe
bootstrapper-v2.exe
Paradox Launcher.exe