Achievements Unavailable: All Games (Checksum?)

[Oquo]

Howdy!

I still use the Paradox Launcher exclusively. I don't use Steam anymore (please don't ask), but I do link an eight-years-dormant Steam account to my Paradox account. Perhaps through that, I've been able (until recently) to see achievements in Imperator: Rome, Stellaris, and Tyranny. No achievements now show in any of them. Yes, it doesn't work when I play Imperator: Rome and Tyranny in Ironman, but I also can't access the achievements site when starting up Stellaris. Again, I could access these prior. As far as I know, my Steam account is still actively connected.


Between now and then, I have "overhauled" my Dell XPS 8930:

• I replaced my platter drive with a solid state drive of the same size.
• I partitioned my drive to allow for a 150 TB OpenSUSE Linux system.
• I've installed a GeForce graphics card.

I don't believe any of this should impact the checksum, but I've been wrong before. I remember being able to see achievements earlier this year, and I cannot now.


The forums elsewhere tell me to reinstall everything to reforge the appropriate checksum.

• I've reinstalled the games, deleting all applicable folders.
• I've reinstalled the Launcher, deleting all applicable folders.
• I've reinstalled Windows (I have a backup), deleting all applicable folders.

Nothing works.


Any ideas, or has Steam cut achievements access to the Paradox Launcher v2?
Is anyone able to replicate this issue on their end (launching games without Steam, no achievements)?
How can I check a Paradox checksum?

 

[AndrewT]

Not a forum problem, so moved to one of the affected games.

 

[AndrewT]

Stellaris is no longer supported on the standalone Paradox launcher platform, so you will only get old game versions and DLCs there. So your version and checksum will certainly not match the current game version; you'd have to run it from Steam.

Those other two games ought to work on that platform now, as well as they always have - neither has changed for a while.


So far as I know, when run from the standalone Paradox Launcher Steam is not involved at all - indeed that was the very purpose behind having that platform at all! So no, Steam have not cut off your achievements, as they never managed them in the first place. As it says on that Tyranny screen, they were Paradox achievements.

You mention checksums several times but Tyranny never had those. So again, that can't be the issue there.

My best guess is something has changed at the back end at Paradox; the number of players using the standalone launcher is so tiny, achievements may well have been broken there accidentally at some point.


I frankly don't know where to start with this one, but I'll put in a call backstage and see if anyone can help, or at least comment.