Can only play ironman save while running as administrator

[Harry Ord]

An ironman game I was playing started crashing to desktop when I tried resuming it. I followed the advice on here and ran stellaris as administrator and that let me play the game. I played for a few in game years and then tried relaunching normally but it still crashes to desktop.

Is there anything I can do so I can launch my save normally?

I've verified the game files, added stellaris as an exception in MS defender and granted the permissions needed so the launcher can view/modify the files.


Edit: Copy of the save attatched.

Not sure if it's needed but the enclosing folder was unitednationsofearth5_505588286.

 

[AndrewT]

Actually, running our games' .exe files as Windows Admin usually causes problems, not fixes them!

I was able to run that save on my Mac perfectly fine. Do you have access to any other computer to test this on?

 

[Harry Ord]

I do and just tried. It worked and played just fine as well. Which is odd. I might try playing on the save on the other machine and see if it uh, fixes it?


Is there anything I could do without using a second machine?

Is there a way I can get an error dump?

 

[AndrewT]

What if you make a new Windows user on this machine and log into it with that - do you get the crash again or it is okay like that?

General logs are in your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/logs/ folder , there may be crash folders under your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/ folder too, depending.