Constant crashing to desktop

[Rattled1234]

Another one of these.

No mods, playing on PC. Game ran fine until the 4.0 stuff and now it's been borderline unplayable for months. I keep putting it aside hoping for a fix but it's gone on kinda too long now.

Here's the most recent error log:

"
[19:47:19][save_and_load.cpp:361]: File error: Missing Player Portrait
[19:47:19][save_and_load.cpp:372]: File error: Missing Player Flag
[19:47:42][eventtarget.cpp:2994]: Undefined event target: shroud_country, location: file: events/nemesis_crisis_endgame.txt line: 873
[19:53:34][effect_impl_pop.cpp:733]: transfer_pop_amount: the amount of pops to transfer should be more than 0 (got 0) at common/scripted_effects/00_scripted_effects.txt:7955 @ scripted effect resettle_pop_group at common/scripted_effects/refugee_effects.txt:50 @ scripted effect refugee_pop_effect at file: events/refugee_events.txt line: 188
[20:02:46][variable_values.cpp:236]: Variable focus_goal_conquered_worlds is not set for scoped country 'Havoll Republic' at file: events/focus_events_1.txt line: 1855
"


I have a bunch of other crash logs from trying to play, they're all different random stuff in gameplay but they all have that first event line in common about the undefined event target: shroud_country

 

[AndrewT]

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 Interactive/Stellaris folders - **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.**
- 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.


THEN Right click on stellaris.exe , properties, compatibility. Tick "disable fullScreen optimisations" untick every other box in that dialog, Apply and exit.
Then in the launcher Game Settings menu, select fullScreen display mode, Vsync off, cap refresh rate at 60

THEN test with a new unmodded galaxy.

If those don't help:
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. IF dxdiag.txt fails to attach here, rename it to dxdiag.log , or zip it up.

Please attach here your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/pdx_settings.txt and settings.txt.
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/logs/ folder, attach here system.log , error.log , exceptions.log