Yesterday (sunday) I bought the expansion subscription for stellaris in steam, installed the game and it worked with no issues. I created some empires but did not start a game. I turned the pc off for the night.
This morning the game crashes during the initial loading screen when using dlc. The game loads to 5%, then jumps to 30% and sometimes climbs to 31 or 32 but then crashes.
I have no mods. The game loads fine with no dlc. Sometimes some dlc do load fine, but after some time trying to find some consistency there I found none. Some dlc never loaded. Others worked when loaded alone and/or in combinations with some other dlcs sometimes, but other times did not load even alone. I owned some dlc before using the subscription. These seemed to have no consistency regarding which mods loaded and in what combinations. I have not touched the game in years, but don't remember having any problems before.
I have tried reinstalling the game on steam clean and not, restarting steam, even reinstalling steam. I tried using the new beta patch, setting to borderless windowed, and some other possible fixes I found. Stellaris is exempted in my antivirus.
While writing this I decided to next try install the Paradox launcher (account is linked to steam). First I tried to get the launcher to recognize my exisiting steam install of Stellaris, but it did not work. So I uninstalled the steam version and installed Stellaris using the Paradox launcher. The launcher only installed version 3.4.5 (a361), and did not work with the expansion subscription from steam: it did install some dlc that I only have access to with the subscription but cannot verify their ownership, while most of the subscription-based dlcs it did not install.
Yet, the game did load without crashing with the dlc the launcher installed when used via the Paradox launcher. Some of those dlc were ones that crashed every attempt on steam yet today.
After this, I moved the all files from the folder installed to with Paradox launcher (including paradox launcher-specific dlc) to steamapps/common/Stellaris and reinstalled stellaris with steam into that same folder. After that install, the game loaded in steam with all steam dlc active, and not only once but multiple times with steam restarts in-between.
Included DxDiag file.
While I did find a solution for this problem, maybe someone can find some true meaning to these occurrences.
This morning the game crashes during the initial loading screen when using dlc. The game loads to 5%, then jumps to 30% and sometimes climbs to 31 or 32 but then crashes.
I have no mods. The game loads fine with no dlc. Sometimes some dlc do load fine, but after some time trying to find some consistency there I found none. Some dlc never loaded. Others worked when loaded alone and/or in combinations with some other dlcs sometimes, but other times did not load even alone. I owned some dlc before using the subscription. These seemed to have no consistency regarding which mods loaded and in what combinations. I have not touched the game in years, but don't remember having any problems before.
I have tried reinstalling the game on steam clean and not, restarting steam, even reinstalling steam. I tried using the new beta patch, setting to borderless windowed, and some other possible fixes I found. Stellaris is exempted in my antivirus.
While writing this I decided to next try install the Paradox launcher (account is linked to steam). First I tried to get the launcher to recognize my exisiting steam install of Stellaris, but it did not work. So I uninstalled the steam version and installed Stellaris using the Paradox launcher. The launcher only installed version 3.4.5 (a361), and did not work with the expansion subscription from steam: it did install some dlc that I only have access to with the subscription but cannot verify their ownership, while most of the subscription-based dlcs it did not install.
Yet, the game did load without crashing with the dlc the launcher installed when used via the Paradox launcher. Some of those dlc were ones that crashed every attempt on steam yet today.
After this, I moved the all files from the folder installed to with Paradox launcher (including paradox launcher-specific dlc) to steamapps/common/Stellaris and reinstalled stellaris with steam into that same folder. After that install, the game loaded in steam with all steam dlc active, and not only once but multiple times with steam restarts in-between.
Included DxDiag file.
While I did find a solution for this problem, maybe someone can find some true meaning to these occurrences.
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