Game crashes at 30% I think I've literally tired everything....

[TheBlackGoat36]

Hello! I downloaded Stellaris about a week ago and first time I hit play the game worked perfectly. what was strange was there was also a resume option as well as play? Also an error on startup starting I must rename or remove a file (every time I remove it it comes back). other than that, the game was amazing.

Next day try to play the game and couldn't make a new game, every time it would freeze and crash. So i tried to hit the resume button and it took me to a randomly created new game, had no issues on start up. after a few days i decided re download the game to see if that would make it work. No, now i cant even play the game cause it gets suck at 30% and crashes, also i don't have the resume option now (great)

I use Zero Mods, I am running as administrator, my anti virus is not blocking the game, i have more than enough RAM, i tired unplugging the controls, i have no clue what im not doing right here... heres a some attached info .

 

[Ryika]

[07:28:33][virtualfilesystem_physfs.cpp:1193]: Could not open file: settings.txt, error: permission denied

See: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/gamepass-for-pc-launcher-crashes.1448164/

If it really isn't you AV, you may also just try deleting the file directly (found in Documents\Paradox Interactive\Stellaris) so hopefully the game can create it anew without the issue, In either case, lack of ability to open that file seems to crash the game at 30%.

 

[Farbros]

Hello! I downloaded Stellaris about a week ago and first time I hit play the game worked perfectly. what was strange was there was also a resume option as well as play? Also an error on startup starting I must rename or remove a file (every time I remove it it comes back). other than that, the game was amazing.

Next day try to play the game and couldn't make a new game, every time it would freeze and crash. So i tried to hit the resume button and it took me to a randomly created new game, had no issues on start up. after a few days i decided re download the game to see if that would make it work. No, now i cant even play the game cause it gets suck at 30% and crashes, also i don't have the resume option now (great)

I use Zero Mods, I am running as administrator, my anti virus is not blocking the game, i have more than enough RAM, i tired unplugging the controls, i have no clue what im not doing right here... heres a some attached info .

As the error log says, the system denied the "setting file" reading. I had that issue too, I added an exclusion for Stellaris folder into my antivirus and everything is fine since.