Help with the launcher and the game

[Le_Armored_Doggo]

When I pressed play on steam the launcher would not show up and it would exit out

Then, when I attempted to fix it, it now gets this error: 'An error occurred while parsing the configuration file!'

 

[AndrewT]

Please try this:

- uninstall Paradox Launcher v2 from the Windows "Apps and features" utility, if still present.

Delete the following folders if still present:

- C:/users/{userName}/AppData/Local/Programs/Paradox Interactive/
- C:/users/{userName}/AppData/Local/Paradox Interactive/
- C:/users/{userName}/AppData/Roaming/Paradox Interactive/launcher-v2/
To see the AppData folder you'll need to enable View Hidden Items in File Explorer.
- run the game from the PLAY button in Steam


IF that doesn't help, in this folder are some .log files:
C:/users/{userName}/AppData/Local/Paradox Interactive/launcher-v2/
Please attach them here.
To see the AppData folder you'll need to enable View Hidden Items in File Explorer.

Note that you can run stellaris.exe directly from File Explorer, which bypasses the launcher.

 

[Le_Armored_Doggo]

I tried the things you listed above and the issue still occurs

 

[Le_Armored_Doggo]

Even going beyond the launcher and straight to the .exe does the same thing too

 

[Le_Armored_Doggo]

Also when trying to launch through dowser it gets this with something said exit code 1

 

[AndrewT]

Even going beyond the launcher and straight to the .exe does the same thing too

Exactly the same thing as the SS in your OP here, the config file error? Or something else?

Has this game ever worked on this PC? Or never yet?


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/Hearts of Iron IV/pdx_settings.txt and settings.txt.
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Hearts of Iron IV/logs/ folder, attach here system.log , error.log , exceptions.log