Launcher problems after 3.6, and other various issues

[Aggravated Elderly]

Greetings.

I have two problems.

First, see screen shot. Ive re- downloaded stellaris and steam multiple times and can't get through that. I read the forums. I have whatever security comes with windows 11, and peerblock. Peerblock was blocking "Paradox Entertainment" so I allowed that forever. The game does start with Stellaris.exe, but does not have any of my saved games. I am hoping that once I get this sorted, my games will be there.

Second, months of saved games stopped loading after 3.6 came out. I had a few mods installed so im assuming there was a conflict somewhere. Any saved game before I installed mods would load, anything after would crash the game. I tried deleting all the mods, and that really screwed things up. Assuming I can get the game to load properly, I am concerned about my saved games.

Thanks for listening.

 

[AndrewT]

Ah, that is usually an antivirus app getting in the way. What antivirus app do you use? You need to make sure all these apps are in its exceptions lists:

Stellaris.exe and dowser.exe (in the Steam Stellaris folder)
C:/users/<UserName>/AppData/Local/Programs/Paradox Interactive/launcher-v2.2022.14/paradox launcher.exe
C:/users/<UserName>/AppData/Local/Programs/Paradox Interactive/bootstrapper-v2.exe

IF that doesn't help, also set each of those .exe files (EXCEPT Stellaris.exe !) to run as the Windows Admin user.

Then the game should run from Steam/our launcher, and enable all the DLCs.

 

[Aggravated Elderly]

Hi. Just peerblock and whatever comes in windows 11. I checked and Windows says stellaris is good. See pic

I found everything where you said it would be and checked run as administrator for all of them except stellaris.exe.

I actually had to uncheck "run as administrator" for stellaris.exe because I had done that when I was originally trying to get my game going

I just tried and the game loaded from the launcher. BUT, all my save games are gone ...

 

[Aggravated Elderly]

Anything to do with the fact that I uninstalled the game multiple times in an effort to "fix" it, or deleting all the mods?

 

[AndrewT]

That screenshot shows the Windows Defender firewall, nothing to do with antivirus settings.


Local save game files are in Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/save games/ , so if you delete that they are gone, yes. Sorry that happened , if so!