New launcher prevents me from playing paradox games.

[AndrewT]

Everything does work, until the launcher updates. Then it doesn't work

I know that. I have explained why that is before here, but will do so again: AVG and Avast detect a false positive in the paradox launcher.exe that comes in version 2021.10.1 ONLY. The older version does not trip them off like that version does. We do not know why that is, that is up to them to fix when they detect false positives.

Folks report that the beta of the next version 2022.1 does not have this problem either, so the problem ought to fix itself when that is generally released.

 

[AndrewT]

Launcher 2022.1 came out last night - has that helped you at all?

 

[Rugulus]

Hi, I've been on the same boat as Gniwii for a few weeks now. Have tried multiple different methods, but not too long ago found this thread and saw the comment on disabling/uninstalling avast. Turns out this ended up working for me. I just placed it on passive mode and was able to launch the game fine, utilizing the play button on steam.

As for the new launcher that you mention came out last night, I tried launching the game today (prior to trying the disabling avast approach) and it was still not working, so I'm assuming it's just an avast issue. Unless the update did not properly install on my game, which I doubt since the game is always up to date.