So I been playing Stellaris with DLC and mods and it has work fine up until last night. When I tried to launch the game from steam and click play from the Paradox launcher, it appeared with an error message. (Image provided below) I have tried validating the files and all is good. The strange thing however is that when I launch Stellaris.exe from the file explorer it works just fine. Even with the mods and DLC. When I disable the mods from the Paradox launcher and start Stellaris.exe from file explorer, the mods are also disabled as intended. I am not really an expert on computers and I am confused. Please help if possible.
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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-v2.2022.7/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.
stellaris.exe and dowser.exe (in the Steam Stellaris folder)
C:/users/<UserName>/AppData/Local/Programs/Paradox Interactive/launcher-v2.2022.7/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.