Cannot start ironmen game. Steam Client Bootstrapper

[Kydax]

Steam and EU4 crashes after click on "start game" with ironman

Error log:

[sound.cpp:250]: Sound click not found.
[sound.cpp:250]: Sound click not found.
[sound.cpp:250]: Sound click not found.
[sound.cpp:250]: Sound click not found.
[sound.cpp:250]: Sound click not found.
[sound.cpp:250]: Sound click not found.
[sound.cpp:250]: Sound click not found.
[sound.cpp:250]: Sound click not found.
[sound.cpp:250]: Sound click not found.

 

[radiatoren]

That log doesn't say anything about the crashes.
I think it is steam causing a lot of the problems people are having. If I run the game in steam I get ctd on "start game" when Iron man is on at the moment (it didn't earlier!), I get a graphical diagonally zebra-striped map and I got some C++ errors on startup before I changed settings. In EU 4 run outside steam the game runs better than it did in 1.7.3 for me...

 

[Mortheim]

Steam and EU4 crashes after click on "start game" with ironman
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Same problem here.

 

[unmerged(528635)]

Any fixes or anything yet? I've clean re-installed, opened directly from the launcher in the EU4 folder and done everything else support likes to say to do, but none of that makes any difference.

 

[AndrewT]

Sorry, are you all here getting "Steam Client Bootstrapper" errors? If so, googling that shows it to be a pure Steam error of some sort. It's not clear exactly what to do about it, maybe a Steam refresh or Steam Flush Config
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3134-TIAL-4638

 

[Kydax]

Sorry, are you all here getting "Steam Client Bootstrapper" errors? If so, googling that shows it to be a pure Steam error of some sort. It's not clear exactly what to do about it, maybe a Steam refresh or Steam Flush Config
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3134-TIAL-4638

This didn't help.

I can playing CK2 with ironman without problems.

 

[AndrewT]

Please try a full clean re-install:

- move any valued save games elsewhere
- "delete local content" in Steam-EU4
- opt into the 1.8 hotfix "beta"
- manually delete all files and folders left under Steam/EU4 AND Documents/Paradox/EU4
- re-install game in Steam, run a Steam Verify when done.