Just after 50 years in, lots of errors in log and strange behavior in game

[canyonaz]

This is the second time this has happened - the last time I just started a new game after it happened so I don't have a log from that one. I do have the logs this time, though, and I've attached the the error.log . The error.log is normally nowhere near the size that it is now with the problems happening.

Just a bit after 50 years into the game, I get to a point when a lot of strange things happen on the "next day" in the game (the day after any saved game). All my fleets are instantly destroyed, all of my admirals are killed, all but one of my transport fleets are destroyed, a lot of buildings are instantly removed from every planet (for example, all planetary shield generators are removed). The strange thing is once this happens, it will happen with ANY saved game. Even saved games from years in the past gametime - the next day in game, all of these strange things happen.

It happens if I turn off all mods. It happens on any Stellaris version. I was playing on the 2.05 beta this time, but it happens if I select the other versions as well. I have verified the integrity of the game files in Steam.

I'm happy to try anything to troubleshoot this.

 

[AndrewT]

It happens if I turn off all mods.

Disabling mods does not remove the effects they've already had on an existing saved game. Does this happen in a game that has never had any mods used on it?

If so, Please do a full **clean** re-install:

- move any valued save games elsewhere, and user_empire_designs.txt from /Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/ if you have made any custom empires or races.
- "uninstall" in Steam-Stellaris
- manually delete both the Steam/SteamApps/common/Stellaris AND Documents/Paradox/Stellaris folders
- re-install game in Steam, run a Steam Verify when done.
- start the game with no mods active and test

In particular you need to make sure there are no files or folders left under either the Steam Stellaris or Documents Stellaris locations, before installing again.

 

[canyonaz]

I didn't have any ironman saves from far enough along in the game, so I downloaded some ironman.sav files from the bug report forum to test with. None of them got the strange behavior I got, but they all had something strange that happened. In one of them, all the governors died the next day. In another one, about half of the constructor ships disappeared the next day. In another one, all of the buildings were removed from a single planet, but the other planets appeared unaffected. In all of them, the huge number of messages appeared in the error.log. Even though it was different, should I do the clean re-install?

 

[AndrewT]

Yes, please.