Main Menu Grey Borders / Performance Issues

[Malech]

Hello.

Both issues I appear to be suffering from have shown up after the game updated to 2.0.2. The first I noticed after logging in was that the Main Menu was smaller with a grey border around it, screenshot below. The mouse seemed to be sluggish as well, moving slower with a slower response time.

The second issue is that the game is running a lot slower. I noticed this immediately upon making a new game. Speed 3 was equal to Speed 2, along with the game feeling like it was chugging slightly.

I tried a few things to remedy each. I tried switching resolutions around, windowed mode, lowering settings across the board, and completely uninstalling and re-installing Stellaris. I found only 1 thread relating to the grey border, and no one had any clue to how to fix it in there (Reddit). As for the performance issuec I do see that there is a couple in the forums here, but they didn't help.

This all happened after the new patch, before this I only started to get performance hits near the mid/late game.
I'm running Windows 7 on a Desktop PC.

Thank you for any help that is given.

 

[AndrewT]

If you revert to 2.0.1 in the Steam Betas tab for this game, do you still see these issues?

That does look like a display/graphics issue; check your nVidia driver is up to date:
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

If that doesn't help 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.

If still no good can I see a dxdiag.txt please.

 

[Malech]

Alrighty, I rolled it back to 2.0.1 and it fixed both of the issues. I had updated my graphics drivers a few hours beforehand, so they were up to date. I noticed that the Main Menu was actually slowly shrinking and expanding, not by much though, like it was animated. Before I posted on here yesterday, I had done a clean uninstall and install deleting all folders and even cleaning the registry.

 

[AndrewT]

How odd, I wonder why this is just happening to you?

At this stage I can only suggest posting this in Bug Reports, I don't think we are going to be able to fix it here.