Problem loading the game

[Vice Admiral Thrawn]

Hi. I just purchased Stellaris last weekend. When I load the game through Steam in Windows 7, I get to the window with PLAY. After hitting PLAY, I get a minimized icon and a black screen for a solid minute before the loading screen appears. Why is this happening?

I asked the same question on Steam and someone said yes, it's normal.

If this is normal, it's the worst loading sequence of a game ever and a terrible way to introduce new players to your game. The first few times loading the game, I went to task manager and killed the task because I thought the game had hung.

Any insight into this?

 

[Vice Admiral Thrawn]

Ok, I guess this isn't happening to anyone else. :/

Here's another problem ... after the game loads and gets to the main menu, I check the game.log and see this:

[17:18:34][game_application.cpp:295]: Game Version: Le Guin v2.2.1
[17:18:34][defines.cpp:124]: 1281 defines loaded
[17:20:24][species.cpp:287]: Error: Failed Reading Species Class Names!
Reason: Invalid Species Class!
common/species_names/ascension_names_SC.txt(3)
[17:20:24][species.cpp:287]: Error: Failed Reading Species Class Names!
Reason: Invalid Species Class!
common/species_names/ascension_names_SC.txt(4)
[17:20:24][species.cpp:287]: Error: Failed Reading Species Class Names!
Reason: Invalid Species Class!
common/species_names/ascension_names_SC.txt(5)
[17:20:24][species.cpp:287]: Error: Failed Reading Species Class Names!
Reason: Invalid Species Class!

Turns out these are chinese language files. Why is the game trying to load these? It is set to English.

Also, in the setup.log, I'm getting this:

[17:20:22][ship_size.cpp:300]: Missing ship size Localization Key: corvette_build_speed_mult
[17:20:22][ship_size.cpp:300]: Missing ship size Localization Key: corvette_build_cost_mult
[17:20:22][ship_size.cpp:300]: Missing ship size Localization Key: corvette_upkeep_mult
[17:20:22][ship_size.cpp:300]: Missing ship size Localization Key: corvette_hull_mult
[17:20:22][ship_size.cpp:300]: Missing ship size Localization Key: corvette_hull_add
[17:20:22][ship_size.cpp:300]: Missing ship size Localization Key: destroyer_build_speed_mult
[17:20:22][ship_size.cpp:300]: Missing ship size Localization Key: destroyer_build_cost_mult


Is there a real problem here, or should i ignore these?

I'm using no mods.

Thanks.