Stellaris - Game Crashing

[Gayhippo]

This has been a long lasting issue with Stellaris affecting me regardless of the presence of mods, ventilation, updates and so on. The Crashes seem to strike at random, sometimes I can go 2 hours just fine, other times it's crashing every 2 minutes. When in Fullscreen windowed the game likes to alt tab, while still acting as if I'm ingame leaving me stuck and requiring me to restart, other times in windows or fullscreen it'll freeze, blackscreen, or just crash the computer, though the first two have been more common in the lategame. I have been told this is likely a driver issue of some sort, and I will include a copy of my dxdiag, which comes in Norwegian. Please help.

 

[gigau]

Can you please also post :
* the settings.txt file (\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Stellaris\ folder)
* the system.log file (\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Stellaris\logs\ folder)

 

[Gayhippo]

Certanly.

 

[gigau]

Try changing the multi-sampling value to something other than 0.

 

[AndrewT]

I assume this does not affect your other PDS games?

What temps are you seeing for CPU and GPU before starting the game, then after beginning a game?

I have been told this is likely a driver issue of some sort,

All I can see in that area are some old system drivers:

Name: Intel(R) Management Engine Interface
Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_8C3A&SUBSYS_502817AA&REV_04\3&21436425&0&B0
Driver: C:\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\HECIx64.sys, 9.00.0000.1287 (English), 5/17/2013 02:05:54, 64624 bytes

Name: Intel(R) 8 Series Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller
Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_8C03&SUBSYS_502817AA&REV_04\3&21436425&0&FA
Driver: C:\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\iaStorA.sys, 12.08.0000.1016 (English), 8/2/2013 19:40:04, 644968 bytes

Definitely worth checking with Intel for updates to those.