Crashing on Startup but nothing has changed since last play

[Mosaic]

I do have a lot of mods like gigastructucal, more events, and UI Overhaul and the game just started crashing once it reaches 100% on the first load. It was working just fine last night after a long gaming session. Does anyone know if something changed over night? I don't want to disable all my mods because I have a long game running.

[Ryika]

Most likely case is that a mod was updated and now something's incompatible.

If you have a lot of mods, you should always use Irony Mod Manager to lock them in place by merging them into a local mod pack.

[Talen84]

I think it is the Gigastructural Engineering mod as I'm having the same issue and disabling that mod (plus the two compatibility mods I had for it) allows the game to start once more. Looking at the list of subscribed mods it was updated today (19/8/22) so I'm guessing something in the that update has broken something.

[skorpiogregg]

I have the same problem. Worked fine yesterday but today it crashes just before the loading process is complete.

[Talen84]

After a frustrating couple of hours of testing it looks like Planetary Diversity and Gigastructural Engineering are no longer compatible.

Disabling PD (and all its submods & compatibility mods) allows the game to run with GE activated.

Edit - This is on the GE side as that's the mod which updated. (Before anyone thinks I'm blaming PD.)

[Triley]

Have you tried File verification? For me, must verify first before try anything else when game crashed.

[SlowPokeDerp]

I'm having this problem as of today as well.

[Talen84]

So there is a new mod on the workshop "Giga Diversity 2 Electric Bugaloo" by DeportKebab which appears to resolve the issue and allow the game to start once more with both Gigastructural Engineer and Planetary Diversity activated.

At least it seems to work for me, ymmv.

[SlowPokeDerp]

Thank you , Talen. I imagine that will have an effect since the problem was shared at the same time

[SlowPokeDerp]

Uninstalling and reinstlaling all my mods helped

[Dezmodian]

I have 38 mods, including Planetary Diversity and Gigastructures. Mine crashed (on three versions I tried, current, 3.4.4, 3.4.3) right after reaching 100% (did not get to the "preparing game" stage).

Simple fix: uninstall and reinstall mods :) Now its working again.

[skorpiogregg]

Installing "Giga Diversity 2 Electric Bugaloo" by DeportKebab fixed the issue. Game loads now.

[Arfast-Xolotl]

The game loads for me but keeps crashing after some time while playing. Even after re-installing the mods and adding "Giga Diversity 2 Electric Bugaloo".

[SlowPokeDerp]

The next recommendation would be to try those steps again, after uninstalling stellaris -> restarting PC. Perhaps even reinstalling it in a different location. No one seems to have nailed speciically whats wrong