Game Crashes on Mac on Specific Date

[BigNerd]

I am running the game on a new (2022) MacBook Air with Sonoma and Apple M2 chip. Never had an issue with crashing, but after this update and the Astral Planes DLC, I get to exactly 1.1.2250 and the game hard crashes to desktop -- no error message or anything, just hard crash to the desktop. I have tried to start 3 new games and this happens every single time, which makes the game unplayable. Seems like others are having this same issue? Is there a fix?

[FourteenFour]

Look in Documents for Logs and check the Debug Log. Many are crashing with

[08:57:57][building_type.cpp:248]: Failed to get any building category for this building, should only happen for special building types such as fallen empire buildings!

[Cellar_Cat]

Had that happen today with that same log entry. I was in observe mode for testing purposes so nothing I did. Some event firing I guess?

Loaded the last autosave and found it was in 2283, and it carried on fine after that.

[Sader]

I've had guaranteed crashes the day after finishing the "Leadership Conditioning" agenda in a coop game. Reloaded various autosaves, left the agenda hanging and it was fine. The day after I complete it, instant crash :/

[BigNerd]

Originally posted by FourteenFour:

Look in Documents for Logs and check the Debug Log. Many are crashing with

[08:57:57][building_type.cpp:248]: Failed to get any building category for this building, should only happen for special building types such as fallen empire buildings!

I'm actually not getting that one -- I'm getting:

[11:38:24][government_restrictions_solver.cpp:1282]: create_country/create_rebels at file: events/nomad_events.txt line: 117: Failed to randomize ethics

[procyon]

having the same issue, game won't progress past 01.01.2275

[Hexrome]

Having the same issue on two seperate games, it randomly crashes (Backbook Pro User)

[BigNerd]

Based on this forum and the official Paradox bug report forum it seems like this is a widespread issue that Paradox should be aware of. Have they acknowledged the problem anywhere?

[bulon]

Originally posted by BigNerd:

I am running the game on a new (2022) MacBook Air with Sonoma and Apple M2 chip. Never had an issue with crashing, but after this update and the Astral Planes DLC, I get to exactly 1.1.2250 and the game hard crashes to desktop -- no error message or anything, just hard crash to the desktop. I have tried to start 3 new games and this happens every single time, which makes the game unplayable. Seems like others are having this same issue? Is there a fix?

I have a same problem since I installed macOS Sonama on my iMac 24-inch M1. Stellaris quit without never message on the screen. I have also tried 3 new games. Is there a fix for this problem.

[Armed_Frog]

Same here. Log file: ship name is too long.

[Idoloni]

I'm getting crashes at 2405.08.04 and all have this message:
[14:36:22][country.cpp:2542]: Empty adjective form for country "" [16777239]

[Geoff]

Originally posted by Idoloni:

I'm getting crashes at 2405.08.04 and all have this message:
[14:36:22][country.cpp:2542]: Empty adjective form for country "" [16777239]

Oh there may have been a solution to this that I'd seen. It had something to do with the AI attempting an illegal operation, and the way to hunt it down was to use the outline observer and go through each faction until the one doing it was discovered. I forget what the reported trigger was and it didn't strike me as a great solution, especially if you're on ironman. But if you don't mind hopping into the AI's skin to override an order you might want to try it.

[Frère Jacques]

Yup I'm getting hard crash as well, mine hard crashes at 2255

[Sigi_Reuven [CH]]

Friday morning/noon: ive played it, also with mods
FR evening: crashing during startup, even vanilla
SAT: I was able to pick a race, but crashing during galaxy generation

played/tried it on my new Steam Deck. maybe a faulty device or some MAC/Linux related problems 🤨

[ambershee]

I've been getting crashes too - unfortunately judging by the logs being different for everybody, it's probably occurring deeper inside the engine somewhere.

[barronjw]

Crashing in 2266 on MacBook Air, Sonoma 14.1.1

debug.log:

[04:04:35][building_type.cpp:248]: Failed to get any building category for this building, should only happen for special building types such as fallen empire buildings!


error.log:

[04:04:21][pdx_pops_login.cpp:330]: Unsupported platform
[04:04:21][pdx_pops_login.cpp:408]: Could not get session folder