Steam Deck - Stellaris crashes on startup.

[[joebro]]

Hi, as title suggests, I am playing on the Steam Deck. Latest update I cannot play unless I enable proton compatibility to either the latest version or experimental. However, if I do that, about half of the artwork and other assets go away - meaning things like portraits, worlds, stars, asteroids, and ships. I have done the following to attempt to remedy this but to no avail:

-Verify game integrity
-No mods on start
-Deleting shader cache and then verifying game integrity again
-Roll back to 3.9.3
-Roll FORWARD to open beta 3.10.1

What else can I do? I'm in a seriously unplayable state. Is there anyone else out there with my issue? This only just started happening to me after the latest patch came out.

[PDX_ladydzra]

Our Linux players are having issues that our Dev team is working to resolve. In the meantime, players have reported that starting Steam, disabling the internet, then loading the game bypasses the crashing issue. Internet can be reenabled afterwards.

[TempleOS]

Its nice that you guys didn't test your bug filled DLC update with a bug that made it impossible to play on anything other than Windows Why does Paradox always come out with bug filled crap? Victoria 3, Imperator Rome, like wtf about to just stop buying Paradox unless its on a 90% off sale or some ♥♥♥♥

[[joebro]]

Originally posted by PDX_ladydzra:

Our Linux players are having issues that our Dev team is working to resolve. In the meantime, players have reported that starting Steam, disabling the internet, then loading the game bypasses the crashing issue. Internet can be reenabled afterwards.

Thank you, this works for now.

[White Knight]

Originally posted by PDX_ladydzra:

Our Linux players are having issues that our Dev team is working to resolve. In the meantime, players have reported that starting Steam, disabling the internet, then loading the game bypasses the crashing issue. Internet can be reenabled afterwards.

Thank you!

[deraxel99]

You can redirect "paradox-feeds-sandbox.s3.amazonaws.com" to 127.0.0.1 in your hosts file to mitigate the crash. Seems that the response from that url is not properly handled in the code.

[That Darn Fox]

Originally posted by PDX_ladydzra:

Our Linux players are having issues that our Dev team is working to resolve. In the meantime, players have reported that starting Steam, disabling the internet, then loading the game bypasses the crashing issue. Internet can be reenabled afterwards.

And yet, here we are several months and another update or three later, and this is not resolved by even a very loose definition of the word.

This is starting to get into class-action territory, Paradox, especially with your new DLC subscription service.

[Geoff]

Originally posted by That Darn Fox:

This is starting to get into class-action territory, Paradox, especially with your new DLC subscription service.

I hope it's not enforceable, but they tried to smuggle a "no class action lawsuits" clause into their EULA. ( Found here: https://store.steampowered.com/eula/202090_eula_0 )

By agreeing to these terms and conditions, in the event of any claim You may have arising from or related to the Software Product or this EULA You agree to the exclusive personal and subject matter jurisdiction of the courts located in Stockholm, Sweden for making and resolving any such claims, and hereby waive any right to participate in any type of law suit brought and/or maintained as a class action or similar in nature to a class action. Paradox reserves the right to make any claim against You and seek and be granted any legal or equitable remedy against You in any court anywhere in the world.

[That Darn Fox]

Originally posted by Geoff:

Originally posted by That Darn Fox:

This is starting to get into class-action territory, Paradox, especially with your new DLC subscription service.

I hope it's not enforceable, but they tried to smuggle a "no class action lawsuits" clause into their EULA. ( Found here: https://store.steampowered.com/eula/202090_eula_0 )

By agreeing to these terms and conditions, in the event of any claim You may have arising from or related to the Software Product or this EULA You agree to the exclusive personal and subject matter jurisdiction of the courts located in Stockholm, Sweden for making and resolving any such claims, and hereby waive any right to participate in any type of law suit brought and/or maintained as a class action or similar in nature to a class action. Paradox reserves the right to make any claim against You and seek and be granted any legal or equitable remedy against You in any court anywhere in the world.

I sincerely doubt it's enforceable, but I wouldn't put it past them to try. That last line about reserving the right to make any claim against you would definitely run afoul of anti-SLAPP legislation.

[Geoff]

Originally posted by That Darn Fox:

I sincerely doubt it's enforceable, but I wouldn't put it past them to try. That last line about reserving the right to make any claim against you would definitely run afoul of anti-SLAPP legislation.

Yeah. As a legal document, it's impossible to get scuzzier in intent. "You hereby waive all rights no matter how many damages we inflict upon you, but we can assert any legal right against you at any time." In American law, there's a lot of room to screw customers over with forum non conveniens clauses, but at least when I took contracts law American courts were much less likely to decline jurisdiction in deference to foreign courts than they were to other states within the Union.

But I've seen cases where courts upheld EULAs as enforceable despite being enclosed in shrink-wrap that couldn't be removed until after the customer purchased it. So, who knows. But most nations don't really like the idea that foreign companies can break any law and cause any injury to their citizens without recourse. And it's not a good sign of a corporation's ethics when they try it.