I Give Up: Game Crashes Constantly

[Dark Emu (BELIEVER OF SKONG)]

I don't know what to do. I can't play anymore because of constant random crashing. No mods and no previous performance issues.

I heard the Grand Archive DLC could be the issue but if so how can I solve that? Turning it off would just break my current game.

Edit: (I don't know how to merge threads so I'll copy & paste the last one here)

I have been playing Stellaris for years and have never had problems with lag or crashing.

Recently random crashes seem to be more common. I'm not sure what causes it but the game will randomly freeze. Task Manager is required to exit the game even though it "appears to be working."

Any thoughts I what the problem might be?

Edit: I should clarify that I never had issues even when playing on the huge galaxy type with max number of empires. So I don't think that's the problem.

Edit: I do not have mods and drivers are up to date.

[Råb!d]

Turn it off and start over. Or wait for a fix.

[Geoff]

Originally posted by Dark Emu:

I heard the Grand Archive DLC could be the issue but if so how can I solve that? Turning it off would just break my current game.

Life is better on the back versions, fwiw. Compare your current level of frustration to the highest level of fun you've experienced when playing the game. If the gap is big, roll back to the last stable version you enjoyed playing and camp there until the lure of some new feature entices you to get back on the beta-testing train of their "finished" release cycle.

[zghlwigi]

Im using grand archive, i found a lot of bugs, but didnt crashed even once.

[Dark Emu (BELIEVER OF SKONG)]

Originally posted by Geoff:

Originally posted by Dark Emu:

I heard the Grand Archive DLC could be the issue but if so how can I solve that? Turning it off would just break my current game.

Life is better on the back versions, fwiw. Compare your current level of frustration to the highest level of fun you've experienced when playing the game. If the gap is big, roll back to the last stable version you enjoyed playing and camp there until the lure of some new feature entices you to get back on the beta-testing train of their "finished" release cycle.

You might be right. I remember having fun playing 3.4.

Originally posted by zghlwigi:

Im using grand archive, i found a lot of bugs, but didnt crashed even once.

I've been wondering how many other people have experienced the same issue I have. As it is now, Stellaris is unplayable for me. But if this issue affected more people, wouldn't more people be talking about it? And if that's the case, what are they doing differently that prevents their game from crashing?

[Vanilla Wafers]

I started out crashing once every hour of gameplay or so. now on year 2350 I cant go a single ingame year without crashing

[Властелин Ничего]

New NVIDIA App crashes the game. Check it. And delete it.

[Dark Emu (BELIEVER OF SKONG)]

Originally posted by Властелин Ничего:

New NVIDIA App crashes the game. Check it. And delete it.

I don't think I have the new NVIDIA app. Unless you mean something more specific?

[Brier]

It isn't the Nvidia app. Homie just spreading that rusky misinfo.

I posted in OP's other thread, but I have the same problem.

I personally think it is a memory problem, but I don't have access to the devs.


I wiped my gaming PC clean and reinstalled Windows and Mint. I only installed basic drivers for both and I still have the problem. The same crashes happen regardless of OS and regardless of drivers. I'm using Wayland in my Linux build.

i9 13 Gen
4080
64 GB RAM
12 TB over four WD Black SSDs.




Player count is meaningless. Why even mention it?

[Dark Emu (BELIEVER OF SKONG)]

Originally posted by Brier:

It isn't the Nvidia app. Homie just spreading that rusky misinfo.

Player count is meaningless. Why even mention it?

That was in relation to a question I had about how many other people were affected by this issue. They were just speculating.

[jojobe]

update your graphic drivers and remove outdated mods.

[Dark Emu (BELIEVER OF SKONG)]

Originally posted by jojobe:

update your graphic drivers and remove outdated mods.

That's not the problem because I do not use mods and my drivers are up to date. I updated the main post with that information.

[Brier]

Originally posted by jojobe:

update your graphic drivers and remove outdated mods.

It isn't a driver issue.

[Magma Dragoon]

Originally posted by Brier:

i9 13 Gen

This would be my first guess

[Dark Emu (BELIEVER OF SKONG)]

Originally posted by Magma Dragoon:

Originally posted by Brier:

i9 13 Gen

This would be my first guess

What do you mean by that?

[Geoff]

Originally posted by Dark Emu:

What do you mean by that?

A known technical issue with a widely used piece of hardware:
https://www.techradar.com/computing/cpu/intel-finally-confirms-instability-issues-with-13th-gen-and-14th-gen-cpus-are-fully-fixed-but-some-owners-may-still-be-worried

EDIT: Put in a better URL