Game freezes after loading to 5%

[Catgirl Star]

If I launch the game, no matter what mods or no mods, the loading screen will freeze at 5%, and then the game will stop responding. I have tried everything I can think of, and everything I found online was relating to a MAC operating system of some kind. I do not have a MAC.

[Catgirl Star]

I should note, it does seem to randomly allow me to launch the game properly for periods of time, but then it goes back to only loading at 5%. I have no idea what triggers it to allow me to load the game or doesnt allow me to load the game.

[HyperKnight]

Just wait a few minutes, it loads after a while.

[Catgirl Star]

Originally posted by Nabbut:

Just wait a few minutes, it loads after a while.

I noticed that if I sit there forever it does eventually load. Very annoying that my game seemingly randomly increased my loading time from less than 30 seconds to several minutes, but oh well.

[Tyrion]

Since recent update it does indeed do something at 5% which takes some time. It was worse last week, but they were doing network upgrades in the neighborhood so we noticed intermittently slower network connections, so perhaps it doing some load from cloud at that time?

edit: I should note that you also notice this at game load from resume, so it isn't from world generation, it's really an issue with loading something.

[Tyrion]

Can now confirm that the 5% mark is a network related delay, as exactly at that mark my network security started complaining about network security certificates used by stellaris.exe to bypass the firewall (yet no special firewall is set up, other than default Windows 11 Pro settings).

[Catgirl Star]

Originally posted by Tyrion:

Can now confirm that the 5% mark is a network related delay, as exactly at that mark my network security started complaining about network security certificates used by stellaris.exe to bypass the firewall (yet no special firewall is set up, other than default Windows 11 Pro settings).

Thanks for this! Ig now I will know if/when they patch it