At the settings screen click on the Update & Security icon. You can check for updates by clicking the start icon and then choose settings. You can also check out my 101 tips page for beginners for help with playing the game. Here are some other suggestions to try to get Stellaris up and running again with the easiest (and probably most obvious) ones listed first. This setting is in the graphics section of the file. Open the settings.ini file (it might be labeled settings.txt instead) in a text editor like Notepad.įind the gui_scale setting and change it to 1.000000 (all the zeros should already be there). The settings.ini file must be changed instead.ĭo not right click on Stellaris in STEAM and browse the local files for it because you won’t find it there, instead go to your Documents folder and find the Paradox Interactive folder, then go into the Stellaris folder. If your game is too big to fit on the screen after installing the Nemesis DLC you probably had the UI scaling set to more than 1, and although you can get to that setting in the game itself and change it the option to save it is not available. That can be accessed from the Paradox launcher on the settings menu, go into that menu and select “Borderless fullscreen.” Special Note For The Nemesis DLC If Stellaris will not start try running Stellaris in Borderless fullscreen mode.

If the Nemesis DLC causes the game to be too big open the settings.ini file and set the gui_scale to 1. Some of these are old solutions but may still work today. I thought it might be helpful to put this page together and add it to the website. Some of these fixes are old and some are reasonably recent ones. My problem turned out to be the same one I had in the past and had forgotten about, and while I was looking for a way to fix it I came across these fixes so I thought I’d list them on this page as well. My Stellaris game quit starting a few weeks ago.

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