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Estrien

Trouble with launcher

I'm having a really bad time with the new launcher. Every time it takes about 10 minutes to load which is mich longer than the actual game on my computer. Did anyone ecperience the same issue? Any idea to fix it? Edit: additionaly I don't have any trouble with the launcher for stellaris (starts in a few seconds)

Posted Nov 29, 2019, 9:07 PM UTC

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BaronWalrus1:Commonwealth:•

If the launcher is causing you problems you can skip it by launching eu4 from a shortcut on your taskbar.

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EstrienOP•

Thank you! I will look into it

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grotaclas•

Did you fix your problem? There is a new post from somebody who seems to have the same problem. Maybe you can help them if you tell them what did or didn't help you.

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EstrienOP•

Sorry for not answering you sooner. In fact I hadn't seen your first answer and thank you very much for that one. I have launched the game without using the launcher a few times and only just yet tried the launcher again. Surprisingly it worked just fine. The only difference between then and now is that I deleted one folder in my mod folder which was not used by any mod (only pictures for an ongoing project of mines).

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grotaclas•

I have not heard of anybody with the same problem and I have read almost all posts from people with launcher problems. But there are a few things that might help you:

  • remove all mods(unsubscribe from them in steam and then remove everything which is left in "steamapps\workshop\content\236850" and "Documents\Paradox Interactive\Europa Universalis IV\mod") and see if that helps
  • uninstall the launcher and remove all of its folders (see point 8 of the clean reinstall instructions in my post about common startup problems with version 1.29). When you start the game from steam afterwards, the launcher will be reinstalled
  • in general a clean reinstall might help(see the post that I linked above)
  • do you have a very slow internet connection or maybe a firewall that prevents the launcher from checking for updates or from loading the news posts?
  • skip the launcher by executing eu4.exe directly
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