Good evening. I actually have two issues to report. One of them has been happening for a few months now, but was just a minor inconvenience so I haven't reported until now.

The most important one is that I can't seem to be able to load certain games (mostly long ones). Specifically, I have a save of a game (currently in turn 181, huge galaxy size, 12 participants) that I can't seem to be able to load anymore.

However, if I start a new game, even with even bigger settings (such as exceptional size, high system density, and 12 participants, with many minor civilizations) the game loads just fine. You'd think this might be the case of a corrupted savefile, but I've been having this issue for a few weeks now, and sometimes it does load, though recently I haven't been able to achieve it.

When I try to launch the game, after a few seconds in the loading screen, the game "minimizes" or something. It's like I've alt+tabbed out of the game. I can't go back in, because the game just won't show up, but it's still running because I can hear the music. Sometimes, if I give it enough time, the game eventually launches (because I can hear the feedback when pressing the "Esc" key and similar), but other times it just ends up crashing.

The other issue is that, for a few months now, I haven't been able to use the Nvidia GeForce Experience's In-game Overlay. The fps counter doesn't show up (though a weird tiny green line, much like nvidia's signature green does appear near the middle of the screen) and when I use alt+z to try and pop it, it just takes me out of the game and opens the in-game overlay in the desktop.

I also can't take screenshots or record gameplay, neither through the overlay (for obvious reasons) nor keyboard shortcuts.

Any advice on both problems would be appreciated.

Here are all three files requested for the troubleshooting:

Diagnostics.html

Dxdiag.txt

output_log.txt

<Gist with the files>

Thanks in advance!

Edit: I have followed the basic steps for troubleshooting before, to no success:

• Restarted PC.
• Set the game to be forcefully run by the Nvidia GPU (in the Nvidia Panel).
• Verified that the game has firewall permissions.
• Marked the game to be executed as admin.
• Ran the game in compatibility mode as Windows 7.
• Verified that OneDrive is disabled.
• Included the game in the antivirus exclusion list.
• Verified the integrity of the game cache.
• Deleted Registry.xml from the Documents/Endless Space 2 folder.
• Reinstalled the game.
• Verified that all drivers are up to date.
• Reinstalled current graphic driver (clean install) through Nvidia GeForce Experience.
• I even tried to "Optimize" the game settings through Nvidia GeForce Experience (because it does show up as a scanned, compatible game).

Sure thing, just tell me how to get such log and I'll upload it.

As I said there are no crash dumps of error logs after the game closes when using the openGL option, or at least not where they usually are (in the installation folder).


Edit: this is the most recent file that has been created/modified right after the game closing when launching a game. I can only assume you meant this output log.

output_log.txt

Hope it helps.

So... am I to assume you'll pass the log to someone with a deeper understanding of the matter as per your statement?

I'm asking because as it seems this is not a very common issue, and from what you say I take it there really is no clear solution in sight.

Edit: it is not my intent to insinuate you are unskilled, as I was rather just quoting what you said previously.

Well, I've tried loading the game a couple of times. It keeps closing, but now it gets to the second step ("Launching Game", I believe it is?), whereas before it simply closed without displaying anything in the "minilog" over the progress bar.

I saw in one of the troubleshooting posts in the forum that you can/should manually install Mono from an executable inside the Endless Space 2 folder. However, it was weird that my Mono folder inside the game's installation contains none of that. Here's the contents of  "Endless Space 2/EndlessSpace2_Data/Mono":

I DO have Unity 2019 installed, don't know if that might be a problem (because of mono stuff).

I've been making some digging on my own, and after activating the "--diagnostic" launch option, I reviewed the contents of the output_log.txt file again.

I found some interesting lines:

"Your driver has selected to run on your Intel integrated card (Intel(R) Iris(TM) Pro Graphics 5200) but you have a dedicated card (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M). Please visit the game forum [ES2R15]"

However, I do have the Nvidia GPU as preferred graphic device to use for Endless Space 2. Here's a screenshot:

A few lines after that:

System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type initializer for Mono.CSharp.CSharpCodeCompiler ---> System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Windows mono path not found: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\mono\mono\mini\mono.exe

However, as is written a few messages prior, I just installed Mono a few days ago, and nothing has changed.

Any ideas pop up at the light of this new information? Would be glad for any help, as to be able to play again.

Thanks in advance.


P.S.: I post here the full output_log file, just in case more information is needed.

output_log.txt