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Thanks very much for your reply and help. Turning off my VPN does indeed allow the game to start properly for me. As far as I can see, after trying it each way, steam offline mode is not having an impact. I do appreciate your help. I'm glad i made the effort to find this forum. It would be great if you could arrange it so that i dont have to turn off my VPN to start this game. There are many games I play that dont requier me to do this, even including games that have a lot of online stuff happening such as Ark Survival for example, among others. Your game is great and very original. Keep up the good work! xx

To be clear it totally stops me from playing the game.

I start the game from steam, at the main menue i click start single player game > create new galaxy > select "normal" game mode > veteran dificulty > enter galaxy name and seed> click start A loading screen apears with a game tip and the words "starting single player ..." the loading screen has a picture of a spaceship. After about 1 second the ambient lighting on the spaceship dims or adjusts slightly and i think i hear the background music restart. after that nothing changes. Normaly i would expect to see the games playing environment apear on the screen very quickly on this PC. I have played the game on this PC for many hours on different ocaisions but probably my last play before this was many months ago or more. I have updated the drivers on my graphics card and that has not fixed the issue. clientlog 2023-12-11 16-04-43.txt serverlog 2023-12-11 16-06-51.txt having restarted the the program and start single player in the galaxy that just had the problem, that galaxy shows playtim equivelant to the amount of time i sat at the loading screen PC Device name ------ Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz 4.00 GHz Installed RAM 16.0 GB Device ID ---- Product ID ----- System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor Pen and touch No pen or touch input is available for this display windows 10 pro version 22h2 graphics card Nvidia GTX 980 I updated the graphics driver after encountering this problem to the "game ready" version from the maufacturees website I have many games in my collection and the ones I have played recently all seem to be working fine on my PC, including a variety of games and some fairly recent titles Any help would be appreciated.