[2023] CK3 crashing after graphical artifacts

mvl31 said: I'm playing on 1.9.2

The current patch is 1.10.1 - are you deliberately on an older patch?


Please do a full **clean** re-install:

- move any valued save games elsewhere
- "uninstall" in Steam-CK3
- manually delete both the Steam/SteamApps/common/CK3 AND Documents/Paradox Interactive/CK3 folders - In particular make sure there are no files or folders left under either the Steam CK3 or Documents CK3 locations, before installing again.
- re-install game in Steam, run a Steam Verify when done.
- add CK3.exe to the exceptions list of your antivirus app; ESPECIALLY if you have Windows Defender, add it to the Ransomware "Apps Allowed Through" list.

THEN Right click on ck3.exe , properties, compatibility. Tick "disable fullScreen optimisations" untick every other box in that dialog, Apply and exit.
Then in the launcher Game Settings menu, select fullScreen display mode, Vsync off, cap refresh rate at 60.


If those don't help:
DXDIAG is a program you run from the Windows search box on the task bar. After running it will open a window and start collecting info with a progress bar in the lower-left corner. When it completes click the 'save all information' button and save it to a file then attach that file here.

Please attach here your Documents/Paradox Interactive/CK3/pdx_settings.txt .
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/CK3/logs/ folder, attach here system.log , error.log , exceptions.log  

At least one crash in the AMD video driver there. And did you set the cap I mentioned?

"setting_framerate_cap"={
version=0
value="off"
}

Uninstall that AMD video driver
https://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMD-Clean-Uninstall-Utility.aspx
Reboot, then install AUgust 2023
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download and reboot again.

Is that any better?  

I was quoting code from your file to show the cap did not seem to have been set; I wasn't suggesting you add it anywhere.

Does it show as set in there now? What fps do you see in the game before it crashes?  

The symptoms you report are generally driver, Windows or most commonly hardware issues.

For the latter my suspicion would fall on the AMD video system, as we seem to have ruled out overheating of that. Do you have the option of swapping that out, even temporarily, as a test?

And, what temperatures do you see elsewhere in the system - CPU and PSU in particular?