over 2 years ago - AndrewT - Direct link
I'm not aware. DLCs might trigger this problem, but you. could try disabling them all in our launcher - is it any better that way?

If not, as I suspect, then revert to 1.4.4 in the Steam Betas tab (leave the DLCs disabled) - any better?

Either way please then opt out of that beta back to 1.5.0.2 . 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  
over 2 years ago - AndrewT - Direct link
In that case the problem was not caused by the DLCs nor the 1.5.x patches.

I see you have Citrix , has this just happened since it was installed or just updated?
discussions.citrix.com

Citrix Workspace causing low gaming performance on PCs.

Hi I was hoping to bring this attention to citrix as best as I could. A couple people on reddit and myself were experiencing poor gaming performance in certain games. I noticed an update that I installed on Saturday that seemed to be causing this issue as once i uninstalled citrix the issue went ... discussions.citrix.com discussions.citrix.com
And I'm not sure your WIndows is completely up to date. If you run the Update app manually does it find anythign to apply? If so please do that and reboot.

Good luck!  
over 2 years ago - AndrewT - Direct link
So there iwas more than one cause contributing to your problem. Tricky!


Now let's try 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
- 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.
- start the game with no mods active and test

In particular make sure there are no files or folders left under either the Steam CK3 or Documents CK3 locations, before installing again.  
over 2 years ago - AndrewT - Direct link
I don't know then, there's not a lot else to try from our end.

If you exit Steam and run ck3.exe directly is it still like that?

What if you exit GeForce Experience before starting the game?  
over 2 years ago - AndrewT - Direct link
Sorry about that! At least we improved it somewhat.