[2020] CK3 is Crashing my Windows PC

75c is high but should not cause crashes, I agree. It never ever gets above 80c?

How about the CPU?

DXDIAG is a program you run from a command prompt or the Windows start menu 'run' dialog box (or 'search programs' in Windows 7 or later). 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 your Documents/Paradox/CK3/pdx_settings.txt .
From your Documents/Paradox/CK3/logs/ folder, attach system.log , error.log  

I see you are running SWusb.exe which appears to be something RealTek put in for USB switching under Windows XP ? Best to remove that IMO!

Interesting that there are no LiveKernelEvents or bluescreens recorded in that dxdiag. In the Windows Event Viewer are there any relevant Error or Warning entries in the few minutes before these events?


Please report the temperatures of your CPU and video (GPU)
1/ before starting the game up and
2/ after say 30 minutes' play.
If your PC's vendor has given you no way of reading temperatures, install
SPEEDFAN http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php  

78c is getting up there, 80c is my personal redline for problems beginning to occur.

If you turn on in-game fps in Steam, do you see really high rates? As there may be an issue of the game not honoring refreshRate settings in its settings file. If you see excessive fps try capping the game to 60hz in GeForce Experience.

Let us know how you go!  

Lex_The_Great said: My temps are 30-40c, so no issue with temp.

Is that for CPU and GPU?

Devilcorpsdoc said: yup and all they do is blame us for it... shocking really.

What?

Lex_The_Great said: Looking back on your other post we seem to have different specs, I have a Intel CPU, and a AMD GPU, you have a AMD CPU, and a NVIDIA GPU, with different mobos (I have a ASRock B365 Pro4), unless It's specific to our setups might be OS related? I recently done a reinstall of windows, so I'm not sure why it would be doing this, odd issue

torpedo1 said: Wow, this must be a developer's worst nightmare. Intermittent system crashing on a small number of machines that don't seem to have much in common. Does it help to lower your gfx settings? I set everything to Medium. I still get a crash once in a while, but its a lot more rare.

I wonder if it is a memory issue? What RAM are you using. Mine is VIPER something or other idk my father-in-law found it on the side of the road lol.

Also, does your game take an extra long time to load when you start it back up after a crash? I've noticed that mine does that.

Can you two please try turning off Character SSAO and animated portraits in the game's settings?