[2022] GAME CRASHING SINCE I INSTALLED ROYAL COURT DLC

If you disable Royal Court in our launcher, do these crashes still happen?

Corvino27 said: I THINK THERES SOME KIND OF PROBLEM BETWEEN THE GAME, STEAM & NVIDIA.

What are you seeing that points in that direction? Note that Steam and nVidia have no particular connection.  

Corvino27 said: play the game with reinstall driver. The game runs fine no crash.
But after I exit the game and play it again. The same problem game crash and steam also crash that's my basis why steam and NVidia have something to do in this crash.
Might have something to do with their ingame overlay? Steam and Nvidia have both.

Next time you exit the game, unload both Steam and GeForce Experience. Then run Steam again and run the game - do you still find this happens?  

You'll see them in your Windows taskbar. Right click on them there, Exit.  

I see, I am surprised that exiting Steam the starting it again does not 'reset' this situation for you; that makes it unlikely to be a Steam issue IMO.

Does this happen no matter how long you leave it before running the game a second time? That is, that only a reboot allows you to run the game again?  

Really, Steam crashes? That's a new one on me! Let's do a clean reinstall of Steam AND game:

- move any valued save games elsewhere
- "uninstall" in Steam-CK3
- exit the Steam app entirely

- manually delete both the Steam/SteamApps/common/CK3 AND Documents/Paradox Interactive/CK3 folders
- delete everything in the Steam folder EXCEPT steam.exe and the SteamApps folder
- run steam.exe to rebuild all that

- 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 with a new campaign.


Any better?  

That is likely a Windows file system permissions issue, which can be caused by an antivirus app getting in the way. Which one do you use?  

Corvino27 said: Strange I don't have any antivirus app. I only use Malwarebytes and windows defender.

Those are both AV apps. However not ones that typically cause this problem, that would be Avast and AVG mostly.


In any case please flag all these to run as the WIndows Admin user:

dowser.exe (in the Steam CK3-launcher folder)
C:/users//AppData/Local/Programs/Paradox Interactive/launcher-v2.2022.4/paradox launcher.exe
C:/users//AppData/Local/Programs/Paradox Interactive/bootstrapper-v2.exe

Then you don't have to run Steam like that.