[2023] Infinite initialising game / not responding on startup

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  

CheekiKozak said: If I run the game as admin it gets stuck on infinite initialising game.

I missed that - don't do that, it causes problems all by itself.

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

Please set the frame rate cap to 60, as I mentioned before.


AND: 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.  

Does that file now say the frame rate is capped?

What fps do you see in the game itself?  

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.


Then, what happens if you run ck3.exe directly from file explorer? Same problem?

And, has this game ever worked on this machine? Or never yet?  

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.  

We see two Bluescreens (BSoD) in there. Did you see those, were they related to this game or something else? Because they are always Windows, driver or hardware problems; next time you get one please record the text on that screen for us.


Then, make a new Windows user on this machine and log into it with that. Disable all items you can in the Windows Startup settings area, and reboot and log in as that new user again.

Then redo the steps from post #2 above AND unload GeForce Experience if running; do you get the same problems?