[2023] Game crashing on loading screen

Has this game ever worked properly 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.

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  

Always best to start your own thread in future, rather than "me too" someone else's, thanks - you almost certainly have an unrelated cause to the OP's.

You have several LiveKernelEvent entries in that dxdiag, then a crash in your nVidia modules here:

+++ WER8 +++:
Fehlerbucket 1288861940842776560, Typ 4
Ereignisname: APPCRASH
Antwort: Nicht verfügbar
CAB-Datei-ID: 0

Problemsignatur:
P1: nvcontainer.exe
P2: 1.37.3103.4323
P3: 621dbda6
P4: _OverClockingNvc.dll

If you are overclocking your nVidia, try undoing that.

The LiveKernelEvent entries mean the machine or Windows has been forcibly downed or rebooted. Have you seen that, is it related to this game or something else?


And you may as well 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.  

Well Windows has definitely recorded those LiveKernelEvent entries! Something has happened there ...

Kutte89 said: if there is a way to reset the gaming cloud, maybe that could fix the problem.

You'd have to contact MS support about that I'm afraid!


Is the game installed in C:\XboxGames or D:\Xbox Apps or anything like that? Or elsewhere like C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\ ?

If the latter, uninstall it then install in one of the former locations.