[2023] Game crashes very frequently since upgrading PC

This is since the 1.8.2 patch, is it? Any mods in use?

Can you give more details about these crashes please?  

What was the nature of the upgrade?

I take it that was attempting to deal with the startup issue in your other thread - did it in fact help? I guess it must have, or you couldn't get into the game to have this new problem!

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.  

I guess I don't understand how you can have had a problem while playing the game, when you couldn't start the game! And you said in post #2 above this only happened when you upgraded the PC and applied the 1.8.2 patch, which was well after you started that previous thread.


In any case, let's press on. Let's have a new look at the setup. 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/Stellaris/settings.txt and pdx_settings.txt .
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/logs/ folder, attach here system.log , error.log , exceptions.log .  

I think the two issues are actually the same problem.

Sorry I pasted in the wrong game files! Obviously I meant the logs etc from CK3.

There's no crash in this game recorded in that dxdiag, but there are some possible Windows issues. Please run these two Windows repair tools, see if they find anything to fix.

.NET

Microsoft .NET Framework Repair Tool is available - Microsoft Support

Describes the .NET Framework Repair Tool and how to obtain it. support.microsoft.com
SCANNOW:

Use the System File Checker tool to repair missing or corrupted system files - Microsoft Support

Describes how to use the System File Checker tool to troubleshoot missing or corrupted system files in Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7 or Windows Vista. support.microsoft.com  

"setting_framerate_cap"={
version=0
value="165"
}

Is there some problem keeping this set to 60?  

What I mean is, my recommendation was to keep it set to 60 while we work on this, but it is set to 165. Is that because 60 causes a problem of some sort? Or you just want to see a higher fps?

In any case I don't feel we are any closer to seeing why this is happening on this computer. As it only happened with the new hardware, that's where our suspicion should lie, but what specifically I cannot see.

If there is any overclocking set up on this machine, try undoing that.  

I am sorry then, I cannot think of anything else to look at here. I think this is an interaction with this game and something in Window sor hardware here, but we so no clues anywhere as to what.