almost 3 years ago - AndrewT - Direct link
Do these crashes force a restart of your computer? Because I see several LiveKernelEvent in that dxdiag, which normally means a forced restart of some sort. Or is that a separate issue you are having with this machine?

Anything in error.log?  
almost 3 years ago - AndrewT - Direct link
That log looks very much like a corrupted installation, unless you are using mods that have a problem.

Please do 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 with a new campaign, NOT with any existing one

In particular make sure there are no files or folders left under either the Steam CK3 or Documents CK3 locations, before installing again.  
almost 3 years ago - AndrewT - Direct link
Is this when playing a campaign that has never had any mods used in it?

I see you have our similar games HOI4, EU4 and Stellaris - do that play okay on this machine?  
almost 3 years ago - AndrewT - Direct link
A major patch 1.4 just came out, so please do a new clean reinstall as per post #4 above, and test with a new campaign - any better?  
almost 3 years ago - AndrewT - Direct link
We are just not seeing this as a general problem with this game, not sure why you are having such trouble.

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 your Documents/Paradox Interactive/CK3/pdx_settings.txt .
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/CK3/logs/ folder, attach system.log , error.log , exceptions.log  
almost 3 years ago - AndrewT - Direct link
13Iack_Baron said: I've seen several complaints about a problem similar to this. Personally I'm on Linux using AMD graphics and I've had this problem for awhile now also. Thought it was a bad install, temperature, etc but all solutions were moot. Sometimes I can play for hours, or sometimes minutes as it seems random. Crashed today after I opened a NPCs portrait to interact with him in the very early game.

Very strange bug which seems hard to find, other paradox games run fine as well so it's a shame the game I like the most is the only one that crashes.

Besides this forum I've seen some issues on the subreddit as well so I feel like this issue may be under-reported? Interestingly enough when I ran this game on windows 10 with the same specs it did not crash at all so I suspect there is some issue with the drivers rather than the alienware hardware.
I'm happy to help with your problem, but given it's a different OS please start your own thread and we'll see what can be done for you.  
almost 3 years ago - AndrewT - Direct link
I see you got some bluescreens, including this very worrying one:
Windows Error Reporting:
+++ WER0 +++:
Fault bucket CORRUPT_MODULELIST_CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT, type 0
Event Name: BlueScreen
Are these associated with the game crash problem yu mention, or something else?

Either way according to this is is either a driver or hardware fault:

[SOLVED] - Clock watchdog timeout

hello I would like to ask what could be caused by a PC with a new new motherboard with a new processor, RAM and GPU ran all well till yesterday and today when I played it fell twice and I threw it ==> Clock watchdog timeout New OS: since September 13, 2019 the problem occurred only today around... forums.tomshardware.com forums.tomshardware.com
i also see your nVidia driver is outdated so let's do clean reinstall of that and the game:

- uninstall the nVidia driver and all other nVidia software
- reboot
- install the June 2021 driver from here:
Download Drivers | NVIDIA - reboot again

THEN please do 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.

If you still get this problem after that please attach new copies of all those files, thanks.  
almost 3 years ago - AndrewT - Direct link
I'm afraid this is pretty clearly a hardware fault, most likely a CPU or memory stick:

Windows Error Reporting:
+++ WER0 +++:
Fault bucket 0x124_0_GenuineIntel_PROCESSOR_Mae_BANK4_MSCOD0080_MCACOD0400_AR_PCC_UC_IMAGE_GenuineIntel.sys, type 0
Event Name: BlueScreen
You could try a clean wipe and reinstall of Windows, but I think a trip to the hardware shop is likely to be necessary.

Sorry that's happened to you!  





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