[2020] CK III [v. 1.0.3] - Black screen and crash while in-game

I thought I was going to see a really high refresh rate there but it doesn't seem so.

Interesting you mention Avast, I have seen other reports of it crashing this game every few minutes. Can i ask you to check with their support on how to 100% except the game from it?

And what CPU and GPU temperatures are you seeing in the game?  

Pinty said: What do you mean exactly with the refresh rate? Is my laptop not performing up to expectations. I mean, when the game works, it runs really smoothly on decent graphics.

Yours is running at the most common rate 60hz, which is fine. Some rigs run at 72, 120 or even 144hz which can drive video cards crazy.

Pinty said: I could get rid of Avast all together to be fair, I don't browse or plan to do anything else than play games on my partitioned drive. I'll uninstall it and try again.

Une the free utility Revo Uninstaller to make sure Avast is completely gone, if you do this. AV apps are deliberately made hard to fully uninstall.

Pinty said: Temperatures are alright. Using an extra fan unit under my machine as well. Generally between 68 and 78 degrees celsius.

Actually that's getting pretty high; 80c is where things start going wrong. I think you need to do something more about cooling here.

Clean out all air vents it has (compressed air cans are good for this). Make sure airflow to them is not blocked by anything like walls, books or whatever.
If that doesn't drop the temps enough, you probably have a faulty fan or a heatsink/thermal paste problem. You may need professional help at that point.  

Pinty said: do you have any idea why the FPS on MacOS would be so much lower than on Windows?

Macs use openGL as a video standard instead of DirectX that Windows users. OpenGL is much much slower.

Pinty said: Obviously same specs apply.

The minimum requirement specs for the game on Mac are markedly higher than on Windows.

If you disable Map Objects in the game's settings, does that help at all?