[2022] CK3 crashes minutes after Initializing game. Am attaching error reports. Please help!

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, refresh rate 60.

Is that any better?  

Has this always happened since you've had the game? Or it was okay up to some point?


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


Please report the temperatures of your CPU and video (GPU)
1/ before starting the game up and
2/ after say 10 minutes' play.
If your PC's vendor has given you no way of reading temperatures, install
SPEEDFAN http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php  

Dev9797 said: Before/After temp: 58C/68C

Is that CPU or GPU? Whichever one, can we have the temps for the other please?

We see several LiveKernelEvent entries in that dxdiag which happen when Windows is forcibly downed or rebooted. Have you seen that happen, was is related to this game or something else?

You may as well update that nVidia driver to August 2022 https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us  

Dev9797 said: CPU B/A: 50/90

There is your problem for sure! Anything over 80c will cause problems like this. Quite unusual to see the CPU hotter than the GPU.

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.  

IME after doing this for 20 years, 90c is too hot and can cause such issues; the fact that capping the refresh rate to 60 helped to some degree points in that direction too. You are free to disagree of course.

And we see those LiveKernelEvent recorded by Windows there; something is causing those!

Can you confirm those settings from post #2 above are still all in effect?  

Very clearly a video/graphics issue from that log. Can you confirm those settings from post #2 above are still all in effect?

If so, not try editing that pdx_settings.txt . Find the Renderer line and replace DX11 with OpenGL - does the game at least start then? It may be slow.  

Please don't update old threads, start your own new one in future, thanks. The game has changed a lot since last year.

700kg said: I have done the seetings change as AndrewT has mentioned.

The pdx_settings you uploaded does not reflect that, Vsync is on for instance. Turn that off and enable the refresh rate cap of 60. Any better?

If not, 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.  

That sounds like a video driver or hardware fault, or overheating.

What fps do you see in the game just before it crashes now?


Please report the temperatures of your CPU and video (GPU)
1/ before starting the game up and
2/ in the main game menu
3/ AND just before it crashes, if possible
If your PC's vendor has given you no way of reading temperatures, install
SPEEDFAN http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php  

700kg said: What is the shortcut for FPS inGame?

There isn't one; you set that up in Steam preferences.

Those temperatures are okay, problems start at around 80c. Which is a shame as that's the easiest hardware problem to fix!

If GeForce Experience is running that can make the game perform worse; unload it before starting the game. Any better?