[2023] Random crashes with and without mods.

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.


If those don't help:
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  

The issue may be here:

Processor: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700K (24 CPUs), ~3.4GHz

as discussed here

Victoria 3 | 12th/13th Generation Intel Processors

Hello all! An update, 12th and 13th Generation Intel Processors are related to a Crash to Desktop (CTD) happening frequently, this is related to architecture changes by Intel and specifically E-cores. We are working with Intel to address these... forum.paradoxplaza.com

The idea is to use Affinity in Task manager to assign ck3.exe to only use the first 12 of your 24 cores, so only the p-corees (performance) not e-cores (economy).

Does that help your problem?  

Certainly, yes! But I cannot give any indication when that might be, as it's an engine issue not a game problem, so affects multiple games.