[2023] CK3 keeps crashing for about 1 month

about 1 year ago - AndrewT - Direct link

Some mod errors in there; make sure all mods are disabled while we work on this please.

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

about 1 year ago - AndrewT - Direct link

I'm afraid this is very likely to be another case of the suspected game engine bug as I describe here

Game continues to crash on the "Initialising" step on PC Gamepass

When I saw the game had a new option to select and deselect which DLCs you want to load on Gamepass now, I was hopeful that would help, but no such luck. Even with all DLCs turned off, the game continues to crash before launching the main title...

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To confirm that, please use Affinity in Windows to make ck3.exe only run on your first 16 cores/CPUs , the p-cores. Does that help this problem for you?

about 1 year ago - AndrewT - Direct link

This issue is irrelevant of OS, I think you are looking at the wrong issue - there is a separate CK3 one with the Gamepass edition relating to corrupted save game files in the MS cloud.

My suggestion was to use Affinity in Windows to restrict ck3.exe (and indeed victoria3.exe) to use the first 16 core/CPUs - using only one will indeed cripple the performance as no multi-threading would be possible.