[2022] CK3 randomly crashes after playing for a bit

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?  

After one of these crashes, can you reload the game and save game and carry on? Or do you need to reboot or wait a while before it will run again?


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  

boring_eratosthenes said: I play iron man mostly, so when it crashes I have to restart the game and it just goes to the most recent autosave so I tend to lose just a little progress

You may find the Documents/Paradox Interactive/CK3/last_save.ck3 file preserves your campaign better.

boring_eratosthenes said: Sometimes discord or steam will break for a moment and needs to be reloaded.My computer stays on, but sometimes discord will reload itself after CK3 crashes

Hmm, that does not sound good! You might try disabling the Discord overlay, I've seen that cause problems with our games.


In that pdx_settings file I see we are in windowed mode and no refresh rate cap set. Can you go though those items in post #2 above again please?  

sweet_relish said: I have this same problem. As soon as I press continue and a day is over, the game crashes with a new 867 start.

Discord is off.

Always best to start your own thread - same symptom does not necessarily mean the same case.

Did you go through everything I've suggested in this thread? You don't say either way.  

boring_eratosthenes said: I went and gave that a try. I disabled the discord overlay and made sure I didn't have my browser open. It lasted longer than before but it did eventually close out. The saving isn't the issue so I didn't mess with last_save (I lose so little with that it doesn't matter to me)

Did you reinstate those settings from post #2?  

I see, I don't have a good explanation why this is happening to you then.

Do you have any over clocking enabled on this machine? If so try undoing that please.

If that doesn't help, install and run the free utility Speccy. Send its output to a text file and attach that here please.