[2023] CK3 - Crashing to desktop

We've seen reports of that edition of this game crashing due to corrupted saves in the MS cloud. Unlike with Steam, MS seem to provide no way of accessing those files outside the game.

Are these saves you mention local or cloud?  

Well that is weird. I don't think we're seeing other such reports.

Is it only autosaves that case this, not manual ones?

Can you attach here a save that causes this for you?  

eliminator n36 said: Any word from Paradox as to if they're working on a fix for this? I realise it's a Microsoft Cloud save issue, but it must originate on CK3's side if this is the only game it's happening for

They've been off for a month, so no news on this, I'm afraid.

I expect that problem would happen to any game which tried to read in data from a save game that was so corrupted it crashed the game. Yes, the game ought not to crash in that circumstance, and/or ought to have a launch option to not read in save game data to get past that, BUT the lack of user access to the MS cloud is also part of this problem.  

uriel34 said: I think manual ones are also causing crashing to desktop, but I am not 100% sure.

Sure, I will attach one of my autosaves that was made yesterday (I have tried to launch the game with this one autosave and 2 others in "save games" folder and the game crashed).

That save loads and plays just fine for me. I tried on MacOS/Steam, Windows/Steam and Windows/MS editions.

Can you try it on another Windows user on that machine? And/or on any other machine you might have access to?  

uriel34 said: Unfortunately no. I would have to create another user account on my computer to do it.

That's actually what I was suggesting ... !