Crusader Kings 3 Dev Tracker

Sorry to have been unclear, I'm not saying you should manually run those files as that can never work. Rather, go into their properties-compatibility and set them to run as Admin all the time, then just launch the game from PLAY in Steam as normal.  

I don't know, I'm sorry, I've never used (or even noticed!) that setting before. I tried several possibilities like 0, 1, verbose, enable, yes but nothing worked. I did find it was case-sensitive as 'disabled' didn't work.
Unfortunately I don't have a back channel to the CK3 devs to drill down on that. I might be able to ask Paradox next week.

Lafaellar said: [12:01:30][audio_state.cpp:55]: CAudioState::Reload(): Failed to load 'audio_parameter_limits.txt'

Does that file exist in /Steam/steamapps/common/Crusader Kings III/game/sound/map/ambience ? ... Read more

Indeed, we cannot help with modded games here. Your best bet is the User Mods forum, attach the problem save game file to a new thread there.

Good luck with that!  

In the game launcher please set Display mode to windowed.

Does that help?  

Please set all these files to run as the Windows Admin user:

ck3.exe (in the Steam CK3/binaries/ folder)
dowser.exe (in the Steam CK3/launcher/ folder)
C:/users//AppData/Local/Programs/Paradox Interactive/launcher-v2.2021.5.1/paradox launcher.exe
C:/users//AppData/Local/Programs/Paradox Interactive/bootstrapper-v2.exe

Good luck!  

Lafaellar said: So what changed between 1.1.3 and 1.2.1?

Hundreds of things! You can check the release notes for details, but I don't think that will help us here.

I suppose you could try deleting that file and see if it helps. But I still think this is an issue with the sound system in your Windows.


In that pdx_settimngs.txt can you please set
audio_debug_log_level to "Enabled"

Where exactly that is logged I'm not sure, hopefully in error.log but please check the /logs/ folder for other likely candidates.  

mehman6000 said: still doesn't work, i already tried running ck3 exe, same results as when i use steam

So you see no Windows error when you do that? What exactly do you see? Does the game appear in Task manager-processes at all, or just the launcher?  

Starting to run out of ideas here, this is a one-off!

Does this affect any of our similar games like CK2, Stellaris, Eu4, Imperator?  

Those logs look okay actually. What launcher version do you see? Current is 2021.5.1  

Updating the OS will not improve your hardware nor add more memory, I'm afraid.  

Did you install these updates?

The latest supported Visual C++ downloads

This article lists the download links for the latest versions of Visual C++. support.microsoft.com And run the x86 and x64 installers there.

Because you dont actually mention them above.  

If MP works with no mods involved, this must be a mod issue really.

Just have everyone enable one mod only, and test like that. If it works, all enable one more mod, test ... keep doing that and you should be able to pin down the problem mod.  

Your launcher has not been reinstalled since 2019 so i think we should do that:

- exit the Steam app entirely
- uninstall Paradox Launcher v2 from the Windows "Apps and features" utility, if still present.

Delete the following folders if still present:

- C:/users//AppData/Local/Programs/Paradox Interactive/
- C:/users//AppData/Local/Paradox Interactive/
- C:/users//AppData/Roaming/Paradox Interactive/launcher-v2/
To see the AppData folder you'll need to enable View Hidden Items in File Explorer.

- run steam.exe as the Windows Admin user

- run the game from the PLAY button in Steam

IF that doesn't help, in this folder are some .log files:
C:/users//AppData/Local/Paradox Interactive/launcher-v2/
Please attach them here.  

I'm afraid none of the game's hardware requirements on MacOS are met here:

• Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-7820HQ
• Memory: 12 GB RAM
• Graphics: AMD® Radeon™ PRO 560 (4 GB)

Unless you have Apple Bootcamp installed and can try the game under Windows, I suggest you seek a refund for this game from where you bought it.

Sorry about that!  

What if you disable all sound by editing that pdx_settings.txt file; set all the Audio settings at the end to =0  

What happens if you exit the Steam app entirely then run ck3.exe ? Any error show up then, or what exactly do you see?  

msiexec uses the Windows installation/update facilities, and it is what is returning those errors.

Try the clean reinstall from post #3 above one more time, except first scan the registry for "paradox launcher" and delete everything you find.

Good luck!  

joedoza94 said: Alright I tried all that and no dice there. Logs attached. I get an ended prematurely error when trying to install.

That 1603/5 error can be a previous stuck installation. If you see msiexec in Task Manager-processes, kill it and try the launcher install again.

Otherwise does the Windows Update app load and run okay? If so do that and apply everything it finds, and reboot.

If still no good, is Paradox Launcher v2 showing in the Windows control panel but can't be removed? Or it's not there at all?  

mehman6000 said: i do not know why but when i try to reply to you it says that my reply is spam

Users with low post counts cannot include links in their posts. This is a forum anti-spam measure.

No mention of this game in that dxdiag which is unusual for a won't-start issue like this. But you may as well update that nVidia driver to the May 2021 version:
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Did you mean to post this in the Bug Reports forum, perhaps?