Crusader Kings 3 Dev Tracker

I think this is pretty much universal.

Probably best to see if you can find a thread in Bug Reports on this, and add your details - dxdiag.txt and screenshots.

Sorry about that!  

Great! It's not uncommon to overlook how power-hungry the latest video cards are. All the best!  

Please try the following:

- unsubscribe from all mods
- delete the folder Documents/paradox/CK3/mod/
- delete the file Documents/paradox/CK3/mods_registry.json
- delete the file Documents/paradox/CK3/launcher-v2.sqlite
- subscribe to a few mods
- run the game up and see if those mods are now available to you.

I hope that does it for you!  

I'm very sorry for your poor experience with this game. You are clearly having a GPU-related issue, but exactly why I cannot see.

What I suggest is this:

- uninstall the existing AMD driver with this tool
https://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMD-Clean-Uninstall-Utility.aspx - reboot
- install the one from May 2020 from here:
https://www.amd.com/en/support/previous-drivers/g... Read more

The 1.2.x patches have again reduced the user population affected by this problem, but again not fixed it for everyone. Very frustrating for us as it is for you, I assure you! I'm not sure I've ever seen a problem behave as weirdly as this one.

Work continues on it every day.  

You will probably find the debug mode is actually working, but the console entry window is invisible. When you hover the mouse over provinces do you see the extra debug info in purple text?  

Kwisatz Haderack said: The files you asked for.
Error log is empty so it does not want to load.

The game appears to be running in Windows 8 compat mode, do you do that? Please undo it.

What happens if you exit the Steam app entirely and run ck3.exe directly from Windows Explorer?  

The game itself has not changed since 1.1.3 was released over a month ago.

Are these crashes all in one particular campaign? Or also in any new one you might start as a test?

If in one particular campaign, it's probably worth making a new thread in Bug Reports and attaching it there.


If it is happening any any new campaign you start too, I guess a Windows or driver update has happened, or the game installation may be bad: in that situation
do a full **clean** re-install:

- move any valued save games elsewhere
- "uninstall" in Steam-CK3
- manually delete both the Steam/SteamApps/common/CK3 AND Documents/Paradox/CK3 folders
- re-install game in Steam, run a Steam Verify when done.
- add CK3.exe to the exceptions list of your antivirus app; ESPECIALLY if you have Windows Defender, add it to the Ransomware "Apps Allowed Through" list.
- start the game with no mods active and test

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Exit the Steam app entirely then run ck3.exe directly from Windows Explorer - what happens then? Any Windows error shown?  

No crashes in the game recorded in that dxdiag, interestingly.

Blazadin said: Reinstalled game via Gamepass, mashed ESC while loading launcher and continued to mash escape as the game loaded. Got it to work again.

That sounds like the old wsg fix for gamepass ... I assume the Steam copy still fails?  

1. in Windows explorer click on Documents in the left column. You'll see \Paradox Interactive\ there, double click on that, then on \Crusader Kings III\ - last_save.ck3 really should be there.

3. if you are doing cloud saves there will be no files in the /save games/ folder.  

I suggested the May 2020 driver version for a reason, as the last known good one - can I ask you to do that clean reinstall again but use that one?  

I can't help you with stopping that happening, I'm sorry. I guess you want to report this as a bug or an improvement suggestion?

Meantime you can just delete them of course. Hopefully when the MP problems are fixed this will decrease anyway!  

I can't help with editing save files, I'm sorry - maybe try the User Mods forum.

As to how it happened - any mods in use here? or maybe a game or computer crash while saving? If you start a new test campaign is it still like that?  

This won't be a game bug but a video card or driver problem.

DXDIAG is a program you run from a command prompt or the Windows start menu 'run' dialog box (or 'search programs' in Windows 7 or later). 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 your Documents/Paradox/CK3/pdx_settings.txt .
From your Documents/Paradox/CK3/logs/ folder, attach system.log , error.log  

Blofeld2000 said: Local saves doesn't help for me, no autosaves are done, breaks the game.

This is Ironman or not, or both?

Has this always happened for you - you've never been able to autosave the game even once? Do manual saves work?  

Intel have a driver for that video system from this year:

Downloads for Intel® HD Graphics 4600

Download new and previously released drivers including support software, bios, utilities, firmware and patches for Intel products. downloadcenter.intel.com
If the .exe version won't install ue to HP's restrictions, you may need to do a manual install ... Read more

joriarty said: 'd expect the shaders to affect the appearance of water and perhaps add some nice lighting effects, and if that's all they did then I'd probably turn them off for the framerate boost. However, the odd behaviour with the textures makes it seem like a bug. It really looks like the textures are stuck on an ultra low quality setting (i.e. one that's not toggle-able in the UI) when the advanced shaders are turned off.

I can't say one way or the other really, all this is out of my area of expertise to be honest.

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Has it always happened with this game since you've had it? Or only since when?

We see some GPU/driver issues in that error log, so you might try a clean reinstall of an older driver:

- uninstall the existing one with this tool:
https://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMD-Clean-Uninstall-Utility.aspx - reboot
- install the one from May 2020 from here:
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download - reboot again

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Shiroyasha92 said: Same Error here, every savegame at the year 906 or later crashes when I try to reload. No recomended Solution has sloved the problem( disable mods, use last_save file,low settings, etc).

This happens with a save that's never had any mods used in it?

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