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Your friend has a pre-order edition of the game which is where that DLC comes from, it is a pre-order bonus only. Royal Edition comes with a lot of stuff, but only pre-order bonuses if bought before release date.

Potentially you and your friend could set up Steam Family Sharing so you can load with that DLC enabled, borrowed from his library. I can't think of another way around this, I'm sorry!  

That will almost certainly be due to running on an unsupported video system.

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  

Not sure why that would be, the game itself did not change at that point.

Can you uninstall the game, check for updates via the Windows Store app (particularly to the Xbox app and the Gaming Service), then run the Xbox app and see if it loads then?  

Well, the game has not changed since you posted so unless this is a Windows or nVidia update ... ? Anyway, I hope it stays that way!  

tallgun said: I have windows defender turned off, I use malwarebyte premium, however I have added the launcher to the exception list to that as well

So paradox launcher.exe and steam.exe and ck3.exe ?  

Well, as I say this error can only be caused by the launcher/games not being able to find that folder, or an antivirus app getting in the way.

Can we see a screenshot of the Ransomware exceptions list please?  

Probably best addressed to the launcher developers, here:

New launcher version : 2020.14

Launcher time again - This time the release is 2020.14 and it's a bit of a maintenance release as we are hammering away at some design changes in the background. Changes ... Read more

I thought of that but you specifically mentioned f11 in your OP ... !  

25/10 is after the most recent patch, FYI.

In those files Vsync is off and the framerate cap is 144 - essentially the same effect as having Vsync on in fact. What if you cap framerate in the game to 60, does this still happen?  

userdir.txt only affects the game, not the launcher. You change what folder it works with in the Steam-CK3-launcher folder file launcher-settings.json , the line gameDataPath  

Are the locations in the wiki incorrect?

Keyboard shortcuts - CK3 Wiki

ck3.paradoxwikis.com  

If you disable autosaves does this still happen?

Is there a performance hit at the same time as these jumps, or are they purely cosmetic?

Has it happened ever since you've had the game, or just recent patches?


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  

You can create a second Windows user on this same machine, log in as that and try the install that way. If that still fails I think your Windows store/gamepass setup in Windows is broken, I'm sorry. You'd need Windows support help with that.  

Axe64 said: The only thing I done differently form most is changed where my user directory is.

How have you done that, please?

Do these mods end up in Documents/paradox/CK3/mod/ ?  

Just check that as it's pretty much your only hope for recovering them. In Windows Explorer click on View up the top and tick File Extensions.

If no good, they are corrupted I'm afraid. You could look in Documents/paradox/ck3/ for last_save.ck3 - conceivably that one is okay!  

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


Please report the temperatures of your CPU and video (GPU)
1/ before starting the game up and
2/ after say 10 minutes' play.
If your PC's vendor has given you no way of reading temperatures, install
SPEEDFAN ... Read more

I don't know then. Can you try on another machine? Or another Windows user on this machine?  

Toggling beta off and reinstalling the launcher ought to get you onto 2020.14 now.  

Well no, as 0 mb means it is empty. Look in documents/paradox/ck3/ is there a last_save.ck3 there, if so is it a more normal size? If so move it into documents/paradox/ck3/save games/ , and see if it can load then.  

Looking at that URL you are trying to sign into an internal Paradox server (sandbox), which does not use standard Paradox logins. Are you in a beta programme or something?

BTW you should opt out of the launcher beta as 2020.14 is the public version now.