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I'm afraid this is very likely to be another case of the suspected game engine bug as I describe here

Game continues to crash on the "Initialising" step on PC Gamepass ...

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FYI Vulkan on Windows is only really intended for diagnostic purposes, not for ongoing use in this game.

All the best!  

Some mod errors in there; make sure all mods are disabled while we work on this please.


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, cap refresh rate at 60.


If those don't help:
DXDIAG is a program you run from the Windows search box on the task bar. 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 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  

Tandruil9 said: Only changing ingame and after restarting did the fps lock seem to work.

Are you only seeing fps of 60 or less in the game now?

Those temperatures are okay, so the issue is elsewhere.  

Tandruil9 said: However when my whole group started again and some of them created their own rulers it crashed once again.

The whole PC still? Or just a game crash this time?

"setting_framerate_cap"={
version=0
value="165"
}

Was it not possible to set this to 60? What we are trying to achieve here is restrict the game to 60hz ; what fps do you see just ... Read more

If this is repeatable from a given save AND no mods have even been used in these campaigns, please make a new thread in the Vic3 Bug Reports forum here:

Victoria 3: Bug Reports

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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, cap refresh rate at 60.


If those don't help:
DXDIAG is a program you run from the Windows search box on the task bar. 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 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  

I was quoting code from your file to show the cap did not seem to have been set; I wasn't suggesting you add it anywhere.

Does it show as set in there now? What fps do you see in the game before it crashes?  

"setting_framerate_cap"={
version=0
value="off"
}

Did you set the frame rate cap to 60? What fps are you seeing in the game before it crashes?

Then, try changing the renderer to Vulkan, and separately using the Intel video system instead of the nVidia one for the game. Do either of those make a difference?  

ecosamo said: Is there a way to keep the cores I deselected from turning themselves back on?

I'm no Windows expert, but a bit of googling found the idea that you can set the Affinity on steam.exe , then when you run the game from there it should inherit that setting. I also found mention of a utility called Lasso that will do this.

Please let us know if that does it for you!  

If there are no mods involved here, this will very likely be a game bug I'm afraid.

If so please make a new thread in Bug Reports, and attach the save there for QA to look into.

Sorry for that problem!  

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, cap refresh rate at 60.


If those don't help:

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  

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, cap refresh rate at 60.


If those don't help:
DXDIAG is a program you run from the Windows search box on the task bar. 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 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  

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What is Processor Affinity & how to set Processor Affinity on Windows 11/10

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I'm afraid this is very likely to be another case of the suspected game engine bug as I describe here

Game continues to crash on the "Initialising" step on PC Gamepass ...

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Thank you! I've attached this thread to the bug report on the problem. We suspect this will need an engine update, not just a game fix, so it's complicated and won't be quick I'm afraid.

Sorry about that!  

Where is the Bug Reports forum, are you asking?

It is a sister forum to this one, you should see a link to it near the top of this page.  

Sheesh. Can i get new copies of all those files again please, plus install and run the free utility Speccy. Send its output to a text file and attach that here please.

Speccy - Free Download

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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, cap refresh rate at 60.


If those don't help:
DXDIAG is a program you run from the Windows search box on the task bar. 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 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