Crusader Kings 3 Dev Tracker

You have several problem mods in that error log. Does this also happen to a campaign that's never had any mods used in it?  

Are these Steam Cloud saves perhaps? If so, what if you do local saves instead?  

Has it always been like this for you, or it was okay up to some point?


If it used to be okay, Please 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 Interactive/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

In particular make sure there are no files or folders left under either the Steam CK3 or Documents CK3 locations, before installing again.



If those don't help of its always been like this:
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This issue perhaps?

Known Issue With Disappearing Steam Cloud Saves When in Debug Mode

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What do you mean by "the new crown" please?  

andrew_the_cat said: Sorry for just getting to this now, I kinda gave up and only came back to it recently.
Error log is empty.
Temperature remains unchanged.

Does this issue also affect say CK2, EU4, HOI4 or Stellaris?


What actual temps do you see when the game is running so poorly?


At least part of your problem is this machine only has a Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 video system, which is well below the required Intel® Iris Pro™ 580 / Intel® Iris® Plus G7
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Ironman doesn't actually do autosaves as such, rather what you might call a forced manual save.

Can you duplicate this with a non-Ironman game, with either manual or autosaves?

And, has it always happened for you with this game? Or it was okay up to some point?

And finally, does local or cloud saving make any difference to the problem?  

Heya @Satcharna and thank you for your report.
As I am currently investigating this issue, may I ask what version of Ubuntu you are currently running?  

If your launcher says 2022.14 it is the latest, and you can ignore that error.  

Your machine has only 6gb of memory, which is the bare minimum to run this game at all. I'll guess the game is having to swap in and out of your Windows paging file.

First please update that nVidia driver to Nov 2022 https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

Unload GeForce Experience if running, plus every other app you can to free up memory.

THEN Right click on ck3.exe , properties, compatibility. Tick "disable fullScreen optimisations" untick every other box in that dialog, Apply and exit.
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Please go here:

Latest supported Visual C++ Redistributable downloads

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

IF that doesn't help, also Install ALL these Microsoft modules:

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Please try this:

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

Delete the following folders if still present:

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

- exit the Steam app entirely
- run steam.exe as the Windows Admin user
- run the game from the PLAY button in Steam
OR
- exit the Epic app entirely
- run EpicGamesLauncher.exe as the Windows Admin user
- run the game from the Epic client

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

Alablm said: think its possible the steam install was missing some files

The Steam Verify operation you did should have fixed that. Yo could try changing to a different Steam download region I guess, so the game comes from a different Steam server.  

Well, I guess it's unsurprising that as the ck3.exe from Gamepass works there, it also works when placed in the Steam folder. The question is why doesn't the Steam ck3.exe !

I'm not fully across what differences there are between the two builds, but fundamentally they have the same system and Windows requirements of course.  

Alablm said: I notice the gamepass launcher version is 2022.9-SE, where steam is 2022-13. Is it possible to downgrade the steam launcher to see if its somehow related?

When the game starts the launcher is unloaded, so I doubt that is the cause of your problem.

You didn't explicitly say what happened when you ran ck3.exe directly from file explorer, but if that also crashed on launch then this cannot be a launcher problem as it is simply not in use. Why it would crash but the MS version not is hard to understand!  

Please 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 Interactive/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

In particular make sure there are no files or folders left under either the Steam CK3 or Documents CK3 locations, before installing again.


If those don't help:
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Alablm said: Running ck3.exe directly from Steam/Steamapps/Common/Crusader Kings III/Binaries

What did you see when you did this?

Alablm said: Launching with DX9 or OpenGL via the setting txt file ...

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Glomp said: There appears to be no common factor between crashes, other than growing instability over time and auto-saves triggering it. I can restart the application and play on from the last valid save, however it'll just crash again after a period. Looking through previous threads this does seem to be a common problem, so perhaps a bug report would be best.

Fair enough, please go ahead with that!  

Do you have a saved game or a sequence of actions in the game that reliably triggers the problem? If so best to make a Bug Report on this one I think.  

I see you have some BlueScreen events showing there, which are always Windows, driver or hardware problems. Next time you get one (whether associated with this game or not) record the text on that screen, which will help point to the problem area.

Meantime 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, refresh rate 60.

Any better?