Crusader Kings 3 Dev Tracker

I don't have any channel to them I'm afraid - after all I'm an external contractor, not PDX staff as such.  

You said "a native Apple Silicon version was in the work for Victoria 3," but that quote says it is not ... ?!?  

As I said, recent patches are more fussy in requiring those hardware minimums be met, in particular the video system one. The published requirements never changed though.  

Dimillian said: Could we get more information on that? Because M1 / M2 is the way forward, and if Paradox don't officially support it, it's like Paradox stop supporting macOS platform.

I'm not sure what kind of more information you might be after, but the status is the same now as when I wrote that last week.

The game is supported on Macs that meet the published requirements:

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

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Draxes said: the system gave me this crash message: "Error: Cannot initialize OLE"

I've not seen that one before, by googling it seems to be an SQL server error? Which cannot be the problem here .... !


In any case from that error log there's a video driver or card problem. Let's do a clean update of that nVidia driver:

- uninstall it and all other nVidia software
- reboot
- install November 2022 ... Read more

MojoRisin said: Thanks for your reply. I have been in touch with Paradox and it turns out that the minimum requirements for the game were changed following the 1.6 versions - meaning that I am able to run the game with the latest 1.5 version (albeit very laggy) and without the features of some of the newer expansions (Iberian Struggle does not work for example).

The minimum requirements were not changed in this game. However recent patches are more fussy in requiring those minimums be met.

• Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-7820HQ
• Mem...

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Clearly there's a problem with the MS store/Xbox setup on the problem machine then. What if you make a new Windows user on it and log into Windows as that? Same 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, refresh rate 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 ,exceptions.log  

PhantomAce said: I'm also having problem with my purchased DLC and PC Game Pass. I actually don't even see an option to enable DLC in the launcher, am I missing something?

Did you do those steps in post #2 above?

If so, can you test on another machine ?  

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.

Does that help at all?  

Actually it would be up to Razer to address that. Check with them for updates to their drivers and utilities.

Good luck!  

Kamaling said: Why Stellaris is running with (?the same?) launcher but CK3 not?

Because the launcher is not the cause of your problem, presumably.

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.

IF that doesn't help please go here:
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Sony is currently investigating but there's a chance the content is actually in the game despite the error.

Let us know what you see!  

FYI we here in this forum cannot fix game bugs; that's what Bug Reports is about.

Do you have a save that's never had any mods used in it, that reliably crashes in this way?

You mention autosaves; does this not affect manual saves?  

I deleted your defamatory and incorrect assertions. This is your first and only warning on this matter, any further such comment and action will be taken.

Please try the following:

- unsubscribe from all mods in BOTH the Steam Workshop and the Paradox mod site mods.paradoxplaza.com
- delete the folder Documents/Paradox Interactive/CK3/mod/
- delete the file Documents/Paradox Interactive/CK3/mods_registry.json (if present)
- delete the file Documents/Paradox Interactive/CK3/launcher-v2.sqlite (if present)
- run the game up and check the launcher is okay with no mod or other errors
- 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!  

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, Please do a full **clean** re-install:

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System file corruption – System file corruption is probably the most common cause that will trigger the 0xc0150004 error code

You could try this Windows repair tool:

Use the System File Checker tool to repair missing or corrupted system files - Microsoft Support

Describes how to use the System File Checker tool to troubleshoot missing or corrupted system files in Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows... Read more

This game and CSL are completely unrelated, aside from being published by us - different game engines and different development studios. So it is likely you have two separate issues.


Please go here:

Latest supported Visual C++ Redistributable downloads

This article lists the download links for the latest versions of Visual C++ Redistributable packages. sup... Read more

It's in the game's settings, I think under Video or graphics?  

Did this happen when you changed the game's resolution, something like that?

Have you tried the UI scaling feature in the game?