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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, refresh rate 60.

Is that any better?  

Then this should not have happened of course, I can only imagine it's a new bug. Sorry about that!  

DP3Boss said: yes my MacBook run off of Intel graphics, but I’ve never had a problem with CK3 or any other PDX game running on my Mac, unless that was a change with 1.6.

There was, as I mentioned above

1.6.x is apparently fussier in needing hardware to meet spec.

I'm not sure if you are saying Bootcamp itself is not working, or it is but the game won't install or run in it. If the latter let me know and... Read more

If you feel this is a game bug, then you want the Bug Reports forum.


Here all we can really suggest on consoles is a clean reinstall:

- uninstall the game from the XBox

- clear the XBox cache and game files (save game data)

Clearing Cache...

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Were these campaigns started under the current game patch 1.6.1.2 ? Or some previous one?  

Jason.chef said: Playing late game, I rule half of the known world

If you check the Bug Reports forum I think you'll see other reports of this in that circumstance, I suspect the game simply cannot cope with empires that large.

Please add your details to any thread you find on that, or start your own new one if you wish.

Sorry for that problem!  

vagrantprodigy said: Looks like I already had the folder. Thanks for the idea though.

Linux is case sensitive, is it exactly mod ?  

Definitely a video issue:

[22:00:39][gfx_dx11_fence.cpp:32]: D3D error: hr returned: The GPU device instance has been suspended. Use GetDeviceRemovedReason to determine the appropriate action.


[22:00:39][pdx_assert.cpp:612]: Assertion failed: hr returned:
The GPU device instance has been suspended. Use GetDeviceRemovedReason to determine the appropriate action.


[22:00:39][gfx_dx11_master_context.cpp:746]: Failed creating fence

There's a slightly newer video driver now so let's do a clean reinstall of that:

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

Does your Mac only have an Intel video system? If so that's the problem, as that is not supported hardware for this game under MacOS, and 1.6.x is apparently fussier in needing hardware to meet spec.

If that is the situation you can revert to 1.5.1.1 in the Steam betas tab to keep playing, or if you have Apple Bootcamp installed play under Windows there. Otherwise you'll need to play on any other machine you have access to that meets the game's requirements.

Sorry about that!  

The only difference between the Steam and MS versions is the MP code, so I don't think that's the issue here.

Did you try it in fullScreen mode as I described? I'm not clear from what you say.


If so please attach new copies of all these files:
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 don't know, that was the question I was asking you!  

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.

Is that any better?  

What MacOS version are you on? If it's less than 12.x that may be a current bug in our launcher.

If that is the situation would you consider updating to 12.5 to test this theory? If I can get confirmation of that problem I'll report it to the launcher devs then.  

Does this only happen when running in Debug mode? Because it is not intended to be played that way!  

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.
- 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.


**File Locations on Mac OS X**
The executable and DLC folder are in Users/USER/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Crusader Kings III/
To see it go to the Finder, hit command-shift-G (ie Go To) and type in ~/Library/ .
The user files (settings.txt, error logs, saved games, gfx, mods) are in /Users/USER/Documents/Paradox Interactive/Crusader Kings III/ .


If those don't help:
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There are no significant errors in those logs to explain this. The launcher installs okay, and updates itself - except only to 2022.6 for some reason, not 2022.9

You could try manually updatng it to 2022.9
https://launcher.paradoxinteractive.com/v2/paradox-launcher-installer-macos

Just install from the .dmg file in that download. Does that help?  

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.

Is that any better?  

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V-Mac said: Now my question is whether or not I am supposed to kill msiexec (system) or (app) file

Do not kill the file msiexec.exe ! It is part of Windows and needs to be there for our installer to work at all. It's just if it is currently running memory, is executing, that it needs that process to be terminated in Task Manager.  

When you say Xbox, do you actually mean the MS store/Gamepass edition? If so you'll be having this problem:

Mods enabled, yet not working after 1.6.0 update.

After I updated to the new 1.6.0 update, my mods stopped working fo... Read more