[2023] Black screen with pink elements after launching the game

Definitely a video issue from that log. I've not come across that T1200 nVidia before, not sure if that is related to your issue at all, to be honest.

Right click on eu4.exe , properties, compatibility. Tick "disable fullScreen optimisations" untick every other box in that dialog, Apply and exit.

Edit that settings.txt to say:

refreshRate=60
fullScreen=yes
borderless=no
vsync=no

Then in the launcher Game Settings menu, select fullScreen display mode.


Does that help? If not I suggest you seek a refund for the game from where you got it, I'm sorry!  

Has this always been the case with this game, or it used to be okay up to some point?

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/EU4/settings.txt and pdx_settings.txt .
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/EU4/logs/ folder, attach here system.log , error.log .  

You haven't implemented the settings I posted in #2 above - please try that.

If that still doesn't help, you should do a clean reinstall of your nVidia software, via this tool https://developer.nvidia.com/cleanup-tool


Good luck!  

Make a new Windows user on this machine and log into it with that. Do you get the same issue then?  

I've just seen another case of this with EU4; in that case there was also an Intel video system installed but it had no driver installed. Could that be the case here?

If not, I frankly have no idea what is wrong on this machine to cause this to you. Please install and run the free utility Speccy. Send its output to a text file and attach that here please.

Speccy - Free Download

Download Speccy - the System Information tool www.ccleaner.com  

DIsable the Discord overlay, and unload GeForce Experience before starting the game.

If that doesn't help, I don't know what could be doing this to you!  

Monti0512 said: I use AMD Ryzen CPU.

Does it have an integrated video system? If so that is probably the problem, you need to instal a driver for that.