[2022] [Win 10] Game crashes during Creating Checksum step

Akanon said: The forum doesn't allow me to add attached files

I don't know why that would be, there are no restrictions with .txt or .log files.

You are using the Attach Files button here, not any link, is that right?  

No clear cause of this problem in there, but you may as well update that nVidia driver to August 2022

Download the latest official NVIDIA drivers

Download the latest official NVIDIA drivers www.nvidia.com
If that doesn't help, what happens when you run eu4.exe directly from File Explorer? Any error show?

And
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 , exceptions.log  

That error log really looks like a corrupted install, if there are no mods involved here.


Did you do it exactly like this?

- move any valued save games elsewhere
- "uninstall" in Steam-EU4
- manually delete both the Steam/SteamApps/common/EU4 AND Documents/Paradox Interactive/EU4 folders
- re-install game in Steam, run a Steam Verify when done.
- add EU4.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 EU4 or Documents EU4 locations, before installing again.  

The only way running the game from the launcher could corrupt it is if you have mods enabled in it, AFAICS.

Please try that one more time, BUT just after the Uninstall step go into the Steam Workshop for this game and unsubscribe from ALL mods there.

That really should do it for you!