Europa Universalis IV Dev Tracker

Is this in a campaign started since 1.32.1 , or from before then? Or both?  

Those saves crash for me too. This does look like a bug now, I'm afraid. Most likely it only happens with a particular DLC involved that you did not have access to before.

Please make a new thread over in Bug Reports, and attach those save games from above for QA to look into.

Sorry about that!  

MrScrosh said: i am having the same problem right now, is there a solution

Make sure you have the Steam Overlay AND Steam Cloud Sync enabled.  

This is certainly Avast getting in the way:

[virtualfilesystem_physfs.cpp:1253]: Could not open file: pdx_settings.txt, error: permission denied

You may need to contact their support to make sure eu4.exe and paradox launcher.exe are allowed to read and write to the Windows user Documents folders.

Good luck!  

Earlier as in before the current patch 1.34.1 ?  

You may as well update that nVidia driver to November 2021:
Download Drivers | NVIDIA
And I see crashes in eu4.exe in that dxdiag. What antivirus app do you use? 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.  

What version and checksum show in the main game menu?


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 .  

That is by design, yes. The intention is you run it from the Steam or Epic play button.  

I see no reason in those files for this problem I am sorry. This is only happening to you, so far as we know!

Let's try a full **clean** re-install:

- 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.
- flag eu4.exe to Disable fullScreen Optimisations again
- 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.  

In the game launcher please set Display mode to Borderless. THEN 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-i... Read more

And if you run in borderless or windowed it works fine, is that right? If so that is the exact opposite of the normal experience.

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 .  

DarkShadyGuy said: I'm getting a message from my antivirus program saying that EU4 doesn't have a valid digital signature

I haven't seen other such reports. What antivirus app do you use? You may need help from that vendor.  

What antivirus app do you use? You need to make sure all these apps are in its exceptions lists:



eu4.exe and dowser.exe (in the Epic EU4 folder)

C:/users//AppData/Local/Programs/Paradox Interactive/launcher-v2.2021.9/paradox launcher.exe

C:/users//AppData/Local/Programs/Paradox Interactive/bootstrapper-v2.exe



IF that does not help, also set all those .exe files (EXCEPT eu4.exe!) to run as the Windows Admin user.  

What antivirus app do you use? You need to make sure all these apps are in its exceptions lists:



eu4.exe and dowser.exe (in the Steam EU4 folder)

C:/users//AppData/Local/Programs/Paradox Interactive/launcher-v2.2021.9/paradox launcher.exe

C:/users//AppData/Local/Programs/Paradox Interactive/bootstrapper-v2.exe



IF that does not help, also set all those .exe files (EXCEPT eu4.exe!) to run as the Windows Admin user.  

SiMP3N said: were there an update like 12 hrs ago?

Yes, 1.32.1, but I didn't think that would affect save game compatibility over 1.32. However if the save is from the 1.31.x patches, that would explain it.  

bumblingbearbear said: Sure am! Here is my post in the bug report forum where I discussed with Alexivan.

He says there it is fixed in the next patch now.  

Dimes said: And I have tried to disable full screen optimization. It made a difference on earlier versions for me - but not now - unfortunately.

That really should work - can you confirm it still is not for you somehow?  

DarkShadyGuy said: I've sent the crash reports to paradox every time the games have crashed, but obviously they don't really respond to your reports with any information regarding why it happened.

Those crash reports are aggregated and anonymised. They are so the devs will know of any general trends in crashes and widespread problems, they are not intended as a personalised support service - that's us here!

Try a new campaign started with the new 1.32.1 patch out yesterday. Do you still get this?  

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/HOI4/mod/
- delete the file Documents/Paradox Interactive/HOI4/mods_registry.json (if present)
- delete the file Documents/Paradox Interactive/HOI4/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! If so you can do the same for the other games.  

Are you definitely on 1.32.1 , which is now publicly released? It really should fix this issue.