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I ran two of those saves for a few sols, no hangs or crashes I'm afraid!

Has this always happened since you've had the game? Or it was okay up to some point?

Is there any action or event in the game that seems to trigger the problem?

GuillaumeC57 said: You just have to launch the save and wait 1 min and the game freezes.

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I merged your two threads.

There is a current problem with mods being recognised on this game, as you can see here

Mods enabled, yet not working after 1.6.0 update.

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

I'm afraid your nVidia GTS 250 video system is well below the published minimum requirement, the Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 660 (2GB) . And its driver has had no updates since 2016, well before this game came out. The CPU is also below requirements.

Unless you have access to a machine with supported hardware for this game, I suggest you seek a refund from where you bought it.

Sorry for the bad news!  

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?  

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?  

Well I wouldn't that text above is unreadable - perhaps the screenshot does not accurately reflect what you are seeing on the screen?

Nevertheless it's not great, I agree!


Your monitor's native resolution is 1280 x 720 but you have the game in 1366x768 - if you change that to 1280 x 720 is the text any better?


And we should do a clean update of that nVidia driver:

- uninstall it and all other nVidia software
- reboot
- install late June 2022 https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us... Read more

What do you mean by "bouncing", sorry?


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  

You are referring to the appearance of some of the letters in that screenshot, is that right?

If so, have you tried different resolutions and other video settings?

Has this game always been like this for you?


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  

Sorry, I missed that you were on a Mac - usually running with no antivirus.

But I think that screenshot shows you have your MacOS Documents folder stored on iCloud rather than your local hard disk, is that right? Because that complicates matters. Did you actually want that to be the case?  

If the game or computer froze or crashed during the save operation, that can easily corrupt the save file it is writing, it is true.

You ought to have the last_save.ck3 from the previous session, but it's possible it didn't have time to write that either.

Jerieth said: I had cloud save turned on CK3. Is there no way to retrieve my save file? I went to C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Crusader Kings III\save games\, but all the files in there are old.

That folder only holds local saves, not cloud ones. They should be visible h... Read more

To see the AppData folder you'll need to enable View Hidden Items in File Explorer.  

Which AV do you use? Some need extra steps.  

tjaeb said: - Disabling all mods (I only run a couple cosmetic ones)

Disabling mods does not remove effects they have already had on a campaign. Do you also get this in a new test campaign started with NO mods at all in use?

If so, has the game always done this since you've had it? Or it was 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 informatio... Read more

amaliiiaaaaa said: My crash begins at load time now, but I've already logged 99 hours. Yesterday, the game crashed mid-gameplay and now crashes at load time. I have uninstalled/reinstalled to no effect.

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

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CK2fanboy said: Actually it started on a previous one, this year's January 19th to be exact
Is it still repairable?

That means you started it under patch 1.4.4, which is not compatible with the current 1.6.x patches.

If it's not an Ironman game you can revert to that patch (or the 1.5.x patches if you played it okay under them) in the Steam Betas tab and continue it.

If Ironman though, I'm afraid it is ruined and irreparable once loaded under an incompatible version. Sorry about that!  

NePaLimSO said:

I don't see any particular problems in those files. Can you answer my questions there please?

Telauvs said: It seems that the game keeps getting pushed to its limit with ev...

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Lots of errors in there . Was this problem save started under the current game patch or some previous one?  

Please try this:

- uninstall Paradox Launcher v2 from the Windows "Apps and features" utility, if still present.

Delete the following folders if still present:

- C:/users//AppData/Local/Programs/Paradox Interactive/
- C:/users//AppData/Local/Paradox Interactive/
- C:/users//AppData/Roaming/Paradox Interactive/launcher-v2/
To see the AppData folder you'll need to enable View Hidden Items in File Explorer.

- exit the Steam app entirely
- run steam.exe as the Windows Admin user
- run the game from the PLAY button in Steam
OR
- exit the Epic app entirely
- run EpicGamesLauncher.exe as the Windows Admin user
- run the game from the Epic client

IF that doesn't help, in this folder are some .log files:
C:/users//AppData/Local/Paradox Interactive/launcher-v2/
Please attach them here.  

It is possible I suppose, although if the Epic edition got any fixes from that patch it should have got all of them - I'm pretty sure it's built off the same code base!  

kale375 said: i can't find paradox launcher.exe and bootstrapper-v2!!! what can i do?

Please make your own thread , with full problem history and system details. Thanks.