What makes you think it is a user problem and not a compatibility issue? How would making a new user change things; would it work?
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I don't know whether it will help or not, but I thought at this point in the thread it was worth trying. If you don't want to, that's your right of course.
Whatever the issue is, Earl Grey didn't fix the crashes.
I have the files, but I think game.log replaced system.log when the game updated. Didn't include the Dxdiag file because nothing has changed since the last time I submitted it here. I also tested if the issue is universal in the other PDX games. Nothing seems out of the ordinary in CK3, EU4 or HOI4. The issue only exists when I play Vic 3
There should be no relationship between game.log and system.log , they are for unrelated purposes. You are saying no system.log got created or updated? Mine certainly did when I ran the game just now. If I can get it and the pdx_settings.json file again please, you'll need to rename the .json to .txt to upload it here.
I get the same errors in that log as you do, so that seems normal. But not the the GPU driver/hardware errors of course.
Still no real idea why you are getting this problem so relentlessly! Please install and run the free utility Speccy. Send its output to a text file and attach it here please.
I get the same errors in that log as you do, so that seems normal. But not the the GPU driver/hardware errors of course.
Still no real idea why you are getting this problem so relentlessly! Please install and run the free utility Speccy. Send its output to a text file and attach it here please.
There is a system file but it is empty for some reason. I had to check the log files and there is a system file from before 1.1, on the 2nd of December. And what does Speccy do? Will it produce a virus or not?
If you delete the system.log file(s) then run victoria3.exe , does it get recreated?
I see we are back to having Vsync on. Please turn it off, and set the framerate cap to 60, thanks.
I don't see anything of concern in that Speccy output, unfortunately. This one's got me, I think!
Do you get any crash dumps or logs when this happens? If so it's probably time to post in Bug Reports and attach them there for QA to look into.
I see we are back to having Vsync on. Please turn it off, and set the framerate cap to 60, thanks.
I don't see anything of concern in that Speccy output, unfortunately. This one's got me, I think!
Do you get any crash dumps or logs when this happens? If so it's probably time to post in Bug Reports and attach them there for QA to look into.
I turned off Vsync. The game did crash but there was no crash report screen or report in the files. The game did perform very poorly.
And capped the refresh rate to 60? That should prevent it running poorly.
Ironically even at RR 60, the lag was as bad as late-game. Vsync good or bad, made the game run smoothly and cleanly
Wow, hard to account for that! This is with GeForce Experience unloaded, yes?
Slightly unrelated but could be related question: I deleted 7GB of space in my C drive thinking it would help fix my storage issue because I somehow ran out of space from doing literally nothing. I tried transferring spare space from my D drive because I had 100 GB's of data but it didn't fix my lack of spare space. I have been trying to fix this storage issue, including uninstalling games, deleting save files from up to a week ago, screenshots, etc. My question is, could this be the cause of my issue? If so, why is it only impacting Victoria 3 and not my other PDX games?
Edit: After realising my saves were going to my D drive but Steam was sending data to my C Drive for some reason, I moved about 45 GB of games to my D Drive. I can't tell for sure but I am playing as Argentina and so far everything is good. Not sure if it would get worse, I might test it tomorrow.
Edit: After realising my saves were going to my D drive but Steam was sending data to my C Drive for some reason, I moved about 45 GB of games to my D Drive. I can't tell for sure but I am playing as Argentina and so far everything is good. Not sure if it would get worse, I might test it tomorrow.
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Sorry, as you have Intel Xe graphics, of course there is no GeForce Experience here.
Probably as you free up space on C: , Windows is then using it up to expand the paging file; you might try unloading every app you can before starting the game.
Probably as you free up space on C: , Windows is then using it up to expand the paging file; you might try unloading every app you can before starting the game.
Just got a crash again with the same details, but this time it was deep into the game, like 1855. I was playing a good Sokoto game and finished getting Landed voting when I went to check on my government screen and the game crashed.
I'm starting to believe all this trouble is caused by the government screen because I have plenty of space on both main drives, everything was in working order then it happen. What is ironic is that it only happened in one subtab, the one with all the information including the government type and the picture of the leader.
I'm starting to believe all this trouble is caused by the government screen because I have plenty of space on both main drives, everything was in working order then it happen. What is ironic is that it only happened in one subtab, the one with all the information including the government type and the picture of the leader.
I can understand why it looks that way to you ... but then why is it not happening to every player, since they all have the identical game code?
Do you have access to any other computer with supported hardware to test this on?
Do you have access to any other computer with supported hardware to test this on?
Shame, I thought you might be able to test this on a friend or relative's machine at least.
What if you make a new Windows user on this machine and log into it with that ID - any different?
What if you make a new Windows user on this machine and log into it with that ID - any different?
Are crashes more likely the longer you play the game/s? Just asking because I played for 2 hours before the crash.
Depends on the cause; crashes due to hardware overheating are, for instance, or memory leaks. I don't think either of those apply here - crashes they cause would come at some random point or action in the game.
Your issue seems clearly restricted to that Government tab, so perhaps in the video area I would have thought.