5 minute crashes since 1.5.5

[Cersaw]

Hello Everyone,

Since 1.5.5 was released my game became extremely unstable, and as the patches got rolled out I got to experience the game less and less.
Right now, when I unpause the first week goes by and the game crashes, no matter what kind of settings I use.

I can easily play with other Paradox games without ever experiencing a game crash, this is only happening with Victoria 3.
With earlier releases I had no problem at all.
I looked at log files I tried every setting, I am clueless at this point, so please help me, cause I really would like to play with this game, I have been enjoying it a lot.

Thank you!
Regards,
Cersaw

 

[AndrewT]

Right click on victoria3.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, cap refresh rate at 60.


If those don't help:
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/Victoria3/pdx_settings.json .
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Victoria3/logs/ folder, attach here system.log , error.log , exceptions.log

 

[Cersaw]

Hello AndrewT,

Thank you for the info, I tried both of the settings, I didn't even get to selecting a nation sadly.
I'm attaching all the files that you have asked for. If you need anything else, please let me know!
Thank you in advance!

 

[AndrewT]

We see no crash in this game in that dxdiag.

Please update that AMD video driver

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download

AND expand your Windows paging file maximum size to 32gb

Optional: Increasing the paging file size on Windows computers

On computers that have 8 GB of RAM, the suggested paging file size is 16 GB.

www.ibm.com

Is that any better? If not please send in new copies of all those files, thanks.

 

[Cersaw]

Hello!

Thank you for spotting that I had outdated video driver. I am confused, as I had set it up to auto update if a stable version is released.
I have raised the maximum paging size to 32GB and updated the driver to the latest available stable version.

For now crashes are gone. Doing more tests and also trying out other scenarios where the game crashed.

Thank you very much!

 

[Cersaw]

Hello!

After more play testing, the game starts to crash after 2-3 years of gameplay.
Reloading makes it even worse.
Any suggestions?
What kind of logs do you require me to send in?

Thank you in advance!

 

[AndrewT]

New copies of all those files from above please.

What fps are you seeing in the game before it crashes? Anything over 60?


Please report the temperatures of your CPU and video (GPU)
1/ before starting the game up and
2/ after say 10 minutes' play.
If your PC's vendor has given you no way of reading temperatures, install
SPEEDFAN http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php

 

[PDX_Sosanna]

Hi! We could also assist with debugging the crash log minidump if you could upload the files found in "Documents/Paradox Interactive/Victoria 3/crashes" (zip and attach the entire folder).
Best regards!