All paradox games will crash with no mod

[Sakuryou]

Integrity​

I have verified my game files (on Steam)​

Yes

I have disabled all mods​

No Mods

Required​

Summary​

Victoria 3 crashes after 5 to 20 minutes, my Crusader Kings 3 and Heart of Iron 4 have the same issue as well. Other games work fine

Description​

Since the game crashed, I tried to delete all saved files and reinstall the games but the issues still exist. I reinstalled Windows 11 and deleted all files from my PC, but the problem still happens. I have collected nearly 30 crash reports

Steps to reproduce​

The game will crash for an unknown reason, can not expect the time of the crash

Game Version​

1.5.12

OS​

Windows 11

Hardware

Graphics 4080
16g ram
14900k

 

[Abaddon55]

I have the exact same issue but only for vic

 

[AndrewT]

I have the exact same issue but only for vic

Please make your own thread, thanks.

 

[AndrewT]

Victoria 3 crashes after 5 to 20 minutes, my Crusader Kings 3 and Heart of Iron 4 have the same issue as well.

Vic3 and CK3 are fairly similar, but HOI4 is not. You may or may not have the same cause for all those crashes.

I see no real problem in that dxdiag.

Did they all start crashing at the same time? No mods involved for any of the 3 games?

After such a crash, can you start and play the game right away? Or do you need to wait a while, or reboot, before it will run again?

Either way, does it then take another 20 minutes to crash?


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:
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

 

[Sakuryou]

I have the exact same issue but only for vic

I temporarily fixed this issue: Go to BIOS of the motherboard > extreme tweaker > SVID Behavior > Intel fall safe

After this setting, no more crashes in 3 hours. I am still testing if it will crash in the future

Not sure why

 

[AndrewT]

I temporarily fixed this issue: Go to BIOS of the motherboard > extreme tweaker > SVID Behavior > Intel fall safe

After this setting, no more crashes in 3 hours. I am still testing if it will crash in the future

Not sure why

I didn't pick that because dxdiag has up until now said "12th gen" or "13th gen" for the affected CPUs. But I see that one is 14th gen, but that is not called out in dxdiag.

That might explain the CK3 and Vic3 issues, but not HOI4 as it does not use AVX or AVX2. Assuming you still have HOI4 issues please make a new thread in that game's Tech Support forum. Thanks.