BUG, abnormally slow loading of the title screen and the "ESC" screen in the game.Thanks for viewing.

[LoneyXCorz]

Integrity​

I have verified my game files (on Steam)​

Yes

I have disabled all mods​

Yes

Required​

Summary​

BUG, abnormally slow loading of the title screen and the "ESC" screen in the game.Thanks for viewing.

Description​

After entering the game, the title interface is extremely slow and inoperable, and returns to normal after loading dynamic content. There is no problem after starting to play the game content, just like before, but after pressing "ESC", the UI loading process is still extremely slow and inoperable, and returns to normal after loading dynamic content. This results in the inability to quickly save files, which is a waste of time.I noticed that during the loading process, the graphics card usage rate is 0%. Please help, why is this?

There are many examples in the Chinese community, but for some reason they cannot be reported, so I reported the bugs on their behalf.

进入游戏后标题界面非缓慢，无法操作异常卡顿，加载完内容后恢复正常。开始玩游戏内容后没有任何问题，就像以前一样，但按“ESC”后，菜单加载过程仍然非缓慢卡顿，无法操作，加载完内容后又恢复正常。导致无法顺利快速存档，这很浪费时间，我注意到加载过程中，显卡使用率为0％。请帮忙，这是为什么？

I recorded a video to prove the existence of this BUG
But it cannot fully reflect the current situation, because when the game freezes, the recorded frames are also lost. It seems that the picture is very coherent, but in fact, every time the frame is lost on the title interface and "ESC", the picture will turn white, prompting "Program not responding", and the frame will be stuck for a long time and it cannot be operated

我录制了视频来证明这个BUG的存在
但是它不能完全反映现状，因为在游戏发生卡帧的时候，录制的帧也丢失了，看起来好像画面很连贯，实际上在每一次在标题界面和“ESC”掉帧时，画面都会变成白色，提示“程序未响应”，而且会卡帧很长很长时间无法进行操作


i7 13700KF RTX4090 DDR4 3200 64GB

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Steps to reproduce​

When the title screen appears when you open the game
打开游戏出现标题界面时

or

Press "ESC" while playing
游玩时按下“ESC”

Summary: When the game menu or option appears
总结：在游戏菜单或者选项出现时

Game Version​

1.8.6

OS​

Windows

Additional​

Bug Type​

Performance Issue

Save Game​

Attachments​

View attachment Victoria 3 2025.03.18 - 19.12.07.09.zip

Player Pain​

8

 

[PDX_Sosanna]

Moving to Tech Support.

 

[AndrewT]

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


Please do a full clean re-install:

- move any valued save games elsewhere
- "uninstall" in Steam-Vic3
- manually delete both the Steam/SteamApps/common/Victoria3 AND Documents/Paradox Interactive/Victoria3 folders
- re-install game in Steam, run a Steam Verify when done.
- add Victoria3.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 Victoria3 or Documents Victoria3 locations, before installing again.



IF that doesn't help, 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.
IF dxdiag.txt fails to attach here, rename it to dxdiag.log , or zip it up.

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
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Victoria3/crashes/ folder, attach here the latest (only!) exceptions.txt