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Hello, I've recently just bought HOI4 and CK3 and decided to start with CK3 and I've been having alot of fun, but that fun always comes to an end around 2 hours of gameplay or so because of the dreaded 24H2 update (i assume?).

This crash also forced me to completely give up playing Path of Exile 2, on their forums there is a thread with a whooping 900+ pages of people experiencing the exact same issue (whole pc locking up forcing you to manually restart your pc), since the game came out to this day, with no fix, with some people reporting damage to some PC components such as SSD/HDD data corruption.

I've tried Vulkan but the game feels way too "choppy", espeically later on in the game when theres more stuff on the screen.
Also, regarding the registry edit fix, I've got completely no clue how to do it.
I see the sticky thread is from March 13 with no official fix to this day.

Is there anything else I could do? I really want to keep playing but I also don't want to fry my PC from constantly having to force shutdown my computer.


3080Ti, 7800X3D, 32GB Ram


EDIT: regarding temps, GPU stays around 65C and CPU goes to 71c max only when i speed up time to the max, then down to 62-66ish when going back to normal speed
 
if you have Windows 11 24H2 then you'll be experiencing the same problem that AFAIK all users with that version are.





Some users found relief in various ways:


https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...r-installing-win11-24h2.1725554/post-30126081


https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...-windows-11-24h2-update.1718749/post-30159638


https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...-windows-11-24h2-update.1718749/post-30062333





A user has come up with another possible workaround


https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/24h2-w11-update-issue-found-no-more-crashes.1728373/


Some affected users have definitely seen that help them with this issue. Do try this first as it has a decent record of success!





Also make sure your Nvidia driver is the latest.





And if nothing else helps, switch the renderer to Vulkan in the launcher-game settings menu - performance will likely be worse but users are reporting it stops the PC freezes!
 
Hopefully yes! Do let us know please, test with DirectX11 .
 
There's a new Windows update, hopefully it does something!

2025-05 Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 24H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5058411)

I believe those are the updates they release every week. There's been a lot of them since this issue began and none of resolved the problem.