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Small Krinkles

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May 16, 2025
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Title explains it pretty well but a basic run down:
My game has been crashing my entire computer by freezing it for the last three months, randomly, some times up to an hour or multiple into playing my entire computer will freeze, I can't tab out my cursor is slow and nothing changes. This only happens when I play ck3 in either multiplayer or single player, no other game I play does this. I've checked, it is not an overheating issue, I've switched to vulkan rendering and that didn't work, I've also used DX11 considering that's the default. My computer specs are:
CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-12400F 2.50 GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050
Ram: 16 GBS

I honestly have no idea what could be causing this and why it is specifically CK3, really seems like I need a miracle to fix this but who knows, maybe someone can give me one.
Thanks to any who try to help
 
That sounds like this problem


Sadly I have the same issue. Some of the things suggested do help a little, but crashes still happen to my games.
 
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. I'd suggest you look at this step first!

And, switch the game's renderer to Vulkan on the launcher-game settings tab.

The CK3 devs are aware of the issue of course, but I don't know whether it is thought possible to change the game to work around the Windows 11 bugs.

Sorry about that!