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Andrew.Abshire

Recruit
May 23, 2023
2
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Integrity​

I have verified my game files (on Steam)​

Yes

I have disabled all mods​

Yes

Required​

Summary​

Crash around 1850s-1860s

Description​

My game will crash around 1850, upon reloading the save or starting a new game, the game crashes within a minute or two

Steps to reproduce​

Just play the game normally, it shouldn't matter what country.

Game Version​

1.8.7

OS​

Windows

Additional​

Bug Type​

Crash to Desktop

Save Game​



Attachments​

View attachment victoria3_20250503_182608.zip

Player Pain​

10

 
Moving to Tech Support as it appears to be a hardware issue.
Could you please upload a DxDiag file? (Windows Start Menu -> "dxdiag" -> click on "save all information" -> upload the resulting txt file).
 
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
 
Did you do this?
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 so and that didn't help, the only hardware issue I see in there is possibly a shortage of available memory. Please expand your Windows paging file maximum size to 32gb
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/openpag...increasing-paging-file-size-windows-computers
AND exit every other app you can before starting the game.

If no help, a new dxdiag plus those other files I requested please.