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Crash on Startup – GUI FindChild('interest_group_top') returns nullptr (Patch 1.9.5)

CurtisChen · 2025-06-27T13:13:38+00:00

Integrity I have verified my game files (on Steam) Yes I have disabled all mods Yes Required Summary Crash on Startup – GUI FindChild('interest_group_top') returns nullptr (Patch 1.9.5) Description Game crashes immediately after launch with repeated error in error.log: Promote 'FindChild' returned nullptr, in 'PdxGuiWidget.FindChild('interest_group_top').TriggerAnimation('show')' Steps to reproduce Steps Tried: Clean reinstall from Steam Full deletion of: Documents\Paradox Interactive\Victoria 3 Workshop content folders AppData launcher folders Disabled overlays (Steam, Discord, NVIDIA) Tried -culture=en -dx11 -skipLauncher -noWorkshop -windowed launch flags Set locale to English (US), disabled Steam Cloud No mods, no custom saves System: Windows 11 (Build 26100) Intel Core i7-14700K NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti 32 GB RAM Game version: 1.9.5 Language: zh (system), tested also in English Game crashes before menu screen Temporary Fix: Rolling back to version 1.9.4 allows the game to launch normally. Attached logs: error.log game.log pdx_settings.txt (if needed) Game Version 1.9.5 OS Windows Additional Bug Type Crash to Desktop Save Game Attachments

Thread starter CurtisChen
Start date Jun 27, 2025

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PDX_Sosanna

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Jun 27, 2025

The error.log don't contain any information tied to the crashes. To be able to see what happened we would need the folder from Documents/Paradox Interactive/Victoria 3/crashes as well as the DxDiag log file.
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