[Fixed] Weird freezes every few days.

[jeroen10j]

Hi everyone. Since the 1.9 update i've been getting strange freezes that last a few seconds. They seems to always come after about 17 days on max speed and 5 days on other speeds, sometimes at the start of a new day and sometimes in the middle but pretty consistently. When i check the temperature of my cpu and gpu i see a big drop at the moment of the freeze, the opposite of what i'd expect during a lag spike. I've tried to change graphics settings to low to see if this changes anything but no luck sadly.
I have a AMD raedon RX 7800 XT and a AMD Ryzen 5 3600 processor. Drivers are latest.
I'm using DX11 to render because Vulkan instantly crashes for me on loading the map. (no clue if that could be related to this issue)
I have the latest version of windows 10

If any more details are required let me know! And thanks for your support!

 

[AndrewT]

The only reason to try Vulkan is if you are on Windows 11 24H2, to help with the whole-of-PC freeze issue.


We've seen some success with performance issues such as you are seeing, by updating the AMD chipset drivers to the very latest, I think from only a few days ago.


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

 

[jeroen10j]

The only reason to try Vulkan is if you are on Windows 11 24H2, to help with the whole-of-PC freeze issue.


We've seen some success with performance issues such as you are seeing, by updating the AMD chipset drivers to the very latest, I think from only a few days ago.


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

The 1.9.6 beta has fixed this for me! It was probably related to:

• Fixed suspected cause of micro freezes related to Coat of Arms and text icons