Freeze on launch

[GooSquirrel]

so, every time I start the game, from launcher or directly from the file, the game never loads., it just hangs on a black screen forever. I'm not sure what else to describe related to this, just that it hangs before even showing the loading screens.

The game worked before the most recent patch, I even was playing when the patch went live and later shut the game down to update and start a new game with the update's fixes

this is in any permutation of modded, fresh install, and unmodded. for some reason, it happens every time without fail.


CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core Processor 3.85 GHz
RAM: 32.0 GB
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
Windows information:

 

[AndrewT]

Please go here:

Latest supported Visual C++ Redistributable downloads

This article lists the download links for the latest versions of Visual C++ Redistributable packages.

support.microsoft.com

And run the x86 and x64 installers there.

IF that doesn't help, Please do a full clean re-install:

- move any valued save games elsewhere
- "uninstall" in Steam-Vic3
- manually delete both the Steam/SteamApps/common/Vic3 AND Documents/Paradox Interactive/Vic3 folders
- re-install game in Steam, run a Steam Verify when done.
- add Victoria3.exe to the exceptions list of your antivirus app; ESPECIALLY if you have Windows Defender, add it to the Ransomware "Apps Allowed Through" list.
- start the game with no mods active and test

In particular make sure there are no files or folders left under either the Steam Vic3 or Documents Vic3 locations, before installing again.


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.

Please attach here your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Vic3/pdx_settings.json .
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Vic3/logs/ folder, attach here system.log , error.log , exceptions.log