Game consistently crashing, likely due to animation errors

[jockodeparis]

Crusader Kings III has been consistently crashing my computer after short periods (maybe 20 minutes or so) every single time I've tried to play. This is a new PC, CKIII is the only game I've had problems with so far, and I'm not using any mods. (I didn't have any problems playing CKIII on my old PC, but that was pre-Royal Court.) It happens early enough into a save that I shouldn't be triggering anything unusual: most of the time I haven't done anything beyond choosing a lifestyle, marrying off a few courtiers, and inviting knights to my court. I've tried every possible fix I could find suggested online, including multiple clean reinstalls (including deleting everything in the Documents/Paradox Interactive folder), verifying the integrity of the game files in Steam, launching from the installation folder, running both Steam and the game in administrator mode, double-checking that I have all the latest drivers, experimenting with lower graphics settings, and adding antivirus exceptions. When I open the crash logs, debug.log ends with a long list of errors which all read:

[pdx_gui_animation_datatype_valuehelpers.h:158]: Trying to trigger an animation with glow_alpha for a widget which has no glow

There is also a repeated error in error.log which reads:

[pdx_gui_animation_runtime_state.cpp:699]: Animation triggered has no valid state properties or sound effects

I've looked through other threads and I'm clearly not the only person having this issue, but I haven't seen any solutions offered or even acknowledgement of the bug. Attaching a DxDiag file, pdx_settings, and logs from the latest crash (which happened just after yet another clean reinstall, verifying the integrity of the game files, and starting a new save: I was hoping that the latest update might have helped fix the problem, but my crash logs from before today look the same). Happy to provide any other information if necessary.

 

[AndrewT]

I've looked through other threads and I'm clearly not the only person having this issue, but I haven't seen any solutions offered or even acknowledgement of the bug.

If you feel this is a bug, then the Bug Reports forum is the best place to report it.

Is this still happening since the 1.6 patch last night? You'd need to start a new campaign to check that.

If so, in the launcher Game Settings menu set display mode fullScreen, Vsync off, refreshRate 60. Is that any better?

 

[hamletsdead]

This is clearly a bug, and it's still occuring. Be nice if someone at PDX actually addressed the issue instead of saying it's and "old issue." It has not been fixed and cuases constant CTDs. Animations should not be causeing frequent CTDs.

 

[Chriss3789]

Yeah i agree on that one after all the so called "fixes" who are on the Internet this shit freeze my PC every time. Vsync is off and everything what would "fix" it.

 

[AndrewT]

Please do not re-open old threads, your problem is almost certainly different to one from 2022. Locking thread.