Game constantly crashing

[Ptolemy360]

I've just come back to playing the game in the last week, having played it months ago with out problems and it has started to constantly crash. Often the crashes occur when I am not doing anything in particular.

I have all of the DLC and run the game without any mods. Looking through other posts on the forums I have tried the below and it is still crashing.

"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."

I have also updated my graphics drivers.

I have attached my DXDIAG and other files that I have seen in other requests, although I do not appear to have an exceptions.log

 

[AndrewT]

I see there are crashes in HOI4 and Civ 6 in there too ... not a good sign!

Anyway, try a clean reinstall:

- move any valued save games elsewhere
- "uninstall" in Steam-Vic3
- manually delete both the Steam/SteamApps/common/Victoria3 AND Documents/Paradox Interactive/Victoria3 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.

THEN reinstate those settings changes you mention, and start the game with no mods active and test. Any better?

 

[Ptolemy360]

The Civ 6 crashes were intentional, but the HOI4 and Vic3 ones are unfortunately not. I play HOI4 fairly regularly and its only in the last week or two that I've started having crashes. I was also playing Stellaris a couple of weeks ago and that ran fine. I can't think of anything that I have changed on my PC to start causing crashes, any updates to drivers I've done since the crashes began and I'm not getting crashes in the other games I play.

I have done as you said but unfortunately I had another crash 5 minutes into a save. I've reattached the logs etc.

 

[Ptolemy360]

Interestingly, I am about 10 minutes into playing again without a crash. Staying on 4 speed seems to be the short term fix.

Edit: It crashed literally 2 minutes after I originally posted this.

 

[AndrewT]

There's unlikely to be any connection between the hoi4 and vic3 crashes.

You may be having this problem:

Victoria 3 | 12th/13th/14th Generation Intel Processors

Hello all! An update, 12th and 13th Generation Intel Processors are related to a Crash to Desktop (CTD) happening frequently, this is related to architecture changes by Intel and specifically E-cores. We are working with Intel to address these...

forum.paradoxplaza.com

See if the ideas there help you!

 

[Ptolemy360]

Yea I've managed to play Vic3 without crashes by limiting the cores in Task Manager. Need to do a metric tonne of reading before I feel confident enough to muck about with the voltages etc.