- Has it always happened in both games? Or they were okay up to some point?
I got back to PDX games about month ago. It started happening right away. Before that i last played Stellaris/CK3 in 2020, both were ok at the time. But notebook is new (never tried to run games there before), PC is one where i played games previously, but in 2020 it had decent GPU and some other hardware differences. System on PC is fresh install, Hoi/Stellaris too.
- After one of these crashes, can you start the game right up again and resume? Or you need to reboot, or wait a while, before it will run again?
There is small differences possible on crashes
1. i get brief visual freeze (music still playing, can move mouse but UI doesn't respond)
2. All connected monitors (tried with 1 and with 2) briefly go black
3a. I see white window on monitor where game were running and second one gets back OR
3b. I go straight to desktop on main monitor, second one gets back OR
3c. As in 3b but with crash reporter
4. Music still plays on that time and quite probably if game is unpaused it is running too, at least i can confirm that once in HoI i left PC after crash and my ironman save file went like year further. You can successfully Ctr-alt-del game
5. Usually you can start game again right away, but once i had steam not recognising that game process already finished after ctr-alt-del, had to reload steam. On next 2-3 crashes i got same issue with steam, comp reboot helped with that.
Savefile in ironman Stellaris usually 1-4 in-game months earlier than date of crash, probably it is regular autosave. I always can continue to play normally, going much further than date of crash, never seen that some specific date was creating issues.
No exceptions.log in the folder currently
