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Something is deeply wrong with the compatibility of the newer Paradox games. I have CK3 and Vic3 and have played them in the past without issue. For the last month at least, whenever I launch the games they crash my entire PC after a random amount of time. Sometimes it's seconds after loading a save, other times I can get maybe 10- 15 minutes in before a crash. I do not have any such problem with Stellaris, EU4, HOI4, or any non-Paradox game. I have verified the game cache multiple times and do not have mods.
 
Not a problem with the forums, so moved to an affected game.
 
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
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Victoria3/crashes/ folder, attach here the latest (only!) exceptions.txt