In Review Game Crashes and Freezes PC Seemingly at Random

[Caradonz]

Information​

I have verifed my game files (Steam only)​

Yes

I have disabled all mods​

Yes

I am running the latest game update​

Yes

Required​

Summary​

Game Crashes and Freezes PC Seemingly at Random

Description​

For context, I have been playing since 2021 and have not experienced this issue until now. At the beginning of this month I came back to the game after not having played since November. I played a game where my character was stuck with the Pay Homage Bug. I ran the game in debug mode from the launcher and manually killed the liege to remove the bug. After this, every run I've played afterwards has had this error occur. I also unfortunately am not sure if the issue existed before I ran the game in debug mode the one time as it happened the day I started to get back into the game. I have not launched the game in debug mode since that singular time and the issue persists even after implementing the steps listed below. I have also never downloaded a mod for this game before.

Sometimes after launching the game and selecting "Play" the game loads as usual, however, after a few seconds still during the "Game Initialization" part the game will freeze alongside the entirety of my PC. This does not only happen during the loading screen as this also occurs during regular gameplay, this has happened as both landed and unlanded characters. When the game has not completely frozen my PC, it instead just crashes the game only, thankfully a crash report is then generated in these instances. One of these two issues tend to happen a few times a day if I play for a 2-3 hour time period.

I have opened a ticket with the support team and have followed their troubleshooting suggestions thus far. As nothing has, unfortunately, fixed it yet, they have suggested I post the issue here. Here are the steps I have taken:
Validated Steam Files
Uninstalled and Reinstalled the Game
Ensured my Drivers are Up to Date
Deleted all Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common and Documents\Paradox Interactive\Crusader Kings III Files, Reinstalled the Game, then Revalidated Files

This last suggestion seemed to speed up the game and allowed me to play for around two hours straight before it crashed again.

Steps to reproduce​

It does seem to be random. It has occurred while doing different things in the game each time.

Game Version​

1.16.2

Platform​

Windows

Additional Information​

Affected Feature​

• Crashes

Save Game​

View attachment last_save.ck3

Other Attachments​

View attachment error.log

 

[Potato Bisquit]

Hello there! Thank you for the report. Could you provide more information and if possible a way to reproduce the issue? Could You provide full crash folder in compressed format like ".zip"? It can be found in directory "\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Crusader Kings III\crashes".

 

[Caradonz]

Hello! Yes, I can certainly provide the zipped folder. Please let me know if this attachment is sufficient. Regarding the more information, please let me know what to elaborate further on.

Regarding the replication, I unfortunately do not know how. There seems to be a 33% chance that the game completely freezes my computer on launch during the "Initializing Game..." loading portion of the screen. I do nothing other than click play from the launcher and let it load. The game crashed yesterday, as per the zip file, from regular gameplay. I unfortunately do not remember exactly what I was doing exactly, but I must have been moving the map with WASD and clicking on one of the UI tabs at the same time.

After completely deleting all files, redownloading the game, and validating the files, I can confirm that the game has become smoother overall. I did this before starting this thread. My computer has only frozen upon launch once and the game has only crashed once since yesterday afternoon. This is in comparison to me crashing/freezing around twice an hour before doing this.

 

[Caradonz]

I just experienced another crash and can add on further about a specific scenario which this occurred. I selected my heir's character and was reviewing their stats. I closed their character window by pressing the escape button and pressed "D" to pan the map to the right. After that the game crashed. I am also going to attach this crash's zip folder if that assists you as well.