Game crashes to desktop before even when trying to select scenario. (Windows 11)

[CptShingo]

Yeah so the game Crashes whenever I select Sandbox or when I try to start the game after selecting a country in any scenario (The great game for example). Please help me because its absolutely ridiculous not being able to play the game I paid money for.

I have NO mods, and already have veryfied integrity of game files as well as uninstalled and reinstalled the game several times but the problem persists.

 

[AndrewT]

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.

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 , exceptions.txt

 

[CptShingo]

I have done as you suggested above but the game still crashes. Here are the files you requested.

 

[AndrewT]

CPU Model: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700KF

You very likely have the CPU/bios hardware issue discussed here:

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

FIRST please check for an updated bios. Then please implement the “Intel Default” option in it.

And keep an eye out for further bios updates this month, as Intel will be releasing new microcode to address this issue at some point, which each vendor will roll out in bios updates.

Good luck!

 

[CptShingo]

Ok so I looked into it and I was able to update my bios which seemed to have fixed the problem. I have been playing for several hours now and there have been no crashes or issues at all but I have yet to reach 1900s, though I am hopeful that there wont be any stability issues. Thank you for taking the time to respond to post and helping me.