Game Crashes to Desktop

[chin24]

When it crashes tends to vary a little, but in general it crashes when starting a new game, and when it makes it through that it will crash a couple minutes into the game. It also crashes if you try to go to country selection in the sandbox mode when starting a new game.

No mods, frames limited to 60, no Vsync, disabled fullscreen optimization.

Already tried this:
- updated drivers
- using '-vulkan'
- using '-dx11'
- deleting shadercache
- I've gotten my CPU replaced, and updated bios due to the intel hardware issue.

 

[AndrewT]

I see you have Windows 11 24H2; this can be the cause of this problem, it is a severely broken Windows update that has caused problems across the whole gaming - indeed computer - industry.





A user has come up with another possible workaround


https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/24h2-w11-update-issue-found-no-more-crashes.1728373/


Some affected users have definitely seen that help them with this issue. I'd suggest you look at this step first!





And here is another workaround someone posted:


https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...s-the-problem-with-computer-freezing.1774335/


Definitely worth a shot - let me know if that does help you! Note that to test it you don't actually need to use Processor Lasoo, just Affinity in Task Manager (for testing purposes anyway).


Let us know if any of those help!

 

[chin24]

I tried the first one it seemed to have helped a little, I could play for about a minute before it crashes. The second suggestion helped a little more, and I could play for a couple minutes before it crashed. I did get a glance at process lasso after the game crashed for the second try and it was running 89% ram usage before it crashed. I have 64 GB of ram, so it seems excessive.

 

[AndrewT]

Certainly the game should not be using 58gb of memory ... but surely that was overall memory usage, not just victoria3.exe by itself?

Having put those in place, have you also tried Vulkan again?

 

[chin24]

True, the resting memory amount is around 13 GB for me. That being said it is probably not memory related since I tried it again and it crashed while only using around 5 GB of memory. Yes, I've been running it with Vulkan. I've also tried running it windowed at 2560x1600 to see if it is related to pushing a lot of pixels while trying to run, and it still crashed within a minute or two of loading a game.

 

[AndrewT]

You mention having updated the bios, but was that within say the last month or so? Because new Intel microcode gets released every few weeks now!

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.

 

[chin24]

Thanks for the bios suggestion! There was in fact several more bios updates since I last updated it, and I installed the one from about 2 months ago. It is now not crashing!

 

[chin24]

I spoke a little too soon. It looks like it can and does still crash, but a restart of my computer is now enough to let it be stable for multiple hours.

 

[AndrewT]

That can mean your CPU has been physically affected by the problem. You could contact your PC vendor or system board maker to see if you are covered by the Intel CPU replacement programme.