Game crashes when it initializes

[CabooseRvB]

Once I launch the game, or resume a save the game immediately crashes when it tries to initialize.

I tried all the troubleshooting steps, including checking for updates, hard-setting at 60 FPS on the PDX launcher, but the issue persists.


Before when the game would crash in about 30 minutes, the other solution I was able to do was setting the affinity to cores 0-7 and it allowed the game to run quite normally.

I posted my computer specs from System Info. Of note, I have also just upgraded my CPU so I do not think this problem is connected to a BIOs problem. Additionally I pasted the specs here:

NVIDIA system information report created on: 02/10/2025 13:06:35
NVIDIA App version: 11.0.2.312
Operating system: Microsoft Windows 11 Home, Version 10.0.22631
DirectX runtime version: DirectX 12
Driver: Game Ready Driver - 560.94 - Tue Aug 20, 2024
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-14900K
RAM: 32.0 GB
Storage: SSD - 1.8 TB

Graphics card
GPU processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
Direct3D feature level: 12_1
CUDA cores: 8448
Graphics clock: 2655 MHz
Resizable bar: No
Memory data rate: 21.00 Gbps
Memory interface: 256-bit
Memory bandwidth: 672.064 GB/s
Total available graphics memory: 32630 MB
Dedicated video memory: 16376 MB GDDR6X
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 16254 MB
Video BIOS version: 95.03.45.40.0a
IRQ: Not used
Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen4
Device ID: 10DE 2705 413C1458
Part number: G141 0323

Display (1): Acer ED323QUR A
Resolution: 2560 x 1440 (native)
Refresh rate: 144 Hz
Desktop color depth: Highest (32-bit)
Display technology: Variable Refresh Rate
HDCP: Supported

Display (2): Acer ED242QR A
Resolution: 1080p, 1920 x 1080 (native)
Refresh rate: 60 Hz
Desktop color depth: Highest (32-bit)
HDCP: Supported

 

[AndrewT]

I have also just upgraded my CPU so I do not think this problem is connected to a BIOs problem.

I'd still check with ASUS for any available bios update, say in the last month or two.
I mention that because the affinity change you made that helped before, does point to a hardware factor in the issues you had then!

Assuming that does not 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