Game Keeps Crashing At Country Selection Screen

[EmirBaskan]

The launcher starts, i start the game, when i hit play before i get to the country selection screen game crashes. I try to send a report, it gives me an error message.

I don't have anti virus, i don't use VPN, I reinstalled the game and checked integrity, I created a ticket and i followed every step and I was told to create a post here so the devs could take a look.

what do i need to do?

 

[STABBY5]

If you are on windows 10/11 try running it in vulkan. It was doing the same thing to me. Windows has broken directx currently on many games.

 

[Ilyasviel]

If you are on windows 10/11 try running it in vulkan. It was doing the same thing to me. Windows has broken directx currently on many games.

Interestingly, I was going to suggest the opposite. I'm on W10, directx works fine, but when I try vulkan, it crashes at the country selection too.

 

[EmirBaskan]

I have tried both with vulkan on and off and tried a few other ones, none works

 

[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.


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

 

[EmirBaskan]

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

Okay I did the first part and it didn't work. While keeping the settings same I tried again and didn't work. So Im gonna paste docs you requested here.

 

[AndrewT]

System Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
System Model: MS-7D91
BIOS: 1.40 (type: UEFI)
Processor: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900K (32 CPUs), ~3.0GHz

You may have the CPU/bios hardware issue discussed here:
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...ration-intel-processors.1591821/post-29305331
Your bios appears to be some years old. Please check with MSI for an updated bios. Then please implement the “Intel Default” option in it, if present.


If that doesn't help, 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/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).

And finally, in the game settings menu switch the renderer to Vulkan.

Let us know if any of those help!