Yesterday I tried playing Vic3, but while time was ticking, the game froze up. Inputs became extremely delayed for a moment until they stopped working entirely. I tried closing the game, but the game didn't respond. The button in steam saying "stop" didn't stop the game, nor did clicking the x at the top right of the window. Windows had to give the "blah blah program isn't responding" message so I could press "close application" to finally get the game to close. Steam still thought the game was running. Task manager didn't have the game show up in its running applications, but the pc resources used by Victoria 3 were still being used (not even allocated to an "unknown" application though). Task manager then stopped responding to inputs and then froze before having to be closed by the Windows pop-up. Multiple computer restarts, reinstallations of the game, and turning back the game version to 1.7.6 haven't fixed this. How do I address this?
Since the first freeze, the freezes have occurred within a minute of opening the game. The first time I turned back the game version, I got an extra minute or two before the game froze. That benefit disappeared after the first freeze with the new game version.
Note: this is not an issue that has come up before. This is the first time I've tried playing Victoria 3 on my new pc (though other paradox games ran just fine).
Since the first freeze, the freezes have occurred within a minute of opening the game. The first time I turned back the game version, I got an extra minute or two before the game froze. That benefit disappeared after the first freeze with the new game version.
Note: this is not an issue that has come up before. This is the first time I've tried playing Victoria 3 on my new pc (though other paradox games ran just fine).
