Game randomly crashes and cannot open from Steam

[alexgators1]

Hello,

When the game first came out I had no issues running the game through Steam. As of the middle of last week or so the game cannot be launched from Steam (so i run the .exe as administrator) where it runs for a while then crashes at seemingly random times.

I have tried everything I've seen on this forum and elsewhere like uninstall/reinstall, run as admin, update drives, put the game on AV exceptions, etc.

Attached requisite docs. Hopefully it helps.

Thanks!

 

[AndrewT]

Try disabling Steam Cloud Sync for this game, dos it start up from Steam okay then?

If so you probably have a corrupted save game in the Steam cloud.

 

[alexgators1]

Try disabling Steam Cloud Sync for this game, dos it start up from Steam okay then?

If so you probably have a corrupted save game in the Steam cloud.

Same issue where it just says “Launching the game failed.”

 

[AndrewT]

There are a lot of errors in tht log, so let's do a clean reinstall:

- move any valued save games elsewhere
- "uninstall" in Steam-CK3
- manually delete both the Steam/SteamApps/common/CK3 AND Documents/Paradox/CK3 folders
- re-install game in Steam, run a Steam Verify when done.
- add CK3.exe to the exceptions list of your antivirus app; ESPECIALLY if you have Windows Defender, add it to the Ransomware "Apps Allowed Through" list.
- start the game with no mods active and test with a new campaign, set to save locally

In particular make sure there are no files or folders left under either the Steam CK3 or Documents CK3 locations, before installing again.

 

[alexgators1]

There are a lot of errors in tht log, so let's do a clean reinstall:

- move any valued save games elsewhere
- "uninstall" in Steam-CK3
- manually delete both the Steam/SteamApps/common/CK3 AND Documents/Paradox/CK3 folders
- re-install game in Steam, run a Steam Verify when done.
- add CK3.exe to the exceptions list of your antivirus app; ESPECIALLY if you have Windows Defender, add it to the Ransomware "Apps Allowed Through" list.
- start the game with no mods active and test with a new campaign, set to save locally

In particular make sure there are no files or folders left under either the Steam CK3 or Documents CK3 locations, before installing again.

I did all this before making the post, but I’ll try again tonight. Thanks for your help.