Whenever I try to launch Victoria 3 it gets stuck on the initial loading screen. After a couple minutes it crashes with no error notification. I’ve tried reinstalling and verifying the files on Steam but nothing is working.
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Has this game ever worked on this computer? Or never yet?
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.
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 , exceptions.txt
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.
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 , exceptions.txt
@AndrewT
The game hasn't worked on the computer yet, I just got it.
Here's the stuff you asked for: There was no exceptions.txt
The game hasn't worked on the computer yet, I just got it.
Here's the stuff you asked for: There was no exceptions.txt
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I see no smoking gun in there, but a couple of things to look at:
- update that Nvidia driver to this month's one https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
- expand your Windows paging file maximum size to 32gb
- exit every other app you can before starting the game.
If that doesn't help, new copies of all those files please.
- update that Nvidia driver to this month's one https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
- expand your Windows paging file maximum size to 32gb
Optional: Increasing the paging file size on Windows computers
On computers that have 8 GB of RAM, the suggested paging file size is 16 GB.
www.ibm.com
If that doesn't help, new copies of all those files please.
@AndrewT
I updated the Nvidia driver and increased the paging file size, and now it works. Thanks so much!
I updated the Nvidia driver and increased the paging file size, and now it works. Thanks so much!
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I have the same problem. I have uploaded the dxdiag files here. There was no exceptions.txt
You may have the CPU/bios hardware issue discussed here:
Victoria 3 | 12th/13th/14th Generation Intel Processors
Hello all! An update, 12th and 13th Generation Intel Processors are related to a Crash to Desktop (CTD) happening frequently, this is related to architecture changes by Intel and specifically E-cores. We are working with Intel to address these...
FIRST please check for an updated bios. Then please implement the “Intel Default” option in it, if present.
Good luck!