(MAC) Game crashes after creating colony

[Leo from Rio]

• Crash report
  • A few years after I create colonies on colonial regions (either americas or australia) game peformance drops, getting slower and later, crashes, without any especific trigger.
  • If i create colonies on other areas (for example, Africa continent) i have no problem at all
  • Crash happens a few times and i cann't reproduce the error, even when playing on the same saved file.
    • What i mean is, sometimes after i create the colony, game crashes in 1555 when i open a province details. Other times, using the same saved file, it crashes in 1558 when i open CoT details
  • This crash happened even after I uninstalled the game, deleted the files, and re installed a new version
    • I used to play with starter pack, and had no crashes at all.
      (Europa Universalis IV, Europa Universalis IV: Digital Extreme Edition Upgrade Pack, Expansion - Europa Universalis IV: Art of War, Expansion - Europa Universalis IV: Common Sense, Expansion - Europa Universalis IV: Conquest of Paradise, Expansion - Europa Universalis IV: El Dorado, Expansion - Europa Universalis IV: Res Publica, Expansion - Europa Universalis IV: Rights of Man, Expansion - Europa Universalis IV: The Cossacks, Expansion - Europa Universalis IV: Wealth of Nations
  • Game started crashing after i subscribed to all DLCs.

• EU4 information:
  • Game Version: EU v 1.3.75.0 Inca 491d
  • Mods: No mods installed. EVER
  • DLC: full DLC subscription

• Computer Information:
  • Manufacturer: Apple
  • Model: Mac14,2
  • Form Factor: Laptop
  • No Touch Input Detected

• Processor Information:
  • CPU Vendor: VirtualApple
  • CPU Brand: Apple M2
  • CPU Family: 0x6
  • CPU Model: 0xc
  • CPU Stepping: 0x0
  • CPU Type: 0x0
  • Speed: 3555728978 MHz
  • 8 logical processors
  • 8 physical processors
  • Hyper-threading: Unsupported
  • FCMOV: Unsupported
  • SSE2: Supported
  • SSE3: Supported
  • SSSE3: Supported
  • SSE4a: Unsupported
  • SSE41: Supported
  • SSE42: Supported
  • AES: Supported
  • AVX: Unsupported
  • AVX2: Unsupported
  • AVX512F: Unsupported
  • AVX512PF: Unsupported
  • AVX512ER: Unsupported
  • AVX512CD: Unsupported
  • AVX512VNNI: Unsupported
  • SHA: Unsupported
  • CMPXCHG16B: Supported
  • LAHF/SAHF: Supported
  • PrefetchW: Unsupported
  • BMI1: Unsupported
  • BMI2: Unsupported
  • F16C: Unsupported
  • FMA: Unsupported

• Operating System Version:
  • MacOS 14.7.4 (64 bit)
  • Client Information:
  • Version: 1745269938
  • Browser GPU Acceleration Status: Enabled
  • Browser Canvas: Enabled
  • Browser Canvas out-of-process rasterization: Disabled
  • Browser Direct Rendering Display Compositor: Disabled
  • Browser Compositing: Enabled
  • Browser Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
  • Browser OpenGL: Enabled
  • Browser Rasterization: Enabled
  • Browser Raw Draw: Disabled
  • Browser Skia Graphite: Disabled
  • Browser Video Decode: Enabled
  • Browser Video Encode: Enabled
  • Browser Vulkan: Invalid
  • Browser WebGL: Enabled
  • Browser WebGL2: Enabled
  • Browser WebGPU: Enabled
  • Browser WebNN: Disabled

• Video Card:
  • Driver: Apple M2
  • Driver Version: 282.14.2
  • Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
  • Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
  • VendorID: 0x106b
  • DeviceID: 0x0
  • Revision Not Detected
  • Number of Monitors: 1
  • Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
  • Primary Display Resolution: 1470 x 956
  • Desktop Resolution: 1470 x 956
  • Primary Display Size: 11.42" x 7.40" (13.58" diag), 29.0cm x 18.8cm (34.5cm diag)
  • Primary VRAM: 16384 MB

• Memory:
  • RAM: 16384 Mb
  • VR Hardware:
  • VR Headset: None detected

• Miscellaneous:
  • UI Language: English
  • Media Type: DVD
  • Total Hard Disk Space Available: 948584 MB
  • Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 674756 MB

• Storage:
  • Number of SSDs: 0
  • Number of HDDs: 0
  • Number of removable drives:

 

[grotaclas]

I thought I had seen all macOS crashes in the current eu4 version, but this one is new. The newest lines in the exception.txt are:

Demangled Stack Trace:
  2   ???                                 0x0000000000000000 0x0 + 0
  3   eu4                                 0x00000001011accd1 CTradeCompanyListItem::GetToolTip(CGuiObject*) const + 101
  4   eu4                                 0x00000001011b3c60 CTradeNodeView::GetToolTip(CGuiObject*) const + 13438
  5   eu4                                 0x0000000100a42570 CInGameIdler::GetInterfaceToolTip(CGuiObject*) const + 29970
  6   eu4                                 0x00000001007171b6 CInGameIdler::GetCurrentTooltip(CVector2<float> const&, CGuiObject*) + 176
  7   eu4                                 0x00000001011e35f6 CTooltipViewController::ShowTooltipAt(CPoint<int> const&) + 286
  8   eu4                                 0x00000001011e33f0 CTooltipViewController::Update(float)    + 466
  9   eu4                                 0x000000010070ab98 CInGameIdler::Idle(bool)                 + 9956
  10  eu4                                 0x00000001013ca2a0 CApplication::UpdateOneFrame(bool)       + 288

So it crashes in the function CTradeCompanyListItem::GetToolTip which gets called from CTradeNodeView::GetToolTip. Can you post the exception.txt and error.log from a few more crashes so that we can check if it is always crashing in that function or if the error is somewhere else and it is just random that it crashes here? If the crash is only related to trade companies, it might be that it didn't crash before, because you didn't have a DLC which enables them or you didn't have a DLC which enabled the part of trade companies which is causing the crash.

Can you easily reproduce the crash with that save or does it take a few hours of gameplay till it crashes again? The settings show that you are using a resolution of 1470x956 which is quite unusual. Maybe there is some part of eu4 which can't handle that. To test this theory could try to change to windowed mode and a resolution of 1280x720 to see if that crashes as well

Disclaimer: I'm not working for Paradox. I'm just trying to help people.
Edit: fixed code tags

 

[Leo from Rio]

There you go. Crashed again on the CoT. Starting to understand a pattern here.

Thanks a lot for the attention

 

[grotaclas]

There you go. Crashed again on the CoT. Starting to understand a pattern here.

It is crashing in the same function(CTradeCompanyListItem::GetToolTip). How long did it take for you to reproduce the crash? Can you try a 1280x720 resolution to see if it helps?