Nothing but crashes

[Abaddon55]

So I don't know whats going on, I've never had issues with stability for earlier patches, but for some reason the most recent update only lets me play for about 5 min before experiencing a straight up ctd.

I've done 3 fresh installs, run no mods, not using HDR, or any settings which usually cause instability, my drivers are completely up to date.

is anyone else experiencing issues like this, I really dont know what the options are other than waiting for the next patch and hoping its fixed by then for me

 

[prismaticmarcus]

Moved to Tech Support

 

[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.

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.log

 

[Abaddon55]

I tried the fix you mentioned, however, now instead of being able to play for about 5-10 min it crashes immediately when selecting a nation and pressing play.

I cannot find an exceptions.log in the log folder, but here is the rest

 

[AndrewT]

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.

 

[PDX_Sosanna]

@Abaddon55 The logs reference a large amount of mod content. Does the issue still occur when you disable the mods?

 

[Abaddon55]

@Abaddon55 The logs reference a large amount of mod content. Does the issue still occur when you disable the mods?

yes, I disabled all mods as soon as I experienced the issue.

 

[Abaddon55]

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 find attached the DXDIAG file

 

[AndrewT]

I think you almost certainly have the bios/CPU/AVX2 issue described 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...

forum.paradoxplaza.com

Please go through the items mentioned there, they have helped pretty much everyone in that situation. Post in that thread if you need more specific help with those items.

Good luck!