PC dies after starting the game

[Mokus]

I have a problem which started about a month ago.

Anytime i try to play Crusader Kings 3 two things happens:

During the loading phase when i start the game: my pc kinda freezes up, i can move the mouse and that is it. All the sounds cuts out, i cannot alt-tab or close the game or interact with anything.

If the game loads in after some time which can range from 10 mins to even hours the same happens.

I have tried everything, updating all of my drivers, updating windows, trying the game without mods, reinstalling the game, downgrading the game.

Nothing so far works and i don't know why other than that my pc might be cursed.

My pc specs:

Motherboard: Gigabyte B450 Aorus M
CPU: Ryzen 5 3600
GPU: RTX 3060 12GB
Ram: 32GB
OS: Win 11

Edit: I do have win 11 24H2 update and using Vulkan seemingly fixed this problem

 

[Mokus]

Okay, switching to Vulkan seemingly fixed it, however i didn't test it longer than an hour so hopefully tomorrow i can see if that actually fixed it or the bug/glitch didn't want to happen this time.

 

[AndrewT]

FYI Vulkan is not really meant for everyday use in the Windows edition of the game, it is really only there for diagnostic purposes. But if it works fine for you that's great!

OS: Win 11

Do you have the 24H2 update?

it is a severely broken Windows update that has caused problems across the whole gaming - indeed computer - industry.
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/game-crashing-after-windows-11-24h2-update.1718749/
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...-freezes-after-installing-win11-24h2.1725554/
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...ws-11-24h2-with-exit-code-3221225620.1712339/

Certainly make sure you have the latest MS updates for it installed, but if that doesn't help all you can do is revert to 23H2 if you still can.