Random crashes to Desktop

[Sather]

Integrity​

I have verified my game files (on Steam)​

Yes

I have disabled all mods​

Yes

Required​

Summary​

Random crashes during gameplay

Description​

For the past three days the game started crashing on me, at first it would crash after starting a game/loading a save and unpausing, usually on the second weekly tick.
I noticed that on the same day a new graphics driver was released for my GPU and at first doing the update seemed to fix things, but now it just randomly crashes at some point.
Early game seems to be somewhat stable now, but 1860s onwards is crash central.
It's quickly closing in on making the game unplayable.
Attachments are from the latest crash after checking gamefiles.

Steps to reproduce​

Just playing the game really, couldn't identify any specific action.

Game Version​

1.6.2

OS​

Windows

Additional​

Bug Type​

Crash to Desktop


Player Pain
10

 

[AndrewT]

First 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

AND exit every other app you can before starting the game.

THEN 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

 

[Sather]

Seems to have helped for now, thanks, will test further.