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Hobovirus

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Apr 3, 2025
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I have verified my game files (and reinstalled on Steam, and cleared Documents/Paradox Interactive/Victoria 3)

Yes



I have disabled all mods

Yes



Summary

Often crashing when in the loading screen, sometimes not even generating a crash log
In game for around 3 minutes before CTD



Description


Game was working fine for me about half a year to a few months ago, decided to pick it up again since some of my friends just got it (they're playing with no issues so far)

shouldnt be an overheating issue: other games run fine and i can hear the fan buzzing like normal (actually victoria doesnt last long enough for it to start spinning that quickly)

I've tried a couple of fixes from the thread's I looked through:


  • 60 FPS cap, disable Fullscreen optimization, vsync off
  • Updating nvidia drivers, Bios version,
  • Increasing page file size manually (48GB - but then i reverted it to automatic currently)
  • Making more space on SSD (130 GB Free)
  • Tried Vulkan, but that locked it so I could only use my Integrated graphics
    running on -dx11 and -cpu count=8
  • Reinstalling, verifying game files, and deleting the victoria folder from documents\paradox interactive
  • Trying an older version of the game: 1.7.0, 1.8.0
  • one post about adding a QWORDx64 in Storport called HmbAllocationPolicy? (doesnt seem like anything changed)
  • trying mdsched.exe to check if one of my RAM sticks were faulty(?)
  • Turning off steam, nvidia, and discord overlay


Also tried checking the faulty manager but the errors never seemed to match up with the crash time
And checking the reliability manager would show the same exception stuff but recently it also came up with stackhash errors? (I dont actually know what any of this means)



I have not:


  • Tried a different version of Windows (I can't downgrade off Window's 11 24H2, and I don't want to have to download windows 10)


Steps to reproduce
Launch game (If it loads properly)
enter new game or autosave, and after running on 4/5 speed will always crash within 10 minutes


Game Version

1.8.7


I've got a zip of some of my crashes from today and my dxdiag; I checked the vic3 folder in my documents and it seems like only the crashes and logs seem to be important to include:
(Also removed minidump.dmp since it bloats the size of the zip; also not sure if its needed)
 

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Oh and I forgot to mention I did have similar issues on CK3 in the past month (unmodded) where I would struggle to load the game, but if it did manage to load succesfully I could play for about half an hour before it inevitably crash, but the more I kept trying to continue on a single save the more frequent and faster the crashes occur.

As for Hoi4, it would sometimes crash during the 1940s but if I managed to get past it it would run without any issues (hoi is modded)
 
Hey Andrew,

I went ahead and updated my BIOS and after it crashed once; I started it up again and it managed to run for an hour with no issues (so far). Many thanks for the fix!
 
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