Reverted back to 23h2 hoping the crashes would go away.

[iRaze1]

Hi so I play lots of CK3 and Vic3 and as we all know one of the main problems was WIndows 24H2. I decided to go back to 23h2 hoping they would go away but they didn't. I have 16 gb of ram and all it takes is 5 minutes of gameplay for it to be at 85% usage and it goes even higher crashing my game/computer.

Are there any fixes to this?

 

[exi123]

The ram running full in a heavy simulation game like Vic3 is not an issue, that is what the ram is for. If it is really a reproducable crash that happens when the ram is full, the extended storage on your hard drive could be faulty or not even configured, or just to small.

It could also be that the ram itself is faulty, there are a lot of tools out there to check the ram, including Windows. I had this with my pc some months ago, took me a long time to get behind it because not every check may find the faulty module. Make sure you use a tool that test outside of the running OS, starting from an USB stick for example. Win11 does not even allow a lot tools to access everything due to safety concerns.

 

[AndrewT]

Hi so I play lots of CK3 and Vic3 and as we all know one of the main problems was WIndows 24H2. I decided to go back to 23h2 hoping they would go away but they didn't. I have 16 gb of ram and all it takes is 5 minutes of gameplay for it to be at 85% usage and it goes even higher crashing my game/computer.

Are there any fixes to this?

Most likely you are running low on available memory. Please expand your Windows paging file maximum size to 32gb
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/openpag...increasing-paging-file-size-windows-computers
AND exit every other app you can before starting the game.


If that doesn't help, 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.
IF dxdiag.txt fails to attach here, rename it to dxdiag.log , or zip it up.

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
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Victoria3/crashes/ folder, attach here the latest (only!) exceptions.txt