Saves break and crash the game when loading them

[spark_ptz]

In the last few days, a lot of my saves have started breaking: opening them crashes the game every time. It will happen with every save related to a playthrough after a certain unspecified point, all saves made after a certain moment will crash. Until the last few days everything had been working fine but the game is increasingly unplayable in this state since recent saves won't work and I have to go a long way back in time to find a working save, if one exists for that playthrough at all. I'm playing with a bunch of mods and turning off cloud saves hasn't helped. Deleting all my cloud saves didn't help either.

Every crash log has the following exception:

Application: Crusader Kings III
Version: 1.0.3
Date/Time: 2020-09-12 15:21:42

Unhandled Exception C0000005 (EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION) at address 0x00007FF778F25CCA

Stack Trace:
1 ck3.exe PHYSFS_swapULE64 (+ 10430538)
2 ck3.exe PHYSFS_swapULE64 (+ 6190439)
3 ck3.exe PHYSFS_swapULE64 (+ 13216779)
4 ck3.exe PHYSFS_swapULE64 (+ 10435067)
5 ck3.exe PHYSFS_swapULE64 (+ 6004971)
6 ck3.exe PHYSFS_swapULE64 (+ 18623187)
7 ck3.exe SDL_StopTextInput (+ 2072317)
8 ck3.exe PHYSFS_swapULE64 (+ 5883735)
9 ck3.exe PHYSFS_swapULE64 (+ 18621995)
10 ck3.exe PHYSFS_swapULE64 (+ 18615719)
11 ck3.exe PHYSFS_swapULE64 (+ 18578262)
12 ck3.exe PHYSFS_swapULE64 (+ 17249452)
13 ck3.exe SDL_StopTextInput (+ 1982979)
14 ck3.exe SDL_StopTextInput (+ 1982626)
15 ck3.exe SDL_StopTextInput (+ 2260220)
16 ck3.exe SDL_StopTextInput (+ 2261287)
17 ck3.exe SDL_StopTextInput (+ 2261353)
18 ck3.exe SDL_DYNAPI_entry (+ 1664188)
19 KERNEL32.DLL BaseThreadInitThunk (+ 20)
20 ntdll.dll RtlUserThreadStart (+ 33)
21 ntdll.dll RtlUserThreadStart (+ 33)

And every error log ends with some lines like this:

[15:19:28][pdx_parser_helpers.h:34]: Error: "Unexpected token: =, near line: 3886
" in file: "events/lifestyles/statecraft_lifestyle/diplomacy_family_events.txt" near line: 3903
[15:19:28][pdx_parser_helpers.h:34]: Error: "Unexpected token: diplomacy_family.2300, near line: 3906
" in file: "events/lifestyles/statecraft_lifestyle/diplomacy_family_events.txt" near line: 4321
[15:19:28][pdx_parser_helpers.h:34]: Error: "Unexpected token: diplomacy_family.2301, near line: 4324
" in file: "events/lifestyles/statecraft_lifestyle/diplomacy_family_events.txt" near line: 4443

I've uploaded a small but far from exhaustive sample of the generated crash logs.

 

[spark_ptz]

Here is my dxdiag if that helps:

 

[ysabeau]

I also have this problem with the Unhandled Exception C0000005 (EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION), but I still haven't figured it out yet either. It's really annoying to lose over a decade of progress in the game.
I'm also using a bunch of mods, which ones are you using? Maybe there's something in common that is causing it

 

[AndrewT]

Sorry but we cannot help with modded games here - check with the User Mods forum please.

If you get any issues when no mods are involved, please start a new thread. Thanks.