I was playing as the Ottomans when my game crashed I thought nothing of it but then my save file was gone and it immediately crashed as I tried to load an older save file right now I'm stuck in a crashing loop. I've tried turning off Vsync and limiting fps to 60 nothing helps.
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Has this always happened since you've had the game? Or it was okay up to some point?
Any mods involved?
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.log
Any mods involved?
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.log
I decided to go into task manager as admin and came upon the likly culprit, the RAM usage was at 95%!
I guess 16GB of RAM isn't enough these days
(vanilla game no mods)
You could try this:
- expand your Windows paging file maximum size to at least 32gb
- exit every other app you can before starting the game.
Good luck with that!
- expand your Windows paging file maximum size to at least 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.
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Good luck with that!
Depends on your OS version and installed hardware/drivers.
But yes, over the years, both video cards and Windows versions have become more RAM hungry.
It's not uncommon for a reasonably state of the art Video card to claim some 8 GB of main memory RAM to augment it's own on-board video RAM. If that's the case, then a 16 GB RAM system just became an 8 GB RAM system from the application/OS point of view. And Windows 7 uses more RAM than Windows XP, Windows 10 more than Windows 7, and Windows 11 even more than Windows 10.
In the Windows XP era (with the then-current crop of video boards), you could get by with 4 GB of RAM. In Windows 7 that used to be 8 GB. But with a recent-ish video board (like an NVidia 1660 super or better), this increases to 16 GB, realistically. So, for Windows 10/11 paired with something like an NVidia RTX 30 or 40 series, this further increases to 24-32 GB of RAM.
For my own system (assembled 6 months ago), I went straight for 64 GB of RAM (still on Windows 10 though).