Using 100% of all cores during boot

[themrspartan]

This is during the loading screen while "Initializing". RAM is barely being utilized. The entire computer will lock up for either a minute or until power cycled when booting the game. Why? Launching this game is like playing Russian roulette with my computer lately.

 

[themrspartan]

Look at what happens if I restrict CK3 from using four of my CPU cores, it devours the rest of them. Without reserving cores for the OS, this completely shuts down the computer.

 

[themrspartan]

After reading around the forums I've concluded that this is the fault of the perfidious windows update. I updated my Nvidia graphics driver, my AMD chipset drivers, uninstalled the game, deleted the CK3 folder in my documents, reinstalled the game, and didn't encounter the freeze as of yet. Previously I had disabled fullscreen optimizations and made the registry edit suggested in another thread, these did not work.

EDIT: Happened again on the second boot when I tried to enable mods. Disabled the mods and it boots again. Tried to boot a third time with no mods and it hangs again. Very bizarre.

 

[themrspartan]

Switching to Vulkan from DX11 seems to make it work reliably. The other fixes may have mitigated the likelihood of the freeze, but did not prevent it.