Victoria 3 crashes on start Windows 24H2 Vulkan

[Speaker21]

Integrity​

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Summary​

Victoria 3 crashes on start Windows 24H2 Vulkan

Description​

I am one of the unlucky people who encountered a complete freeze 24H2. Also, when launching the game on Vulkan, I get the error: vkGetInstanceProcAddr: 'No Vulkan loader has been loaded'. I reinstalled the game and the Nvidia driver, but this did not fix the problem.

My workaround to play the game:
1. Launch the game in DX11
2. Switch to Vulkan in the settings
3. Do not restart the game
I assume that the render changes are not applied, however, after doing this, Windows does not freeze

Steps to reproduce​

Launch the game with Vulkan settings

Game Version​

1.9.7

OS​

Windows

Additional​

Bug Type​

Crash to Desktop

Save Game​

Attachments​

View attachment logs.zip

Player Pain​

1

 

[PDX_Sosanna]

Moving to Tech Support

 

[AndrewT]

This will be another Win11 24H2 issue, I'm pretty sure. A user has come up with a possible workaround

Potential Windows Freeze workaround

Victorians! We have discovered a possible workaround for those affected by the Windows Freeze issue we have previously mentioned in our 1.9 known issues thread. This method, while it seems to work on our end, needs to be applied every time you...

forum.paradoxplaza.com

Definitely worth a shot - let me know if that does help you! Note that to test it you don't actually need to use Processor Lasso, just Affinity in Task Manager (for testing purposes anyway).

Good luck!