Victoria 3 Crashing on Launch

[PDX_Sosanna]

@ShinCzilla If it used to work, but no longer does, could you try deleting the shader cache found in "Documents/Paradox Interactive/Victoria 3/shadercache" ?
That directory is not automatically cleared when reinstalling the game through Steam and occasionally gets corrupted for some users between some large updates.

 

[PDX_Sosanna]

@ShinCzilla @richrray27
Hello! By any chance, do you still have the corrupted shader cache files stored anywhere (perhaps in your Recycle Bin)? Our engine team is looking into the issue and a copy of the corrupted cache (the one that was causing the crash) would help them tremendously in making sure that the issue doesn't occur again for anyone.

 

[PDX_Sosanna]

@richrray27 Amazing! Could you archive/compress the folder (via zip or winrar) and attach it to a post here (with the "Attach Files" button in the lower left corner)? Thanks!

 

[PDX_Sosanna]

@richrray27
Thanks! We've passed it over to the engine team and linked this forum thread hopefully they'll be able to see what went wrong.
Best regards and stay warm!