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Hi,

When I play Victoria 3, the game and together with it also my pc freeze completely sometimes in first 5-10 minutes, somethings I can play up to 30 minutes. But all of my play sessions end with a crash. Sometimes everything freezes and only thing I can do is just shutting down my pc by pressing the power button. Other times everything freezes except my mouse, and my mouse can move very slowly, but I can't do anything else with the mouse, so I have to shut down my pc again by pressing the power button.

My system is as below:
  • MSI MAG B550M MORTAR (MS-7C94)
  • AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D
  • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
  • Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 3600MHz CL18
I don't have this issue with any other game and my pc works really well except Victoria 3. Below you can see the things I have tried so far to solve the issue but nothing helps:
  • I have deleted the game and installed again
  • Did Steam game file integrity verification
  • Windows 11 is updated to the latest version
  • Nvidia GPU driver is installed to the latest version
  • Tried different Windows 11 graphical settings like turning off & on Auto HDR, Optimization for windowed games, Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling
I'm attaching the settings.json, error.log and system.log below, but there are no files in crashes or exceptions folders.
 

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Windows 11 is updated to the latest version
If you have Windows 11 24H2; this can also the cause of this problem, it seems to affect this game and CK3 particularly for some reason.

it is a severely broken Windows update that has caused problems across the whole gaming - indeed computer - industry.
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/game-crashing-after-windows-11-24h2-update.1718749/
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...-freezes-after-installing-win11-24h2.1725554/
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...ws-11-24h2-with-exit-code-3221225620.1712339/

Some users found relief in various ways:
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...r-installing-win11-24h2.1725554/post-30126081
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...-windows-11-24h2-update.1718749/post-30159638
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...-windows-11-24h2-update.1718749/post-30062333

A user has come up with another possible workaround
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/24h2-w11-update-issue-found-no-more-crashes.1728373/
Some affected users have definitely seen that help them with this issue. I'd suggest you look at this step first!

And update the Nvidia driver to March 2025 if any older.

Good luck!