Victoria 3 not getting past loading screen [MacOS]

[DadaDachs]

Hello!

As it says in the title, I can't get past the 'Initialising game' screen. It was running perfectly fine until yesterday on my Macbook Pro M2. I verified the game cache and reinstalled the game twice but I still get stuck launching the game. Is there a way to fix this?

Any help is appreciated.

 

[AndrewT]

The game has not changed for some time, so I'm not sure why it stopped now for you.

Please do a full clean re-install:

- move any valued save games elsewhere
- "uninstall" in Steam-Vic3
- manually delete both the Steam/SteamApps/common/Victoria3 AND Documents/Paradox Interactive/Victoria3 folders
- re-install game in Steam, run a Steam Verify when done.
- start the game with no mods active and test

In particular make sure there are no files or folders left under either the Steam Victoria3 or Documents Victoria3 locations, before installing again.

**File Locations on Mac OS X**
The executable and DLC folder are in Users/USER/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Victoria3/
To see it go to the Finder, hit command-shift-G (ie Go To) and type in ~/Library/ .
The user files (settings files, error logs, saved games, mods) are in /Users/USER/Documents/Paradox Interactive/Victoria3/ .



If those don't help:
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
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Victoria3/crashes/ folder, attach here the latest (only!) exceptions.txt

 

[DadaDachs]

Thanks for the instructions. I must admit, I found them after my post in another thread. Although it works I have to do the same workaround every time I start the game after a session, which is kind of strange... I have no mods installed.

 

[AndrewT]

You should certainly not have to do that every time, I cannot explain that.

Did this first happen just after a MacOS or other update?