Crash/Bluescreen when reloading save files?

[Sekhmet]

So reloading save files while ingame make CK3 crash or even gives me a bluescreen. Anyone else experiencing this madness?

[jamie]

Drivers are out of date on computer or broken OS files or missing mod or errors in save file.

[desaix]

Crashes might be the game's fault, but a bluescreen is a system issue. Upgrade your drivers, run a virusscan, run sfc /scannow, run chkdsk /r, test your RAM, download and run the Intel Processor Diagnostic Tool, etc.

Hate to say this, but my guess is it's your RAM -- this game has been having an epidemic of crashes, lately, due to higher than intended RAM usage (exacerbated by a bug in 13th and 14th generation Intel processors effecting how they handle RAM, especially in certain games -- CK3 being one of them -- that will need a firmware update to fix, and last I'd checked Intel had yet to provide one) when saving and loading a game. That may be the cause of your crashes, but if you're getting a bluescreen as well... it's probably one of your RAM sticks.

[Sekhmet]

Originally posted by desaix:

Crashes might be the game's fault, but a bluescreen is a system issue. Upgrade your drivers, run a virusscan, run sfc /scannow, run chkdsk /r, test your RAM, download and run the Intel Processor Diagnostic Tool, etc.

Hate to say this, but my guess is it's your RAM -- this game has been having an epidemic of crashes, lately, due to higher than intended RAM usage (exacerbated by a bug in 13th and 14th generation Intel processors effecting how they handle RAM, especially in certain games -- CK3 being one of them -- that will need a firmware update to fix, and last I'd checked Intel had yet to provide one). That may be the cause of your crashes, but if you're getting a bluescreen as well... it's probably one of your RAM sticks.

Hey, thank you for your answer. I feel like 64gb of ram should be enough to not run into such issues. Also I don't experience the same issues when playing other games like Dragons Dogma 2 or Starcitizen. However makes me wonder why the blue screen would appear when trying to load the game.

[desaix]

Originally posted by Don'tHurryBeHappy:

Originally posted by desaix:

Crashes might be the game's fault, but a bluescreen is a system issue. Upgrade your drivers, run a virusscan, run sfc /scannow, run chkdsk /r, test your RAM, download and run the Intel Processor Diagnostic Tool, etc.

Hate to say this, but my guess is it's your RAM -- this game has been having an epidemic of crashes, lately, due to higher than intended RAM usage (exacerbated by a bug in 13th and 14th generation Intel processors effecting how they handle RAM, especially in certain games -- CK3 being one of them -- that will need a firmware update to fix, and last I'd checked Intel had yet to provide one). That may be the cause of your crashes, but if you're getting a bluescreen as well... it's probably one of your RAM sticks.

Hey, thank you for your answer. I feel like 64gb of ram should be enough to not run into such issues. Also I don't experience the same issues when playing other games like Dragons Dogma 2 or Starcitizen. However makes me wonder why the blue screen would appear when trying to load the game.

If it's a 13th or 14th generation Intel processor, the problem isn't the amount of RAM used, it's HOW it gets used. Some (but crucially not all) games (I have confirmed that games like CK3, Starfield, and Hogwarts Legacy are all affected, but games like Galactic Civilizations IV, Cyberpunk, and BG3 are not) trigger an issue that causes games to crash when RAM usage spikes. This might also result in a BSOD if there's something else systemic happening in your computer.