Played 1030 hours CK3 - now it just crashes

[WittiW]

Game crashes, I thought it was one-drive. But even after de-installing that one, it just crashes. Crashes after launch, crash my browser, crash steam app.

How to fix it?

[Urza]

Idk, but im going to use your thread to point out that all these crash reports that have been popping up lately have dissuaded me from buying back into CK3 and all its DLC.

I was already a PDX skeptic, but I'm also a strategy game spender. I'm happy to shell out for good games and give studios 2nd chances..... except when the game literally doesnt even work.

Actually I harken back to I think christmas 2018 when Stellaris released a big update right before christmas, then the entire PDX studio went on vacation for like 6 weeks (because europe).
I was one of the modders who released a bugfix to make the game playable until PDX could get off their behinds, so I have hands-on experience of their low QA.

Sorry if this is not entirely on-topic to your thread, I got triggered and there are many other similar reports. I'm not sure if there's a way to fix it. You can try the standard clean install.

1. Unsubscribe from all mods on steam
2. Uninstall the game on steam
3. Manually delete \Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Crusader Kings 3
4. Manually delete \Documents\Paradox Interactive\Crusader Kings 3
5. Reinstall the game on steam
6. Verify integrity of the steam game

This is from memory and probably overkill, but check back in or do searches based on this as a starting point if it doesnt work.

[Dragster6681]

Thanks for this advice Urza, my game kept crashing at startup. Works fine now that I followed the steps shown.