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iMajoraGaming Jun 3, 2023 @ 5:13am
Why is the game so unstable?
I stopped playing a few months back because the game had a nasty little issue where it would randomly crash during autosaves.

I came back fully thinking that the new patch would fix that.

It is literally unplayable now. I can't even get the game to boot half the time, it crashes when I change settings, when I'm loading in to pick a character, when I open the barbershop or throne room, it is crashing so frequently that it has quite literally stopped allowing me to submit crash reports because of how many I have sent.

I even wiped the slate clean, fully reinstalled it from scratch after purging the files, I've rebooted my PC more times than I can count, verified files, and it just... does not work.

It's horrid. I have no earthly idea how one patch, even a Paradox patch, could so thoroughly bork the game.
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pauloandrade224 Jun 3, 2023 @ 5:18am 
thats very odd even on my potato pc i never really get crashes at all
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iMajoraGaming Jun 3, 2023 @ 5:22am 
Originally posted by pauloandrade224:
thats very odd even on my potato pc i never really get crashes at all

What's even more noggle-boggling is that clean-reinstalling the game made it worse lmao

I went from being able to get to the main-menu 99% of the time to not even being able to get past the first loading slide more than 80% of the time.

It took me like, probably 15 launches? To even get the game to let me change the settings after I reinstalled, it would crash when I tried to apply my graphical settings, then when I tried turning the music volume down, and before that for a period of like nine months the game would just randomly crash during autosaves.

And even before that. the throne room was a source of random crashes, infrequent, yes, but just the act of it loading the throne room seemed to occasionally bork the game.

No other Paradox game I own has been this bad, even at their lowest points, they were never so wildly unstable.

Even when I was using a bad laptop to play Paradox games I could run them with little issue, I think Civ 5 was the one thing that laptop couldn't run without crashing.

Truly a strange time to be alive.
Last edited by iMajoraGaming; Jun 3, 2023 @ 5:23am
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CaryBird Jun 3, 2023 @ 6:30am 
Same issues here. I would like to know if you get a reply to correct this.
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iMajoraGaming Jun 3, 2023 @ 6:52am 
Originally posted by CaryBird:
Same issues here. I would like to know if you get a reply to correct this.
Been trying to fix it for 6 hours so far and just... can't.

I can literally not even play the game, even if I wanted to (and I do), I couldn't. It is genuinely, literally, not metaphorically, unplayable.

It's even worse when I consider that even if I wanted to refund the DLC and just cut my losses, I've spent more than 2 hours in the loading screens alone just trying to get in to try to fix it.
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=BodyBag= Jun 3, 2023 @ 7:24am 
The problem is at your end.
While upgrading my high-end game computer, Im playing this game on my notebook,
This game can run on a simple graphics chip with no hick-up's at all.
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Abacus Jun 3, 2023 @ 7:46am 
never had the issue, on both my potato (have to play on lowest settings/no animations.) nor my gaming rig
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Garaita Jun 3, 2023 @ 9:24am 
some times CTDs here
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RedStar Jun 3, 2023 @ 9:57am 
Definitely a user issue. I don't think I've ever had CK3 crash. It's very stable for me.
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trapani2 Jun 3, 2023 @ 10:51am 
I've only ever had 1 real crash in about 250 hours...
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Atréides Jun 3, 2023 @ 11:32am 
Same for me, since the last DLC release my ounce so fluid game became laggy and crash often. This is really annoying, i keep loosing mounth of play (it save each years) and the game lag way too much for a light game like this. I run Vic 3 way better on the same computer, this is strange. Not even speaking of mods ! Agot and Fallen Eagle were also fluid but now it's horrible to play them. I don't understand why this happen.
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iMajoraGaming Jun 3, 2023 @ 3:47pm 
Originally posted by =BodyBag=:
The problem is at your end.
While upgrading my high-end game computer, Im playing this game on my notebook,
This game can run on a simple graphics chip with no hick-up's at all.
It's not.

It's very specifically a patch issue.
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=BodyBag= Jun 3, 2023 @ 4:06pm 
Originally posted by iMajoraGaming:
Originally posted by =BodyBag=:
The problem is at your end.
While upgrading my high-end game computer, Im playing this game on my notebook,
This game can run on a simple graphics chip with no hick-up's at all.
It's not.

It's very specifically a patch issue.

So every body else is wrong, but you are right?

I have played more than 3.000 hours in this game over 2 different computers, and NEVER HAD A CRASH!

Grow up...
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iMajoraGaming Jun 3, 2023 @ 4:08pm 
Originally posted by =BodyBag=:
Originally posted by iMajoraGaming:
It's not.

It's very specifically a patch issue.

So every body else is wrong, but you are right?

I have played more than 3.000 hours in this game over 2 different computers, and NEVER HAD A CRASH!

Grow up...

...You mean minus the other people having this issue?

Or the... emergence of it only after 1.9?

Like, good for you, find someone else to talk down to, I'm not interested my guy.
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=BodyBag= Jun 3, 2023 @ 4:27pm 
Originally posted by iMajoraGaming:
Originally posted by =BodyBag=:

So every body else is wrong, but you are right?

I have played more than 3.000 hours in this game over 2 different computers, and NEVER HAD A CRASH!

Grow up...

...You mean minus the other people having this issue?

Or the... emergence of it only after 1.9?

Like, good for you, find someone else to talk down to, I'm not interested my guy.

If there was something wrong with the patch, then EVERYBODY would have a problem!
Just because you and a handful of others have problems, does not invalidates all the other 1.000 of players experiences!

There will always be people with bad machines and bad setups, when you are dealing with so many people.

Maybe if you acted like a grownup, people would not have to treat you like a child...
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iMajoraGaming Jun 3, 2023 @ 4:44pm 
Originally posted by =BodyBag=:
Originally posted by iMajoraGaming:

...You mean minus the other people having this issue?

Or the... emergence of it only after 1.9?

Like, good for you, find someone else to talk down to, I'm not interested my guy.

If there was something wrong with the patch, then EVERYBODY would have a problem!
Just because you and a handful of others have problems, does not invalidates all the other 1.000 of players experiences!

There will always be people with bad machines and bad setups, when you are dealing with so many people.

Maybe if you acted like a grownup, people would not have to treat you like a child...
... That isn't how that works my guy.

There's a reason when bugs are introduced into games, they have to run replication on multiple machines and even then dev teams can't always actually reproduce a bug themselves, even if it's widespread.

If you feel invalidated then that's some weird thing you need to work out elsewhere. I'm not interested in whatever desire you have to act like this, stop derailing the thread, you didn't have the issue, cool, that does not fix the patch or an issue that only came about with it, bye.
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