CK3 sometimes crashes my whole PC

[Kote]

When launching a game it has a chance to either crash my PC (screens are just frozen) or it is pretty long, spikes my CPU usage to 100% and nothing really works, also mouse is moving very slowly.
Same thing might happen during loading or saving the game.

Specs arent a problem: i9 - 13900KF, 32gb RAM, 4080. C drive is an NVME SSD and there are 22gb free on C drive (game is on D).

It started doing that just a while ago and i have no idea why, since before it was working fine. I couldnt find anything on that matter in internet so i hope someone can help me

[Bishi]

If it's been happening within the past two months or so, it's likely because of the windows update 24H2. The only real fix currently is to revert to a system restore point before this update.

Both PDX and Microsoft are dragging their feet to fix/adjust to the update. I've found that doing a full clean install of the game and deleting the CK3 documents folder gets the game to run fine for a couple of days.

Lesson of the day I guess, is to make sure you have some system restore points before major windows updates.

[VoiD]

Have you bought that CPU a long time ago // Have you updated your mobo bios recently?

I had to get not one, but two recent intel CPUs thanks to their manufacturing/microcode issues, a 13900k and a 14900k.

The neat side is that if it really turns out to be a CPU issue you could probably get a replacement as they've extended the warranty by 5 years(?) thanks to these problems.

In both my cases I just bought a new CPU imediately and asked for a full refund from their RMA instead of waiting for a new one.

You could try using some stress tools like aida64 to see if any of the components running at 100% can cause your PC to crash.

[Kote]

Publicado originalmente por VoiD:

Have you bought that CPU a long time ago // Have you updated your mobo bios recently?

I had to get not one, but two recent intel CPUs thanks to their manufacturing/microcode issues, a 13900k and a 14900k.

The neat side is that if it really turns out to be a CPU issue you could probably get a replacement as they've extended the warranty by 5 years(?) thanks to these problems.

In both my cases I just bought a new CPU imediately and asked for a full refund from their RMA instead of waiting for a new one.

You could try using some stress tools like aida64 to see if any of the components running at 100% can cause your PC to crash.

no, my CPU is good and it only happens to CK3. I play alot of games including spec-intensive ones and it only happens to CK3.

[Kote]

Publicado originalmente por Bishi:

If it's been happening within the past two months or so, it's likely because of the windows update 24H2. The only real fix currently is to revert to a system restore point before this update.

Both PDX and Microsoft are dragging their feet to fix/adjust to the update. I've found that doing a full clean install of the game and deleting the CK3 documents folder gets the game to run fine for a couple of days.

Lesson of the day I guess, is to make sure you have some system restore points before major windows updates.

Yeah, you are probably right. I actually remember I updated Windows in the same period of time. Hope they'll fix this issue soon then

[AdmiralPiett]

This is really frustrating

[Arcunas]

I installed the coming update for 24H2 and the game started up fine the first time but crashed during character creator, and went back to freezing my PC, yay.

[[Ally GruntS]Adams L. Albert]

Damn , I have this issue for a long time ,make me afraid to stream gaming ck3 ,and they still not fix it for a long time , I don't know I force shutdown my computer how many time . I'm quite afraid it would damage my computer

cpu:amd 5700x gpu 1080ti

[Boraal]

FYI I reverted to 23H2 and it still didn't work for me, crashes after a few rounds. Paradox support is useless.

[Bishi]

Publicado originalmente por Boraal:

FYI I reverted to 23H2 and it still didn't work for me, crashes after a few rounds. Paradox support is useless.

Did you use a system restore point or do a clean install from an ISO? I would double check your version number as it is quite easy to allow windows to update to the most current build even when installing from an old ISO. It might be time to do some hardware diagnostics if you are still having issues even after rolling back.

I can't speak for everyone, but rolling back to 23h2 and reseating my ram did stop all issues with the program hanging and my computer crashing.

Edit: As an fyi for anyone that does rollback. Use the 3rd party InControl app to stop auto-updates for windows, but still allow security and driver updates. Support for 23h2 will continue until November, in which case we better hope 24h2 is stable and our cpus still supported.

[TheBigJordski]

This has just happened to me. Not played in a while and half hour in, pc froze and crashed

[Bürn Sløw]

This happened to me just now :(

[Altoidss_10]

Publicado originalmente por Bishi:

If it's been happening within the past two months or so, it's likely because of the windows update 24H2. The only real fix currently is to revert to a system restore point before this update.

Both PDX and Microsoft are dragging their feet to fix/adjust to the update. I've found that doing a full clean install of the game and deleting the CK3 documents folder gets the game to run fine for a couple of days.

Lesson of the day I guess, is to make sure you have some system restore points before major windows updates.

I would like to give my two cents on this. This is NOT a windows issue. it is a game wide issue as the linux version has the same problem.
*after about an half hour or hour of playing the game has a stark slowdown to 1-2 FPS
and after a few seconds it crashes the whole computer and has to be restarted which is EXTREMELY uncommon.
anyone that can help????

[Jack Greedy]

had the same issue, what helped me was to switch into vulcan renderer instead of direct x in the launcher options.

[4625.00 kHz]

This is happening to me as well. No blue screen just completely freezes requiring hard shutdown after an hour or so running.
7600x cpu, 1080ti gpu, Windows 11 24H2

[Kote]

I changed to Vulkan renderer and it stopped freezing my pc, so i guess thats a solution