My game randomly freezes in mid-game

[ugodelghingaro]

Hello everyone,

It's been 1 month, 1 and a half months since I downloaded Crusader King 3 and discovered the franchise.
Ever since I downloaded the game, a recurring (and totally random) bug has prevented me from having a real gaming experience. In fact, as mentioned in the title of this article, my game is crashing at random and freezing in the middle of my games (ironman mode on or off). I can no longer remove or activate the pause, but I'm still able to perform all the actions around the game (which is absolutely useless because the game stops moving). What's more, when I want to quit the game to restart it, it keeps crashing (I have to use ctrl + alt + delete and use the admin console to force this). Of course, I've tried to ‘fix the errors’ on steam as well as on the launcher, to re-install the game and even to launch it as an administrator, but nothing works.
Unfortunately I'm beginning to despair and I've searched the net but can't find anything like it. The only article where it seems that someone has had the same problem has so far gone unanswered.
So I'm relying on you as a last resort, hoping that someone in the community can help me see things more clearly and find a solution so that I can finally start my adventure on a game that seems to be very attractive.

Hoping to find someone who can solve my problems, I wish you all a good day and a happy festive season.

[brownacs]

Is the freezing happening after a few hundred years or is it happening from the start of the run?

[armyissue69]

i suspect its a memory issue. I had this problem on a previous computer.

1-Do you have ALOT of memory? Extra memory seems to help out
2-Do you use an SSD drive? SSD makes everything quicker and less hanging up
3-Run a memory diagnostic. Its a system function and will restart your computer. Takes a little long but.....I had this issue and you'll have to change out your memory (or clean connectors) IF you have a problem.

Hope these suggestions help you out. If it is NOT one of the above things...dunno what to tell ya.

[ugodelghingaro]

@brownacs : It's totally random. It can happen at the start of the game or 10/15 years later.

@armyissue69 : If it helps, here's the information I find in my task manager :
- Used (compressed) : 5.3Go (140MO)
- Available : 2.6Go
- Validated : 7.3/16.4Go
- Caching : 2.6Go
- Paginated reserve : 1016Mo
- Unpaginated pool : 524Mo
This is the information I can currently find without the game being launched.

I do have an SSD but I don't know whether the game was downloaded to it or to the HDD. Do you think this could affect how it works?

How can I diagnose the memory? How can I change my memory or clean the connectors?

Sorry, my computer skills are pretty limited, especially as I'm French, so I'm doing the Google translation in parallel to make sure I understand everything.

In any case, thank you both in advance for your involvement!

[armyissue69]

Originally posted by ugodelghingaro:

I do have an SSD but I don't know whether the game was downloaded to it or to the HDD. Do you think this could affect how it works?

How can I diagnose the memory? How can I change my memory or clean the connectors?

Sorry, my computer skills are pretty limited, especially as I'm French, so I'm doing the Google translation in parallel to make sure I understand everything.

In any case, thank you both in advance for your involvement!

SSD makes the game play faster. I have an SSD and the game loads in 30 sex.

To diagnose your memory, use the Windows Memory Diagnostic and you can find it in Windows Tools or if older windows like windows 10, just goto advanced system tools or whatever from the start button and down the apps list or search bar. I ran it and found errors and then just went and got a new system lol.

IF and ONLY IF you find errors with your memory, you'd have to buy memory sticks that work for your motherboard and pull em out and replace them...I dunno anything about your system so... this is simply a do it yourself at your own risk :).

To clean the connectors, ONLY IF you find memory problems...1st, grab a can-o-air and spray out all that dust inside your machine, pull out the memory sticks and take a pencil eraser and rub it across your metal connectors on the sticks and blow out the memory stick holders. This would not be a normal thing...memory sticks are usually just fine with tons of dust around em but dust can sort of short out stuff I spose.

[The Last Living Dodo]

Originally posted by brownacs:

Is the freezing happening after a few hundred years or is it happening from the start of the run?

there are some micro follow up with massive stutters reaching 1050 A.D.
the game is also installed on nvme ssd WD
limited the unlanded ppl to 25 on game rules
sepcs :
i5-10400
rtx 4070
32gb ram

[panapana71]

Hi, Im having the same problem. help me!