CK2 Will Not work

[ICAT]

So, Ck2 wont permit to load up the menu to select my mods or anything. it goes from me playing to me not playing, reinstalling hasnt worked either... If anyone ahs any ideas then that would be appreciated.

[sudokek]

Have you bothered to search the discussions or even look on the forums? Problems like this solved many times.

[ICAT]

Originally posted by sudokek:

Have you bothered to search the discussions or even look on the forums? Problems like this solved many times.

ive browsed the discussions on steam and got lsot looking for a responce in the paradox forums

[Tom]

its broken

[Tom]

happens to me too

[HEAVY BEEF]

Same here crashes. Anyone else have it where you can play a previous version of CK2 but the most recent one always crashes on the loading screen?

[Meewec]

Originally posted by @PEACHMUNKEY:

Same here crashes. Anyone else have it where you can play a previous version of CK2 but the most recent one always crashes on the loading screen?

are you clicking anywhere or doing anything else(even something as simple as using push to talk). the clauswitz engine seems to have issues if you do anything during the initial load

[Tom]

it wont even pop up the menu for me to put on mods or dlcs the update or something broke the game

[Toon]

Also having this problem right now looked at a lot of fixes but nothing has worked so far

[Meewec]

Originally posted by Tom:

it wont even pop up the menu for me to put on mods or dlcs the update or something broke the game

check to make sure there's nothing running for ck2 that's frozen in the background. maybe restart your computer just to make sure everything has cleared it's memory

[Toon]

Originally posted by Meewec:

Originally posted by Tom:

it wont even pop up the menu for me to put on mods or dlcs the update or something broke the game

check to make sure there's nothing running for ck2 that's frozen in the background. maybe restart your computer just to make sure everything has cleared it's memory

Ive reinstalled the game several times and restarted my pc several times. Also reinstalled all of the microsoft c++ stuff but it still isnt working.
All started when my harddrive which had steam on it broke but I have a new harddrive and a fresh install of steam. only thing is ck2 is on another drive

[Tom]

steam and ck2 had updates recently clearly its not working anymore

[Toon]

Check your Game's read/write permissions to your documents folder

On start of the game launcher the game creates a folder with files in your PC's documents folder. If your game does not start the launcher then it is possible that the documents folder is not being created. If your game crashes while loading the game could have a problem reading/writing to the documents folder.

Your game's documents folder is found here ""..\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Crusader Kings II\"
Check to make sure that there is a "log" folder in the "Crusader Kings II" folder and that in the "log" folder are .log files.
Check to make sure there is a settings.txt file in your "Crusader Kings II" folder

If any of the above are missing, then make sure the game can read/write to the documents folder by doing the following:
Add steam.exe and Crusader Kings II.exe to the Exceptions list of your antivirus app. (Especially if you have Bitdefender)
Ensure Steam.exe and Crusader Kings II.exe have admin rights in their properties -> compatibility tab (Right click exe to go to properties)
Go into Windows Defender Security Center -> Virus & Threat Protection -> Virus & Threat Protection settings. Allow the steam and game.exe files through via "Allow an app through controlled folder access"

Once this is done try running the game. If the above doesn't work and your documents game folder is still missing then try the following:
Use Notepad to make a new text file called userdir.txt in the Steam Crusader Kings II folder whereCrusader Kings II .exe is.
In that file place a single dot, save and exit.
This tells the game to write the user files right there instead of under Documents. If that works and the game now runs, you can replace that dot with any file path you like.

This is wat fixed the problem for me but if anybody still has troubles pm me cause I have a few other fixes

[Tom]

works now im looking at the mods and 1 was discontinued dont know if that was the real reason