Regular crashes on Linux

[Stormcrow]

Across all PDX games, I'll often experience crashes when loading the game. Currently using Debian on a machine with an RX6600, a Ryzen 5600X and 64GB of RAM, but I've also had the same issue on Manjaro, so it's not a distro issue or outdated drivers. Never came up before getting more RAM, but I refuse to believe it's because I have too much, that would just be silly. It can be fixed easily by deleting all cached data and logs, but that's just a really annoying process to have to go through every single time I want to play EU4, and it only helps with vanilla, it refuses to run entirely if I play with mods. Not that my mods are at fault, they run fine on Windows. Sure, I could just boot into Windows to play, but PDX claims native Linux support, so I kind of expect being able to use Debian. Anyone else having this issue? Any way to fix it?

[grotaclas]

Does it help if you disable the steam overlay? It has lead to many crashes on Linux for me since there was a big steam update a few months ago.
If that doesn't help, can you post the exception.txt from such a crash?

[Stormcrow]

Originally posted by grotaclas:

Does it help if you disable the steam overlay? It has lead to many crashes on Linux for me since there was a big steam update a few months ago.
If that doesn't help, can you post the exception.txt from such a crash?

Disabling the overlay might've done it? Need a few days to be certain, but it's running modded right now, which is new. Thanks a lot, man! Hope they fix this bug.

[Blazkowicz]

Can anyone help me? Here is the content of the exception.txt file

https://gist.github.com/tetrahedronix/194949acb544dd330f4f79be37b3d458

Using Ubuntu 22.04, last nvidia proprietary driver, AMD FX 6300, Nvidia RTX 3050

[grotaclas]

Originally posted by Blazkowicz:

Can anyone help me? Here is the content of the exception.txt file

https://gist.github.com/tetrahedronix/194949acb544dd330f4f79be37b3d458

Using Ubuntu 22.04, last nvidia proprietary driver, AMD FX 6300, Nvidia RTX 3050

Your exception.txt doesn't look like any of the recent crashes which I have seen. Are you using any mods? It looks like the crash is related to province graphics. Maybe it helps to disable city sprawl in the video settings.
If disabling mods and citry sprawl doesn't help, when does it crash? If the crash is repeatable on the same date for a given save, can you pot that save?

[Blazkowicz]

Hi, I'm having problems playing with the 1.3X client: the game crashes after choosing the country and pressing the "play" button. Mods and all my DLCs are not enabled or installed. However I can play EU4 using the older 1.27.X client. without problems. I submitted a report last month. I can't write or participate in discussions on the official Paradox forum for some strange reason they consider me a spammer (maybe because I've never written messages). So any help here on Steam is welcome.

[grotaclas]

Originally posted by Blazkowicz:

Hi, I'm having problems playing with the 1.3X client: the game crashes after choosing the country and pressing the "play" button. Mods and all my DLCs are not enabled or installed.

That sounds like a broken mod or broken game installation. Please have a look at the playsets section of the launcher and make sure that there are no active mods in the playset which is selected in the main page of the launcher(selecting a playset in the playsets section doesn't change which playset is used when starting the game). Even if you think that you have no mods, the launcher might have activated mods which you don't even know about.
If that doesn't help, you can try to verify the integrity of game files and if that doesn't help, you can try to do a clean reinstall as described in my guide on reddit about common startup problems with version 1.29

Originally posted by Blazkowicz:

I can't write or participate in discussions on the official Paradox forum for some strange reason they consider me a spammer (maybe because I've never written messages).

Did your post contain links? New user accounts are not allowed to post links on the paradox forum until they have posted some amount of normal comments.

[Blazkowicz]

Originally posted by grotaclas:

That sounds like a broken mod or broken game installation. Please have a look at the playsets section of the launcher and make sure that there are no active mods in the playset which is selected in the main page of the launcher(selecting a playset in the playsets section doesn't change which playset is used when starting the game). Even if you think that you have no mods, the launcher might have activated mods which you don't even know about.

Hi! I'm not using mod or DLCs. They are not installed. I joined the EU4 official forum in 2018, but I have never sent messages or links.

[grotaclas]

Originally posted by Blazkowicz:

Hi! I'm not using mod or DLCs. They are not installed.

Have you tried my other solutions?

Originally posted by Blazkowicz:

I joined the EU4 official forum in 2018, but I have never sent messages or links.

If you never posted anything, you are still counted as a new user which comes with some restrictions. One of them is that your posts must not contain links. Did the thing which you tried to post there (when the forum thought you are a spammer) contain links? This could have happened accidentally if you copy&pasted text from somewhere else. Having links in your profile or signature might not be allowed either. There are probably more restrictions for new users, but I don't know any details

[Blazkowicz]

Originally posted by grotaclas:

Originally posted by Blazkowicz:

Hi! I'm not using mod or DLCs. They are not installed.

Have you tried my other solutions?

Yes, I've tried

* Reinstall the game
* 1.28.3 version
* Playing Window mode
* Removed every Paradox game and profile directories
* Install the game without DLC/Mod

None of this works. I can only play with 1.27.X version of EU4 client

[grotaclas]

Does it help if you disable the steam overlay in the steam settings? Does eu4 generate an exception.txt in a subfolder of the crash in ~/.local/share/Paradox Ineractive/Europa Universalis IV/crashes ?

[Blazkowicz]

Hi grotaclas! Thanks for your help. Disabling steam overlay doesn't help unfortunately. I had gisted the exception previously at this link

https://gist.github.com/tetrahedronix/194949acb544dd330f4f79be37b3d458

Application: EUIV 
Version: EU4 v1.36.2.0 Byzantium 
Date/Time: 2024-01-04 00:35:01

Caught signal 11 (SIGSEGV)

Original Stack Trace:
  ./eu4(_ZN17CProvinceGraphics6UpdateEP17CCurrentGameStateR16CEU3GraphicalMapRK9CProvince11CCountryTagbfbbbR9CEU3IdlerRK7CCameraR9CPdx
ArrayI16SWindowDepthInfoiEi+0xd98) [0x1ec889c]
  ./eu4(_ZN16CEU3GraphicalMap22UpdateProvinceGraphicsEfR9CEU3Idler+0x400) [0x1c9448e]
  ./eu4(_ZN16CEU3GraphicalMap6UpdateERK10CEU3CamerafR9CEU3Idler+0x91) [0x1c93cdd]
  ./eu4(_ZN12CInGameIdler4IdleEb+0x1f75) [0x14b36f1]
  ./eu4(_ZN12CApplication14UpdateOneFrameEb+0x12d) [0x2035105]
  ./eu4(_ZN10CGameState19RenderFrameIfNeededEbPKci+0xef) [0x1402ecd]
  ./eu4(_ZN8CSession15ProcessCommandsEv+0x5e5) [0x207a833]
  ./eu4(_ZN8CSession6UpdateEv+0xfa) [0x2079ca0]
  ./eu4(_ZN15CEU4Application6UpdateEv+0x63) [0xee1d7d]
  ./eu4(_ZN12CInGameIdler4IdleEb+0x5a6) [0x14b1d22]
  ./eu4(_ZN12CApplication14UpdateOneFrameEb+0x12d) [0x2035105]
  ./eu4(_ZN12CApplication3RunEv+0x27) [0x20355c7]
  ./eu4(main+0x1c88) [0x14f737d]
  /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x29d90) [0x7f116b629d90]
  /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0x80) [0x7f116b629e40]
  ./eu4(_start+0x2a) [0xd8a11a]

Demangled Stack Trace:
  ./eu4                          ( CProvinceGraphics::Update(CCurrentGameState*, CEU3GraphicalMap&, CProvince const&, CCountryTag, boo
l, float, bool, bool, bool, CEU3Idler&, CCamera const&, CPdxArray<SWindowDepthInfo, int>&, int)  + 0xd98 )  [0x1ec889c]
  ./eu4                          ( CEU3GraphicalMap::UpdateProvinceGraphics(float, CEU3Idler&)  + 0x400 )  [0x1c9448e]
  ./eu4                          ( CEU3GraphicalMap::Update(CEU3Camera const&, float, CEU3Idler&)  + 0x91  )  [0x1c93cdd]
  ./eu4                          ( CInGameIdler::Idle(bool)                  + 0x1f75)  [0x14b36f1]
  ./eu4                          ( CApplication::UpdateOneFrame(bool)        + 0x12d )  [0x2035105]
  ./eu4                          ( CGameState::RenderFrameIfNeeded(bool, char const*, int)  + 0xef  )  [0x1402ecd]
  ./eu4                          ( CSession::ProcessCommands()               + 0x5e5 )  [0x207a833]
  ./eu4                          ( CSession::Update()                        + 0xfa  )  [0x2079ca0]
  ./eu4                          ( CEU4Application::Update()                 + 0x63  )  [0xee1d7d]
  ./eu4                          ( CInGameIdler::Idle(bool)                  + 0x5a6 )  [0x14b1d22]
  ./eu4                          ( CApplication::UpdateOneFrame(bool)        + 0x12d )  [0x2035105]
  ./eu4                          ( CApplication::Run()                       + 0x27  )  [0x20355c7]
  ./eu4                          ( main                                      + 0x1c88)  [0x14f737d]
  /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (                                           + 0x29d90)  [0x7f116b629d90]
  /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 ( __libc_start_main                         + 0x80  )  [0x7f116b629e40]
  ./eu4                          ( _start                                    + 0x2a  )  [0xd8a11a]

In the graphics.log file there are several errors reported as mapobject_3 failed to load.

[grotaclas]

Hmm... A crash in the province graphics is unusual. Does it help if you disable the city sprawl in the video settings? You could also try to set the other video options to their minimum.

[Stormcrow]

Maybe a dumb question, but have you verified the integrity of the game files yet? Sometimes we forget the simplest solutions.

[Blazkowicz]

Yes I have verified the integrity and I reinstalled the game several times...

Originally posted by Alkaios:

Maybe a dumb question, but have you verified the integrity of the game files yet? Sometimes we forget the simplest solutions.

[grotaclas]

Oh, and which checksum is displayed in the main menu, next to the version number? The checksum in the launcher doesn't count. And can you maybe post your error.log?