my game keeps crashing

[Todt]

my game keeps crashing

[GIJoe597]

Are trying to run any of the expansions or is it only the base game? Based on the amount of information you provide, all we can do is guess.

[Todt]

i have all dlcs

[GIJoe597]

Alright, that is one hurdle down. I had to ask that because the expansions have to be installed/used in a particular order.. If you have Semper Fi, For The Motherland and Their Finest Hour, we can move on.

Now, Have you gone to get the revised exe patch for the game which helps this 15 year old game to work on modern 64 bit systems?

You can get it from Paradox HOI 3 tech support thread. But you need to register an account, link your Steam account and then, and only then, can you see the Tech Support section. It is their DRM.

There is a direct download from GOG that has the same file. Just click on it and it downloads. You then unzip it and place the that exe file into your tfh folder containing the existing exe file. Let it overwrite the current one. Attention: Place it in the tfh folder, not the base game exe folder.

https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/360003555778-Hearts-of-Iron-III-Replacement-executable-Podcat-s-exe-that-might-help-with-problems-on-Windows-10?product=gog

[Empurror Feline]

Thanks, the game crashes every ~9-12 minutes and i played France and USSR but i'am on Windows 11.

[GIJoe597]

Windows 11 is fine. That patch works for both 10 and 11. It is just that when it was created there was no win 11. Win 11 was released in 2021.

This game is almost 16 years old. It was made for 32 bit systems. The exe file (podcats) allows it function better on 64 bit.

[dinofullbeta]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRaN2ZXm3bs

[Marrs101]

I did try both your, and dinofullbeta' solution, unfortunately no success either way. It keeps crashing after a few minutes.

[purple]

Originally posted by Marrs101:

I did try both your, and dinofullbeta' solution, unfortunately no success either way. It keeps crashing after a few minutes.

I used the ntcore 4 gig patch on hoi3_tfh in the files, ran tfh as admin and it works fine for me

[Marrs101]

It's getting worse for me. At least it was running without issues in betweeen crashes. Regular saves solved the problem. Bit annoying, but nothing more. Now it even stops when it should run on medium in-game speed settings. It is stopping for longer than it's actually running. Gamespeed got so slow, it's no longer playable, just constantly freezing. Takes ages to build or develop anything. And the change happened in the last week. Strange.

[ghetto]

look for 4.02-no-security-fix update

Im not using but works for some