Game keeps freezing entire computer

[Fireheart 1945]

What the title says. In the middle of the game, suddenly the entire PC freezes; cursor stops working and even the keys on the keyboard don't work, so I can't even shift+alt+delete. I have to hold the button used to turn the PC on to shut the PC down and then restart. No, I am not using any mods for the game. Any way to stop this freeze-lock thing from happening?

[EduardGames]

Your screen became desactived? became darks? happening same thing to me, I needed to restart to PC, and back to normal, than I pause to try to play this game for a while

[John Hadley]

Games shouldn't crash your entire computer and when they do it is a sign that your computer hardware is unstable or your hardware drivers are faulty.

The game uses AVX instructions to do parallel calculations and those increase the power consumption of your cpu like if you were running Prime 95 to stress test it. When it starts using maximal power you may reveal that your power supply is inadequate for sustaining maximum power consumption and it can't hold the voltage stable, or your memory or CPU clocks in the BIOS are set too aggressively to keep voltages stable and ensure proper operation only in this maximal stress condition when switching between the high power state and the low power state. Since everyday operation of your computer doesn't induce this maximal stress condition you don't realize that it isn't stable in this condition and you assume the problem is the game, but it is not.

To compound the issue some motherboard manufacturers like ASUS and MSI have made BIOS default optimizations for the high end Intel K-series processors since as early as the 9th generation to attempt to optimize power consumption and achieve the highest clock speeds that they thought were stable instead of using the Intel defaults which consume more power. It turns out that there were good reasons for using more power because if you don't the cpu voltage can become unstable in these particular stress conditions and cause a 1 to appear as a 0 or vice versa, causing a crash when an incorrect operation is attempted.

[Ole "Slim Jolo" the Hobo Hero]

Pretty sure hard freezes like this mean your cpu itself is getting to warm and such running something or some other bottleneck around CPU and processor itself, not the program. Does your fan etc get pretty loud playing? Vic 3s optimisation is pretty bad, lol

Could also be worth checking that your video card drivers are up to date, stuff like outdated Nvidia and such can cause the odd Blue Screen of Death and so on.

[Fireheart 1945]

Originally posted by EduardGames:

Your screen became desactived? became darks? happening same thing to me, I needed to restart to PC, and back to normal, than I pause to try to play this game for a while

No it does not become dark, it just freezes up and no mouse or keyboard inputs have any effect.

[Fireheart 1945]

Originally posted by based and truly redpilled:

https://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/requirements/victoria-3/21873

Can your machine run it?

Have you mods activated?

I have no mods for V3.

[Pelly_PDX]

Try updating your graphic drivers, otherwise reaching out to our tech support forum[forum.paradoxplaza.com] for help!

[ESKEHL]

Have the same problem unfortunately. Now on a older as well as a brand new, newly installed gaming rig. I've read about faulty hardware, drivers not up to date etc. But given that two computers, show the same thing I suspect its the game not the computer?

[bjkat81]

Having the same problem, multiple computers that run much more intensive games. No mods. Definitely the game.

[Extender]

I heard something about the new win 11 24h2 update is the culprit, I ran it before with 23h2 and it ran fine, I now have 24h2 and it freezes the pc and I can do nothing at all, everything on my other monitors freezes as well, and with temperature at 60 celsius on both cpu and gpu.

[Sir.Madvck]

Same issue here. I noticed this begin after Pivot of Empire DLC.
I have an Intel 8700, RTX 2060 6gb and 16gb Ram, win 11 24H2, and when i zoomed the map, they drop 60 for 30/20, worse in south america region and central europe...maybe forests and constructions bug the fps, and i don´t know how to solve this. But what i know is, before the last DLC the performance were better

Really hope Devs can solve the problem...

[Sir.Madvck]

Originally posted by Pelly_PDX:

Try updating your graphic drivers, otherwise reaching out to our tech support forum[forum.paradoxplaza.com] for help!

Thats not the problem, at least for me.
I already have the last update from Nvidia 566.36 in my RTX 2060 6gb and still droping fps when i zoomed map.

And this thing get worse after last DLC release. Something u guys changed in Graphics, bugged the game. For me, in South America and Central Europe, drops 60 to 20,30...

[Alex]

Your problem might be related to the Windows 11 24H2 update.