Constant crashes

[Desmond Fr]

Anyone else having constant random crashes ?

I even did a clean install but still can't play since the last update...

[WittiW]

It crashes my system, complete freeze. With 1.18.1 i could set the settings on low to solve it. 1.18.2 just keeps crashing after 10 minutes or so.

[matthewchauyf]

I crash like completely random and I think I found some pattern. The game usually crash whenever it tries to auto save, so if you turn off auto save then it may reduce your crash chance, however it still crashes like every 3-5 years.

So it's kind of a dilemma: you auto save, it crashes; you don't save, it crashes every now and then and you lost every thing. So I have developed a occasionally manual save tactic, I managed to make it to 1858 so far which I have played around 8 hours today with 10+ crashes.

[Dragonfly87]

For me the game temporarly freezes every month (no autosave) and there is like a 25% chance for the game to crash

[Aetos]

Game keeps crashing like every 5 minutes rolling back to 1.7.7

[Aetos]

Originally posted by Aetos:

Game keeps crashing like every 5 minutes rolling back to 1.7.7

Can confirm that 1.7.7 doesn't crash every 5 minutes.

[✠ Sigmar ✠]

The first time I tried to get into the game two weeks ago, it crashed to desktop after 30 minutes during the "tutorial" (game mode "Learn the Game", to be exact). I have a PC I bought last summer with an SSD and an i7 processor, so it cannot be me; the game is just unfinished. Patient as I am, I let it simmer for a bit.

After the last update, I decided to give it another chance. When I am trying to start a new game now, after selecting "play any country", the game crashes immediately without even loading the map for country selection. This has happened twice now. Both times, I was even unable to send a crash report to Paradox due to an "unknown error".

EDIT: As others have recommended, I tried to overcome the problem with a clean install. It crashed a third time just like the two times before. At least, the after-crash UI let me send a report now.

Nevertheless, I am not impressed so far. Let me know as soon as the developer got his stuff together, please. I am still somewhat eager to actually play the game I paid for.

[Agent Washington]

The thing that fixed this for me was updating my graphics drivers.

I thought they were up to date but it turns out nvidia launched an app that now has to take care of installation so the "gforce experience" that I was using was broken.

Once my drivers were updated, the crashes during the game and at launch stopped entirely.

[✠ Sigmar ✠]

Originally posted by Agent Washington:

The thing that fixed this for me was updating my graphics drivers.

I thought they were up to date but it turns out nvidia launched an app that now has to take care of installation so the "gforce experience" that I was using was broken.

Once my drivers were updated, the crashes during the game and at launch stopped entirely.

Did nothing for me at all. The only thing it changed was the fact that my crash report now fails again due to an "unknown reason". Stop blaming users for the inadequacies of the developers.

[Dredge]

yooo, after like a week of troubleshooting, where the pdx forums couldnt duplicate the issue and the crash logs were empty - i took a look through my windows error logs and found a few issues from the PDX launcher v2 open beta. I removed the entire PDX launcher folder from my local appdata and let it reinstall itself on the next launch... and am now able to play well beyond the point where vic3 was crashing

[Twizard]

Victoria 3. I started hearing faint clicking in the back of my computer, or so I think. That happened yesterday and just now 10:50 EST today. This time my computer just shut totally down. I don't know if my surge protector went down as well. I never have had this with DCS or MSFS 2020. Am I overheating my computer. There are no error messages from that time that I can find.
[11:17 PM]
Computer seems fine now. Any ideas of what may have happened?

[Alex]

Originally posted by Twizard:

Victoria 3. I started hearing faint clicking in the back of my computer, or so I think. That happened yesterday and just now 10:50 EST today. This time my computer just shut totally down. I don't know if my surge protector went down as well. I never have had this with DCS or MSFS 2020. Am I overheating my computer. There are no error messages from that time that I can find.
[11:17 PM]
Computer seems fine now. Any ideas of what may have happened?

The issue was probably the video card, there seems to be some major issue with them. Perhaps steam updated their pre-compiled shaders, or there was a video driver update, and it works better now.

[ΆΡΗΣ]

Originally posted by Dredge:

yooo, after like a week of troubleshooting, where the pdx forums couldnt duplicate the issue and the crash logs were empty - i took a look through my windows error logs and found a few issues from the PDX launcher v2 open beta. I removed the entire PDX launcher folder from my local appdata and let it reinstall itself on the next launch... and am now able to play well beyond the point where vic3 was crashing :praisesun:

did that and played for 3-4 hours, left and came back again and game's still going,had another crash b4 reading the above comment, hopefully it works for real

[Twizard]

Originally posted by Twizard:

Victoria 3. I started hearing faint clicking in the back of my computer, or so I think. That happened yesterday and just now 10:50 EST today. This time my computer just shut totally down. I don't know if my surge protector went down as well. I never have had this with DCS or MSFS 2020. Am I overheating my computer. There are no error messages from that time that I can find.
[11:17 PM]
Computer seems fine now. Any ideas of what may have happened?

Th latest, post update. I monitored my performance using my AMD performance monitor. :

I monitored the performance of my PC when Victoria 3 (the game of concern) was running. Temperature seems to be in the mid range. However my GPU and GPU Memory maxes out as well as my 99th% FPS. I get the ticking seemingly when these max out. Both drives involved are M.2s not mechanical. I have a SSD but that's for MSFS exclusively.

[Blims!]

For me it constantly crashes after I've played some hours with the same nation.
Totally unplayable

[Micari]

same