The game keeps crashing.

[Hannibal]

I grabbed the game while it's free, had a fun time the first day, but now keeps crashing going after the launcher.
The only message that appears is : "An error has occured and the application quit unexpectedly. A crash report has been generated wich could help us fix the issue in future release.
Crash report size: 35.3 MB"
Already tried verifying integrity and reinstalling but no luck.
1rstEdit *Tried to roll back to previous patches, like you guys in the comments did, so far 1.5 seems to be working for me*

[Electricbluebee]

Same, i could play Victoria 3 up until the update. I've had to rollback to 1.4.2

[Simurgh]

got the same issue.

[Alp_Han]

same issue every 30 mins, waiting for solution

[Kaage]

the game has a HUGE memory leak in it right now. I go from needing ~10GB to needing over 40GB, I don't know what causes the leak because it seems to happen over just a few seconds then it crashes and can not send the report.

[Requiescat in pace]

Same problem

[Maku]

Same.

[Smiley]

Originally posted by Hannibal1996:

I grabbed the game while it's free, had a fun time the first day, but now keeps crashing going after the launcher.
The only message that appears is : "An error has occured and the application quit unexpectedly. A crash report has been generated wich could help us fix the issue in future release.
Crash report size: 35.3 MB"
Already tried verifying integrity and reinstalling but no luck.

Game crashes+ out of sync more often since the lastest hotfix, pretty good update lol

[Jewcandoit]

Ive had the same problem, any fixes or updates?
How can I revert back?

[Primipilus]

Paging file, guys. Increase it.

[murdockwan]

Originally posted by derTeufel:

Paging file, guys. Increase it.

Every other game and application launches.
Victoria 3 does not.
Logic dictates, the issue is NOT related to page file.

EDIT:
The issue is now fixed on my computer.
I was wrong - it was indeed a lack of free memory issue.
@derTeufel, thank you.

On a 32 GB physical memory Windows 10 system, which has not been restarted for 27 days, this was due to a web browser (with 4 windows, multiple YouTube videos) being open for too long.
Simply closing the web browser freed up adequate memory to make Victoria 3 run successfully again.

Other than derTeufel's message above, the other thing that helped me monitor this is:
1. Open Task Manager
2. Switch to Memory tab
3. At the bottom check Committed value.
On my PC, launching the Victoria 3 game and keeping an eye on that value showed it was maxing out 100% and then game was crashing.

As I said above, simply closing a web browser, and re-running the game fixed the issue.

[Killerhouse4922]

Originally posted by murdockwan:

Originally posted by derTeufel:

Paging file, guys. Increase it.

Every other game and application launches.
Victoria 3 does not.
Logic dictates, the issue is NOT related to page file.

EDIT:
The issue is now fixed on my computer.
I was wrong - it was indeed a lack of free memory issue.
@derTeufel, thank you.

On a 32 GB physical memory Windows 10 system, which has not been restarted for 27 days, this was due to a web browser (with 4 windows, multiple YouTube videos) being open for too long.
Simply closing the web browser freed up adequate memory to make Victoria 3 run successfully again.

Other than derTeufel's message above, the other thing that helped me monitor this is:
1. Open Task Manager
2. Switch to Memory tab
3. At the bottom check Committed value.
On my PC, launching the Victoria 3 game and keeping an eye on that value showed it was maxing out 100% and then game was crashing.

As I said above, simply closing a web browser, and re-running the game fixed the issue.

I did exactly that and it still keeps crashing

[TexasDevil]

I have been playing for several hours. Vic3 is using 6GB of memory. My computer has 32GB installed built six years ago, total used right now is 13GB or 41%

As for paging memory, the memory manager starts swapping memory once it hits 50% of memory used. That is why I built my computer with 32GB. Swapped memory to HD or even SSD is slow compared to DRAM. Next computer build will be 64GB memory.

[Carbon Dioxide]

If anyone still got this same issue, the only thing that fixed it for me was running it as administrator, so maybe that'll help someone as well idk

[Tasteless]

I get rarely now but crashes is a known thing for Paradox games since Europa.