This application has unexpectedly quit ошибка

Hello,
I am having an issue with the game as of one of the past updates.
Unfortunetly have not played the game for many months, so I dont know which release/update/patch caused the issue but I have over 100 hours played so it is a new(ish) issues for sure.

I have the steam version.

I am able to open the launcher, and launch the game, the initial screen will appear but then the game crashes before I hit the main menu.
The error message after the crash says:
«An error has occurred and the application quit quit unexpectedly. a crash report has been generated which could help us to fix the issue in a future»
When I try to send the error report, this fails also.

I have tried:
— Updating my NVIDIA drivers
— Unintalling and re-installing the game
— Verifying the integrity of the game files in steam
— Opening the .exe file as administrator (I get a blank window instead of the launcher)

Please let me know if I can provide any other useful information .

Kindest Regards
J

the message that it’s failed is a known bug. the message does go through

Hi Marcus,
Thanks for the reply, that is useful to know.
Hopefully someone from tech support picks this up now.

Please do a full **clean** re-install:

— move any valued save games elsewhere
— «uninstall» in Steam-CK3
— manually delete both the Steam/SteamApps/common/CK3 AND Documents/Paradox Interactive/CK3 folders
— re-install game in Steam, run a Steam Verify when done.
— add CK3.exe to the exceptions list of your antivirus app; ESPECIALLY if you have Windows Defender, add it to the Ransomware «Apps Allowed Through» list.
— start the game with no mods active and test

In particular make sure there are no files or folders left under either the Steam CK3 or Documents CK3 locations, before installing again.

If those don’t help:
DXDIAG is a program you run from the Windows search box on the task bar. After running it will open a window and start collecting info with a progress bar in the lower-left corner. When it completes click the ‘save all information’ button and save it to a file then attach that file here.

Please attach here your Documents/Paradox Interactive/CK3/pdx_settings.txt .
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/CK3/logs/ folder, attach here system.log , error.log, exceptions.log

Hello,
Thanks a million for the reply.
Sorry for the late response here, I’ve been really busy and have really slow internet so it’s hard to find a time to do a fresh instal.

Anyway, I followed all the steps above and have the same error.

Requested files are attached in a zip file.

excptions.log file does not exist.

Kindest Regards
Jonathan

Please do a full **clean** re-install:

— move any valued save games elsewhere
— «uninstall» in Steam-CK3
— manually delete both the Steam/SteamApps/common/CK3 AND Documents/Paradox Interactive/CK3 folders
— re-install game in Steam, run a Steam Verify when done.
— add CK3.exe to the exceptions list of your antivirus app; ESPECIALLY if you have Windows Defender, add it to the Ransomware «Apps Allowed Through» list.
— start the game with no mods active and test

In particular make sure there are no files or folders left under either the Steam CK3 or Documents CK3 locations, before installing again.

If those don’t help:
DXDIAG is a program you run from the Windows search box on the task bar. After running it will open a window and start collecting info with a progress bar in the lower-left corner. When it completes click the ‘save all information’ button and save it to a file then attach that file here.

Please attach here your Documents/Paradox Interactive/CK3/pdx_settings.txt .
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/CK3/logs/ folder, attach here system.log , error.log, exceptions.log

Hello! I have a similar issue, my CK 3 only opens the launcher and when I press play it says «An error has Occurred. The game appears to have crashed or terminated unexpectedly (exit code null). The issue may be solved …»
I tried doing a clean reinstall, but nothing helps. I tried to run as admin, tried to change DX11 with OpenGL, tried to add CK3.exe to exceptions in Defender
I attached the DxDiag and pdx settings, however I do not have a logs folder in the CK3 folder.
Let me know if you need anything else

Please make your own new thread in future, thanks.

What happens if you run ck3.exe directly from file explorer? Any error show there?

Has the game ever worke don this machine? Or never yet?

Thank you for getting back to me, apologies about using the same thread.
If I run CK3.exe the game launches, goes to loading screen with the art and then crashes to desktop with no message.
I did launch CK3 on this laptop a few times about a year ago.

Ah, that is usually an antivirus app getting in the way. What antivirus app do you use? You need to make sure all these apps are in its exceptions lists:

ck3.exe (in the Steam CK3-binaries folder)
dowser.exe (in the Steam CK3-launcher folder)
C:/users/{username}/AppData/Local/Programs/Paradox Interactive/launcher-v2.2023.1.1/paradox launcher.exe
C:/users/{username}/AppData/Local/Programs/Paradox Interactive/bootstrapper-v2.exe

IF that doesn’t help, also set each of those .exe files (EXCEPT ck3.exe !) to run as the Windows Admin user.

Then the game should run from Steam/our launcher, and enable all the DLCs.

I use the standard Windows Defender.
I added all the above to the exceptions list in Windows Defender, encountered the same problem
I set each of those except for ck3.exe to run as Admin.

Here is what happens:

When I launch from Steam I get a Widows prompt to confirm running dowser.exe as administrator. I press ok, the launcher opens and shows me a steam runtime communication error. I can Exit or Ignore it. If I Ignore it and press play, I get «an unknown error from Steam».

I also tried launching the ck3.exe. The game launches directly, but if I try to change any settings it crashes to desktop. If I launch a New Game, it starts loading and then crashes to desktop with the (0xc000012d) error.

Was that specifically in the Ransomware-controlled folder access feature? I ask because sometimes users have confused that with the firewall feature in WD, which has nothing to do with this problem.

DXDIAG is a program you run from the Windows search box on the task bar. After running it will open a window and start collecting info with a progress bar in the lower-left corner. When it completes click the ‘save all information’ button and save it to a file then attach that file here.

Please attach here your Documents/Paradox Interactive/CK3/pdx_settings.txt .
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/CK3/logs/ folder, attach here system.log , error.log , exceptions.log

I have the ransomware feature tuned off entirely, so it can’t be that!

I am attaching the requested files, although I don’t have an exceptions log there.