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colie-cola1895

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Aug 15, 2025
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hi!!! please help. it's been a while since i've played, but i recently got a new mac (Macbook pro, M4 chip) and thought maybe i should start back up again! unfortunately, everytime I attempt to play, the game crashes. It will show a black screen and say "initializing game", and after ten minutes the music will start to play---and then just straight crash. I have tried uninstalling, reinstalling, not using mods (obviously), clean reinstalling, everything. the furthest that ive gotten is now it will have a black loading screen instead of full unresponsive upon loading. This is a problem i seem to have with all my paradox games--- Victoria III isn't working either. Does anyone know how to fix this bug? please help!!!
 
Make sure Renderer in the launcher-game menu is set to Vulkan not openGL.

If that's not the issue,
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.txt