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I dowgraded to 2.2.1 because of the 2.2.3 bugs, and i cannot play, my whole screen is covered with artifacts starting in Dymin province. I tried changing multisampling level 0,4,8, changing fullscreen to borderless etc. but nothing seems to help. My graphics card is quite new Radeon R9 290X , works fine in every other game. I don't have any viruses.

P.S. i restarted the game and after 40 years the same, but artifacts now come from Varend province
 

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Please try a full clean re-install:

- move any valued save games elsewhere
- "delete local content" in Steam-CK2
- manually delete all files and folders left under Steam/CK2 AND Documents/Paradox/CK2
- re-install game in Steam, run a Steam Verify when done.
- start the game with no mods active and test
 

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I've deleted local content via steam menu, deleted the game, deleted whole users/.../ck2 dir, also same in program files/steam/.../ck2

I've redownloaded the game - i immediately changed patch level to 2.2.1 before download started so i think that only version 2.2.1 was downloaded and when i put old saves back, i have exactly the same problem.

I have to point out that it doesn't happen immediately after the game start but like in 20-30 years
 

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i played from the start again, and in year 790 it happens to Holstein province. I think it has something to do with wars and 'smoke' coming from the provinces, at least it looks like so. Saxony is at war and is under siege.
 

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i think i spent like 4 hours trying to find out what is causing it

i changed resolution, i reinstalled everything (just not windows...), i changed all mapRenderingOptions one by one to see if any of this is causing it, i tried to change everything possible in settings.txt, i unselected all DLCs (that were not required for me to run my saves).

nothing. but when i install 2.3 patch, everything is working fine, on the same save games. it must be some kind of core bug that was fixed in 2.3. A shame that 2.3 is unplayable. (AI cannot attack because of the raised levies bug)
 

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Your experiments seemed to show this is a bug in 2.2.x (although I'm not aware of any other similar such reports) as it works for you in 2.3 . As there will be no more patches for 2.2.1, then it's hard to see what can be done.

But are you saying this did not happen for you in 2.2.x before 2.3 came out, only after? If so, the process in my first reply will put the game to be exactly as it was when you were first on 2.2.1 - and so there's no reason it wouldn't work as well now as it did then.

So when you went through that, you are 100% sure you deleted ALL remaining files (except saves) and folders under BOTH the documents/ck2 and steam/ck2 folders? You left CK2 opted in to the 2.2.1 beta over the whole process?
 
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i didn't play 2.2.1 before at all, i think i played 2.0 or even earlier patches before that. It might have existed the whole time.

I deleted *EVERYTHING* and i deleted whole game from ck2. yes, 2.2.1 was set when i deleted it and when i reinstalled it again.

Yesterday evening i was so desperated and wanted to play this game, i downloaded pirated version 2.2. And to my suprise, it worked! Not sure if it's because it's pirated version or because it's 2.2 not 2.2.1

and no, i don't have any viruses, i did that only because i was unable to play copy of CK2 that i paid for. So i can now play CK2 version 2.2. I guess it's either 2.2.1 that is causing it or Steam that is causing it. I have reinstalled Steam too, but it's the same.
 

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http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?821666-2.2.1.1-Graphical-glitch-hiring-mercenaries

Verify your game cache. I also want to say make sure your drivers are all up to date, but I am sure you done that before even making this thread.

i did that, and it's not helping. and yes, i have updated drivers. but the problem looks exactly the same. other people in other threads also reported it, so i'm quite suprised that AndrewT claims that he is not aware about similar reports. i saw at least two or three other threads (to which AndrewT responded the same as to me) when i searched, exactly the same problem.
 

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i did that, and it's not helping. and yes, i have updated drivers. but the problem looks exactly the same. other people in other threads also reported it, so i'm quite suprised that AndrewT claims that he is not aware about similar reports. i saw at least two or three other threads (to which AndrewT responded the same as to me) when i searched, exactly the same problem.

All of which were fixed by reinstalling/verify game files. It is not a known issue with the game.
 

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i did that, and it's not helping. and yes, i have updated drivers. but the problem looks exactly the same. other people in other threads also reported it, so i'm quite suprised that AndrewT claims that he is not aware about similar reports. i saw at least two or three other threads (to which AndrewT responded the same as to me) when i searched, exactly the same problem.
It's not a known issue with 2.2.x . We had several reports of it with 2.3, all (so far as I know) fixed by a clean re-install. You are reporting the opposite, that it works with 2.3 and now 2.2 but not 2.2.1 .