Ok so I have over 1600 hours played, never had a problem with crashing until the past week or so. It's very annoying. I try loading different saves, still crashes. I start a new game, still crashes. There's no method to it, it just crashes at random times while I'm playing. I play it on laptop and pc, both fairly new i5's. This game isn't a processing or graphic hog so I don't see that as being a problem, regardless, like I said my pc's are both less than a year old. The pc is win8, the laptop is win7. So it's becoming unplayable for me with the random crashes to desktop all of the time. Any ideas?
Game Crashing a lot lately for me
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Having similar problem - after some time (several in game decades usually) game will most certainly crash.
So are they going to fix this crashing issue, because it seems like the forums are full of the same issue. Clearly something has changed if this issue was never a problem before. Is it the new patch or what?
I also get crashes not from autosaves, but the game just decides to randomly crash about 30 or so years after I start a new game. There's no method to it, it'll just crash on a random day every 6 months or so after 30 years have passed. Makes the game unplayable. Turning saves off has not helped. I had to go back to 1.091, which really sucks, because I wanted to play the new version of The Prince And The Thane mod 
For GG you reinstall and patch up to 1.091 via the installers you had the foresight to back up.
For Steam: By setting Baldrick's time machine to two cherries and a lemon.
There's a third way that's mentioned in one of the longer threads about the recent CTD, which involves downloading some 1.091 files from another place and extracting them into the game's folder.
I use steam. The method I used was I downloaded the 1.091 files from another thread about this, I think it's in the bug reporting thread, it's about 5 pages long you can't miss it. After I downloaded the files, I made a copy of my CK2 directory and pasted 1.091 files over the copy. Voila! I had a working version of 1.091 to play, no more crashes for now
I've posted comment from the devs in 3 or 4 threads on this exact question. They have committed to fixing the autosave problem in the next patch.
The problem is that the error is severe enough that it probably cant wait until the next patch, when people cant play past 100-200 years on vanilla without crashing, that is a serious issue that warrants a hotfix.
I was unable to discover whether their intention is to issue a 1.093 or wait til 1.10, I'm sorry. Most people report that if they disable autosave and manually save at least once a month, that help a lot.
Nice to see I'm clearly not the only person having this issue - it's bloody annoying, eh?
I imagine it'll be be fixed in 1.093, or in a hotfix. From my experience, Paradox doesn't just pretend problems don't exist and ignore them.
I imagine it'll be be fixed in 1.093, or in a hotfix. From my experience, Paradox doesn't just pretend problems don't exist and ignore them.
Yeah, in my most recent save of about 3 decades in, I can't play for more than several months without crashing.
yea. this keeps haping on my saves. i'll get in 30 years or so, than it will crash repeatedly within 6 months...its making it hard to want to keep playing
It seems like you can avoid this crash by either turning the auto save off or playing in windowed mode
Turning auto-save off was not a thing for me as I do not save regularly enough (something I should do with games like these) but I have not had a single crash after switching to windowed mode (the screen freezes now and then but it resumes after 1-2 sec instead of closing the application) so hopefully it will let you resume the game.
There are also tricks for borderless windowed mode but that do not seem to work for me
There are also tricks for borderless windowed mode but that do not seem to work for me
Well, my computer is too small for me to use windowed mode properly. Paradox, a little help?
Well, there's nothing else to suggest. Almost everyone else finds that turning autosave off and doing frequent manual saves works around this problem.
Mind you, if a save is already corrupted nothing will fix it; the suggested workarounds only prevent the problem from happening, nothing can cure an already-corrupted save file. Are you saying with a fresh game and no auto-saves the corrupt save game problem is still happening to you, when you manually save each month?
Mind you, if a save is already corrupted nothing will fix it; the suggested workarounds only prevent the problem from happening, nothing can cure an already-corrupted save file. Are you saying with a fresh game and no auto-saves the corrupt save game problem is still happening to you, when you manually save each month?