Game freezes randomly, followed with a black screen and then a crash

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I'm having this problem where the game will freeze at random moments, I get a black screen immediately, and when it comes back the game has crashed. I have no idea why this is happening, as I have been playing the game just fine for weeks and it started crashing like crazy last weekend. I have already tried over 5 different graphics drivers, including deleting all the files with DDU, I tried playing with no mods, and among other things. Hell, I even bought the game on steam (was playing on xbox gamepass previously) and I'm getting the same exact crashes and it's very frustrating. Doesn't seem to have any pattern to it as sometimes I can go hours without any crashes, sometimes it crashes 5 minutes after pressing play, and it even crashes if I just leave it idle after opening the game.
I've played CK3 and HOI4 few days ago and they were working flawlessly

I am currently sitting at the game's minimum settings, my specs are:
RX 560 4GB
I5 3470
1x8GB ram
B75 mobo
Latest graphics drivers
 

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Any mods involved?

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/EU4/settings.txt and pdx_settings.txt .
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/EU4/logs/ folder, attach here system.log , error.log , exceptions.log
 

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Any mods involved?

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/EU4/settings.txt and pdx_settings.txt .
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/EU4/logs/ folder, attach here system.log , error.log , exceptions.log
I do use mods but the crashes still persist after disabling them. here are the txt files.

Just reinstalled windows too but nothing changed.
 

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I do use mods but the crashes still persist after disabling them.
Disabling mods does not remove effects they have already had on the save game files. And those errors do look like ones from a mod or mods.

Do you get this in a campaign that's never had any mods used in it?
 

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Disabling mods does not remove effects they have already had on the save game files. And those errors do look like ones from a mod or mods.

Do you get this in a campaign that's never had any mods used in it?
Yeah, I've trying playing with no mods but the same thing happens. Currently I only have a few graphical mods and flavour and events expanded
 

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Okay then, please delete that error.log file then trigger the problem in a campaign which has never had any mods used in it, and attach here new copies of all those files. Thanks.