I:R Crashing on loading (PC)

[Altheusius]

Imperators load up the menu. When I select Tutorial or new game, it begins to load and when it gets to "loadsavedgame 100%" it crashes. I have followed the suggested solution but if failed. I have also updated my drivers but still no success. I have an AMD Radeon graphics card. I have no issues running any other paradox game, ie Stellaris, Cities skylines etc.

Application: Imperator
Version: 1.4.2
Date/Time: 2020-05-21 18:32:26

Unhandled Exception C0000005 (EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION) at address 0x00007FF7B0F8588B

Stack Trace:
1 imperator.exe PHYSFS_writeSBE64 (+ 260395)
2 imperator.exe PHYSFS_writeSBE64 (+ 40777)
3 imperator.exe PHYSFS_writeSBE64 (+ 7300953)
4 imperator.exe PHYSFS_swapULE64 (+ 1043944)
5 imperator.exe PHYSFS_swapULE64 (+ 1023448)
6 imperator.exe PHYSFS_writeSBE64 (+ 36495)
7 imperator.exe PHYSFS_swapULE64 (+ 5287242)
8 imperator.exe PHYSFS_ucs4stricmp (+ 1500)
9 imperator.exe PHYSFS_ucs4stricmp (+ 2567)
10 imperator.exe PHYSFS_ucs4stricmp (+ 2633)
11 imperator.exe SDL_wcslen (+ 1666653)
12 KERNEL32.DLL BaseThreadInitThunk (+ 20)
13 ntdll.dll RtlUserThreadStart (+ 33)
14 ntdll.dll RtlUserThreadStart (+ 33)

 

[Altheusius]

It seems my issue was driver related after all and was associated with my AMD Radeon graphics card.

I originally updated the driver manually, which did not resolve the issue. After browsing though a number of other threads, I found a link to Radeon Software for AMD processors After downloading and running this, my issue resolved itself. The software checks the compatibility of GPU and CPU for each of game. I:R passed for me, so no need to update my laptop afterall.