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Hello. I recently decided I'd go back to Crusader Kings 2 since Charlemagne has been released for what I hoped was a long enough time for them to squash the game-breaking bugs. Apparently not. Anyway, I decided I wanted to finish my first ever full campaign of Crusader Kings II, and convert it to EU4. I purchased all the DLC available on Steam, excluding Mediterranean Portraits (fuck those things) (and people in the Mediterranean look weird now, despite me not buying it!) and the Ebook.

I decided I would play an Ironman campaign, from the Charlemagne start, as the Duke of Essex. However, I entered the game, I found that peoples portraits would start disappearing the longer I played. At first, I would look at a character and merely notice one of his relatives portraits was blank. As time passed, however, every single portrait became missing, making the game unplayable as I could not select characters, and thus, could not interact with them. Restarting the game would fix this, but it is only a temporary solution since, as time passes, portraits will stop appearing.

This is making the game completely unplayable. I just shelled out £60 for all the DLC I didn't own, and the game is completely broken. I hope that Paradox gets their arse in gear and actually checks their DLC works before releasing it next time.

I have taken a number of screenshots. Pay attention to the dates. At first, there are only a few characters who can't be selected. Years down the line, however, you'll notice how it starts to effect gameplay more and more. In the last few images, you can see it becomes impossible for me to interact with anybody. https://imgur.com/a/EQxyT
 
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Having same issue, game is totally broken. As more and more start to disappear you can't select them in any way shape or form, and eventually every single character in the entire game is missing it's portrait. We need a hot fix immediately as I can't even play my favorite game or the DLC I just shelled out money for. This is absolutely ridiculous, the DLC has been out for several weeks now.

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any of you using beta?

And they will need more details.
Stuff like:
1) what DLC you have - including the cosmetic ones
2) which mods you may be using
3) did you do a clean reinstall after 2.2.0.8
4) your computer OS (Linux, Windows). What version (Win 7, Win 8). 32 or 64 bits.

What I can tell you is that I didnt get this bug and I have played around 80 hours since CM (using the betas)
 

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The information that Kalarhan wrote would be helpful indeed as this issue we haven't seen before.

You can also try to validate the files before doing a clean install. If nothing else works, uploading a save game so that we can take a closer look here at the office would be very helpful.
 

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I am playing with no mods.

As I said, I bought all the DLC except Mediterranean Portraits and the Song of Roland Ebook. I was using all the DLC other than those two I did not own.

I have not done a clean install for a while, I have been updating my game.

I have Windows 7, 64 bits.
 

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I have not done a clean install for a while.

Verify your cache
Test your game (new campaign/savegame)
If it fails, do a clean reinstall.
Verify your cache.
Test again (new campaign/savegame)

The thing is that sometimes when you update the game it doesnt work. Some files may be corrupted or missing. The full clean reinstall will fix this kind of issues. A common case is DLC that dont work as they should (portraits, units, etc)
 

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I have done two clean installs, having deleted the entire CK2 folder from both Program Files and My Documents to no avail. I am running 2.2 checksum URWO with every single DLC selected except Mediterranean Portraits, Russian Portraits, and Sunset Invasion, which I own they just are unchecked on start up. Windows 7 64-bit is my system. Here's my game, from a fresh start, no mods, after two clean re-installs. Didn't even run it a single day and 95% of the games portraits are gone. Every single independent title holder on the map can not be selected:

2014-11-14_00001.jpgView attachment No Portraits.7z

Update: I think I've targeted the issue. No matter what I did before, when starting a new game, the Duke of Paphlagonia in the Stamford Bridge start in 1066 underneath Byzantine would always be portraitless. After unselecting all DLC and playing straight vanilla, all portraits were accounted for. Once returning to what I previously said for DLC, of having all checked EXCEPT FOR Mediterranean Portraits, Russian Portraits, and Sunset Invasion, his portrait was alas again missing, which when even seen by me, the player, caused it to spread like a virus to every other portrait in the game for every character I selected. Once I selected Mediterranean Portraits (yet still keeping Russian and Sunset off), his portrait was there again, and had no issues just like vanilla. Now granted, this is simply from the character select screen. I did not start the game to see if after running for awhile it happened at a random occasion. But I do know that previously the Duke of Paphlagonia was ALWAYS causing this spread.
 
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I am playing with no mods.

As I said, I bought all the DLC except Mediterranean Portraits and the Song of Roland Ebook. I was using all the DLC other than those two I did not own.

I have not done a clean install for a while, I have been updating my game.

I have Windows 7, 64 bits.
The question was, are you in the beta? There are many portrait fixes in it.

I have the exact same problem.

I am running 2.2 checksum URWO
You will need to opt into the beta patches, currently 2.2.0.9 , in your Steam-CK2-beta tab.
 

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Question: how old are the characters not being displayed? Because that looks very much like the child mediterranean portrait that has already been reported.

Start the game with the new clothes DLC off.

It's not any specific portrait, it's literally every single character in the entire game.

The question was, are you in the beta? There are many portrait fixes in it.




You will need to opt into the beta patches, currently 2.2.0.9 , in your Steam-CK2-beta tab.

Alright, I'll opt in and try out the beta to see how it runs.

UPDATE: Beta patch seems to have solved the issue so far, I was able to play for about an hour with no issues.
 
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