PSA! If you are having problems with crashes or missing features/content - please try disabling mods!

[BjornB]

Hi all!

As usual when we release a major update for EU4 - outdated mods can cause some unexpected problems. We see quite a few reports of people's games crashing when selecting units, which so far seems to be caused by outdated mods 100% of the time.

So: if you experience unexpected behavior of any kind - please try disabling mods as a first step in solving the problem.

Thank you!

 

[FATAL_TERROR]

No mods, game crushing at 1st December 1543.
What's the second step?

 

[haloraptor]

No mods, game crushing at 1st December 1543.
What's the second step?

I have a similar issue, except it's April 1.

 

[BjornB]

There seems to be a crash that can happen a bit into the game - probably triggered by an event somewhere else in the world. We'd appreciate if you could post bug reports on our bug report forum with logs and save games so we can investigate it further.

 

[Anarchya]

I can't even start the game! Error error.. bah

 

[grotaclas]

I can't even start the game! Error error.. bah

If you can't start the game even after disabling all mods, you should contact the tech support(e.g. in the tech support forum) and describe what exactly happens, which error message you get and if the same happens when you start eu4.exe directly.

 

[Anarchya]

all mods off. I can't continue/resume an old game or start a new one... it always appears a red triangle: "Lauching the game failed"

 

[bokorthedust]

all mods off. I can't continue/resume an old game or start a new one... it always appears a red triangle: "Lauching the game failed"

Try installing the latest Visual C++ Redistributable corresponding to your system's architecture, that should fix the problem.

Latest supported Visual C++ Redistributable downloads

This article lists the download links for the latest versions of Visual C++ Redistributable packages.

docs.microsoft.com

 

[Emirkan88]

I installed it didnt worked

 

[BjornB]

I installed it didnt worked

Try submitting a ticket through support.paradoxplaza.com - I'm sorry you are having problems

 

[Emirkan88]

I reinstalled the game now it works

 

[BjornB]

I reinstalled the game now it works

I'm glad it worked out in the end

 

[TerroristBear]

My game was working fine yesterday. I tried playing today and it kept crashing after the change of the month. I tried reloading multiple save files from the same campaign and it loads, plays for the rest of the month and promptly fails on the first of the next month. Any suggestions? I tried starting a new campaign and it was able to successfully get to the next month but i didnt continue further than that.

 

[Mejias]

I reinstalled the game now it works

What's about the saved games? Did you miss them?

 

[jbg]

Mine is also crashing on the first of the month, I went back to older saves and it crashes on the next 1st, so I can't even make it back to the original crash date. Mods off. Reinstalled game, verified integrity, updated C++. What else?

 

[jwwhlr]

My game was working fine yesterday. I tried playing today and it kept crashing after the change of the month. I tried reloading multiple save files from the same campaign and it loads, plays for the rest of the month and promptly fails on the first of the next month. Any suggestions? I tried starting a new campaign and it was able to successfully get to the next month but i didnt continue further than that.

Same issue for me, did you find a fix?

 

[jbelichon]

lBonjour, je charge Europa Universalis IV, mais impossible de jouer, j’ai comme indication qu’il semble que je ne sois pas connecté alors que je le suis effectivement, et comme indication
qu’il manque un mod, mais lequel ?

 

[Dennis95Steffi]

Hi all!

As usual when we release a major update for EU4 - outdated mods can cause some unexpected problems. We see quite a few reports of people's games crashing when selecting units, which so far seems to be caused by outdated mods 100% of the time.

So: if you experience unexpected behavior of any kind - please try disabling mods as a first step in solving the problem.

Thank you!

Just bought the game on steam and it won't launch i tried to launch as admin but error code VCRUNTIME140_1.dll file is missing i tryed every thing please help!!!!

 

[Dennis95Steffi]

Mine is also crashing on the first of the month, I went back to older saves and it crashes on the next 1st, so I can't even make it back to the original crash date. Mods off. Reinstalled game, verified integrity, updated C++. What else?

same but my game won't launch

 

[grotaclas]

Just bought the game on steam and it won't launch i tried to launch as admin but error code VCRUNTIME140_1.dll file is missing i tryed every thing please help!!!!

That means you don't have a new enough x64 version of the microsoft visual c++ redistributables. Please try to (re-)install them. You can get the latest version from this website or directly download the installer from this link. There is an arm version(ARM64), a 32bit version(x86) and a 64bit version(x64). Current eu4 versions only need the 64bit(x64) version.