How to fix Victoria 3 crashes when starting up on a PC

Here’s how to fix Victoria 3 crashes when starting up on your PC.

Victoria 3 is finally out. The game got off to a decent start, thousands of gamers are playing it. But without technical problems is not done. Some players report crashes, bugs and other troubles that prevent them from playing. Now we will tell you how to fix crashes and other technical problems in Victoria 3. In the absence of patches, these are the only ways that can help you in any way.

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How to fix Victoria 3 crashes when launching on PC (and not only)

Here are the options you have.

Run the game with the exe file

Try to run the game directly, without the launcher. To do this, open Steam, go to the library, right click on the line with the game, select „Manage“ and „View local files“. In the folder that opens, open „Binaries“ and there run the game with victoria3.exe.

Check the game files

It is possible that the installation of the game corrupted some files – because of a bad internet connection or antivirus. In any case, you need to check them so that the system detects the problem files and re-downloads them.

To do this, open Steam, go to the Library, right-click on the line with the game and select „Properties“. In the window that opens, select the „Local Files“ tab and click „Check file integrity. This will take several minutes, depending on the speed of your disk.

Add the game to your antivirus exceptions

Each antivirus has a different process for adding files to exceptions. And there are a lot of antiviruses. So we will not describe everything in detail. Google it for your specific antivirus – the game you have added to exceptions will not suffer from possible antivirus actions.

Run the game as an administrator

Open the folder with the game, following the hints from the first point of the guide „Run the game with the exe-file“. After find the exe-file in the Binaries folder, right-click on it and select „Properties“. In the new window, select the „Compatibility“ tab and check the „Run this program as administrator“ box.

Update anything that can be updated

Update the video card driver, and the DirectX and Visual C++ libraries, all of which are available online.