Fix Victoria 3 Not Launching, Crashing, Launcher Error, Freezing & Black Screen on PC

In This Blog, I am Going to tell you How To Fix Victoria 3 Not Launching, Crashing, Launcher Error, Freezing & Black Screen on PC. If you want to know the solution then please read the blog carefully.

• Restart steam, for the first time the game is taking a long time to launch, wait for a few minutes after launching the game, it took 10 minutes for me to launch the game

• Run "launcher-installer-windows" in the launcher folder

• Launch the Victoria 3 game using victoria3 exe from the game installation folder

• Uninstall the paradox launcher v2, then launch the Victoria 3, it should install the launcher and the game should start first.

• Install the latest version of the Paradox Launcher from the Paradox's official website: https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/our-games/launcher

• Rename dbghelp.dll file
• Go to C:\Windows\SysWOW64, copy dbghelp.dll, paste it into Victoria 3 binary folder, and launch the game, if not working rename the dbghelp.dll file and then launch the game

• Install Visual C++ files and .Net Framework

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-US/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170

• Delete the save game folder, this will result in a loss of saved progress/settings

• Allow game exe file to the antivirus program or Windows Security

• Run the game as an administrator

• Do the clean installation of a graphics card driver. 

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/drivers/

https://www.amd.com/en/support

• Disable overlay in steam and close all the overlay apps, close all the overclocking apps, perform a clean boot

• Verify the game files

• Laptop users with a dual graphics card: Run the game on a dedicated graphics card.

• Update Windows

• Install Media Feature Pack: If you are using N versions of Windows:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/media-feature-pack-list-for-windows-n-editions-c1c6fffa-d052-8338-7a79-a4bb980a700a

• Or switch to normal Windows 10/11 editions

• Try Windowed mode, lower down graphics settings

• Disconnect multiple monitors, unplug all the USB devices, Logitech wheel, joystick, Razer Tartarus gamepad, vjoy, Turn off Razer Synapse (razor lighting effects) and MSI Dragon Center, corsair software, end nahimic services & lightingservice.exe in task manager, remove the undervolt

• Windows 7/8 users update to windows 10/11

• Uninstall and reinstall the game to a different drive (SSD)

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