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I am in the middle of a game, everything has been running fine up to this morning. I tried to open my game, got as far as clicking on the turn button, and a battle setup screen flashed up momentarily on the screen, then disappeared behind the main window. I finally used the Task Manager to close the game, opened in windowed mode, and was able to click on the accept battle button although the window stayed persistently behind the main game window. When I got into the battle, however, the game wouldn't accept my mouse clicks on check boxes on, for example, setting a squadron to AI control. I tried opening a different save game and had the same problem with selecting a button for a political decision. I tried a clean reinstall from Steam, the problem persisted. Any idea what's going on? Looks like I got a Windows security update a couple of days ago but the program ran correctly as recently as yesterday evening, so that isn't the problem.

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-core processor, 16GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX1070 Ti 8GB graphics adapter, Win11 25H2 with automatic updates enabled.

Just got a Matrix version of the game so I can participate in the beta test of the DLC, and happy to find out that this problem doesn't exist in that version. So it is something with Steam.

And the Matrix version apparently can open the save file from the Steam version without difficulty.

Now having installed the Matrix version I have a different problem. As detailed on the beta forum, when trying to load an ongoing battle, it runs through the scenario loading bar twice and then gives a series of error messages and crashes. When loading a saved campaign game that doesn't have an ongoing battle, it loads up fine, but when battle starts, I can't select the boxes with the course and speed on them to type in values directly. I can still change course by clicking on the up and down arrows or shift-clicking on the map with the division selected, but hold-right-click is not recognized. There hasn't been any change in the operating system afaik, and the game version is now the beta DLC.

I've been playing this game for several years and it has been perfectly stable, now two problems with the gui in a couple of days. Any ideas from anyone?

Just come across an article detailing that the Window's patch launched in October (codenamed KB5066835) has caused performance issues in Intel and AMD CPUs.

I have witnessed such events when performance has been sluggish in the past - but I haven't yet installed this patch to my computer and am not noticing any issues.

That adds to my suspicion that the patch is the culprit, and until the patch is fixed I'm not sure what NWS can do to address the issue.

source: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/technol ... 6a3e&ei=17

Yes, I had some issues with Victoria 3 along these lines, too. A new Win11 patch that came out a little while ago made that game run correctly again.