Game crashing while launching (Victoria 3)

I am trying to launch the native version of Victoria 3 and after this recent update it seems to crash while loading. It seems to only take up 8gb of ram before crashing. The error logs say it ran out of memory, but I definitely have much more. They recommend having 16gb of ram which I have plus a swap of 8gb.

I made a post on their forum, but it seems like I am the only one having a problem like this. Any ideas on how to, I guess, allow it to take more ram? Seems like a very strange problem. I am able to play using proton, but I would like to run the native version because in the past it has had much better performance for me.

Any ideas?

inxi -Fazy                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                ✔ 
System:
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    clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
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  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.0.5 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.2.0
    wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: X570-A PRO (MS-7C37) v: 3.0
    serial: <superuser required> uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: American
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CPU:
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    12: 3517 13: 3581 14: 3070 15: 3512 16: 3817 bogomips: 108859
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  Vulnerabilities:
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  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Vulnerable: Safe RET, no microcode
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
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  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
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  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines; IBPB: conditional; IBRS_FW;
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  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
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Audio:
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    gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 2f:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab30
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI X570-A PRO
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
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Network:
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  IF: enp39s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  Info: services: NetworkManager,systemd-timesyncd
Drives:
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  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:4 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO 1TB
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Partition:
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Swap:
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    compressor: zstd max-pool: 20%
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Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 39.0 C mobo: 44.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 60.0 C
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  Fan Speeds (rpm): fan-1: 0 fan-2: 713 fan-3: 0 fan-4: 657 fan-5: 808
    fan-6: 913 fan-7: 705 gpu: amdgpu fan: 325
Info:
  Memory: total: 16 GiB available: 15.54 GiB used: 5.76 GiB (37.1%)
  Processes: 330 Power: uptime: 13m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
    avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
    suspend, test_resume image: 6.2 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,upowerd
    Init: systemd v: 255 default: graphical tool: systemctl
  Packages: 1737 pm: dpkg pkgs: 0 pm: pacman pkgs: 1721 libs: 478
    tools: pamac pm: flatpak pkgs: 16 Compilers: clang: 17.0.6 gcc: 14.1.1
    alt: 11 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 default: Bash v: 5.2.26 running-in: konsole
    inxi: 3.3.35

Please see the pinned topic in the Gaming category:

It seems the native version isn’t worth it according to ProtonDB reports. Keep in mind, some so-called “native” versions are just very poor ports using an old Wine wrapper.

That was never my experience, so I didn’t even think to check there. I got a markedly better performance before. Guess I will use the proton version going forward unless the crashing issue gets solved.

Thanks for the help

Which update? From the game or from Manjaro?

You have a AMD GPU and but you using nvidia grub commands :thinking:

I personally would remove all this 3 commands from Grub, to have a more stable system and to see a system checklist when booting, better to handle future issues.

Don’t forget to sudo update-grub after you done.

I used to have a nvidia GPU, but recently upgraded to the AMD one. Didn’t realize that was in there, thanks for the catch! I probably still have something else kicking around from that GPU, really should have done a fresh install, but I had to help a friend to which I sold the GPU so I was tired of computer things and just wanted my system with everything.

I personally like the splash screen, but maybe I’ll try out the hackerman-like linux boot.