The first thing players need to do is disable fullscreen optimizations. Before starting with the fixes, if you have Onedrive, then disable it and see if that fixes the issue. Here are a few fixes and workarounds to fix the issue. Game Not Launching, Crash At Startup FixĪ lot of Europa Universalis 4 Emperor players are reporting that the game doesn’t launch or just crashes at launch. Set it to default and the issue will be fixed. If that is the case with you then go to the game’s install folder > right-click eu4.exe > select Run with graphics processor and select “High-performance Nvidia processor”.
However, even doing this, a lot of players have experienced that the game doesn’t run really well or start. Select Europa Universalis 4 from the list and assign “High-Performance profile” to the game under Graphics Settings.
Select the “High-performance Nvidia processor” under the preferred graphics option.Īs for AMD GPU users, open Radeon Settings > Preferences > Additional Settings > Power > Switchable Graphics Application Settings. For Nvidia GPU users, open Nvidia Control Panel > Manage 3D Settings > Program Settings > select the game. This is just a classic case of the game not switching to the discrete GPU.