Game keeps crashing at loading screen.
After the recent businesses and Hobbies patch, the game loads up freezes on the EA screen for a while, then brings up the loading screen. Then the screen freezes and the game crashes. No mods. I have...
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OrionSkybourne1 That's very strange. Have you changed any options within the Intel graphics software? I don't have an Intel GPU to test with, so I don't know what options the app currently offers, but perhaps you've had a look around. For comparison, Nvidia's GeForce Experience has an option to "optimize" the settings for any or all games, and that overrides the settings players might impose within the game. This conflict can occasionally cause a crash too.
Here's a guide to the current software, although yours may look a bit different since your graphics driver is a little old and Intel has made a lot of changes in the last couple years:
At any rate, reverting to default settings, if that's an option somewhere, is worth trying.
I'd also like to know whether editing Options.ini to switch from fullscreen to windowed mode causes a similar crash. There's nothing about either mode that should be a problem for your computer, and if you can't edit Options.ini to set fullscreen to 0 or 1, that points to a different source of error.
If that doesn't help, please try playing in a new admin Windows account. Make it local, as in, don't link it to your Microsoft account. You'll be able to launch the game, and try to change the settings (first fullscreen mode, then a different single option) both within the game and through Options.ini.
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