I might give it a shot the next time I play Victoria II. I remember doing this before, but forgot it over time I think when I switched PCs or perhaps you needed to do it every once in a while?
Unrelated, I've been messing around with Hearts of Iron 3. It's still intimidating as ever with the military matters and I have to actually use youtube videos and guides to figure it all out, so I never grow quite comfortable playing a major power like the UK, USA, Germany, USSR. My game as Czechoslovakia ended up me refusing the Munich Agreement and being locked at a stalemate with Germany until the end of historical WW2 by myself without it ever triggering the other events and the western allies not helping me at all. I even managed to sack Vienna at one point. Mountaineer soldiers are the greatest.