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Hi

For about a week or two now I have been experiencing long in-game freezes, whereas prior to that the game was smooth running and very stable. To the best of my knowledge the freezing only became an issue upon reaching the Reaper's Coast. For much of that time though I wasn't too bothered with the freeze issue as the game resumed playing after a ~20 second freeze, and was fairly infrequent. I noticed that it would also mainly occur in combat where there were quite a lot of effects going on. I assumed the two were related somehow, but recently that assumption has been thrown into doubt.

Within the last two days the game has become largely unplayable however. The freezes have become very frequent, happening every ~30 minutes and they are now crashing the game to desktop. They no longer occur just in combat and happen randomly anywhere. Just today though, the issue is now crashing my PC whenever the game does one of these freezes. I tried to load into my most recent save, only for the game to freeze immediately upon loading and crash to desktop.

Nothing about my system has changed hardware wise, and the only thing software wise I am aware of were new graphics card drivers within the last three days. I thought that was the culprit, so I rolled them back. That didn't fix it, so I did a fresh reinstall of them using the newest available drivers and the issue is still here.

The only other thing I can see which may have caused the sudden loss in game stability are the patches that were released a few days ago, but as I'm on Steam I can't roll back to previous game versions as far as I'm aware.

This issue also happens on co-op, but only for me. There must be some interaction between my system and the game that has changed in the last few days to cause this, but I don't know where to start looking for it. I would appreciate any assistance. Thanks.

Edit: Forgot to mention, but the crash reporter that pops up after the game stops doesn't seem able to send crash reports to Larian Studios, as it throws a time-out error. Not sure why.

You can send the crash dumps .DMP files to Larian support email manually if you look in the game / bin folder.

I might have to do the same, because I've been getting random CTDs too.

I have same problem. Game ran very smoothly until just about a week or so ago. Game will freeze for up to a minute sometimes, before allowing me to continue as normal for a few minutes, and then freezing again. Lately, the game will crash completely, sometimes locking up my PC entirely (had to use power button to shut down last night). Crash reports have been sent to Larian, but I have not been able to find a resolution. Clearly, many folks are having the same, or similar issues. For the record, I have an Intel i5-2500 3.3gHz CPU (quad core), 8 GB RAM, Windows 10 64 bit, Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 (driver version 388.13). As I said, problem started to appear just last week (per Steam, I've played 85 hours to date). Just sharing, 'cause misery loves company.

The same problems here, act 1 games works smoothly, act 2 ocassionlal freezes , shoutdown to desktops. I have monster PC and only what changes in last couple days is new nvidia driver WHQl ( from 15.11.2017) that windows 10 creator update download it automaticly to my system. Others more demanding games (like VR sims) run fine.
Maybe we shuld roll back nvidia driver ? anyone tryed that ?