Larian Studios Forums Divine Divinity (English) Technical Problems Divinity 2 crashes in Aleroth. Tried everything.

GTX 1080 with the newest Nvidia driver.
Win 10.
16 GB RAM.

No crashing issues with any other games. Played hundreds of hours into other Divinity games. No issues either.


Problem description:

Divinity 2 Developer's Cut on Steam: crashes upon loading into Aleroth very, very often. It did when I tried it back in Ego Draconis from the Fjords or from the Tower. It still does it now in Flames of Vengeance if I want to load from anywhere else into Aleroth (the tower and other maps, like houses or dungeons in Aleroth when I'm simply trying to go outside). Crashes basically on trying to load into Aleroth from literally ANYWHERE, more than half of the times.



Things I tried so far:

-closing every other program besides Steam and the game exe
-running it in 1280x720
-running either of the .exes as admin
-completely deinstalling and reinstalling the game
-verifying integrity of the game files via game settings in Steam
-turning every graphics setting to the minimum and/or off
-Lockstep on
-Lockstep off
-changing the FPS cap to various values
-windowed mode (Fullscreen=0)
-installing physx from the "Support" folder within the game directory
-renaming the movie wavs, although I have no issues whatsoever with any cutscenes in the game and I'm far past the Aleroth introductory cutscene

and I don't even know anymore what else. Feels like I spent more time on trying to fix the bs with the crashes than playing the actual game.
PS: Not playing with any debug cheats on. Currently testing WinXP compability mode with admin rights on the debug .exe. Capped it to 30 FPS to be safe.