Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems BUG - Repeatable crash after vendoring and saving after (possible root cause)

Every time I load my saved game and spawn at druid grove vendor Arron, I start trading my items. After trading, I did a quick save. This always crash the game. I tried disabling cross save, but problem persist. I tried normal save also crash.

I did more test and finally found out that if I sold my companions items, no crash occur after when saving.

[Suspected root cause]
Then, I sold item in my main character inventory after, done and did a quick save. Crash. So, it seems I can't sell items from my main character ONLY. He is a bard gnome btw if that matters to Lariant.

Same problem with Gnome Wizard ...
Sell my stuff, go to save ... crash.

//Edit: Even if Astarion did the selling ... save = crash.

//Edit: So i decided to put my loot goblinism to rest and play without vendoring anything ...
But when i reached next point where i wanted to save, the game crashed again. :-/ Now im not sure if vendoring have anything to do with it.

Been getting a lot of crashes this patch compared to previous iterations. Been getting crashes 75% of the time when I try to leave the camp. Usually if I relaunch the game and leave camp, no crash happens. Seems like it's fine the first time, but it always crashes for the next time. Not sure if saving is causing the crashes to happen. Tried to test a bunch of ways to make it work, but nothing. Started happening when I recruited all of the recruitable companions, all prior camp rests were fine before that. Also managed to crash when entering the owlbear cave.

Hi !
I get the same errors, for some reason the save game process fails everytime I try to progress after entering the grove. As soon as I try to sell my items to any vendor (Arron or the forge thiefling) saving manually becomes impossible. I even tried to move ahead and progress the story through the bug and see if autosaving during a big event was crashing too and it did after the first dream sequence. (I did sell my stuff thou)
I reloaded an earlier autosave to check if the corruption was from an earlier sequence so I reloaded just before the fight at the gates.
The only difference that happened is Aradin was alive as well as the other two guys so it triggered the scene wih Zevlor. Still crashes as soon as I sell something but managed to save normally before trying to sell anything.
I guess that's the true meaning of cursed loot !
I might try to put the loot away to see if I can perhaps sell it later.
But might be autosave will crash by itself without the loot selling anyway.

Ok... I think I figure it out what cause the crash.

IT WASN'T THE CHARACTER BUT IT WAS A SPECIFIC ITEM THAT IF I SELL, WILL CAUSE A SAVEGAME CRASH!
The item was this have one SKULL in my inventory.

Have no clue how Lariant going to find this and fix it.

I have the same issue. It occured on 3 different characters.
Game start crashing after i trade with any NPC. Not just Aaron.
Only way to solve this for me is to load previously saved game. Some times i have to go back for an hour of gameplay...

I did have skulls in my inventory like you, threw them away following your message and it still crashed after I sold the rest to any npc and tried to save.

Tried also to go back with an older save. If it is related to a specific bugged object you get my rough guess is that it could be for sure something from the crypt.

I always start my games with clearing the crypt after I recruited all companions.

If I can't find a solution with my current save I might start a fresh game and go straight to the grove and ignore the crypt, see if that changes anything.

Plot thickens.

I'm not quite sure what causes it, but I have the same problem with vendors. However, what I suspect the cause of the crashing to be is the number of items a vendor currently holds in their store's inventory. All of the vendors in the grove in my game's save are absolutely packed to the brim with junk I hoarded and they don't seem to be cycling out those items I've sold them. Though, it could definitely be that some items are just bugged which I question because I'm only just now experiencing issues with vendor crashes several hours into the game.

Also, I've sold skulls in my game and they've not caused crashes.

Hey all just wanted to add my 2 cents on the patch

I did like a 12-16 hour binge of BG3 the last 24 hours. Im not sure if im allowed to post my stream here but my twitch username is JustinGayme if ya wanna see the progress of what im about to explain.

My issue is this: The longer I played, the more and more crashes I got from long resting and quicksaving and vendoring.

I know these are known issues, but it was particularly curious to me that I wasn't having many issues at first, but in the last few hours it's every singlle long rest, so I logged off.

Not angry just sharing my experience.

Please forgive I reposted this from the general section. I'm new to the forum, still navigating.

Getting my loot out of Camp storage area and trying to save causes the crash for me. Selling loot to vendors from my inventory no issues. Random save crashes here and there otherwise

I don't think its the crypt, started with 2 characters, and get crashes on both while ignore the crypt and go straight to the druids grove after i got all the companions.

I don't believe it has to do with the item type but how you got the item, or maybe if it's stolen or something. I've been getting this crash no matter who sells what and what vendor buys. I have sold items to the two vendors in the Druid Grove and the Zhent vendor in the goblin camp, and I've been slowly whittling down what triggers it. My best guess (since it's none of the items listed above that also crashed people's games) is that it's selling items I'd previously sold (to the goblin vendor at the front gate) and then looted back. It happens for me with gemstones I'd previously sold to him, then took back after I killed him, and then try to sell again. After that happens, any save action I try to take crashes the game. Before that, I can save no problem. Complete other quests, etc. Hope this helps people narrow it down.

For me it was one of those void bombs and it's not just about trading just by moving it around to diffrent character the game crashes after saving. after droping that i could sell everything and save as normal. Funny thing is buying anything back will crash the game as well so i would say it's Ui problem