Dang, I tried to bypass the launcher with the %command% prompt and it still crashed. The Aug 25th patch has been a death sentence for my game and I really don’t want to start over after 40 hours.
Are we talking CTDs or is your PC hard-crashing? Like blue screen of death/freezing up?
If you're "just" CTDing, you should be able to find error logs created by the game itself (they're put into the BG3 root-folder, IIRC). Take a couple of those reports and also do a dxdiag and send all that to Larian's support.
If it's hard crashes you're getting, you should write down the error code the BSOD gives you. If the PC just freezes up on you without even a BSOD (like mine did) you should use Windows Event-Viewer and check for entries/error codes around the timestamp when the crash occurred. On WIn 11, just RMB on the Start-button and select "Event Viewer". I would google those error codes and also submit them to Larian - or try a specialized Windows/HW forum with knowledgeable people on it.
Also, as I stated in earlier posts, use Windows Reliability Report to see what sort of critical errors your system had at/around time of crash. Funnily enough, all my errors in my Reliability Report were caused by "LariLauncher", not by BG3.exe.
Have you tried some of the system maintenance I mentioned in my post? I did a lot of cleaning up/updating, and while I'm pretty sure those didn't do the trick for me on their own, they might have helped once I disabled the launcher.
Besides: Keeping all your HW-components' drivers up to date (not just Windows and your GPU-drivers) and verifying your Windows installation's integrity can't really hurt. I'd start with things like:
At the risk of repeating myself:
- Chipset/Mobo-drivers - go to your mobo's manufacturer's support page and see what they have for your model of motherboard.
- Intel components drivers. For example, their i255 ethernet controller is apparently infamous for causing trouble and I had drivers from 2021 installed before I updated them to 2023 ones. And those drivers I had to find "by hand". Neither the driver-package from MSI (my mobo's manufacturer) included these nor did they get updated by Intel's own online auto-updater.
- update on-board sound-card drivers.
- They say you shouldn't really update the BIOS on a system that's running fine, but ... if your BIOS version is older or really old, you might want to think about updating it. I updated mine anyway because I wanted to prep my board for 13th gen Intel CPUs. My Z690 board needed a BIOS-update for that. It's really not that hard to do this these days, but if you're not sure how to update the BIOS, check your motherboard manufacturer's website for exact instructions and then follow those
to the letter. You don't want to brick your motherboard by going about flashing the BIOS the wrong way.
- run Windows system file checker. How-to is here:
https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/...system-file-checker-in-microsoft-windowsThis is, basically, a kind of "OS-re-install light". It will check your Windows installation's file integrity and repair corrupt files and/or re-install missing ones. It won't tell you what exactly it found and repaired (gotta open a log-file to see that), but it will tell you if it detected errors and if those errors were repaired. It did detect and repair errors on my system and took, maybe, 5 minutes to complete.
I'd also do stuff like disable any sort of in-game overlays (GF-Experience overlay, Steam Overlay, MSI Afterburner OSD, etc) and throw out other background bloatware like the stuff I banned from my system (RGB-SW crap, Samsung Magician, etc.). Plus if you're running overclocked, go back to default settings/clockspeeds and see if that makes a difference.
Plus you can try the usual in-game stuff, like reducing details, switching display mode ("borderless window" is supposedly the safest/most stable option), activate in-game framerate-limiter at 60 FPS, etc.
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