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Still looking good (no idea why this "yourphone"-stuff gives me installation errors, since I don't have a phone linked to Windows, but that's a different matter, I assume.. laugh ).

Between Sept 7/8 and today, I've played every day and put in at least 15 hours of BG3-gameplay overall - with no CTDs, no PC hard-crashes/lock-ups and, as you can see, no critical errors reported on my system.


To those who still suffer problems with the launcher disabled, I'll repeat my advice of updating *all* your component drivers (not just Windows update and GPU drivers - so chipset/mobo drivers, other built-in devices drivers like ethernet controller or soundcard), checking your Windows Reliability Report to ID critical errors and running Windows System File Checker to check for broken/missing files in your Windows-installation. If you aren't super butter-fingered, you might also want to update your BIOS (especially if your current BIOS is really out of date).

Also: Try reducing and switching around in-game settings. For example: Apparently "Borderless Window" is the way to go.

Forgot to add that I also disabled Steam Cloud Sync since I don't need it and it gave me sync-errors after nearly every session. No idea if that could help, but it's one of the things I've changed.

There's clearly something going on here with BG3 (and the launcher) "triggering" problems on some systems. My theory is that while these underlying OS-/driver-/HW-issues were probably there all along, they might not have caused any abnormal behavior in day-to-day usage of the PC or playing other games outside of BG3/Larian's launcher.

Maybe you could liken it to having a small hole in the roof of your house. If you're not actively looking for it, you might not even notice it's there until it starts to rain.


S.