Also experiencing a ton of crashing, since the aug 26th update. It actually seems to have gotten worse after one of the hotfixes. They are all crashes to desktop, displaying a Vulkan or DX11 error depending on which one I'm using. No discernable pattern in what causes the crash - it can happen in a tiny area, the open world, in and out of combat.
Fixes tried so far:
verifying steam installation
switching between DX11 and Vulkan
changing in-game settings (DLSS, AO, borderless, etc)
updating graphics drivers
skipping the launcher as mentioned previously
blowing out dust and checking that gpu/cpu temps are within norms while playing
Performance is quite good, except for occasionally encountering some strange stuttering in npc heavy areas. Like it can get real bad in Last Light Inn one day, and then be buttery smooth the next. Lowering settings doesn't seem to change that, even shaders and light sources.
Laptop with
i5 10300H
RTX 2060
16GB ram
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.
While this is generally good advice, I do monthly updates of everything, bar BIOS. And run plenty of other demanding games. Particularly stuff like chipset, ethernet and realtek is almost never going to cause problems with a game, and if it does, it points to a motherboard or CPU failing. And BIOS issues are related to overheating and power draw usually
It's most likely a problem on the game's end in combination with some specific graphics drivers or gpus. Or something to do with how the game handles loading/caching
