I'm also experiencing the same issue. Hoping someone figures something out. Most of the replies out there are "fix your hardware". I'm just so skeptical that it's a PSU issue across all of these different machines and set ups, completely and solely specific to BG3. It's definitely not temps. I dunno, but I'm super bummed since I don't want to risk my hardware to play this very enjoyable game. Larian, halp!
Sorry to hear that. And for everyone else having this issue.
I’m no expert, but a hardware issue of some kind does appear to be at least part of the problem. As I understand it, an emergency shutdown is a hardware failsafe to try to prevent damage to the system (even though repeated resets isn’t particularly good for it either). Programs can lock up, crash, cause fatal errors and all that, but I don’t think they can just pull the plug without something else being wrong.
When I had this problem very badly, it was not just BG3. Disco Elysium for example was completely unplayable as well for me. Other games and programs were generally OK for the most part, but the problem was still there. On cyberpunk 2077 for instance I still got the occasional hard reset, maybe once every 5 or 6 hours. So it’s feasible that others could only see the problem on BG3.
My hypothesis is that there’s something about BG3 (and DE) that taxes some part of the system more than most other games and programs, exposing a weakness. In my case I don’t think it was the PSU (tried replacing it) or temperature (didn’t look too excessive), but I’m not entirely sure.
The fact it’s happening across different setups doesn’t rule out a hardware issue. Components from different manufacturers all do the same thing and can all fail in the same ways. This doesn’t entirely let Larian off the hook though. If there’s something in the program causing issues in systems that seem fine running most everything else, they should definitely investigate and improve it.
It doesn’t help that a hard shutdown doesn’t generate crash reports.
