For all of these tests I just made a beeline for that zone line into the lower city and all of them ended with the usual 33% > 67% > 100% (sounds start up) > crash to desktop.
Based on this description I'm reasonably confident that you do NOT have the same issue as others in this thread! If you did I wouldn't expect the loading progress to get past 33%.
Instead it sounds more like a graphics crash - or at least some issue with your specific system hardware / OS / game installation. Probably related to the optimisations in Patch 3 that were intended to improve game performance in the Lower City.
Yeah you made me secondguess myself for a bit there because I *think* but not 100% certain others have mentioned transition issues at places other than 33%. so just in case I just went through the whole routine again of trying to debug the issue if it is in fact on my side. But I just can't even fathom what it would be on my end to make it crash in the exact same way at the exact same time every time. I know it's not a graphics thing because I switched that down to the lowest settings, 30 FPS cap and windowed instead of fullscreen, still EXACTLY the same as my "real" settings, on both the DX11 and Vulkan clients. I tried to use the dump files (I don't really know what I'm doing when it comes to debugging the specific issue) but the only thing that jumps out at me (again, it might not even be relevant) was this line from the dump file analysis (I used Windbg for this):
"ERROR_CODE: (NTSTATUS) 0xc0000005 The instruction at 0x%p referenced memory at 0x%p. The memory could not be %s." I know it's not my rig's memory because I ran my afterburner/RTSS overlay to keep up with all the important levels at the moment of the crash, and nothing spiked or anything as far as I could tell. Anyways, to help me and maybe others out while we wait for the patch, can others check and see if they get this error from the dump file in "...steamapps\common\Baldurs Gate 3\bin"? I think you have to run the game through Larian's launcher in order for the dump files to show up. Then just free download Windbg and open it with that
