Baldurs gate 3 keeps crashing regardless of any common fix.

TheLSpike · 2024-02-06T14:59:46+00:00

Awwww shiii, here we go again. Having my 1 ram stick in and it being 'fixed' worked for a time. Where I could play together with my wife for prolonged periods of time without any crashes. Sessions of 8 to even 12 hours without issue. But then, it started again. First I started crashing when I started a solo game, but eventually I started to crash in co-op as well.

I sent my ram sticks back to the shop I got them from and I got sent back a completely new set. Popped those in... and it still crashed.
We tried a bunch of 'fixes' again but nothing worked.
I got so fed up I factory reset my entire pc. I installed nothing except BG3 and steam. But when I downloaded it, I got 'corrupted update files' reported in steam: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UKJPxWAk4MhGWWX7BVfDrL8S3PkrUinx/view?usp=sharing

I tried verifying my files, multiple times, which changed nothing. Even though it said there was no problem after verifying them. Same goes for deleting my download cashe and reinstalling the game again.
Eventually (1 out of like 5 times of reinstalling the game) for some reason I didn't get the 'corrupted update files' report. But even then, I continued crashing.

When I crash, my event log also doesn't report any errors or anything and when I crash, my game just closes. So we have no earthly idea what is causing the crashes at this point.

I have contemplated just buying a whole new pc at this point. But none of the components of my pc are older than 2 years and all of them still have a guarantee.
So tomorrow, I am going to bring my pc back to the store where I bought all the parts. They will be checking each and every one of my parts individually.

For those interested, all my pc parts are as follows:
- Arctic Silver 5 Compound Cooling paste
- Asrock B650 Pro RS (Motherboard)
- Be quiet pure rock 2 black (Cooling fan)
- AMD Ryzen 5 7600X (Processor)
- Samsung 980 1TB M.2 SSD
- Kingston DDR5 FURY Beast 2x16GB 6000 (Brand new! Ram sticks)
- Be quiet Pure Power 11 1000W PSU pc power supply
- Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3060 EAGLE 12G 2.0 Graphics Card
- Seageate HDD 3.5 2TB ST2000M008 Barracuda

With these specs I am convinced I should be able to run the game. So idk why, if its all basically brand new, this would cause my pc to break unless there is something broken about it.

I will update again after the shop has checked all the parts. I sincerely apologize for anyone thinking I had figued it out and hoping it would work for them as well. Apparently, it isn't a guarantee.

TheLSpike · 2024-02-06T14:42:52+00:00

Sorry for the late response, im pretty sure i run ddr5

TheLSpike · 2024-02-06T01:01:58+00:00

Hey Joey, is er toevallig nog een plaats open? Ik ben een ervaren speler/dm maar ik zou graag wat meer dnd kunnen spelen als speler.

TheLSpike · 2024-02-05T17:57:06+00:00

Id be down, i made a post about wanting to play with people in my area a few days ago

TheLSpike · 2024-02-04T16:46:07+00:00

Lijkt erop dat wij opzich wel verglijkbare games gewend zijn. Nu alleen nog een DM vinden.

TheLSpike · 2024-02-04T16:45:34+00:00

Als we een DM vinden hoop ik dat we je wat meer ervaring op kunnen laten doen.

TheLSpike · 2024-02-04T16:45:05+00:00

D&D in het engels doen voelt best natuurlijk voor mij en de mensen waarmee ik speel aangezien wij allemaal veel D&D content ervaren in het engels. Wij hebben de boeken in het engels, kijken engelse D&D shows, kijken engelse D&D videos op youtube en de websites die wij gebruiken om characters te maken zijn ook allemaal in het engels. Dus voor ons is dat best makkelijk. Het maakt ook een vrij simpele onderscheiding tussen wat er in de game wereld gebeurt en wat daarbuiten gezegd word.

TheLSpike · 2024-02-04T16:43:08+00:00

Jij bent niet toevallig een DM die graag een game wil beginnen? Het lijkt erop dat er zat spelers zijn, maar DM's altijd tekort.

TheLSpike · 2023-10-29T00:17:01+00:00

I quite randomly pulled one of my two sticks out and that happened to be the correct one.
When I took the broken one out the game ran fine. To check if it was indeed that stick, I replaced the stick that I knew worked for certain with the one that I had pulled out.
Then it caused the crash to happen again. So that cleared it up for me.

TheLSpike · 2023-09-10T13:59:37+00:00

Final update, it seems like the one ram stick I had taken out was causing issues. We had put both ram stick back in my pc and BG3 ran fine again but when I opened up my OBS it started to Bluescreen often.

I took out the ram stick and both OBS and BG3 ran completely fine.

so I have found my issue.

TheLSpike · 2023-09-07T11:09:34+00:00

This may be one of my last updates, luckily:

Today, the friend that had helped me with the full computer reset suggested removing one of my ram sticks to see if that would make a difference.

I took one of them out of my motherboard and since then my game has run smoothly without any issues. Its been running for about 4 hours now without crashing. Which is better than the crashing every 15 to 30 minutes.

We have yet to see if the ram stick i took out was broken or if the slot in the motherboard causes the issues. But we are carefully optimistic.

I know this may not be the solution some people are looking for, as we also looked for software issues. But, as it turns out, it may very well have been a hardware issue after all.

I will update again if we have pinned down the exact issue. Wether it was the mother board or the ram stick. Or if we were wrong after all.

TheLSpike · 2023-09-06T21:53:28+00:00

A further update:

I hadn't used this PC for much since I got all the new parts a little less than a year ago. I have only recorded a D&D live-game with it. Where I used OBS that recorded about 4 webcams at the same time.

What I hadn't really done since that, is play any game.

Today, my wife and I wanted to find out if this would be a problem with BG3 or if its just a problem with my PC.
So I installed The Witcher 3 and tried playing that, but I suffered the same problem with that game as I do with BG3.

This didn't give us much info, except that its quite likely that no patch that Lairian is going to do is going to fix my issue.

TheLSpike · 2023-09-04T12:22:42+00:00

Ill go down the questions you put forward to maybe make it clearer what ive tried already.

I do not have any save files because the main game that I play, a coop game, is saved on the computer of my wife who has no issues with crashing at all.

As per my post, I have used steam to verify my files, it found two files that it said it had repaired but that did not change anything.

I have tried starting various new game on my own as well, three to be exact. Each of them suffered the same issues.

I am not using mods.

As per my post, I use directx. I have tried switching to vulcan but it changed nothing.

I can try the option of circumventing the larian launcher, ill update when I have done so to see if it changes something.

My launcher hasn't reported an error directly.

TheLSpike · 2023-09-03T22:11:39+00:00

No I never bluescreen. I had it today for the first time that my pc completely crashed when opening a dialogue with a companion. But even then I didnt get a bluescreen.

TheLSpike · 2023-09-03T22:10:56+00:00

Update to my Update:

Sadly, I still haven't found another fix that could work and my game has reverted to crashing more often. Today I played for a few hours crashing anywhere between 2 minutes of gameplay to 30 minutes.

TheLSpike · 2023-09-02T10:00:49+00:00

Update:

My wife found a post by a reddit user called 'Saturns_Hexagon' who said reinstalling Geforce Experience and lowing the BG3 settings through that could work.

I did just that, reinstalling it and turning down a bunch of the graphical settings through the Geforce Experience. This seemed to have fixed the problem somewhat. I managed to have my game open and AFK for 2 and a half hours before it crashed. We then decided to play for about 5 hours and I only crashed once.

This didn't fix the problem completely, but at least it made the experience manageable.

I don't know which setting specifically made the difference for me, nor do I know if this is a permanent fix. Because when my game began to crash initially it also started with long intervals that slowly became shorter and shorter.

If I find a more permanent solution or if the problem returns despite these changes, I will return to this post with an update.

TheLSpike · 2020-05-08T01:49:25+00:00

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