I can not farm Hell Baal Solo because the game crashes every time. Doing Baal in a group has not caused an issue at all because his add waves die almost instantly. However, If his 2nd wave of adds, (the skeletal Mages) is not killed instantly then my game will crash within 10 seconds of them spawning. There is no crash report or error code, the game just closes out to the desktop every single time.
Processor: Intel(R) Core™ i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz, 2592 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s)
Ram: 32GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Home
Version 10.0.19042 Build 19042
This bug also occurs in other parts of the game where there are many projectile enemies triggering the teleport frequently on my Occy. Not sure if it is related but figured any additional information might help.
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I found a work around. If you switch to legacy graphics for all 5 wave of Baal’s adds the game will not crash. There is some kind of graphic error with the new graphics crashing the game.
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yeah figured it out like 5 mins after i wrote the comment ty
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Yes I get regular games crashes on second wave when playing solo… I have a second character that I log into a private game on most occassions so the crash isn’t a problem and I can come back and finish them off. It is always second wave skeletal mages. No issues in normal groups like you said. I haven’t tried swapping to legacy graphics so will do that for future solo runs hehe 
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Yup same here. Always 2nd waves with chain lightning and there are always some wired black box (but transparent) appears on top of the lightning area before it crashed. I have to switch to legacy mode to avoid the issue.
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I am still having the same issue as OP, mine happens on the council, but it is exactly as the OP and others in this thread have described. Will try the work around.
Windows 10 Pro
AMD Ryzen 5800x
Nvidia 3090 FE
RAM: 64 GB
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Mine always happen with 5th wave…
Same here
2nd Wave : I see black squares appearing followed by game crash.
Windows 11
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
Nvidia RTX2070 Super
16GB RAM
I kill Baal in Hell mode but did not go though the destruction end, the game crash. When I got back in it would not let me go though it. My rank did not change and I can not do cow quest in hell mode. This is a major bug because if this would happen in normal mod this toon would be stuck in normal mode. I made a tickets but blizzard support said they could not do nothing about it. This is why you are loseing so many customers because this should be quick fix but support just blow me off
having this issue just about every run, not only 2nd wave but 3rd wave councils just throwing me out. bump.
I encountered the same situation.
Windows 11
Intel Core i9-9960X
64GB RAM
RTX 2080
In addition, I also found that under Windows 11 system, long-time games will lead to higher and higher occupation of video memory, so as to burst video memory. Then the frame rate has been very low, and restart the game is still the same. You must restart the system to recover.
I have the same issue, 2nd wave at Baal my game will crash very often. Always the second wave for some reason. I thought its my hardware initially, but after doing a lot of investigation it doesnt appear to be the case. All other games run rock solid, as does D2R in every other area.
Would appreciate this can be fixed
I hope they fix it soon , I think it happens because of lightning sorceress skills. It’s kind of graphical issue, cuz it seems all of the people who posted here have good hardware configurations.
Hello,
I noticed i was having the same issue… I never had this issue until recently. So i started looking back at things i changed… I realized the only thing that changed for me was my merc wearing fort… So i changed out his armor and the problem has not reappeared. I noticed that the chilling armor casted by fort had some weird animations (the firing of ice bolt). It seems the game crashes when the minions have a lot of adds, and chilling armor is doing its offensive thing frequently.
So i came up with my own conclusion that the chilling armor from fort / merc animations are crashing the game… Hopefully this gets looked into, and possibly we found a solution to the problem.
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Exactly the same situation, after I gear up my merc with Fortitude armor my baal runs become an issue (never ever experienced a game crash on baal run before). This specific case needs to be investigated.
Keeping this alive. Same happens to me. Both on Blizzard Sorc and Hammerdin. Both 2nd and 3rd wave. In rare cases even 4th and 5th wave.
This appears to still be happening and it didn’t start for me until I got Fortitude for my Merc. Someone please look into this?
Just adding that I recently put a fortitude on, and have been having the same issue reported here since. Happy to find it’s not my card.
keeps happening. only on solo runs and no matter what graphic presets I have. only occurs at 2nd or 3rd wave of a baalrun. why isn’t this fixed already?