valid until you play a game and its completely stable, then after a game update it starts crashing endlessly. Then a fix is released and the game is stable again, then again a new game update is released and it crashes endlessly again (that’s where some of us are now).
Finally you should know bugs can effect some systems not others due to issues like the recent 4000 series Nvidia cards and DLSS issues which obviously didn’t effect other cards. So the idea some people don’t know how to update their drivers is frankly nonsense.
We can keep making excuses for a company known for releasing buggy content, or do you think the bugs are exclusive to game mechanics and the graphics/backend gubbins runs absolutely perfectly?
As a person that works in IT you would take into account that blizzard is the only app causing crashes on said cpu before anything. And if that’s the case which it is for the most part deductive reasoning would tell you the very simple variable that is having issues. Could also run a stress test and if that doesn’t crash your computer but d4 does there’s your answer
Diablo 4 is the only game on my PC that causes my CPU fans to go into overdrive. Its also the only game that randomly crashes. I for one, know its not my computer. I do regular “cleaning” and updates.
Making the assumption that people do not know how to fix their own computers is very insulting. I had 0 crashes prior to release of Diablo 4 VoH expansion. That clearly showed me it was a Blizzard coding issue not my PC. I should not have to allocate hard drive space to make my pagefile larger than it should be.
Blizzard being owned by Microsoft now should have been looking at this issue from day 1 when they bought them.
For me the app does not crash, its the game itself. Even other Blizz games launched from the app do not crash. So its the game. Starcraft, etc do not crash my pc randomly playing.
I have a NVIDIA card and i had to revert back to September 2024 drivers to stop the crashes. As soon as i install the updated drivers i experience crashes.
I forgot what version of drivers they are but September 2024 are the ones that worked for me, someone else mentioned it, which made me try it.
Did you manage to try the driver update I mentioned two posts above yours? I’d link what the Blizz update on that topic was but I haven’t found it yet. Only posting to see if it helps.
no but that gave me the thought to look into a few things, and i was checking my GPU usage and it was at about 97-100% useage. Now apparently this can be normal for Nvidia 4000 series cards… but I wondered what if I lower that to like 80% or less.
So I reset my graphic settings to default (basically the DLSS and all the extra shadow options are turned off as default) and my card was running at 45-55% usage.
I have not had a crash since, and I am now going to slowly dial back the settings till I hit about 80% GPU usage or isolate the single setting which is putting me at 99% GPU usage.
So in short, turn off all the “new shadow/lighting tech” as its absolutely awful for GPU usage.
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Crashed again… though was logged in for at least an hour… was about to log out anyway
I have very rare crashes on a rather old system ( i7-8700K, 16 GB DDR4, RTX 2060, Win 10). You probably have RAM problem or something else. Have you your CPU or GPU overclocked?
nah its not my system, nothing crashes its new and has run D4 for quite a while without any issues. its just poor patching by bliz and issues with 3000/4000 RTX cards.
yeah they just added that, maybe they read the forums
Sorry but not true. When GTA 5 first came out it would not run on my system but every other game would run great. A new video card fixed the problem. As technology increases new games take advantage of those new technologies which pushes the limits on older systems. You may have components that are not running at specification which is only effected when pushed hard by newer games. A manufacturer may release new drivers which now cause problems with programs which ran fine with previous drivers.
Computer systems are complicated and there are many uncontrolled variables. If it were easier IT people would be making less money because anybody could do it.
My system is rock stable and yours is not. There “must” be something different between my system and yours and it is “not” Blizzards software. I charge $200.00 an hour for onsite IT support. If I should discover a component not performing to specifications the cost of parts are additional. Obviously it could get very expensive. Learning to do things yourself is your best option but first you have to admit the problem is in your system.
I would start by making sure all your drivers are up to date. If you suspect graphic issues you could do a clean uninstall of your graphic driver and roll back your drivers. Lower your settings and turn off advanced options. If you suspect you have components not operating at specification you could underclock your cpu, ram, and video card. Check to make sure there are not other programs running in the background which could be causing a conflict.
This was me. Game ran fine until VOH. I still get the occasional crash from time to time but not as bad as when that expansion launched. Back then it was a mess.
I very rarely have crashes on d4 and no problems on any other game or activity that I do, I’ve tested internet connections reverted and upgraded drivers just to test and I still only have problems with d4, no matter how many excuses you try and make the only variable still giving me problems exists in the game it’s pretty simple actually when you just want to identify the problem, now fixing it on the other hand is why it people get paid well
I did read a post from about 15 hours ago that said Nvidia users are having issues and they are looking into it, i was having issues, now atm im only having issues in Infernal Hordes
Personally, this has been my most stable season when it comes to crashes and I am running on a potato, I did get this new issue where every time I login for the first time it times out.
