Quick Update: Still broke;
Uninstalled Battle.net and Diablo, Manually deleted Battle.net and Blizzard folders in Program Files and Program Data. restarted; Reinstalled Battle.net on my 980 Pro D: Drive (mimicked Program Files (x86)) path, restarted, Reinstalled Diablo 4 on my 980 pro D: drive (mimicked Program Files (x86)) path, Restarted, Got to character select and it just corrupted again within 10 seconds.
Lets hope just putting both back on my OS SSD lets me play normally still.
I was just testing for the sake of testing since itās been like 2 weeks.
I noticed this being an issue and tried extensively to figure it out.
Pre-Notice Yes, I never even launched the game before updating to the newest launch-day GPU Driver for the game, I DDUāed in SafeMode, ensured Windows did not Install a base Driver when restarting (System Properties / View Advanced System Settings - Hardware - Device installation Settings - NO), and explicity installed NVIDIA GeForce Experience and grabbed the latest Game Ready Driver Version 535.98 2023-05-30
The game seems to randomly Unallocate 1 Megabyte MB of storage right before / while crashing. This effectively seems departition that 1MB from the rest of the Volume Regardless of SSD Storage Over Provisioning or Performance settings.
Sometimes you may crash instantly on loading/Queue, may crash on the character select screen not even touching or selecting anything, may crash after selecting the Characters and clicking play, and may even crash randomly moment into playing or many minutes into playing the game.
It seems that when this happens the Corrupted data mentioned may be that 1MB that is not long available to the drive. Through Basic Windows Disk Partitioning there was no way to actively Extend the main Volume/Partition of the SSD to reclaim that 1MB un-allocated.
Iāve actively tried clearing/Deleting the ProgramData Battle net and Blizzard Entertainment Files/folders, Attempted āUpdatingā the game as it suggests in the
Battle net Launcher, attempted Scan and repairing the Game.
But, it either will give a āWhoops something went wrong Messageā or being unable to find the target location error / it not existing in a weird inital case for me it was COMPLETELY Disconectting my drive.ā¦ weirdly though, where the Files would no longer be navigatiable via File Explorer nor CMD prompts Stating that the Location doesnāt existā¦ any location/folder/file on the drive. It would no longer Show in Samsung Magician (which is a consistent issue after the 1MB unallocates).
But, for some reason would still show the full partition as Online in Windows Disk Parititoningā¦
Tried Running in VARIOUS combinations all Blizzard / Battle net / Diablo IV - 4 Software / Applications as or not as Administrator regardless of my local accounts security settings, regardless of basic UAC, Regadless of File/Folder access security settings
Iāve additionally Deleted the ProgramData Battle net and Blizzard Entertainment Files/Folders, the installation path of the launcher; the game folders entirely, etc. Then went into Windows Uninstall and removed all lingering listings of any of the apps / software. Completely restarted the computer, reinstalled the Battle net Launcher, resintalled the gameā¦ and the same issues occured.
NO OVERLAYS were on, not a Battle net overlay, not a Discord overlay even if it were open or not, not steam overlays, no Rivatuner overlays, etc. All Services were set to bare-bones NVIDIA, Windows, Blizzard/battle net services if applicable, aside from audio service (Realtek / Creative Technology, or my FocusRite services). Additionally, to ensure most / if not all unecessary background processes were killed / stopped, I Used & also tested NOT USING specifically-explicitly-manually ONLY the program called āProcessKillerā Version 1.0.0 (Details says 1.0)/ 2.0 (Whitelist.txt and the UI says 2.0) Provided āinā Tronscript, Version 12.0.3 - reddit[DOT]com/r/TronScript , C:\Users\brand\Desktop\Tron v12.0.3 (2022-09-11)\tron\resources\stage_0_prep\processkiller\ by Reddit User reddit[DOT]com/user/cuddlychops06
I should note I only tried the Server Slam Beta before this and Had the SAME issue initally on the SAME Drive; however, Did not document what I did to āfixā or stop the game from doing this before. It may have just fixed itself while still being on my 980 PRO.
I have since not being able to fix this after like 3 hours of troubleshooting, moved this to my C: Drive : (Local Disk) C:\Program Files (x86)\Diablo IV
[PC] - 2023-06-1
Battle[DOT]net - Storage Path C:\Program Files (x86)\Battle[Dot]net\
GAME: Diablo IV - 4 Version 1.0.2.42016 Ultra Graphics Preset, DLSS Quality, High-Definition Texture Pack Downloaded - Storage Path (980 Pro) D:\Program Files (x86)\Diablo IV\ ā¦ All Security Permissions on this entire D: drive were set to Full Control for all Users, Authenticated Users, Administrators, and my Local account. If Prompted by UAC YES / ALLOW was selected.
Windows 10 Version 10.0.19045 Build 19045 / Windows 10 Pro - 22H2 - Version 19045.2965 Experience - Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.19041.1000.0
MOBO: Gigabyte Z370 LGA 1151 Aorus Gaming 7 (rev. 1.0) (300 Series) BIOS Version F15 - 2021-11-29
CPU: Intel i9 9900k @ all cores 4.9 Ghz
GPU: EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER XC GAMING 08G-P4-3182-KR - Game Ready Driver Version 535.98 2023-05-30, NVIDIA CONTROL PANEL SETTING Default for global, and Default on ALL the Blizzard / Battle[Dot]net/ Diablo 4 Launchers / exectuables .exe
Monitor: Acer Predator XB271HU bmiprz 27" @ 144Hz - Driver Version 1.0.0 - Provider ACR G-Sync Enabled for Full-Screen and Windowed apps
RAM: XMPed 32 GB (two 16 GB kits) DDR4 Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000 MHz C15 (PC4 24000) - BOTH CMK16GX4M2B3000C155
Storage: Samsung 980 Pro SSD PCIe NVMe Gen4 Gaming M.2 2TB - MZ-V8P2T0B (Samsung Magician Version 7.3.0, 980 Pro SSD Firmware Version 5B2QGXA7 Settings @ Full Performance 10% Over Provision & Tested Default Standard Optimization)
Benchmark Results: (Default Benchmark settings) - Sequential Read 3557 MB/s, Sequential Write 3405 MB/s, Random Read 852050 IOPS, Random Write 797119 IOPS.
S.M.A.R.T Results: all āGoodā, Extended SMART Self-Test: ~35 Minutes longā¦ ALL GOOD
Keyboard: Corsair Gaming K70 Rapid Fire (RGP0021) - BIOS 1 (Defaults) (Reds LED only)
Mouse: Logitech G502 Hero