Recurring Game Crash and Hanging

Funny - mine started just before the new “update”. I did not run the PTR

Constant crashes - game is not playable - Technical Support - Diablo IV Forums (blizzard.com)

part of my last post:
Crashes occur on all starting screens, loading screens, logging on to Diablo servers etc., character screens, character creation screen (took 4 attempts to create a new character), cut screens, in town, fighting out of town (I made it to level 4 - took about 30 - 40 restarted due to constant crashes).

Same errors:
UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: ACCESS_VIOLATION (c0000005) at:
DBG-OPTIONS
DBG-ADDR<00007FF6D29C1680>(“Diablo IV.exe”)
DBG-OPTIONS<>

I may not have played D IV for a couple of days - but the crashes started on the 22 of Sept. I manually update drivers - they had not changed for weeks. I did try the latest ones - but it didn’t help.

Oh - changed graphic settings - lowered (looked like carp) raised, went to GeForce experience and changed them, manually changed them in the gamer - no difference.

PC: i7-9700K
32GB RAM
RTX-2070
Win11

Nothing else crashes - only D IV

Before last month I had played since the 1st Beta with NO crash issues. Early crash stutters were due to cross platform being open, closed that and never looked back or had any issues,until 9/22/24