Crash at Last Light Inn

[zrut]

I'm running Win10, using an NVIDIA 1660 with most current drivers, AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor, 32GB of RAM. My game is patched up to Hotfix#3.

I've managed to get the game to consistently crash at the Last Light's Inn. I've been able to replicate it irrespective of graphical settings or DirectX/Vulkan, using all four current party members to trigger. Will try swapping party members in camp to see if this potentially has any bearing on the issue.

The game stutters upon entering the location and then consistently crashes upon entering dialogue with any NPC (have tested this with Dammon, the Councilor inside, and one of the guards in the courtyard so far). Dialogue commences, the animated conversation cutscene stutters or freezes while audio continues to play, then the game CTDs.

This is not linked to dialogue generally - fast travelling out and speaking to merchants in the Druid's Grove and the Myconid Colony works without issues - so I believe it is tied to the location. I've not found any other variable that makes much of a difference.

[Becks]

Last Light Inn is crash heavy for me as well, but only in dialogues, during scene or camera transitions. I have not found a solution or the source of the problem.

[aintsaint]

I crash regularly with the vendor outside of the inn. Not Dammon, usually.

[Ryu Raccoon]

I too am having very frequent crashes here during NPC dialog scenes. It's virtually unplayable. I'm running with the updated Hotfix#4 on an AMD Threadripper 1940 12-core, 128GB RAM running Vulkan on Linux. It always happens during dialog with me.

[Ryu Raccoon]

Every time I finish the fight at Last Light Inn it crashes. I can't get past this section.

[Ryu Raccoon]

I just did another major battle, this time I defeated Marcus and Isobel turned against me. I knocked her out and the game promptly crashed again. It's impossible for me to continue the game with these bugs. I hope this is fixed soon.

[Nordil(Hun)]

Originally posted by Ryu Raccoon:

I too am having very frequent crashes here during NPC dialog scenes. It's virtually unplayable. I'm running with the updated Hotfix#4 on an AMD Threadripper 1940 12-core, 128GB RAM running Vulkan on Linux. It always happens during dialog with me.

Sadly might be a vulklan issue, if possible try it with DX.

[Ryu Raccoon]

It looks like switching from Vulkan to DX allowed me to continue.

[TREXINATUX]

If it's crashing at Last Light, I shudder at the thought of your rig trying to run anything in Act 3.

[difash71]

Crash for me too at Last Light Inn. I play with DirectX11.
During the fight after the kidnapping of Isobel the gpu fans (geforce rtx gamerock 3070) go crazy , in 5 seconds the screen goes black (no sources) and the pc crashes. No actions work, I can only restart the pc.

[Stabby_McFork]

I'm crashing consistently in this same place. Had very few problems up until that point. Battle is choppy and if I make it to the cutscene afterward, it crashes there instead. I've tried reducing the graphics settings considerably, but unfortunately, I can't continue. It's a shame because I was enjoying the heck out of this game right up until this point. Running the game on a Ryzen 7 2700X with 16GB DDR4(3800) and a GTX1660-TI. More than meets the specified requirements. Hopefully, they'll patch this. I really want to move the story forward. Until then, I'm left hanging.

[bobthechemist]

Anyone have any thoughts on this crash issue? I'm encountering it as well. Can fast travel out of Last Light Inn, play for as long as I'd like, then fast travel to the Inn and crashes with cut scenes, dialog, or even just standing in the area. Have done all the standard fix attempts: driver updates, disabled in-game overlay, vulkan vs dx11, changing TdrLevel registry key, dropped graphics performance to lowest settings.

Tried the integrated graphics card on my mobo (prime b650M-a ax II) and dropped the video quality to as low as it could go. Still crashed like the RTX 4070.

[Kael_Bot]

Originally posted by bobthechemist:

Anyone have any thoughts on this crash issue? I'm encountering it as well. Can fast travel out of Last Light Inn, play for as long as I'd like, then fast travel to the Inn and crashes with cut scenes, dialog, or even just standing in the area. Have done all the standard fix attempts: driver updates, disabled in-game overlay, vulkan vs dx11, changing TdrLevel registry key, dropped graphics performance to lowest settings.

Tried the integrated graphics card on my mobo (prime b650M-a ax II) and dropped the video quality to as low as it could go. Still crashed like the RTX 4070.

I'm having the exact same problem as you. I've done everything imaginable just as you have done to try to fix this, but nothing works. Were you able to find a solution? I'm desperate at this point as I've put so many hours into this run already and I have no guarantee I won't see this problem again even if I restarted.

[fulmarmusic]

I seems to start near Humbletoes in the Tabernacle, near Baldur's Gate and The Last Light Inn, then it spreads like a virus so you can't play anywhere for more than 90 seconds. Tried going back to my old games, but let's face it...

[Kael_Bot]

There are now many people with this problem. Unless we all have something strange in common, like some really screwed up mod, it’s got to be on Larian’s end.

I already posted a bug report (using the links in the pinned thread in this forum), and I would encourage everyone else to do the same so that they might see it’s a real issue for a number of people.

[Bob11]

played thie HEAVILY over the past month with a modded game, and never had so much as a hiccup until the recent patch #15. Last Light Inn is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ right now. can run around, fight, talk, do normal stuff anywhere else, but i go even go NEAR LLI, its like theres an internal countdown. it'll chonk on dialogue, dicerolls, just panning the camera, doesnt matter. i spend more than a minute or 2 there im facked.

They've changed... something, and its completely killed my desire to startup the damn game this past week.

Should be noted: my games crashing with a event viewer error:

Faulting application name: bg3.exe, version: 4.42.51.417, time stamp: 0x658046ce
Faulting module name: ucrtbase.dll, version: 10.0.19041.3636, time stamp: 0x81cf5d89
Exception code: 0xc0000409

Running a SFC /scannow shows no error. Had similar issues with a starfield patch some time ago, just ruined stability, then they fixed it with another patch later on... heres to hoping Larion can do something similar... soonish