Really weird, borderline scary crash

[Arkdaim]

Describe the issue you are experiencing: I had been playing for about an hour or two, didn't really lag at all (I guess I was at the point where I got a bit of a stutter when bosses spawned in but nothing bad) but while I was just walking around killing everything on the map, both my monitors just went black. Then I heard my peripheral sounds as if they had been reconnected. I waited a bit as I could still hear my music, and after about 10seconds it came back, everything else was fine, except the game had crashed with a small window that had a small loading bar underneath (maybe crash report being sent? Didn't quite know what to think of that)

Are you playing on a PC or the Steam Deck? Which Operating System are you playing on? ((Windows, Linux (please include the fork), Mac)): PC, Win10 Pro

What are your PC spec?: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz 3.19 GHz GeForce RTX 2060 16gb DDR4 RAM. Nothing special but I wasn't lagging at all.

Which "Game Mode" were you playing when the issue happened? (Endless mode or non endless): Endless

How did the issue affect your gameplay: It completely crashed the game, making me lose all 4 rounds of progress

Were you able to recover from the issue: I mean... I can boot up the game, but lost any possible progress.

Please include a screenshot or video of the issue that you have experienced: I wasn't really able to do that.

If possible, what are the steps to reproduce the issue you experienced: I honestly don't know. I can say what I had been using and see if it's possible to reproduce.
I was on the 4th round of Endless, I was using the Barbarian, I had Stomp, Bladestorm, Flurry, Bloodlust, Scent of Blood and Subdue. I had 100% crit chance, about 550% crit damage multiplier, not quite sure what the area % was but my Bladestorm and Stomp could both reach further than what I could see. I went all-in on stack-building to the point I'd build about 1k stacks of each damage-related debuffs within 3seconds. I -think- I was in the caves but I honestly don't remember for sure. Also last I checked I was lvl182 but I was probably higher when it crashed. My settings are on Very High quality and special effects visibility is around 25%. Everything else is just default I'm pretty sure.

Sidenote; as I don't know how bad that issue could be, I really hope you guys manage to fix it.

Take care!

[Shekels]

I had this same thing happen tonight.... first time the game has crashed.

[iYosh]

that happened to me too. my game started stuttering ever since.

[Prostagma?]

crashing related issues, the most common ones, are, in order of more likely to less likely to find a fix, and on a trial and error basis unfortunately:

- Updating graphics driver to the latest version or trying to find a stable previous version of your drivers;
- Disabling overclock in any shape or form;
- Clean installing the graphics drivers (Uninstall them properly and re-install them);
- re-install the game in another driver

The issue is usually between the graphics card and Unity, but a lot of different things could come into play here. It is a bit outside of the game scope so there isn't much we can do on our end, this has been the case for pretty much all crashes for the last couple of months, which weren't many.

[ʞʍous]

Same thing happened to me.

[Arkdaim]

Originally posted by Nomad:

crashing related issues, the most common ones, are, in order of more likely to less likely to find a fix, and on a trial and error basis unfortunately:

- Updating graphics driver to the latest version or trying to find a stable previous version of your drivers;
- Disabling overclock in any shape or form;
- Clean installing the drivers (Uninstall them properly and re-install them);

The issue is usually between the graphics card and Unity, but a lot of different things could come into play here. It is a bit outside of the game scope so there isn't much we can do on our en, this has been the case for pretty much all crashes for the last couple of months, which weren't many.

I can understand the reasoning behind it, but everything is up to date on my end and I haven't had a single issue with anything else, which makes me think it's not on the most recent drivers' end either. Also I don't overclock anything.
So then the last option I would have would be a clean reinstall of every driver and the idea of reinstalling every one of them in the blind hope that it'll fix the issue is more of a turn-off than I wish it was.

[Darikane]

lot of crash for me too.

[Juruninho]

game closes all the time

[beefkake2000]

Yep, similar thing just started happening for me. Game 'stops responding', music is still playing, no way to recover, all progress for that adventure is lost :-(
6 of my last 10 runs ended like this. frustrating.

[Prostagma?]

Originally posted by Arkdaim:

I can understand the reasoning behind it, but everything is up to date on my end and I haven't had a single issue with anything else, which makes me think it's not on the most recent drivers' end either. Also I don't overclock anything.
So then the last option I would have would be a clean reinstall of every driver and the idea of reinstalling every one of them in the blind hope that it'll fix the issue is more of a turn-off than I wish it was.

Yeah, that is totally understandable honestly and I'm sorry you and everyone else here are facing these issues. As I said tho, these are rare and generally relate to how unity works with user hardware but could also be loads of different other things (pc needing a clean up, pc having other programs running that could be consuming processing power even windows version could come into play). Last thing I can advise you try is to maybe re-install the game in another driver

[krendel]

its the latest patch, played for hours without an issue with previous game patch on mac

[Arkdaim]

Originally posted by krendel:

its the latest patch, played for hours without an issue with previous game patch on mac

That is what I thought too since I played about 20 hours on the previous patch with no issue, then the first time I try Endless on this update, I get a bad crash.

[Darikane]

Still the same, lot of crash. I can't play...

[Psycha]

This similar scary crash that forced my PC to reboot happened while playing, no endless or anything just a fresh run. Been playing a couple hours for the day already.

Both monitors went black and had distorted pixels of whatever was on the screens and it shrunk then went black before booting itself back up.

No damage to my GPU and no signs any drivers are faulty so likely something in Unity with this game borks your PC to reboot somehow.

[Brandon]

Just so everyone is aware, I was able to mitigate the crashing to a very decent extent by turning down the special affects slider in the menu. I would give that a try.

[ozumas]

I have one crash almost every game :( I am loving the game but crashes suck a bit.

Maybe a workaround is having a autosave and if your game crash you can restart from the point where you exit the game? That would be awesome