crashes at Tree of Whispers since 10/14/24 patch

[Geoffren Jordan]

Anyone else getting a CTD at Tree of Whispers since today's patch? Then it took half hour to verify the files and crashed again :(

[fragball]

no, not at the tree but i DO know the pain of 'seemingly' corrupt data and a 10 minutes validating efford that, ofc, will NOT find any data corrupt at all (yeah, i logged that process after checking the SSD and the memory for any present problems - and nothing was ever in need of reloading). as far as i can see it, the problem seems to come from the cashed data the game stores for the sake of faster loading - especially the shader data. when then, something ingame is (like talking to the tree or just mouse-over some item) prevents the data to be read fast enough, the game decides that there is a corruption present... genius way of error handling by blizzard , really.
wouldn't be too bad if we could just turn off steams validating process, which we sadly can't... so, that's that.
ofc, IF you always crash while doing the same thing, then there might be a good reason of a problem with your hardware and you should test your memory and HDD/SSD for any problems. also, see that not too many (or any) programs run in the background - especially those with overlays (discord/steam-overlay/overwolf/etc) or performans improving ones (that goes for those who raise/lowers your GPU and memory frequency like MSIafterburner as well as those who 'override' game settings like nvidia experience and the likes).