UPDATE 2: This thread has been closed, issue and work around are now listed here:
"Common Technical Issues" sticky, be sure to update your links and/or web bookmarks!

UPDATE: I didn't post this originally sorry, when you have information to add rather than reply please edit your original post and add the updated information to the bottom and then highlight the updated text in a different color like this.



In an effort at information collection regarding this, if you are getting a unique CTD anytime you encounter Mephits that cast 'blindness', sleet storm or other aoe root/blind effects please post with the following information:
  • What type of Mephit? (Air, Ice etc)
  • Where were you when you crashed? (quest area, world location etc)
  • Does the game only seem to CTD in these specific times or does it CTD/Crash anywhere else at all?
  • Your DxDiag (steps how in the "how to get help" sticky linked in my sig)
  • Your dndclient.log contents (found in the game installation folder C:\Program Files\Turbine\DDO Unlimited or Dungeons & Dragons Online - Stormreach)
  • Does anything you do/have done, or carried remedy the CTD?
  • Have you tried reinstalling the game?
  • Have you recently updated or reinstalled your graphics/sound card drivers at all?
  • Are you using "Turbine Download Manager" (TDM) or a standard install and if TDM have you tried a "Validate & Repair"?
  • Does lowering the in-game Options Menu > Graphics to "Very Low" and under Troubleshoot lowering the Engine Speed" to "Very Low" have any effect?
  • EDIT ADD: Are you in First or Third person when this happens? (If one does the other have any effect?)
Please keep your post confined to the information gathering responses above, no "yeah that happens to me too!" or other post replies please..