Instant crashes in King's Forrest

[Ap0k]

Hello there,

I'm having a problem since I came back to the game a couple of weeks ago
that i never had before i left shortly before the thunderholme update.

When in Kings Forrest and i run towards the graveyard from ID ...
you know that tree trunk that you cross on the way... I instantly crash when i pass it.
When i take the longer route to the quest that goes past that little area with drow and a tower with an explorer next to it, I crash instantly when i pass a certain threshold.
When I try to log back in onto the character again the client crashes immediatly again until I log a different character or wait long enough to be outside of KF. I can't get to the graveyard.
Something in that area just kills my client.
Does or did anyone have that problem and found a way around it?

[sebastianosmith]

I had a similar problem in Overgrowth. Whenever I'd walk up to the first door in Uthe's house my client would immediately black screen and lock the machine. I'd have to hard boot in order to regain control. I eventually was able to get my character out by running the client in DX9 instead of 10 or 11. Something about one of the textures or meshes in that location was totally freaking out my vid card when using any of the shaders or filters available in DX10 or 11.

I was eventually able to attribute the problem to my vid card. At the time I was running an factory-overclocked Radeon 7770 (Sapphire to be exact). I tried every driver version which supported the card (I think four at the time including a beta), but the issue remained. I finally figured out that the 10% OEM overclock was the culprit. I lowered the core and memory clocks back to ATI's spec speeds and the problem never occurred again in any DX mode.

While this may or may not be even remotely related to your problem, it might be something to consider if you are overclocking or using a factory-overclocked card.

Best of luck!