The latest patch for Diablo 4 has been out for a few hours, but it’s been causing a lot of frustration.
Yesterday in Diablo 4 the Macabre Festival officially started and with it the Halloween event. To this end, with patch 2.0.4 a new major update was installed that should address numerous issues. But instead of fixing bugs or nerfing the currently all-powerful Ghostborn, the patch also caused entirely new problems.
Since the update was installed on October 29, complaints have been piling up on the Blizzard forum and of course on Reddit According to them, the patch causes reliable crashes in far too many cases The problem is so widespread and severe that Blizzard has already responded. If you are also affected, you can find the developers’ workaround below.
Lots of crashes
With the new patch, it can very easily happen that the most exciting activity in Diablo of all leads to crashes: hitting monsters. This makes Diablo 4 fundamentally unplayable, because who travels as a pacifist through Sanctuary?
However, as numerous players report, the game crashes immediately after attacking enemy mobs and a window pops up saying, for example, Prism] Device Removal – Win10/Dx12 BC:Misc
On Reddit, some users even report that their entire PC crashes. One says that his Windows was reset to Windows 95 – well, that seems more like a joke. Let’s hope so. But the mass of sincere reports shows that that there is definitely something going on here
This is how crashes are fixed
Currently, the update has not been withdrawn by Blizzard, but there was no hotfix for the new patch either. However, the issue has already been addressed in the forum and community manager Adam Fletcher announced that the team is working on a solution. A workaround was posted a little later:
- Go to Diablo 4 on Battle.net
- Click on the cogwheel to the right of the
Play button
- Select
Game Settings
- Check the box next to
Additional command line arguments
- Now enter the following line in the new field below: -nostreamline
Players have also observed that simply switching off DLSS helps. However, DLSS should now be disabled automatically until there is a proper hotfix for it. Hopefully, the problem has solved itself by now.
As soon as the game is running smoothly again, you can hopefully finally look forward to the improvements in the patch. There are a few quite exciting fixes in there. For example, the capacity for gem fragments has been increased and a curious bug has been fixed that suddenly made your horses very sensitive to damage.
