Diablo 4 players urged to use band-aid fix as Blizzard patches mass crashing in new update

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The latest Diablo 4 update has resulted in a massive increase in crashes for players running through Blizzard’s ARPG on PC. Following the recent 2.0.4 update, thousands of players have been hit with constant crashes, but the game’s developer is already working on a patch.

Since the arrival of the latest update, players have been hit with crashes every time they enter The Pit of Artificers. While the game works perfectly fine—well, as fine as usual—on enter, the game crashes as soon as players hit a single mob.

Diablo 4 devs recommend this fix

While Blizzard works on a patch to solve the game’s crashing issues, players have been urged to use a band-aid fix on the PC version of the game. While the fix still doesn’t solve the crash for Battle Net players as well as some Steam players, it does fix the issue for a lot of players.

To solve the crashing, Blizzard asks players to open the Diablo 4 settings on their launcher of choice, navigate to “Game Settings” and add the following command line argument: “-nostreamline”. Alongside this, Blizzard also suggests turning off DLSS image upscaling via the in-game settings. The fix is now automatically applied on Blizzard’s bespoke launcher.

A command line for Diablo 4 showing a fix for crashing
Input this command line to fix crashing.

However, this isn’t a permanent solution to the crashing issue in Diablo 4. Blizzard’s global director of community Adam Fletcher took to Twitter to tell fans that an official patch is on the way to address these issues.

“We are seeing reports of some PC players running into some crashing with 2.0.4 that rolled out. Team is investigating on the issue and will have an update shortly,” the community director explained.

Hopefully, the mass of crashing in Diablo 4 is fixed as soon as possible. Considering how fast Blizzard has pumped out bug fixes and rewards overhauls following the mediocre launch of Vessel of Hatred, we’d expect the game’s crashing to be fixed soon. After all, you can’t buy microtransactions if you can’t play the game.

For more Diablo news, check out the latest update for Project Diablo 2 or Blizzard’s plans to keep Spiritborn just a tad overpowered for the fans.

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Diablo 4

  • Platform(s): PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X
  • Genre(s): Action, Action RPG, RPG