So I just started playing the patch 7 update, made a new character. I can make it all the way through prologue. Once I get into the fight at the nautilus helm, things get weird. I was trying to kill the demon and get his sword. Reloading when things didnt go my way. After a certain point in the fight, my new saves are corrupted. I can load a corrupted save, and it will crash to desktop once the loading bar fills up. When loading the save before the corruption (cannot pinpoint the exact moment corruption happens), I am able to load it and saves before it. I then decided to ignore the demon xp and the sword, and rush straight to the transponder. When it tries to transition to act 1 (loading screen) I crash.

I uninstalled, reinstalled, and still have the same issue. Maybe worth pointing out, both characters I created were barbarians, although idk if that is relevant.

I tried dropping my graphics settings all the way to low, that didnt make a difference, which is what I expected.

Anyone else experience this issue?

thank you for your time in replying.

cross-save was already disabled.

no saves from patch 6, i had deleted the game a while ago waiting on a new patch, and have since done a fresh install of windows.

so that leaves graphics issue i guess?

yes load whatever save works or start again... downgrade the settings for the helm battle and see if that gets you onto the beach

I got through that part fine with the latest patch--all new saves, like you mentioned. Only difference is that I Ignore the two large demons fighting and simply get to the transponder as rapidly as possible. No problems. Highest graphics possible, with HDR on. D3d12 version--the Vulcan version seems really buggy to me--plus it does not yet support HDR.