Crash in Kuthchemes on poison/fire AoE spell

[LordGraa]

This bug is happening to me every time I first start AoC and go to Kutchemes:

• Once the particles of the poison cloud or meteor lava pond should appear the client crashes with this crash report window:

I can continue playing but its very annoying (mostly for the damage my character is taking while standing in the poison/lava).

Once this crash happen I no longer crash upon those spells in Onslaught. But should I exit AoC and play again - it starts over.

My PC spec:

• Win10
• AMD Ryzen 5 3600
• 16GB RAM
• GeForce RTX 3060 12GB GDDR6

I am playing AoC in Dx9 shaders 2.0 settings

[Patoson]

Yes. This happens on DX9 with Shader 2.0. If you use 3.0, or DX10, it doesn’t happen anymore.

[LordGraa]

Let me check this sorcery! Will be back soon

[Cappa]

but why use such old settings like dx9 and shaders 2.0 with modern hardware ?

[LordGraa]

OK, shaders did the trick, thanks again Patoson :O)

[suctem]

Dx10 had worse performance on my pc , dx9 with shaders 3 usually gives me higher fps

[LordGraa]

Same here. I started on Dx10 but after the lagfest I had in game I switched back to Dx9 but forget to change the shaders. All good now.