[Resolved] Strange, and not repeatable so far, crash on login

1. Title:As above!
   
2. Reproducible? Not yet.
   
3. Blocker? Complete PC crash!
   
4. Details:

Logged in to SotA, got in to Fidra POT and character began 'materialising', then a popup in the centre of the screen with the sota symbol and something about unity (gone far too fast for me to read) , and - black screened PC, no response to any inputs, had to hit the restart button.

Shecking the sota log it seems to have sent you the crash .zip file, but I did notice (doubt it caused the crash, but still a potential problem) "Shader 'Particles/FXVille Blood World Lighting': fallback shader 'Paricles/Alpha Blended' not found" . Typo in there I think, surely the 'fallback' directory is Particles and not Paricles...


Steps to Reproduce: Logging in after PC restart seems to be fine, but then logging in earlier today was fine too, so no idea what happened to trip things up on this occasion

User specs - (also including the error entry in the sota log)
Initialize engine version: 2018.4.36f1 (6cd387d23174)
GfxDevice: creating device client; threaded=1
Direct3D:
Version: Direct3D 11.0 [level 11.1]
Renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (ID=0x13c2)
Vendor:
VRAM: 4037 MB
Driver: 31.0.15.3623
Begin MonoManager ReloadAssembly
- Completed reload, in 0.827 seconds
WARNING: Shader Unsupported: 'Hidden/Nature/Terrain/Utilities' - All passes removed
ERROR: Shader Hidden/Nature/Terrain/Utilities shader is not supported on this GPU (none of subshaders/fallbacks are suitable)
<RI> Initializing input.

<RI> Input initialized.

<RI> Initialized touch support.

UnloadTime: 11.548000 ms
GameManagerSceneObject.Awake. 26/06/2023 14:23:13
SystemInfo, graphicsDeviceName=NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970, graphicsMemorySize=4037, graphicsDeviceType=Direct3D11, operatingSystem=Windows 10 (10.0.0) 64bit, processorCount=8, processorType=Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz, systemMemorySize=32717
SotA.Win.64.1663.Date.06.24.23, LocalTime=26/06/2023 14:23:13, Patch=new-horizons.1
LanguageManager, Language=English, Culture=en-US, SystemCulture=en-GB, Partner=None
PreviousApplicationExit status=crash, Scene=POT_island_metropolis_01_template/Fidra, pos=(71.25, 90.236, -32.766), PlayerName=AURELIUS_SILVERSON systemMemorySize=32717
Steam Initialized: False
UploadPrevLogFile: Upload completed(062623132314_crashlog.zip): FILE SAVED

 

@Anpu had a similar error about the shaders of his graphics card every time he entered his town as far as I remember.

 

Baffling one for me on this, though, is this PC is used to log in all three of my accounts almost daily, and in recent weeks one of those has logged in four or five times a day as well to keep an eye on sales - but this one time, it decided to completely lock up my computer, yet after restarting it's back to working fine.

 

@Aurelius Silverson, it's been almost a month; i asume that crash was a one-off?

 

Seems so.