Hi all I too was suffering from Pillars constant crashes, until I moved the game to my SSD HDD, the game now no longer crashes for me. I have been suffering these issues from day 1 and tried everything to resolve it. It seems that pillars is IO sensitive in some way. The following are my drive results (winsat):
Original drive:
> Disk Random 16.0 Read 1.51 MB/s 4.0
> Disk Sequential 64.0 Read 102.01 MB/s 6.6
> Disk Sequential 64.0 Write 97.94 MB/s 6.5
> Average Read Time with Sequential Writes 5.194 ms 5.9
> Latency: 95th Percentile 36.850 ms 2.5
> Latency: Maximum 124.570 ms 7.6
> Average Read Time with Random Writes 10.079 ms 4.5
SSD drive:
> Disk Random 16.0 Read 2.83 MB/s 4.5
> Disk Sequential 64.0 Read 106.30 MB/s 6.7
> Disk Sequential 64.0 Write 125.91 MB/s 7.0
> Average Read Time with Sequential Writes 4.141 ms 6.3
> Latency: 95th Percentile 8.521 ms 5.9
> Latency: Maximum 18.335 ms 7.9
> Average Read Time with Random Writes 4.223 ms 6.2