Ever since d2r was released, ive experienced an instant crash after killing Shenk in act5 below 1st way point area. The catapult bombardment coming down causes almost right away an crash if I remain in the area after Shenk dies.
Similarly, same crash happens when Mosaic assassin does the lightning etc. burst combo. Just experienced it today for the first time and made me laugh hard.
I have tried running the game lowest settings to highest settings, tinkered in nvidia control panel and nothing has changed the crash issue. It just happens. It used to happen in original diablo 2 aswell but not every time, like once every 5 times.
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did you manage to solve the problem? I have the same problem! The game crashes from time to time!
No unfortunately and it just got worse. Today game just closed itself when killing baal with singer barbarian and bunch of hydras and meteorites around. Something about the effects causes the game to just close if there are too many of them. I wish they would fix these issues but this has been a thing always.
I cant play online basically at all as sorcs and assassins can cause game to just shut itself without any error msg 
I have same problem. Game laggs alot before dashbording after killing Shenk.
In Video options lowering VFX Quality and VFX Lighting Quality to LOW (both) made it slightly better as it reduced a lot of the stuff, but now it wont look as nice. Everything else still maxed out.
Shenk does not always crash as quickly but still crashes eventually if remaining in the area. So this does not exactly remove the issue. Its an engine limitation.