Just arrived at Timarian ruins and prior to the first battle, my GPU (RX 5700XT) starts showing visual artifacts and very high usage statistics. At a certain point the game crashed due to driver timeout. Undervolting my GPU and setting the settings to low prevent the artifacts from appearing, but the GPU usage is still very high compared to the rest of the game. I've been playing with my settings set to Ultra up to this point without running into any issues. I can also run games like Cyberpunk 2077 and Red Dead Redemption 2 at ultra settings and this is the first time I've been seeing visual artifacts. I have a save file ready to send.
I loaded up a few older saves and I was able to reproduce the visual artifacts and crashes at the beginning of the Timarian ruins map, but none of the other maps.
Please see this comment on the solasta subreddit where similar reports are made: https://www.reddit.com/r/CrownOfTheMagister/comments/mf2zxo/bug_report_thread/gzyxmmz?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3