Your game, your wonderful, amazing tribute to rpgs past of my childhood, just crashed, AGAIN. In windowed mode non full screen this time. So it seems my work around is not perfect. I had finally gotten the third catalyst (after a few failed attempts). But honestly, I think i am done now. I have the screen shot to prove i did it and got it (which i will be attaching to this post along with the error message). I will be posting that and use that as my proof instead of the steam achievement on my steam account even though id much prefer the steam achievement. Exact same thing, cut scene went off with out a hitch, then once death finished talking and it went to try to switch to the victory screen, just darkness then crash then the error prompt.
However there was 1 difference this time around, i forgot to desummon the pets (as you can see, it was a close fight, and due to the intensity of it/how close it was, i kind of panicked and wanted to get through it asap and forgot to desummon them this time). So it is a possibility that the 2 summons are directly linked somehow to the game crashing when it tries to load the victory screen. But ya, im not sure i could do it on the highest difficulty setting anyway. Think i may have hit my limit in regards to arcade mode in this game when it comes to how far i can get in it (although in all fairness, i did make some mistakes that run due to lack of knowledge regarding some things in the third difficulty in addition to having the worst equipment to date ever out of any of my runs in arcade mode for that run).
But ya, for what ever reason, for my rig (and maybe others, i dunno) the game just does not want to load/work/transition to the victory screen in arcade mode consistently. (again, the pets might be the reason, i dunno, all i do know, is that the 2 times it did not crash, was when it was in window's mode, with both of my summons desummoned but again, in one of the 2 times where it did not crash, i did have a pet from one of the pins out on the battle field).
Oh, and i did have the fae pet as well from one of the pins in this run as well. But ya, for what ever reason, be it the summons, my hardware, what ever, i am pretty sure its time to put this game down and move onto the next. Since the next difficulty is even harder on the next setting, and would be the end achievement for arcade mode, id rather not start up a run, have the stars align in terms of me making all the right movements/attacks/choices, get to the last final boss, beat/defeat it, only to have it crash and me not get credit via steam achievement and not having the game give me the rewards via in game after having earned them. With the knowledge that chances are, it would crash for some reason or have a high chance at it. Plus having it crash and then not getting credit for it after this having happened multiple times now and with having legit struggled as much as i did this most recent run (even though i learned what to improve upon if i choose to do it again), i think its time.
I thank you and the rest of the dev's, for creating this game and am sorry for what ever harassment you, miss villya and the rest of you had to endure to do working on this lovely game (some people just are incapable of understanding the term "Side Project")
Thank you for your help/looking into this mr teddy. This post will be my last most likely for i have given all the info i could possibly give/come up with. The only last bit of info that i can provide you with (again, it may or may not matter) is the monitor i use. Just like my g-card it too, is 10 years old, it may have some burn in, in the bottom left corner, but it still works. Asus VG248QE
https://www.asus.com/displays-desktops/monitors/gaming/vg248qe/ here is a link if you wanna see it's stats. One of the early 144 hz monitors.
But ya, if you cant figure it out, if it wouldint be too hard to do, or at the very least, consider making it so you get the catalyst/victory rewards after killing death/before the victory screen is supposed to pop up. Cause.... ya.... i feel about as defeated as one can get right now in terms of progressing in arcade mode. All that is left, is to say, gg.