Crashing in Act II

Since the update .02, I have been crashing every time I enter Act 2 as a new character, or if I return to the town during act 2 ( after launching the game roughly 20 times in a rare luck I make it into the game). This Hard crashes the game every time. I have tried changing renders, rolling back drivers, verifying the game through steam, uninstalling, re-installing, manually editing the config for render type...you name it, I have done it. Nothing works. I have never had an issue until yesterday, then once I hit act 2, it crashes. I re-made another character thinking maybe something is wrong with the class, ( I am currently playing a sorc, and I read online someone having the issue with witch, so I thought maybe it's the class? nope and same thing with a merc. I am out of options now and I can no longer play in this state, or progress. Any information would be nice, or if others are having this same issue, maybe it can get fixed with enough support behind it. Anyway this is my issue.