StelioKontos

You are correct; the problematic API requests are actually going to the same destination server as the xhttp calls for loading the tiles on the default dashboard from the manifest xml. Unlike the cover art, these are hosted with Akamai and Level3 (both cdn hosts). I'm currently blocking the hostip, which differ based on country of origin (hence the issues outside of the US) which is effectively accomplishing the same thing as liveblock, but on a per-connection basis. A better approach would be to block the connection based on the nameserver used to fetch the IP, but I haven't had a chance to look into that yet. When I get a chance to look into it again ill update the patch with that method, assuming an official update hasn't been released yet.

The readme was made before I confirmed this. I'll update the readme now with this caveat. And no, your region has nothing to do with your regions setting as best I can tell. You can try setting it to US and post here if that works, but I doubt it. Until the crash is officially patched, or I can push an update for people outside the US, just avoid any full asset download scans. Updating the cover art manually on a per-title basis should work fine in most cases.

Enabling liveblock will prevent the crashing, but it will also prevent you from downloading any of the cover art. Until the devs officially update with a patch, you can use this to prevent the crashing without having to disable liveblock and livestrong. https://github.com/StelioKontosXBL/AuroraCrashPatcher

Ye if you're not in the US don't expect the patch to work until I push an update to the repo. If you're in the US, patch will work fine. Until then, uncheck everything but "cover art" and "backgrounds" in settings for which title assets are downloaded. That will eliminate 90% of the crashes.

Most likely the API is assigning a different ip to access the cdn hosts which are associated with the crash, assuming you are connecting from outside of the US. I'll add a logger to record some trace messages for the requested hosts and post here when it's ready for download.

The patch doesn't go in Aurora's plugins folder. You just drop it on the Hdd and set as a plugin in your launch.ini (or in Dashlaunch). Like you would any other xex. If it's loaded as a plugin like mondoman, sonnyy and myself just said, the crashes won't occur.

Supershalloboy, the GitHub link has the xex which you just download and copy to your hdd, then set as a plugin like you would a mod menu. It's not affiliated with Aurora, not does it require any setup with Aurora. It's just a patch that runs in the background and silently forces Aurora to skip the downloads that are causing the crash. [edit] I updated the README at the repo with more explicit instructions, and added a direct download link to the xex.