game crashing/hanging, possibly related to dark pact traps or something else with my character

I started leveling a new character yesterday (named Blackhole_Shppy), a Dark Pact trapper and miner (one setup of each), and starting early in act 5 I began repeatedly experiencing crashes. My screen would just freeze up for a moment, then turn to black, and eventually a Windows box would show up saying 'pathofexile_x64.exe has stopped working' or whatever, telling me the issue was 'apphangB1'. Though i pushed through, this wound up happening a dozen or so times in the course of act 5. Going into act 6 and 7 it happened a few more times, though not as frequently (until i went through cruel lab, at which point both my run attempts were ended by this crash).


I'd had no problems with previous characters, and had changed nothing about my hardware or software setup prior to these problems starting (although after they happened i did update drivers and get windows updates and reinstall PoE, none of which did anything).

Just a few minutes ago, I re-took one of my previous characters (named Shppy) through much of act 5 (torched courts through to the end) without any issue, and ran him through the lab a few times without issue either, so it certainly seems tied to my Blackhole character in some regard.

I leveled through most of the first 3 acts with blight with no issue, and switched to Dark Pact mines as soon as I got the skill in act 3. Still had no issues all through the remainder of act 3 or act 4. In act 5 the crash happened for the first time in the first area... this also happened to be the time I started using my Dark Pact clustertraps more, since up til I got clustertrap support I'd mostly ignored them. Still, it could be something else about my character too. Iirc that was around the point where I equipped the Belt of the Deceiver I've got on too, and the shield (Kaltensoul).

update: Still happening after tweaking a lot of things. Took off Belt of the Deceiver, Kaltensoul, and Deerstalker and it still happened. Removed my Coated Shrapnel jewels from their sockets, still happening. Switched Bladefall into both my mine and trap setups and used them instead of Dark Pact, still happening. Didn't summon a Stone Golem, didn't activate my temp chains blasphemy, still happening. It honestly just looks like it's an issue with traps and/or mines in general, cuz that's about the only things I *haven't* tried removing.


*edit: Yeah, tried not using those too. Swapped out my entire mine setup for self-cast Blight and still eventually crashed out. Basically, no matter what I switch out, this crash is happening and it only seems to be for this character.

Hey, great, happening again, after rolling a fresh new version of this character!

After the leveling experience of the previous version of this character was completely and utterly ruined by these crashes, I decided to restart it from the beginning after the last patch, hoping that the various client/instance crash fixes would have resolved my issue, but of course they didn't.

What's more, they didn't start happening at the same time this time around. Now, they started happening in act 7, curiously right at the point my previous version of the character got up to before I threw in the towel (the temple of decay). So I went through all that leveling thinking the bug had been resolved, only to catch back up to where I was and have it start happening again. How nice, the character gets ruined all over again after building up my hopes.


And yet, again, it's not a universal thing... in between the time that I gave up on the ruined first version and started this second attempt, I'd rolled a couple other (non-shadow) characters and played around a bit on existing characters, and never had this issue happen even a single time.

And I'm doubting it's related to the traps or mines themselves, because several of the times it's happened there's been no enemies around, or in some cases no skill usage on my part (for instance, one of the recent ones happened while act 8 Doedre was doing her cauldron-drain bit, and another crash happened after the fight had finished completely and i was strolling over to the exit).

Still happening, weeks later... sure would be nice to play this build, GGG.