Random client crashes

It happens sometimes after hours of play, sometimes a few times in an hour. I've lost heists to these crashes (somehow they happen more often during escape, ofc), and gave up on doing them completely. I've lost some incursions, including one that was very important to me in SSF. Today I was leveling my second character and I've had 4-5 crashes, including a few minutes ago, just walking through A9 town.

I've had client crashes during the years, especially early in the league, but never this many.


My PC is quite old (GTX 960, old core i5), but the game is on SSD, and it usually runs PoE just fine.


EDIT: two more in last 20 min, one during delirium (which isn't that surprising), the second right after I opened syndicate safehouse chest (wtf).

Bump to say that the last patch changed nothing for me, still crashing more than ever....

usually my client is crashing after few areas, sometimes I can play for an hour or so, can't even finish the campaign atm, nothing changed after all the fixes, hardware is fine

I was having performance issues and random crashes. Logged out and changed from windowed fullscreen to fullscreen and all is good now. I have a RTX 3070 and had this problem a few leagues ago. I don't know maybe a driver a compatibility issue? I also tried changing to fullscreen from windowed fullscreen in game and still had performance issues. Needed to exit out and change settings. Hope this helps.

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Escan1 wrote:

changed from windowed fullscreen to fullscreen and all is good now.

Thanks, man! I switched to fullscreen hours ago and I didn't have a single crash yet. I did have a few situations where it seemed like I "alt-tabbed" but I didn't. The game did something, maybe the exact thing which causes all these crashes in windowed fullsrceen mode, but fullscreen mode somehow survived it.

EDIT: Unfortunately the game hanged, and I caused it by alt-tabbing. The reason why I was using windowed-fullscreen for years is because alt-tab works so much better than in classic fullscreen.


EDIT2: I've had a crash in fullscreen mode. It seems I've had a lucky streak without crashes yesterday, nothing more...

Bump for visibility. This issue ruined the league for me, worse than all terrible balance choices you did in 3.15. My computer is rock stable, other games work fine, PoE worked fine until this league (except early in some leagues), so it's something you did in patch 3.15 (like it wasn't enough you destroyed build diversity and flasks :D).

Even in the most unstable previous league launches, the game NEVER crashed while walking through town, leap slamming around on finished maps, etc.

Patch 3.15.1. fixed 2 client crashes but not this one. Playing SSF and losing heists, delirium mirror maps, incursions, etc., why the fuck am I still playing?

Just to contribute to this bug report: I also have regular crashes, about one per hour since the 3.15 version. I have played PoE for years and never had any crash issue.

It very much seems to occur when the game is loading something. Typically on load screens (80% of the time), but also whenever something happens that requires loading some assets. Example: a conqueror popping up to chat.

It have seen messages about Nvidia drivers having had to be restarted. I updated the drivers to the latest version, downgraded randomly, and the problem persists with any version.

The computer has something similar to the poster's, it's running a GTX 970 on Windows 7. The rest is atypical: dual-Opteron 6378 32 cores, 128gb of RAM (old Linux compute machine repurposed).

i also have constant client crashes since 3.15 in general.
Usually i crash every 2-3 maps it just completly kicks me out to the desktop or the game freezes and i have to close it after getting the usual "not responding" message.
It kinda is really annoying, already died several times to it and it keeps going

Same here, my client has never had crash issues until this patch. Now it crashes a couple times an hour, sometimes takes 3 of my portals for a map with crashes...