Non Stop Crashing

This happens consistently when I open a new map and zone in for the first time. The crash straight to desktop happens two different ways:
1. straight down, program exits, no hangs or anything.
2. hang mid zone in, this looks like its stopped responding and then forces a windows dialogue to close the program.

I've only been encountering this on initial zone in to a newly opened map, regardless of map type. Logging back in and taking another portal has never failed.

This is about 3-5x more frequent since the most recent patch, but I am no longer experiencing the crashes mid map so that's good.


EVGA Ultra 3090 - 496.49 GRD

This is NOT fixed for me by any recent update, in fact it seems to be happening more often now. What the fuck is going on?

The only thing I did today was updating my NVidia graphics card drivers to the latest version on my Windows 10 and with the latest PoE patch, for almost three hours of play I didn't have any CTD's and instances loading times are much faster, like before 3.16. I can go sleep happy now ;D

Bump.

Still non stop crashing.....

For those of you still crashing. I tried EVERYTHING I could think of and the solution for me was insanely random, yet I haven't crashed for couple days:

Put texture quality to Medium.

Hi, still crashing a lot. Cant do boss fights or progress things like delve to crashing during instances.

I already posted this, but maybe didn't get noticed.
This completely fixed all the crashes for me (NVIDIA GTX770 (oc factory version)).
I'm pretty sure this will work for any NVIDIA with factory overclock (in the name of the model there is "OC") (at least for the "older" models like mine) :

DOWNclock your gpu by 20mhz (or, if still crashes, by 50mhz).
I used NVIDIA Inspector for doing it.

My game disconnect / crashes every single time I do a map or go to Acts. Heist works OK for the most part.

Game crashes constantly since today. Every time I kill a moster my game crashes. Maps, Heist, Delve... killing any monster causes a crash.

I have spent 3 hours trying to fix, verify, clear cache, reinstalling drivers and changing game settings. Doesn't matter what I try Steam or Standalone. DirectX or Vulkan. Everytime crash without any crash-log.

Other games seem to be working.

Edit:

1) For PoE I ran PackCheck.exe: Checking content hashes... all content hashes are in sync

2) For my GPU I ran DDU in safe mode. Removed and reinstalled latest WHQL drivers.

3) For Windows I ran DISM.exe, sfc Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations.

...and even mdsched: The Windows Memory Diagnostic tested the computer's memory and detected no errors

Useful testing commands found below.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/using-system-file-checker-in-windows-365e0031-36b1-6031-f804-8fd86e0ef4ca
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/112117/how-to-fix-win32kfullsys-bsod-system-service-excep.html

I wonder if my system has some hardware problem that is only prevalent when running software that absolutely kills my system AKA Path of Exile. Benchmark software doesn't own my system as much as PoE does.

Hopes this helps someone else while I continue to rip all my maps thanks to crashes. #SALTY