Game perma crash, found a fix for me NVIDIA & SOUND RELATED PC

Allright so first i am not a pc pro or a super techfix, i recommend that you atleast do a system savepoint just in case

Also sorry for bad english typing.

But the first thing i would say is the crashes i had to maybe relate to your problem, and also i am making this post so that if it ever happens to me again i will have the guide for it written on paper :P


So the biggest issues i had was that the game kept crashing every 5 min and sometimes i could play for 30-40 mins without a single crash

Crash 1: If i used any dash or teleport skill it could randomly crash

Crash 2: The sound got really buggy, like it was skipping and stuttering

Crash 3: i could just stand still and the game radomly crashed without anything opend or no one typing to me

Crash 4: opening a tab of any sort just a random crash no idea how or why

Crash 5: any big density mob league effect like : Delirium, harvest, expedition (or just a map with high mob density) could be enough to randomly crash aswell

Crash 6: Just entering the portal to the map could sometimes just crash the game, and once in a while consume the portal in the process ( fun fun i know)


Now that's just the ones i can remember ontop of my head..


ANYWAYS THE FIXES I TRYED AND MADE MY GAME WORK

Also my pc specs incase you might have some of the same hardware


Processor : Amd Ryzen 7, 1700 8 core 3ghz
Ram: 24gb
Gpu : GTX 1070
Windows 64 bit



Again i really reccomend to make a system restore point incase your pc decides to just /seppuku

Creds to those who helpd and contributed in the forum posting and helping out!

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3269811

Reccomend to try most of these options, my game did not get fixed from any of those.. but i cannot say if they worked with some of the things i tryed myself all together with those.


1. On device manager, check if you got more then 1 sound program dealing with most of your sounds, i had realtek & my graphic cards nvidia hd audio that were fighting over who was taking control of my sound.. i remove both and just use the integrated sound and so far no crashes ( hence the stuttering and weird lag when there was to much sound or something for the game and crash?)

2. On your sounds settings, i disabled everything beside my headsett & microphone just to make sure there is only 1 channel sending and receiving sound. Apperently some have had problems with Nvidia high definitn audio so i disabled it and uninstalled it aswell.

3. Again on your sound settings, go to your headsett or your default sound device & enter properties. Go to the tab advanced and turn down the sound quality if you have changed ( i am a sound nerd so i like to turn up the quality) Anyways, down from dvd quality 16 bit 48000hz too cd quality 16bit 44100 hz

4.This one did a huge improvment in most of my games tbh.. might be obvious to the pc tecchies but for me i asumed it would be baseline fine.. Anyways open your Nvidia control panel. Go to the Configure surround, PhysX. Now on the "physx settings" it is normaly on Auto select (reccomended).. i changed it from auto to my graphic card (nvidia geforce gtx 1070) Now before you maybe judge and point a finger, this made wonder for me.. i am not sure how but the cpu & the gpu bottlenecked each other in poe it seems. They were running at 100% at most of the time and yet poe wich is not really the most demanding game out there (compared to other games i play like warzone or bf2042) it should not be an issue.

5.Turn of overclock stuffs.. i turned of the game mode trough windows, and the bios "presetup" overclock that is integrated into my motherboard. also turned of xbox gamebar.


Now again this is just my opionons and how it worked for me.. i could not play for many days due to this weird bug..Small reminder, everytime windows updates you probably get the sound drivers back bcs it's a baseline integration in windows & the motherboard or some weird mumbojumbo.

Edit: while i wrote this guide, not a single crash!

Stay safe exile

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