Blight event crashes POE to desktop

Hi
I'm trying the Blight mechanic for the first time, it is so much fun, except that it is crashing repeatedly.

I'll clear a map, go back to the singing Cassie, and start the blight encounter. I can set up the initial towers, and then once the mobs start spawning, its a lottery. Sometimes the first wave causes the game to crash to desktop. I can restart, rush back in, and sometimes I'm lucky that my initial tower setup survived, most times the pump is dead and I get nothing.

Noticed the following regarding the crash to desktop.

- mine crashes when mobs have spawned, can be any wave
- at least 3 crashes have happened while Cassie is trying to say something - corrupt sound file ?
- my mouse pointer is almost always on or near a tower when it crashes, but I presume that's what we're supposed to do in a blight event... but worth checking a mouse over situation
- every time i've crashed i've asked others on global if they've experienced similar, every time at least 2 or 3 confirm they've experienced the same
- forums have suggested things like clearing shader caches, re-installing the game etc. tried all of them, no difference. i have managed one blight encounter without incident and it was a smallish encounter on a low tier map.
- my pc can be considered a bit of a potato (shame, she was a beast when I had her built), but a 1070 on an NVME fully optimized for gaming shouldn't be crashing, my settings are well within the range recommended by the video drivers (GeForce Experience), and i've even tried reducing some of the gfx, no difference

Nothing else crashes POE to the desktop. I've done syndicates, sanctums, a couple of delves (lowish ones), and a handful of heists, its only Blight encounters that crash. Every other in game event is trouble free.

I have noted the lag spikes that are affecting many players right now, I can't tell if there's a correlation or not, but this doesn't feel like my PC is struggling - nothing is overheated, out of temperature range, and all my other games work just fine. I'm also running a fresh install of windows, less than 2 weeks old.

Would REALLY appreciate any help here, I really,really enjoy tower defence and I have so many blight maps but I know if i try run them it will be crashing again.

Cheers
Pandaman_ZA

No one can help you.
Either clench your butt and keep playing Blight(and crashing every other map) or drop that activity.

Devs know about that issue(since the beginning of Blight league years ago), but won't do anything.

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Prof549 wrote:

No one can help you.
Either clench your butt and keep playing Blight(and crashing every other map) or drop that activity.

Devs know about that issue(since the beginning of Blight league years ago), but won't do anything.

but funny enough the problem is only in league because in standard I can run blight maps without problems.

well i'm flapping around with low level blights and it is crashing every 3rd blight event, so i've not used my blight maps, or the higher tier ones. feels wasteful.

surely, after all this time, they must have figured out what it is??

maybe they need me to come help them oversee root cause analysis projects, i'll whip those devs into shape :P

i have a theory though... 10m ago a blight crashed just as i clicked on a tower that hadn't been setup, but mobs had already spawned in front of it. i think it might be an issue with the way the game "draws" your tower options graphically, or the dmg calculations after mobs are already crawling ... such a waste, i absolutely love tower defence and blight is supremely useful for me. i really dont want to do heists, but i need currency to go from 90-100

sad face.

Just a quick update, not a single crash in Affliction, including the big juicy t16 blight maps - so thanks whoever / however this was fixed :)