The latest Path of exile update gave me a BSOD while mapping

I've been playing path of exile completely fine all year with very little lag or frame rate issues, and last weekend I was playing perfectly fine while mapping, averaging around 150 FPS. Just as a disclaimer, I'm juicing my maps VERY hard with breach, abyss, harbinger, strongboxes, ect (no delerium), and i am somewhat used to having a stutter when my whole screen explodes with herald of ash MTX. i updated the game today and played it earlier and noticed the cache clearing, which i had seen before so i didnt think much of it, then started to get major lag and frame stutters. I then updated my graphic drivers jsut in case taht was the issue and launched the game, but still got some issues with long load times and town being very laggy. i then decided to run a map (i forgot my scarabs were still in the map device for all the juice) then charged into a harbinger + strongbox and my entire PC froze, including the other screen playing youtube videos, then BSOD. this is quite scary for me because my pc is relatively new and i cannot afford to replace any parts at the moment on it. here are my relevent specs:
NVIDIA RTX 3060
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-core
16GB of RAM
the drive that poe is installed on is an SSD aswell.

I have not had any issues like this with Path of Exile in the past but this is scaring me from loading it up again. However i do not know if the issue was more caused by me instantly jumping into a T16 with giga juice and corpse explosions without 'warming up' the cache first.

Are there any steps i should take to ensure that this doesn't happen again or is this a well-known issue at the moment? i know usually you guys are very fast at fixing issues like this anyways.

List your PSU.

Software cannot cause BSOD's, so you're gonna have to dig deep.

Run stability tests, because it isn't PoE causing it :(

Check your CPU and GPU temperatures. There have been a lot of reports that systems are running very hot with the latest patch.

Eveyone has same issues since the latest 6giga patch update LOLMAO. They are fixing unbroken things with patches bigger in size than whole other AA games.

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AintCare wrote:

oh yes it can, please do not tell ppl misleading info

Alright, tell me how? :)

It can't.

Faulty drivers, bios or dead hardware can cause BSOD's.

Games can't. They just expose an underlying issue.


I'll wait eagerly for your "correct info"!

Exciting!!!!

What was the BSOD error message?

The error is there to tell you exactly what the issue was.