Immediate Crashing upon entering Venom Crypts A3

I crashed upon loading into venom crypts, reloaded my game, walked a few meters inside Venom Crypts, crashed again. Now I can't make it past the loading gears after selecting my character and the game crashes. Character bricked....

have the same problem

Nooo, it's happening to me too. I am very sad.
Update: I tried switch all my graphics options, tried Vulkan/DX11, lower resolution, turning everything as low as it goes. Nothing helped, instant crash before the loading screen even finishes. The area is just bugged
Update 2: I used the Standalone client (instead of steam) and was able to get back into my character, maybe the area reset after long enough or something, but got back in!

Same problem here with the Venom Crypt in Act 3 and i am as of now was not able to find a workaround

Edit: The Client text file says the following: 2024/12/11 04:07:07 3658390 d5a32775 [CRIT Client 16168] Failed to decompress (corrupted data)

Same issue even with the initial crash on loading, eventually getting in, take two steps and now crash every time.

Drivers are up to date. Tried changing texture to medium and directX as requested in the Bug FAQ.

Y'all should really respawn characters in town with a portal back to where you were rather than loading you back into the exact situation that crashed you. That would avoid completely blocking people's progress and ability to play the game.

[Edit] Also tried

- Vulkan
- reducing the sound channel count for audio as that caused problems in PoE1 with crashing sometimes

Those didn't work. I then tried validating game files via steam and that *maybe* worked?

I was able to get into the game and click the exit before it crashed again. I was using DX12 with High textures and Low channel count.

It also might have been a new instance loading, after leaving the Jungle Ruins map is a new instance (map has fog of war everywhere).

Guess I'll skip Venom Crypts for now