Blue Screen of Death

[Red Wolf]

I have been playing Path of Exile for a couple months now and it has recently been crashing my OS and forcing a restart. I've had BSODs 4 times in the last week with this game out of no where. Is anyone else experiencing this?

[Red Wolf]

Now it's 5 times. Very consistent and only ever happens with POE.

[p0rt]

Whats the error code?

[Red Wolf]

I'll let you know the next time it happens (if it does). I just found a fix that might work. Gonna add -swa in my launch options and try again. Apparently it could be an audio issue.

[Red Wolf]

K it happened again and the BSOD screen was too quick for me to get any info off of it. Guess I'll just have to shelf POE until there is a fix for this.

[The_Driver]

Originally posted by Red Wolf:

K it happened again and the BSOD screen was too quick for me to get any info off of it. Guess I'll just have to shelf POE until there is a fix for this.

If your system is set up to create a minidump, you can analyze that with WhoCrashed.

[CaptainNebulous]

Blue screens of death are never caused by software. Sometimes it can be caused by a virus... but more commonly it is an early indication of hardware failure. Even if it is only happening when you play this game, that just mean that something about this game is triggering symptom that will soon become more wide spread, whether you play it or not. It is extremely unlikely (in fact, unheard of in this day and age) that this is an indication of a problem with the game itself. Like I said, 30% you have a nasty computer virus. 70% there is some impending hardware failure at work.

[p0rt]

Actually it can be bad drivers.

[CaptainNebulous]

Originally posted by p0rt:

Actually it can be bad drivers.

from my experience ever since Windows 7 errors related to that usually show up in the form of error boxes, do they not? I've only seen that for bad drivers since the Windows 7 days.

[mss73055]

I noticed since about two weeks PoE making war to my audio driver.
My rig is stuck between Microsoft forcing Windows 10 (it started with Windows 7), and driver manufactorers unwilling to make new drivers. I got to replace the whole thing sometime.

[Grumpy]

Originally posted by CaptainNebulous:

Originally posted by p0rt:

Actually it can be bad drivers.

from my experience ever since Windows 7 errors related to that usually show up in the form of error boxes, do they not? I've only seen that for bad drivers since the Windows 7 days.

ironically I just had it the other day. GPU driver did make problems, till the worst case it crashed the PC with non page area BSoD.

Originally posted by Red Wolf:

K it happened again and the BSOD screen was too quick for me to get any info off of it. Guess I'll just have to shelf POE until there is a fix for this.

how do you know its a PoE problem? maybe your hardware starts to get faulty. if you dont look into the problem you'll never know. also nobody of GGG will ever know that a Red Wolf had BSoD because of X.

if after looking into dumps and so on, you come to the conclusion that PoE is the only faulty part here, then I still advise you to create a thread in the official forum or ask the support directly if they having an answer. But before that, the ice is really thin for "its PoE's fault.

Originally posted by mss73055:

I noticed since about two weeks PoE making war to my audio driver.
My rig is stuck between Microsoft forcing Windows 10 (it started with Windows 7), and driver manufactorers unwilling to make new drivers. I got to replace the whole thing sometime.

so you running an unsupported driver on your system? but thats then also not PoE's fault.

[p0rt]

Originally posted by CaptainNebulous:

Originally posted by p0rt:

Actually it can be bad drivers.

from my experience ever since Windows 7 errors related to that usually show up in the form of error boxes, do they not? I've only seen that for bad drivers since the Windows 7 days.

Well my dads laptop 100% had a bad driver that caused bsod's on Windows 10.

Originally posted by Red Wolf:

K it happened again and the BSOD screen was too quick for me to get any info off of it. Guess I'll just have to shelf POE until there is a fix for this.

Like the other person said, use WhoCrashed. Event Viewer should show it in administrative events but it wont be as detailed.

[Red Wolf]

My audio driver had never been updated. It was way out of date. Gonna try it again, I'll let you guys know if this fixes it.

[Darksidewalker]

BSOD, so your pc is damaged beyond repair every time ---

[Red Wolf]

It crashed again. I logged on and turned the graphics to potato mode and it crashed again. This only happens with POE. Doesn't happen with Wolfenstein or Civ 5 (other 2 games I'm playing right now) or any other program for that matter. I ran a stress test on my CPU and memory and it was completely fine. I'm out of ideas.

[Grumpy]

what does the windows event log or even better the mini dump of the BSoD says?