Gonna start counting crashes in this tread:

[gabi.up.2]

Starting from right now, Monday evening.
Note that i have lvl 45 char and some others i've touched and for most part the game was not crashing at all but recently something happened, i don't know what, it just started to be horrible.

I'm running this on Intel Core i7-4790K with GIGABYTE GTX 1080Ti Gaming 11GB VRAM, 16 GB DDR3 RAM, games is installed on almost empty SSD.

Pre-login screen: 19
Character selection screen: 3
Connecting server - entering location: 10
Apex of filth: 1

[X Swing King X]

I have had some crashes too. hard crashes and normal crashes. i have also tried different things people have said to do without it helping. but i havent had a crash since i set the game to windowed fullscreen mode. and i switched to it 2 days ago i think.
Windowed fullscreen mode probably dont have anything to do with me not getting crashes the last 2 days. but i just got 1-2 crashes almost everyday before that. could be i just had some lucky days without crashes.

[gabi.up.2]

Opprinnelig skrevet av dark-breed:

Quoted text just to add a 1080ti with 11Gb does not exist.

Well my system tells something different: https://ibb.co/L0wBDgt

[dark-breed]

Opprinnelig skrevet av gabi.up.2:

Opprinnelig skrevet av dark-breed:

Quoted text just to add a 1080ti with 11Gb does not exist.

Well my system tells something different: https://ibb.co/L0wBDgt

yes you are right done some research yes there are some black edition 1080 ti that have 11gb where 3gb are slower than the base 8gb.

i wonder if this could be a problem source.

[gabi.up.2]

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Well my system tells something different: https://ibb.co/L0wBDgt

yes you are right done some research yes there are some black edition 1080 ti that have 11gb where 3gb are slower than the base 8gb.

i wonder if this could be a problem source.

The issue here is it worked perfectly for 50 hours before, now its crushing so much it wont even enter the game most of the times.

[gabi.up.2]

Trying on 26.12.2024:
Pre-login screen: 12
Connecting server - entering location: 1
Ziggurat encampment: 2
Clearfield: 1
Mud Burrows: 1

[Tom_Soyer]

Not sure what causes crashes, but played today few hours without any and here we go again

[Anim]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Fxoyian:

Tons of crashes. Can't enter Clearfall Encampment without it crashing. Only played for a few hours. Tis sad :<

Hundreds of thousands of others have no problem, so that points at the problem with your setup. This is not a dig at you, It is just the most logical place to start.
Waiting for the devs to fix it, is a bad way to get past this and will only anger you as you want to play.

So the solution is for you to put on your detective hat and get your hands muddy.

Start from a basic clean place to make your life easier going forwards.
Make sure you have the latest stable graphic card driver, that you have just run a "Verify Game Files" in Steam and that you are not overclocking your rig. Also, just before you run the game, make sure that you don't have an abundant of bloatware running in Task Manager->Startup items, if you do, you need to disable everything in there accept your AntiVirus and restart your machine. When in game, remove any cosmetics you have enabled on your character. You are testing now, not playing.

From this point, you run the game and make it crash, then examine two things.

1. Event Viewer logs
2. examine [Path of exile 2 folder]\logs\client.txt file

From the above 2 things, you are much more likely to pinpoint the actual issue "why" you keep crashing and you are now armed with actual error information that is causing the crashes, this allows you to search those errors.

[dark-breed]

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yes you are right done some research yes there are some black edition 1080 ti that have 11gb where 3gb are slower than the base 8gb.

i wonder if this could be a problem source.

The issue here is it worked perfectly for 50 hours before, now its crushing so much it wont even enter the game most of the times.

so something has changed.

drivers, updates and also sudden windows defects are in question.

just the basic of windows maintenace to be sure the OS is ok:


run a full system check/repair

open command prompt as administrator

run this command

dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth

After this is finished

Sfc /scannow

Repair the c++ redistributables

https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x86.exe

restart windows

https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe

restart windows

from this point on you can be sure that the most base components of the OS are fine and we can dig deeper from there.

[Daren.Salomon]

I had the same issue, Freeze and hard reset. nothing solved my problem until...
Try this, seen it in another thread here. (run as administrator), than start poe2, it will allocate cores and unfreeze game accordingly.

https://github.com/Kapps/PoEUncrasher/releases/download/v1.3.0/PoEUncrasher.zip

[Brewskie Guzzler]

scan for maleware, its effecting the crashes

[TheAmazon]

0 with Vulkan
DX12 too many, at least 1 time per area.

[Billi]

I haven't been able to play at all since yesterday, I didnt play for few days and when I played yesterday because of Holiday I keep crashing on loading screen, I have Ryzen 5 5600, RX 6600 XT and 32GB RAM

[gabi.up.2]

In the meantime I've noticed that... the most common last log entry from the game is either warning of "[WARN Client 16920] Failed to prefetch virtual memory (error: 8)" that is logged form 3 to 8 times before crash or "[CRIT Client 16920] Failed to add node to quadtree due to it exceeding the bounds: Ascendancy Sorceress 1Notable4" or ending in "...1Notable2", that logs twice before crash.

I've tried making a predefined static amount of virtual memory form 8GB up to 16GB, which only made machine to blue screen instead of crashing to desktop.
I've tried some poe 1 hacks for similar problems by running the game with "--no preload" and/or "--gc 2" parameters.
I've tried swapping dlss libraries to older versions.

After multiple tries that showed all that not working I've re-downloaded the game, just to be sure.

So at the 1/1/2025, with fresh game install:
Pre-logging screen: 1
Hunting grounds: 1

No game session possible.

After all this, I think they have some memory leak problem. Although, I don't know how to test this hypothesis on Windows and have too small disk space on Linux to install the game under it.

[gabi.up.2]

So I've had an idea that i saw some "engine multithreading" option in the options menu. And i figured that this might also be some bad speeding condition or something and so i've turned it of. Aaaand game allowed me to play last three locations of ACT 1 and kill the Count but when i was transfering to the Camp it crashed with the "prefetching" error again. xD Lord have mercy on this codebase and programmer whose job will be to understand this!

[Pervy]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Azagaros:

wow using window 10... there is tech in win 11 that would solve most of these

Win11 24H2 is very unstable.