Game crashing to desktop, like many others

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For those of you that are still having crashing issues, here's a couple of things to try. I've had several days without a single issue now.

First off, make absolutely certain that your GPU is getting enough power. There are several PC power calculators online that you can use to determine whether or not your PSU is good enough to handle your GPU + all of your other PC components, including peripherals, like mouse, keyboard, monitors, etc.. If it's barely enough, consider getting something better, or going with two PSU's. In my case, my GPU has three power connectors, and only two of them were plugged in. The third had come unplugged accidentally, and I didn't even realize it. Just something to consider.

Second, if you have your framerate capped, try uncapping it, and turning triple buffering on.

POE has now been rock solid for days. I'm not saying this will work for everyone or even anyone. That said, maybe someone will find this useful.

I feel offended by your post.
I am aware that cheap and expensive PSUs will behave differently, but it's not a typical symptom to crash applications like the people who describe it here.
In most cases, PSU will shut down, or regulate itself to power consumption.
As you can see multiple times people report that it only happens in Path of Exile.
I am one of these people.

edit. and to be clear. It's obvious that it's GGG fault, that's why I am so mean about these useless tips.

Same problem since the "engine upgrade" patch two weeks before trials. I could not finish my Kirac pass in Crucible because of this issue and decided not buying more supporter packs until the game engine was fixed. So GGG is definitely losing money from their poor engine programming already.

The strange thing is that Sometimes I can play for days with no issue ... but then out of nowhere I am getting lots of crashes. Like all of a sudden a file gets corrupted or something.

Today was one of the bad days .... and I had 30 crashes or even more. Most of them while in loading screens. I deleted all local shader files so the game had to create/download files again. It took another crashs but it was getting better after a while.

An interesting observation. The same time I had this issue, people on ruthless general complained about sudden crashes. So is there a possibility these crashes are actually server related? Maybe some corrupted files that players have to download? Maybe its not not the players hardware side, but in reality corrupted /outdated shader files on the servers?

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Semus wrote:

For those of you that are still having crashing issues, here's a couple of things to try. I've had several days without a single issue now.

First off, make absolutely certain that your GPU is getting enough power. There are several PC power calculators online that you can use to determine whether or not your PSU is good enough to handle your GPU + all of your other PC components, including peripherals, like mouse, keyboard, monitors, etc.. If it's barely enough, consider getting something better, or going with two PSU's. In my case, my GPU has three power connectors, and only two of them were plugged in. The third had come unplugged accidentally, and I didn't even realize it. Just something to consider.

Second, if you have your framerate capped, try uncapping it, and turning triple buffering on.

POE has now been rock solid for days. I'm not saying this will work for everyone, or even anyone. That said, maybe someone will find this useful.

That sounds incredibly unlikely. But if that were the case, it would almost certainly be happening in all games and really any application with more than the most basic graphics that would actually use the GPU.