Technical Support - Failed to Uncompress Animation and Other Crashes - Forum

I also have the same issue after the recent patch, with the same tech specs as other folks posting here: NVIDIA(R) GeForce RTX(TM) 4090, 24GB GDDR6X Intel(R) Core(TM) 14th Gen i9 14900KF (24-Core, 68MB Cache, 2.4GHz to 6.0GHz Thermal Velocity Boost) Win 11 The game crashes at least once every 15 minutes, I've tried almost everything except messing with BIOS. Everything was stable a week ago, these problems seem to start happening only this week. Edit: I've updated the BIOS to the latest version, that unfortunately didn't help to fix crashes. I can't even launch the game anymore, it crashes immediately after the GGG screen. Last edited by Nerlin on Aug 29, 2024, 8:54:42 PM	Posted by Nerlin on Aug 29, 2024, 8:17:39 PM Quote this Post
" AndrewChicken888 wrote: Update: I think I've found a solution, though not ideal. Before the BIOS update, I underclocked my CPU to maintain stability because programs kept crashing with the default settings. While I don't need to do that now because the BIOS update fixed the crashing I was experiencing with all other programs, I tried it again to see if it would help Path of Exile and lo and behold, it worked! No more crashes! I used Intel's Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU) to underclock my CPU. I'm using the i9-13900KF, and the default settings are a performance core ratio of 55x and an efficient core ratio of 43x. I set the performance core to 50x and efficient core to 40x, and it's been smooth sailing. Maybe a similar configuration will help those having problems here? It's not the greatest solution because you will of course lose out on some performance, but the game still runs just fine for me and it's now perfectly stable. For me, that's good enough! Underclocking the CPU seems to be effective. I am not experiencing any crashes when downgrading the performance core ratio from 59x to 58x. I do not consider this a fix, but more of just a workaround as modifications to CPU tuning should not be required. However, I am happy for now that I can play without crashing nearly non-stop, and can actually play the game.	Posted by KeelKeel on Aug 30, 2024, 8:49:27 AM Quote this Post
I can confirm that decreasing the CPU performance core ratio and efficient core ratio worked for me, the game stopped crashing after I reduced PCR to 50x (from 57x) and ECR to 40x (from 44x). I would be nice to have the actual fix from the devs for this instead.	Posted by Nerlin on Aug 30, 2024, 6:38:54 PM Quote this Post