poe 1 AND 2 constant crashing

Hey all, I'm currently having an insane number of crashes in both poe 1 and 2 that have never happened until 2 came out. I've updated my drivers, made sure all my windows updates were done, cycled through Vulkan, DX11, and DX12. I almost never get any error messages, the game just closes.

In poe2 it was most common when clicking "buy or sell" at a vendor, or clicking the plus sign to level up. And then it would just crash out of nowhere and I'd have to research through a zone if I was leveling up mid-area.

In poe1 it could be basically anything. Pressing the level up symbol, transitioning from one zone to another, dying. Though with poe1 once I crashed a single time, I would have to relaunch the game a couple of dozen times to get back in. It would crash on launch before even opening, crash in the GGG loading screen to the main menu, and crash when I hit "play" on any of my characters at all (during the load screens). Very very rarely did I get error messages for poe1 and they would say something about "failed to uncompress animation 17". My friend died once while in my party and I insta-crashed and it said something about Kalguuran portal effect. I've even tried uninstalling and reinstalling both poe's and neither have been fixed.

My specs are an intel i9-14900KF, 32gb ram, and a 4080 super on windows 11. Poe1 has been running fine until this month and I just can't figure it out.

Same here and cannot find a clue what is happening

This is weird. With having issues with poe 2 I played poe 1 with no issues in standard from beginning to t3 maps. When I decided to play the league I started to experience crashes in poe 1 so I went back to standard. Today I just crashed in standard trying to go to my first character. WTF is going on?

Can we get some tech support for this??? I didnt really start crashing that often, until i hit maps in poe2. Then every 3rd map my pc would lock up when i entered a portal and come back to no map. Its hard enough to keep maps going to not lose one. So i decided to let it rest and went to PoE1 which ive never experienced lock up.. and its doing the same thing randomly now.

PoE 1 Only: I'm running into the same issues with alarming regularity - sometimes it freezes and crashes after loading my character. Graphics settings don't seem to affect how and when it crashes (no rhyme or reason). Never had this issue since I played last (which was about 4 months ago).

Would like to know what's needed to fix this. Thanks.

I have find out that the NVIDIA app and drivers are confusing the path of exile 1 and 2 in the driver: you can use this application to modify so the drivers don't confuse the games.

https://github.com/Orbmu2k/nvidiaProfileInspector/releases

The executable have the same name for the two games. it is stupid overlook by GGG. Put unique executable names for your game man... But even doing this does not solve any issues for me i try everything.

My specs: win11

amd ryzen 7 9700x
2070 super

all drivers and bios up to day.

I still haven't been able to fix it and if anything, it's even worse now. It took me about 14 tries to even get into a character, and then when I finally did I crashed on the first enemy I saw with a popup titled "Exception" and the description saying ""Art/Models/MONSTERS/BugBot/rig.ast": Failed to uncompress animation 8". Most of my crashes are loading screen related but a handful of them will have this type of message, for both 1 and 2.

I had a similar issue with constant crashes for POE 1. I only managed to fix it today, and discovered it was RTSS Rivatuner causing the crash for whatever reason. I made a custom profile in Riva for POE and set application detection level to none, haven't crashed since. Thought I'd put my solution here incase it helps you or anyone else that might be using MSI Afterburner and RTSS.

I haven't had a single issue with RTSS and POE1 for hundreds of hours. It has only been since I've gone back to POE1 after POE2 that they seem to hate eachother. Weird.

"Art/Models/MONSTERS/GenericBiped/BipedMedium/Animations/VaalZealots/K nifestick/rig.ast": Failed to uncompress animation 4

Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-14900KF 3.20 GHz
RAM 64.0 GB (63.7 GB available)
4080 super

Error message, error message, after trying 1000 solutions to improve, now crashes 3 times in 1 hour. This game is fun, but the technical team suspects that they are from a pizza making background.....

Im having similar issues in regards to this, this past few weeks the crash started with poe 2 crashing constantly, and now in the new poe 1 event it seems to crash my game as soon as i run a map. I dont know whats causing it at this point. This has made both games poe 1 and poe 2 unplayable. My pc specs are decent, it should not crash this much.

Its such a shame, finally was actually having fun on the new event farming idols and this thing happens. Hope they fix it in the nearest time because i would really like to farm with the idols.