PoE keeps crashing when changing maps

Hi,

The game crashes very often for me, specifically every.single.time I change to a fresh map.
I run through clearing a map, and when I'm happy I killed everything, opened every chest and kicked over every rock or as near as possible I head over to the next maps linked by the current map. I do this so I can quickly run to each new map and grab a portal (theoretically this saves me time in the long run, specially since I can only play a few hours or so every other day.)

The problem is that for each new, fresh map I go to the game crashes. It used to be fine but has gotten more and more frequent up until the point it crashes every single time now.
The game then kicks me out, "an unexpected error occurred". I log back in, as quick as I can and try to head back to the nicely cleaned map I just cleared and head for the new area I tried to enter (which crashed). Now it loads, and it loads fairly quick too.

The big problem is the areas which do not have portals... I clear a map, head to the next area without portal (going through the crash, reload and run back) and the next area after that crashes. If I spend too long at the area in between portal enabled areas, the previously cleaned out area is reset, and I have to do a run through full of monsters or re-clear the area again. Quite tedious.

I really tried to play through it, but for today I haven given up when the game crashed out on me 6-7 times. The last time it went so far as to crash Client.exe (Windows 8 states "Client.exe has stopped working"

Any suggestions to alleviate the problem?

This was happening for me as well and seems to be linked to the game not handling temp memory efficiently.

To correct this I made sure that my paging file was a suitable size (the default on my new machine was too small). Also I reduced the texture quality in the game settings to medium. With lower quality textures the game does not use as much memory when loading a new zone and doesn't crash.

EDIT: also, I have seen posts from GGG saying they are aware of memory utilization issues with the game and are working on solutions.

Today it has gotten so bad as to crash on login. Then it crashed immediately when starting the game.
This is something that has happened very frequently since the last patch.

I'm spending 10-15 minutes just to start the game now. Quite annoying when I have 30-40 minutes of free time....

I have reduced the in game graphics settings, but they seem to make no difference.

By the way, basic shadow mapping looks ridiculously bad. We are not playing Minecraft...

Can you post your system specs? I suspect it is really low end (no offense here) and is having trouble communicating to the server when changing zones.

Try turning all graphic options to low/off and see if this will improve your situation.

I doubt the system specs are the culprit here. It was working fine up until the latest patch.
I did manage to finish act 3, and the game seems to load fine in Act 1 (Cruel) again.

I'll continue running the game through acts 1 and 2 and with anticipation await act 3 again and see if it exhibits the same crashing behavior.

I did lower the shadows and texture filtering. Hopefully that will help in the long run, although the game doesn't look as nice now.

i have a similar problem when playing act 3. the game plays perfectly fine in the first two acts but as i started to progress through act 3 i run into fps issues for some reason (lol) mainly marketplace =/ and get game crashes time to time when changing maps.

Another interesting error has started to pop up when changing maps (Cruel, Act 1)
I only have ever played single player, never in group.

hi,
im playing this game for a while and its really nice i think. the problem i have is also changing the maps in act 3! maps are also in act 3 and thats my problem. i played trough this bugs couse, damn its a free game and prety awesome, but now i just cant farm high end couse maps are crashing much toooo often! had 2 maps that creash all 6 times tring to enter them and damn with no skill in the world u can cealr a map without entering it! moreover its jsut a point u want to stop playing when u are tring like 30 min to enter a damn map with only bugs as result!
got diffrent bugs mostly:
Audio/Sound...ogg: unable to create a buffer: 49650 something liek that
and other stuff like:
Art/Models/Terrain...tgt
error: E_OUTOFMEMORY
anyone an idea for a solution?

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grant_m escreveu:

Just want to add that I am experiencing the same thing.

Never crashed between maps in act 1-2. As soon as I reached act 3 today, frequent crashes.




Another one. Just when entering the marketplace portal in act 3. I know this is probably a fault on my end, but I hope this can help with possible solutions. I'm not much of a windows tech :D

I'm on Win XP.




UPDATE: Set textures to medium, now everything seems to be better. Still looks beautiful too!

Guess my PC is just a bag of poo. Might have to give myself some new components for my B-day :)

If your problem is indeed the same as the OP then it is an out of memory error, the game used all the ram available and crashed.

Thats why OP you should post you specs.

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/73322
about half way down that post is a few fixes for that error grant_m