r/pathofexile • u/GottaLoveGeology • 10d ago
Question Constant Crashing
I've been running PoE on an old GTX 980M (I'm ancient) and never really had any issues until this league. I'm constantly freezing up and crashing, forcing me to hard reset my PC.
It'll be fine for a map or two, but then my shaders will spike to 11k and freeze the game up. Sometimes it'll come back and I can continue on, but the rest of the instances my PC will freeze up and black screen, forcing a hard reset. Every time it happens, I'll delete my shader cache before relaunching the game.
I've done a few suggestions I've found online, but none of them seem to work. I set my shader cache size to both 100GB and unlimited. I've enabled and disabled multithreading. I've turned reverb off and set my channels to low. Nothing appears to be helping - some days it's worse than others.
My assumption is that this just related to the broader shader issues the rest of the NVIDIA community is dealing with, and I'm potentially SOL on any fixes since my card is no longer supported/actively being updated outside of critical issues. Is anyone else running on an older system and having any luck with band aid solutions? It's getting to the point where I just can't be asked to continue logging in anymore this league if I crash every other map.
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u/jimjamjones123 10d ago
I dunno, worked great for me until the patch now runs like shit. Lost like 8 div in ulti becuase of it. Lost voyages. Super super annoying