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Path of Exile Issues Reports

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  Dinnu daniel (@daniel_adinnu) reported 36 seconds ago

  A bug in Path of Exile 2 took eighteen months to fix. The fix itself took two weeks. The crash, a “device removed” error paired with severe stuttering, only affected NVIDIA graphics cards, and only on driver version 566.36 and later, a version that happened to release just before the game’s early access launch. Grinding Gear Games identified the pattern early. What they could not do was make NVIDIA look at it, because NVIDIA’s position was that it would investigate once the studio could reproduce the crash on demand, not before. That is where most of the eighteen months went. The team built custom debugging systems and a full replay system capable of re-triggering the exact crash, eventually compressing reproduction time from several hours down to five to seven minutes. Even then, the bug did not appear on every machine. So Grinding Gear Games packed an entire PC, monitor, keyboard, and mouse included, and shipped the whole rig directly to NVIDIA. No steps to follow, no room to fail to reproduce it. The company put the hardware itself on a truck. About a month after it arrived, an NVIDIA engineer saw the crash happen in person for the first time. Two weeks after that, engineers traced it to an internal shader heap size setting. A week later, the fix shipped inside NVIDIA’s own driver update, adjustable specifically for Path of Exile 2 without requiring any change to the game’s code at all. Add it up and the actual diagnosis and repair, once someone at NVIDIA was looking directly at the problem, took roughly a month and a half. The other seventeen months were the cost of getting anyone there in the first place. Game director Jonathan Rogers opened a bottle of champagne when the fix went live. The bug wasn’t hard. Getting looked at was.

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  vynce (@venividivynny) reported 2 minutes ago

  @pathofexile I wasted so much time to farm that **** now its all useless. You clearly dont Play many parts of Ur Game. Its insane to me to actively Nerf fun stuff Like Flicker which needs Giga high Investment, dont fix the obvious Bugs. 300 hours down the drain. **** u

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  Joe Ingham (@J_Ingham) reported 3 minutes ago

  @pathofexile Nice login servers :)

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  Faye (@FayeOnX_) reported 4 minutes ago

  Path of Exile 2 devs fought an Nvidia driver bug for a year and a half. Nvidia couldn't reproduce it. So they packed a whole PC, monitor and all, and shipped it to Nvidia. Fixed. Sometimes the strongest argument is handing someone the actual problem.

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  chromebos (@appel123457) reported 5 minutes ago

  @pathofexile Can you fix the bug where my mercernary does no damage with anenimity embrace

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  FinalBoss.io (@FinalBoss_io) reported 8 minutes ago

  A new league is nice. A new endgame system is the real tell. That’s the line between an actual live game and one that just changes the seasonal wallpaper and calls it a roadmap. Curse of the Allflame is bringing the usual PoE pile: league mechanic, Abyss and Legion updates, Mercenaries back, new Scion Ascendancy. Good. That’s substance. But the part worth watching is whether the new endgame adds depth or just more homework for the existing spreadsheet religion. Because Path of Exile still does something a lot of “live-service” games forgot how to do: ship real video game in the update. Not a teaser for content. Not a promise that content is coming. Not a producer letter explaining why the cadence will improve. Content. Systems. Reasons to log in that aren’t just obligation. If Allflame lands, it won’t be because it had a spooky theme and a name fit for a metal album. It’ll be because GGG remembered the job: give the sickos more game, not more chores.

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  LAT (@LATin4k) reported 10 minutes ago

  @VMJunior @pathofexile I've used 3 separate AMD cards and have not had the same issue as Nvidia users. Maybe stop running your hamster wheel.

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  Burnty (@Burnty504) reported 11 minutes ago

  @RobanMavr @VMJunior @pathofexile Ok but shaders has nothing to do with the game crashing which was the main problem.. shaders are universal and not just a nvidia issue he never said it was.

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  dont mention it (@itsalltaken1) reported 12 minutes ago

  @TriggeredLitch @Tibore_ @pathofexile The lack of loot is an actual problem, use your head.

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  Salame Miguel (@VtrVtx) reported 13 minutes ago

  @Zizaran @pathofexile In AI days something that probably looks like a human error makes me happy

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  Alexander (@northlending) reported 13 minutes ago

  @QuintessenceHD @pathofexile I was wondering if it was only me that had that issue, but yaiks, they need to fix it

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  pepela (@pepela78294484) reported 14 minutes ago

  @Treverice @pathofexile looks like its broken again lmao fk these guys

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  Criti (@Criticyze) reported 16 minutes ago

  @pathofexile please fix poe2 bug with expedition, it's been weeks with the same bug, hundreds of reports and nothing is done.

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  Darth Microtransaction (@DarthMicroT) reported 18 minutes ago

  Actually pretty big fixes. The loading screen for this path of exile 2 league was insane. Getting these type of issues under control before 1.0 is important

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  FinalBoss.io (@FinalBoss_io) reported 19 minutes ago

  Path of Exile just shipped a rare kind of live-service update: less friction, not more homework. Verisium protection while channeling. A crafting bench in every town from Act 2 on. Bigger stack limits for currency and fragments. Ritual markers that stop making you play detective. That’s not “content.” That’s respect. A studio proves it’s committed by sanding down the annoying parts players tolerate, not by adding another daily obligation and calling it depth.