game crashes on startup

black screen, cursor appears and that's it, the game crashes
does not have time to load anything, a second and the game closes
It started after the last update, before that everything worked fine
Last bumped on May 1, 2025, 11:42:31 PM
Yep worked fine, new patch will no longer start black screen straight to desktop. All other games are working fine.

From the logs
2022/09/02 17:26:02 9432968 55712961 [CRIT Client 15864] [EXCEPTION] Failed to init FMOD system. Error code 51

Found a post by locke86 this worked for me, i just changed my default sound device to something else instead of disabling.

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I got the Same Error
What at least got it starting again was:

1.) Disable audio device in Windows
2.) Start Poe
3.) Enable Audio device in Windows again
4.) Go to Poe settings and under Audio select the corecct Audio device again


Last edited by LeeBambury#2475 on Sep 2, 2022, 11:32:45 AM
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LeeBambury wrote:
Yep worked fine, new patch will no longer start black screen straight to desktop. All other games are working fine.

From the logs
2022/09/02 17:26:02 9432968 55712961 [CRIT Client 15864] [EXCEPTION] Failed to init FMOD system. Error code 51

Found a post by locke86 this worked for me, i just changed my default sound device to something else instead of disabling.

"
I got the Same Error
What at least got it starting again was:

1.) Disable audio device in Windows
2.) Start Poe
3.) Enable Audio device in Windows again
4.) Go to Poe settings and under Audio select the corecct Audio device again




Where can I check the logs?
I’m having crashes after last patch too and sometimes BSOD with Video_scheduler_internal_error

Tried that audio trick you talked about but didn’t fix it for me :(
What game has a patch that completely stops it from even loading and is not addressed. GGG needs to fix this absolute garbage update.

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