POE 2 Buffer Underflow

Happened just running around in jungle ruins, nothing even special going on.
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*sighs* me too :( also jungle ruins
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Same thing happens on Woodland map too.
Happened just running around in jungle ruins during lvling, nothing even special going on.
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cant load the char
Other 2 char are good
This just started happening me today while in act3 Jungle Ruins. I tried restarting the game and the computer a couple times and I keep getting the "Buffer Underflow" error
Last edited by glitche#2433 on Dec 19, 2024, 10:56:25 AM
I am posting this here as well because the silence towards buffer underflow crash and the hard crash in other threads is concerning. I know that your issue is different but the silence is the same. Hope that this negative attention would nudge GGG into caring.

I reviewed the game as negative on steam.

This is my review, if you want you can simply copy/paste it.
The game hard crashes taking the OS with it, requiring manual shutdown by using the power button.

GGG has been silent about this issue except a single post in known issues which misdiagnoses the problem as a "Win 11 24H2 issue". GGG requested DxDiags and did not access them. GGG does not mention this issue in the patch notes.

Currently on the Path of Exile 2 Early Access Bug Reports Forum has two main threads:
1) Hard crashing PC locks up: 248 Pages, 2471 Replies, 146069 Views. Created at 7th of December, 2024.

2) POE 2 Complete PC Freeze while loading screen: 216 Pages, 2159 Replies, 204635 Views. Created at 7th of December, 2024.

In comparison the entire "[POE 2] Bugs" thread has 138 Pages, 1370 Replies, 29196 Views.

In terms of ratio, more than half of the replies and views to the forum belong to these two threads.

There are no bugs that are more important than this. This is not "I cannot use X skill bug". This is "improper usage of system APIs by the application" causing "100% CPU utilization" leading to a crash, resulting in "shortened component lifespan and possibly bricking PC".

There are people who have lost their PSUs, SSDs, GPUs, CPUs, Bluetooths, USBs... Any part you can put in a PC, there is someone on the forum that have lost it due to this "bug".

This happens on every kind of OS and hardware.

OS: Happens on Linux, Win10, Win11.
Hardware: AMD and Intel CPUs, AMD and Nvidia GPUs in all types of combination. If a hardware can run it, there is a person with that hardware on those 400 page threads with this crashing bug.
I cannot send/reply to direct messages because my in-game character has not finished Act 1. I apologize for any unanswered messages.
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