BSOD (PFN_LIST_CORRUPT) on some town loads

had this occur several times during the secrets league, just had it occur 1x in poe2 0.3

cpu: 9950x3d
gpu: 4080super

its a brand new build with 100% brand new components and software,
seems a little suspicious that this is only occurring on GGG games and literally nowhere else.

also seems a little strange that people reporting this issue are on AMD.

this is definitely p0 hopefully GGG recognizes it as such.
Last edited by shslul#6816 on Aug 31, 2025, 6:40:29 PM
I'll take a liberty and crosspost https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3830010#p26302134 here.

It's been going on for a while on Ryzen systems: https://www.pathofexile.com/search/results/pfn_list_corrupt/search-within/threads-posts

Technically GGG are not to blame here. Unprivileged usermode process should not be able to crash OS even if it tries, but people (myself included) reported that it only happens in PoE so it does do something to trigger this bug.

What does not work (tried all of these and probably some other things that I no longer remember):
1. memtest or checkdisk
2. Updating BIOS and all the drivers to the latest versions
3. Disabling engine multithreading
4. Switching renderers (it's not in GPU code - it's something in a way they do memory mapping)
5. Moving game files to a different disk
6. Moving shader cache to a different disk
7. Reinstalling PoE
8. Reinstalling OS
9. Not having a video playing in the background
10. I didn't have any RGB bullshit to begin with

Regardless of any of the above, I've had bugchecks in PoE up to 20 times a day.

What DOES WORK:
DO NOT INSTALL latest AMD chipset software from your motherboard vendor (e.g. in my case it's https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/X870-GAMING-PLUS-WIFI/support#driver ). Unfortunately it's an exe that does some shenanigans and I really don't want to figure out which exact sys-file causes these problems. Easiest way is to reinstall Windows and let it download WHQL certified drivers itself (feel free to update GPU drivers, network drivers, etc - just not chipset software, though I'd start with not installing anything non-WHQL)

After doing this I didn't have a single bugcheck in about a month and a half

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