Sound effects causing crashes on ps4?

I've been thinking that sound effects might be the cause of at least some of the crashes on ps4. I noticed that the game usually crashes right after some sort of sudden sound effect. For example I used the desheret's banner in act 4 to break the seal, after finishing the quest that sound effect crashed the game immediately. Same thing usually happens when enemies attack. Sound effect -> crash. Yesterday I ran 6 heists, 5 of them crashed when multiple enemies attacked (multiple sound effects). Today I switched sound effects off and ran 5 heists, none of those heists crashed. Also played rest of the act 4 without sound effects and no crashes. Maybe GGG should look into it if you haven't zeroed in the cause of this crashing problem on ps4. It's not much in terms of research, I just hope looking into sound effects could fix some of the problems

I guess ur right. I wanna try to turn off the sound effect. Actually a lot of crashes happen if I crit monster packs or open currency chest. Maybe it's because the sound. I post my result later.

People playing PoE on PC used to suggest the sound used cause problems with the game and GGG have denied this is the case. I have played PoE last league without any sound and it made no difference. PoE on PS4 just crashes for any reason. GGG have no idea what is causing the crashes but sound isn't one of them.

Turning off sound is not likely to reduce your number of crashes. And least not substantially.

However, it *will* improve your performance in certain situations.

I really love to play the game with sound, but the performance is such an issue that I've turned off everything except Dialog and Filter sounds.

Why keep Dialog? Because when Sirus says "Die!" (or other similar stuff from other bosses), that's considered Dialog. So you still get some of your audio cues from boss fights.

I just did 2 heist without sound, and guess what? No crashes!!!!
I know it's only 2 heists, but that's such an improvement. I couldn't do any heist prior to that. I feel like we are beta testing for GGG. LOL

I've been playing without sound effects, the game still crashes but performance is a little bit better. Game crashed multiple times today while playing and I've tried to pinpoint cause of the crashes but can't figure it out. In retrospect it feels like the game was in decent state before harvest league. Feels like harvest really broke something. I've been playing since synthesis, but performance of the game keeps getting worse. I really hope that GGG really focuses on fixing ps4 version even if the client crash is like finding a needle in haystack.

Although I originally thought sounds don't cause problems but I do seem to remember GGG changed the sound of Herald of Ice because it caused problems, I'm playing a build that shatters and I've had crashes regularly, turning the sound off seems to have made a difference.

Crashes causes on ps4:

-play the game with sound
-kill a monster
-walk in-game
-breed outside of the game

(:V)