Hive Fortress frequent crashing

I am experiencing a crash frequently while inside, before and after, starting the event. I have crashed almost always ONLY when near the middle of the arena, usually within what I would guess would be render distance of Ailith. I can walk in and attack mobs just fine until I get close to her, where it will either crash, or sometimes, work properly. I have changed maps, tried mirage hives, both resulted in a crash. After about 15 attempts I had a crash in 8 of them.

I tried changing to directx 11 but same result, everything on lowest settings, max performance settings basically.

Hardware is Nvidia 1650 GTX, CPU Intel Core i5 10400. I tried to update drivers as well but no change.

Hope this helps get the issue resolved, I was enjoying farming blood more than I expected.

EDIT:This issue started happening to me recently, I believe I had this first occur early morning on march 10th
Last edited by Gallamoth#7319 on Mar 10, 2026, 8:41:20 PM
Last bumped on Mar 11, 2026, 12:17:23 PM
Unsocket Puncture.

It's causing your crashes and needs GGG to release a fix in a future game update.
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No shot, I'll try in a few minutes and see what happens
That seems to actually have fixed it, so Puncture is deadge until further notice.

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