Frequent crashes, with no specific context | Balatro | Page 1

west mango Jul 9, 2025, 6:30 AM

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So the game crashes quite. About every 5 minutes or so. Sometimes I can have a longer run, but yesterday it was hell on earth. I could barely play one single hand before crashing. It's been like this every since the Windows update in may or april.

The most common error is "engine/sprite.lua:96: attempt to index a nil value". I have not found any option to turn on crash reports for Balatro, so I don't have more information than this, but I will keep posting new ones.

My hardware is:
MSI MAG B760 (MS-7D96) with BIOS version A.C0
14900K - changed due to previous one being faulty, was okay until Windows update
4070RTX
64GB DDR5 ram, not overclocked

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Another quite frequent error:

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west mango Jul 9, 2025, 7:05 AM

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rough lion Jul 9, 2025, 8:38 AM

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do you play with mods?

west mango Jul 9, 2025, 2:10 PM

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west mango Jul 9, 2025, 2:10 PM

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rough lion do you play with mods?

No, I am too old for that shit 😛

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I have no clue what these errors even mean. I've tried verifying game files several times, sfc command in cmd, DISM, updating drivers etc.

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Now, game crashed and client closed itself:

hasty ridge Jul 9, 2025, 4:46 PM

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does it also crash on a new profile?

west mango Jul 10, 2025, 3:44 PM

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@hasty ridge I will try

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west mango Jul 10, 2025, 6:30 PM

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hasty ridge does it also crash on a new profile?

Yeah, still crashes

hasty ridge Jul 10, 2025, 6:32 PM

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yeah i saw

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only thing i can think of you can still try is deleting your entire %AppData%\Balatro folder, disable cloud saves, reinstall

west mango Jul 10, 2025, 6:40 PM

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Will i loose my profile and progress?

hasty ridge Jul 10, 2025, 6:40 PM

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yes

west mango Jul 10, 2025, 6:40 PM

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fuck

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I am close to C+

hasty ridge Jul 10, 2025, 6:40 PM

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but there are save editors

west mango Jul 10, 2025, 6:41 PM

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Yeah, but no 100% achievement from save editors

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Is what I am guessing

hasty ridge Jul 10, 2025, 6:46 PM

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i don't think achievements will be affected tbh

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maybe someone else knows for sure

west mango Jul 10, 2025, 6:54 PM

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Something new I guess:

west mango Jul 10, 2025, 7:24 PM

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west mango Jul 10, 2025, 7:39 PM

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winged spade Jul 10, 2025, 11:04 PM

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i've been experiencing the exact same problem

📎 message.txt

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running the game in windowed mode has, for whatever reason, reduced the frequency of the crashes

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but it's still happening a LOT

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@west mango i believe we have the same CPU, maybe that's the issue?

west mango Jul 11, 2025, 2:51 PM

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I've always ran Balatro in windowed. Sometiems I can play for a couple of hours without it happening, but recently, it has been utter fucking chaos. If I play red stakes I crash quite rarely I've noticed, but on gold stake I can crash every 5 minutes.

west mango Jul 11, 2025, 2:52 PM

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winged spade <@792745214472749076> i believe we have the same CPU, maybe that's the issue?

After I replaced the CPU I didn't have any crashes. I've tried to tweak BIOS aswell for Balatro, but these settings are by far the most stable 😛

winged spade Jul 11, 2025, 8:25 PM

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maybe reducing the amount of cores balatro has access to is something? i’ve ran into similar problems with other games before

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replacing my cpu isn’t an option for me unfortunately

winged spade Jul 12, 2025, 1:26 AM

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@west mango fixed! the recent windows update had rolled back my Intel Extreme Tuning settings. after setting Performance Core Ratio back to 54x (from 57x) my game is no longer crashing. hope this fixes things for you as well!!

west mango Jul 12, 2025, 7:17 AM

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I will check this out!

west mango Jul 12, 2025, 8:15 AM

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winged spade <@792745214472749076> fixed! the recent windows update had rolled back my Intel ...

Performance Core Ratio is greyed out... o.o

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winged spade Jul 12, 2025, 8:16 AM

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huh????

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no clue why that might be unfortunately

west mango Jul 12, 2025, 8:47 AM

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It was never greyed out before, but I will try to tune it from BIOS from 57x to 54x

west mango Jul 12, 2025, 9:04 AM

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winged spade no clue why that might be unfortunately

Do you have a Z-chipset? Like Z790 etc.

winged spade Jul 12, 2025, 9:05 AM

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actually yes

west mango Jul 12, 2025, 11:44 AM

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winged spade actually yes

Yeah, unfortunately B690 doesnt offer this. Did you reduce them all to 54x?

I managed to reduce 6 of 8 to 54, and P1+P2 to 57x

winged spade Jul 12, 2025, 11:46 AM

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i reduced them all, yeah

west mango Jul 26, 2025, 9:26 AM

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winged spade i reduced them all, yeah

Thanks bro. Ive been playing very stabile after tweaking this!

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