This game randomly hardlocks my PC when loading areas

This game randomly hardlocks my PC when loading areas.

my Pc 4090 gen 14 intel 32gb

i play Star citizen at 200 fps with 0 problems, every game on my PC, and i have a lot, play and run flawlessly never crashing, no issues.

But this game crashed my rig so hard i have to hardboot it.

I have tried to the temp fix which is to set my affinity and turn off 2 cores for POE2 but all it does is mean i crash randomly still and only half the time i have to hardboot.

I have been a poe fan for 13 yrs. I played early beta Poe1 and am sad to say this... But i think for now i may be done with PoE until something s dont about this problem. I love the game, its engaging and fun but its not worth frying my PC over.

it is insane how much CPU this game uses. The optimization is all off... it should be using 80-100% GPU... not 80-100% CPU.

Please address this.

- a fan.

This is an issue with Windows 11 24H2 it has nothing to do with Path of exile or GGG. Either downgrade to windows 10 or reinstall windows 11 and refuse the 24H2 update.

PoE2 Uncrasher solved my PC hard-lock issues.

Go and get it from Github, run it before you start PoE2 and it does the trick.

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NewAxProductions#3692 wrote:

This is an issue with Windows 11 24H2 it has nothing to do with Path of exile or GGG. Either downgrade to windows 10 or reinstall windows 11 and refuse the 24H2 update.

Thats great... but it is asking to much to do this for one program.

reverting windows would interfere with work software and my music production software. This is a GGG issue. The game should be able to keep up with modern OS software and work with it.

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ShaeG#0897 wrote:

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NewAxProductions#3692 wrote:

This is an issue with Windows 11 24H2 it has nothing to do with Path of exile or GGG. Either downgrade to windows 10 or reinstall windows 11 and refuse the 24H2 update.

Thats great... but it is asking to much to do this for one program.

reverting windows would interfere with work software and my music production software. This is a GGG issue. The game should be able to keep up with modern OS software and work with it.

I get it but no it is not a GGG issue, it's legitimately Microsoft's fault. They shipped a busted update that bricked multiple games including many Ubisoft games. Microsoft has acknowledged the issue and has stopped devices with those games on them from updating to 24H2. As someone who works in IT, there is literally nothing GGG can do apart from literally recoding their entire game based on an update to windows which is pointless because Microsoft can just fix whatever they broke in the first place.

As an Edit you can try disabling AutoHDR in your windows settings as that seems to be the main culprit, if that does not fix it then you will have to wait until Microsoft irons out whatever bug is causing it.

I think the patch from 2 days ago fixed the issue for me, hopefully I don't jinx myself. I was wondering if it was fixed for everyone but I guess not. Hopefully they can improve it further.

EDIT Nope, still load freeze :(.