Hard crashing PC locks up

Someone saw GGG talking about it ? Or we are like alone ?

Hopefully fixing this also finally fixes the now long standing multithreading bug in this engine, where CPU usage spikes constantly creating stutters on certain hardware setups. I didn't crash in my brief play time before refunding, but got hit with the stutter variation hard.

Both issues seem highly related to how this game utilizes threads/cores, but the issue I'm talking about the game doesn't seem to work them enough which causes them to transition to inactive/low power states and back to active constantly creating constant CPU spikes and unplayable stuttering during gameplay, while the issue with the crashing seems to be from working other setups and CPUs too hard.

With both of these massive flaws, the only solution in the game itself is exactly the same - disable the Engine Multithreading option, and that's not a good solution considering how much it drops performance. There are some workarounds for both issues outside of the game, but that's always gonna be a hassle.

Hope it doesn't take too long for them to tackle this, but I don't have a lot of hope here. The CPU spike / stutter issue w/ engine multithreading has been reported and known of for at least four years now in the old engine version and PoE1 and they haven't done anything about it.

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interbeing#5112 wrote:

I don't remember having to jump through that many hoops to play a game since the late 80s when maximizing the amount of free (640k) memory was a thing.

Because that problem not just related to the game but it is buried much deeper and related to the operating system / drivers / uefi / hardware.

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Waiden#9514 wrote:

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smeppe#2506 wrote:

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Timothy_GGG wrote:

Hi everyone, whilst we have already been investigating this issue already, it would be massively helpful if you could provide your dxdiag output by doing the following on windows:

run > dxdiag > save all information

and sending me that file or it's contents in a private message.

Thanks!

I think we would appreciate it if this was put back up on the known issues post as well. I know not every issue is listed there but this is literally game breaking, in some cases PC breaking.

It's there?

Second on the list:
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3594260

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cursorTarget#1174 wrote:

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interbeing#5112 wrote:

I don't remember having to jump through that many hoops to play a game since the late 80s when maximizing the amount of free (640k) memory was a thing.

Because that problem not just related to the game but it is buried much deeper and related to the operating system / drivers / uefi / hardware.

The game is doing stuff the operating system / drivers / uefi / hardware doesn't like.
It should stop doing that stuff.

Blame 24H2 as much as you'd like, Ubisoft was able to work with Microsoft to hold back the update from people playing their games until a fix was figured out and implemented.

Currently POE and POE2 stand out as the only major games locking up the PC like this, and POE was having the issue prior to 24H2 launch.

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aelius28#3912 wrote:

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smeppe#2506 wrote:

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Timothy_GGG wrote:

Hi everyone, whilst we have already been investigating this issue already, it would be massively helpful if you could provide your dxdiag output by doing the following on windows:

run > dxdiag > save all information

and sending me that file or it's contents in a private message.

Thanks!

I think we would appreciate it if this was put back up on the known issues post as well. I know not every issue is listed there but this is literally game breaking, in some cases PC breaking.

It is. It never left. I don't understand why people keep claiming this.

"- Investigating cases where some players experience crashes and have to restart their PCs."

You're right I'm blind my bad.

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Aciek444#5661 wrote:

Bit of a p*** take tbh... With how many people are having these issues, this should have been caught ages ago, the 24h2 windows update also came out like 2 months and regardless... these issues have been present and ignored in POE1.

Check reddit. There are posts as far back as August. Either GGG can't fix it or they haven't given a shit until right now when thousands of people are experiencing it.

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Lilith#3312 wrote:

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Aciek444#5661 wrote:

Bit of a p*** take tbh... With how many people are having these issues, this should have been caught ages ago, the 24h2 windows update also came out like 2 months and regardless... these issues have been present and ignored in POE1.

Check reddit. There are posts as far back as August. Either GGG can't fix it or they haven't given a shit until right now when thousands of people are experiencing it.

Posts actually go back several years for the issue in POE1. They addressed it once and claimed to fix it and then ignored all threads where it continued to happen. So yeah, either they just don't know how to properly fix it or just didn't care to put enough resources to doing so.

it has something to do with shader cash, or at least partially. Today my game refused to boot in town multiple times in a row. I ave cleared dx12 and minimaps in user C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Path of Exile 2

and wuala - it worked

Got my first Hard Crash today after about 45 hours of play, happened in Act 1 Cruel. using 24h2 windows 11. Scared to play because I cannot afford my hardware to get damaged or bricked. fml.

3070ti
i7 12700KF
32gb ram