Hard crashing PC locks up

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Kaltern#5539 wrote:

I have had some good success with an app called Process Lasso. You can use this to specifically set a rule for the PoE2 process to drop to IDLE priority and unassign 2 cores if the CPU usage rises above 95% for a second, and then remain at IDLE for say, 10 seconds. And then resume normal processes.

Find the tool here: https://bitsum.com/

To do this:

* Open Options, CPU Limiter
* New CPU Limit Rule:
Process match: pathofexilesteam.exe
When CPU use is: 85%
For a period of: 1 seconds
Reduce by this many cores: 2
For a period of: 10 seconds.

I also use ProBalance settings:
Advanced/
Leave all settings except:

Lower to idle priority instead of below normal: Ticked
Ignore all foreground processes: Unticked
Change affinity during restraint: Ticked
CPUs: 2-15 (or how many cores you have, just ensure you start at core 2)

This has immediately solved the issue for me - and it even decreases load time dramatically as well. Any tool that can reduce the CPU priority and remove cores will probably work, but this can be done on a rule basis per running process.

Of course, I cannot say if this is guaranteed to work for everyone. But I can say I've had hardlocking constantly, and I've now been able to play for 5 hours continuously. Except for one REALLY off bug that may be a server issue (says my controller is unplugged then dumps me back to the login screen).

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Tomtah#4647 wrote:

Having the same problem. Mostly during load screens when i enter new zones or click the button to open world map. Wouldn´t be so bad if it just crashes the game but my entire PC locks up so I have to do a hard reset by pressing power button. Got a brand new laptop to play this game so it's a fresh install. Playing on steam version.

Specs: Brand new Lenovo LOQ 15 with a ryzen 7 8845HS, RTX 4060, Windows 11 PRO, update 24H2(version 26100.2605), one stick of 16 gb DDR5 ram.
Monitor setup: Using laptops integrated monitor and an external monitor, both at 2560x1440

Game settings:
Running in Windowed fullscreen on my 2nd monitor.
Vsync: Adaptive
Window resoultion: 2560x1440
NVIDIA DLSS max image quality set to quality.
8x anisotropic filtering
Shadow+ globial immunation
Shadow+ gi quality: Low
Sun shadow quality: Low
Number of lights: High
Water detail level: High
Nvidia reflex: ON
Background FPS cap 30
Foreground FPS cap: 144
Triple buffering: on
Dynamic culling: off
Engine multithreading: ON

Have not tried any of the fixes proposed in this forum thread yet. Just wanted to give some info so GGG can fix this.

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MightoBoy#0452 wrote:

you can also wait and not risk your processor

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Stormscourge#2254 wrote:

Hell, this game overload all my CPU cores faster than Cinebench benchmarking. It's insane.
I'm 99% convinced this is all due to bad shader optimization by GGG.

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Stormscourge#2254 wrote:

This game turns into a CPU stress test during all load scenarios.

It's trying to compile too many shaders and assets at the same time.

Hell, this game overload all my CPU cores faster than Cinebench benchmarking. It's insane.

The console versions run better because GGG can prepackage shaders for that specific hardware. With PCs, and all different hardware condfigs, it seems like they making our PCs build shaders from scratch every damn load screen, leading to CPU spikes and crashes.

I suspect they are gathering data and will patch in prepackage shaders for PC as well and have most, if not all loaded at game launch, so this will eventually go away.

Most games load the bulk of shaders when the game first launches and they just sit in the cache for the CPU to grab whenever, instead of having to compile and overwork your CPU.

I'm 99% convinced this is all due to bad shader optimization by GGG.