Hard crashing PC locks up

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pinimo#0250 wrote:

if your entire rig is crashing due to a PoE2 - i would advice looking at your MB vendors site and check if there is a bios/firmware update...

a userland process cannot causing a bsod, if your running latest mobo firmware AND gpu drivers your in the void man :/

Prime95 for stressing ram/cpu.

if it freezes its either your RAM or the CPU thats at fault most likely

This is not the issue people are having. Read the room.

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pinimo#0250 wrote:

if your entire rig is crashing due to a PoE2 - i would advice looking at your MB vendors site and check if there is a bios/firmware update...

a userland process cannot causing a bsod, if your running latest mobo firmware AND gpu drivers your in the void man :/

grab some benchmark software for your RAM.

This not a BSOD. This is a resource hog related OS freeze. So you never get the BSOD.

I think you are also confusing/misremembering what userland processes can do:
1) They are less likely to cause BSOD or OS Freeze directly. (Most people interpret this as they cannot cause them directly, which is not true)
2) They can directly cause BSOD or OS Freeze via exploiting vulnerabilities, improper use of System APIs, driver interaction, resource exhaustion. (This is PoE2's "bug")
3)They can indirectly cause BSOD or OS Freeze via hardware stress or triggering a kernel bug.

Furthermore, I ask anyone who sees this message to please give a negative review for Path of Exile 2 on Steam.

Hi, anyone having problems then try this that I found on a comment section of Youtube. I've been having the hard crashes myself on the loading screens and since i did this little tweak, have been able to play all day today with zero problems. Load the game and then tab out and load Task Manager. Then go to POE2,... details and then scroll down again to Pathofexilesteam.exe. under Set priority, choose: real time and then your good to go. hasn't crashed once since. really hope this helps anybody until they fix the game. Oh, You Don't have to turn off multithreading ,change to Vulcan or turn off any cores and all that messing around.

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Jaylock24#5784 wrote:

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Cainrith#2807 wrote:

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mithnight14#6385 wrote:

5600 + 4070 brand new, fearing of frying it, i cant pass the first loading screen, several times i make a hard reset.

Tried uncracsher but not working neither with poeuncrasher

But atleast with uncrasher i can close everytime i try to play the game and it crashes in the first loading screen i dont know why im still trying, im on holiday and i can't play a game that i payed 30€ to play.

A friend of mine told me to play poe2, i never tried poe1 and i played for 2 weeks without problems and i can say its a great game but he said to me that GGG are good devs that they care about their community, now i see they are the same shit like every company when they get money.

I hope no one get his computer fucked up by this retards making nothing to repair the game.

Just to clarify:
As long as it is only the game that is crashing there is no additional risk to your PC.

So if the game freezes but you can close it there is no additional risk.

If the game still hard crashes despite PoEUncrasher try increasing the cores limited by PoEUncrasher. Start high (perhaps with half your cores?)

If the game is only crashing to desktop with PoEUncrasher then there is nothing you can do as far as I know.

Also do not use curse words because GGG staff is using those as an excuse to lock entire threads. This is their method of censorship and we have lost a thread yesterday. They are bothered by the large amount of replies and try to "minimize the impact" by locking threads whenever they can.

Furthermore, I ask anyone who sees this message to please give a negative review for Path of Exile 2 on Steam.

I literally can't play this game anymore on my PC. The hard locks have gotten worse, and I fear that if I keep hard restarting my PC, ill damage components.

I've never experienced something like this where a game will hard lock your PC. This has to be a flaw in their code or how the game thinks when it loads into different areas.

The game can hard lock my PC when first opening the game, between maps or town areas. Its almost always when the game is loading something.

I'm going to request a refund from Steam if this isn't fixed soon...

If it only crashes to desktop you are fine. The momentary spikes are things your CPU can handle as long as your temp management is good.

If it hard crashes even with PoEUncrasher do not keep playing the game. I have explained possible consequences of this on multiple threads (tl;dr: It is not good for your PC).

Furthermore, I ask anyone who sees this message to please give a negative review for Path of Exile 2 on Steam.

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Yippykidave#4100 wrote:

Hi, anyone having problems then try this that I found on a comment section of Youtube. I've been having the hard crashes myself on the loading screens and since i did this little tweak, have been able to play all day today with zero problems. Load the game and then tab out and load Task Manager. Then go to POE2,... details and then scroll down again to Pathofexilesteam.exe. under Set priority, choose: real time and then your good to go. hasn't crashed once since. really hope this helps anybody until they fix the game. Oh, You Don't have to turn off multithreading ,change to Vulcan or turn off any cores and all that messing around.

This has been discussed. Setting something to permanent Real-Time is not good even with improvements to the functionality. Although nowadays for most of the time all it does when it goes wrong is to cause hard crashes at most which PoE2 already do.

PoEUncrasher does this automatically when a crash is about to happen, it then re-sets it.

Also this is not a fix, it is a workaround.

After almost a month of this problem people are expecting an actual fix, or at least an acknowledgement of the problem.

Imagine buying something else for >30$ and it is this problematic...

Furthermore, I ask anyone who sees this message to please give a negative review for Path of Exile 2 on Steam.

I ran POE 2 flawlessly with no issues when it released. Then after I installed the latest Windows 24H2 update I started experiencing heavy CPU loads and total computer freezes when loading into new zones. The only option was to reset the computer and start the game again.

I tried many of the solutions posted here, like removing core 0 and 1 from affinity, and it worked a little better, but it was still behaving unstable and crashing, this time not freezing my whole computer, but I did have to restart the system anyways because it just kept freezing the game after that one crash.

Today I rolled back the update by using the "Go back" function in Settings -> System -> Recovery. It practically uninstalled the latest update from Windows and I have been running the game flawlessly again. Not a single freeze.

The windows update did something to my computer, it wasn't just POE2, I had issues in my browser as well, like strange issues where when I scrolled a webpage, only a part of the webpage scrolled, and some if it froze.

Anyways, after uninstalling the update everything is working great again.

Using the task manager to set affinity and priority worked for about 2 days for me. But, no longer.

Really disappointed in this. Was so excited to play the game, but I can't keep hard rebooting and trying all these work arounds to try and get it playable. It's the meta-game nobody wants to play.

Left a negative steam review that I will gladly change once this gets addressed.

Hello, I got this from windows forum, it seems to fix my crashing

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What fixed the problem was going to Registry Editor > Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\DirectX\UserGpuPreferences


and deleting "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\ASUS\\ArmouryDevice\\asus_framework.exe"="GpuPreference=1;"

Probably Armourycrate is the root cause of this issue.

Restarted pc and everything is normal no more crashing.

We got a bunch of internet engineers on here suggesting all random things that may work temporarily for people but bricking systems for others, refrain from trying these 'supposed' solutions and wait for GGG.

Leave bad review on steam meanwhile as they don't seem to care to fix this impending PC lock up issue.

in risk of repeating shit, is the MOBO bios up to date? if so, is the bios set to XMP for RAM? XMP might not be validated for your vendor.


faulty RAM will lockup, stresstest it =)