Early Access Bug Reports - Hard crashing PC locks up - Forum

I started playing PoE 1 and it has the exact same issue on my system. But luckily, the following fix still works. I haven't had a single Windows crash since implementing the CPU affinity fix, only the applications crash, but that is a minor inconvenience considering where the crashes happen game-wise (loading a new area). " fabsh#4323 wrote: I run Windows 11 Pro, Update 24H2, on a Ryzen 5 5600X with a 3080 Ti and 32 GB RAM. When loading areas, the game would occasionally freeze, hardlocking my system and requiring a reboot. I have over 80 hours played, so I clearly can play the game, but this was very annoying. A workaround that made this less annoying for me was switching to Vulkan as my renderer (in hindsight, I'm not sure this helped at all) and then, after starting the game, changing its processor affinity by removing two CPUs from the game process. You do that by calling up the Task Manager (Ctrl+ALt+Del), going to "Details", searching for the Path of Exile process and right clicking on it. Makes no difference in performance from what I can tell and now only the game crashes. After a few seconds, Windows terminates the process, I get a desktop and can launch it again. Not a fix, but beats having to reboot a hard lock every time. Last edited by fabsh#4323 on Feb 1, 2025, 10:51:38 AM	Posted by fabsh#4323 on Feb 1, 2025, 10:47:37 AM Quote this Post
" Fearserien#2943 wrote: Latest steam update fucked the game up for me unplayable due to crashes. Loading into every map type even campaign maps = crash Try deleting the ShadeCache folders in AppData/Roaming/PathOfExile2 These get corrupted, leading to the crashes. The game will regenerate the shader caches and it should work again.	Posted by fabsh#4323 on Feb 1, 2025, 10:50:49 AM Quote this Post
This issue is getting worse for some reason, they will probably keep ignoring this, can't believe on the interview a days ago they didn't bring up this issue more.	Posted by Kobold#1555 on Feb 1, 2025, 11:32:52 AM Quote this Post
Still not fixed? Stay humble eh?	Posted by xballerx#1392 on Feb 1, 2025, 2:34:11 PM Quote this Post
Confirming Latest Nvidia drivers(572.16)and the new Win11 update (KB5050094) have not helped. Still frequent complete PC lockup requiring reset. 24H2, 9800X3D, RTX3080	Posted by SwitchZA#0936 on Feb 1, 2025, 2:50:43 PM Quote this Post
Still no message from the devs? But how is it possible not to respond and not take the players seriously when you see the number of posts he has on the problem... I see that some devs take the time to answer some really USELESS post, shit focused on the main things even if you don't know exactly how to fix ANSWER US.........	Posted by Celtayu#2790 on Feb 1, 2025, 3:44:09 PM Quote this Post
The issue has gotten WORSE with latest update and nvidia drivers. How long till we are able to actually play the game without 3rd party tools?! What i don't need is weapons, my fists will do the talking.	Posted by AssassinOfTheMist#5945 on Feb 1, 2025, 4:15:34 PM Quote this Post
" AssassinOfTheMist#5945 wrote: The issue has gotten WORSE with latest update and nvidia drivers. How long till we are able to actually play the game without 3rd party tools?! I recently rolled my driver back to last August's version 560.94 I noticed that the Shader graph in options no longer bounces around like crazy and the game became far more stable during play and loading screens. Note you get a driver out of date warning when starting game but ignore that. It does eventually crash freeze at times but I now solved this by always turning off Multithreading in options before I portal and then back on again after arriving... you get used to it lol. At least I can now play for hours at a time! Last edited by Minaba#2022 on Feb 1, 2025, 7:49:16 PM	Posted by Minaba#2022 on Feb 1, 2025, 7:47:46 PM Quote this Post