POE 2 Complete PC Freeze while loading screen

Yesterday I tried to play and my PC blue screened when I clicked my Portal. My CPU fan goes crazy when I play PoE and PoE 2. My PC smelled like it was burning and then it blue screened. My fans were clear of dust and everything is up to date.

i9-9900k
M.2 1TB SSD
2080 RTX
Asus PRIME Z390-P
Windows 24H2

The loading screens put my CPU temps over 95c.

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BaumisMagicalWorld#0673 wrote:

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taylorlevasseur1992#4592 wrote:

Yesterday I tried to play and my PC blue screened when I clicked my Portal. My CPU fan goes crazy when I play PoE and PoE 2. My PC smelled like it was burning and then it blue screened. My fans were clear of dust and everything is up to date.

Completely different issue not related to the game. Your CPU cooling is insufficient, that's why you are getting bluescreens. Thermal throttling and then shutdowns cuz your CPU is getting cooked. Not the game's fault.

Just go troll elsewhere, I see you haven't read nything on this threads,

Having the same issues, windows 11 24h2, every 3 maps or so my computer just freezes on loading into/out of maps. Trying to move the mouse around during this feels like its in sludge, very delayed and slow. Tried fresh install of the game and windows, didn't resolve the issue.

Trying out disabling multithreading, but I fear that is placebo, also difficult to play at 15 fps compared to my normal 100+.

Would love a fix for this asap.

people should give adding path of exile 2 as an exception on windows defender, i did it thinking it wouldn't do anything and i've gone 10 hours today without a single crash, and idk if its just me but it seems like smoother loading screens.

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Cainrith#2807 wrote:

This is not a Windows issue.

Yes, it's a Windows issue. There can be PoE bugs that would make the game freeze or stop responding. Oh, I'm sure there are quite a few of these, it's Early Access after all.

But the operating system freezing completely? Yes, it's a Windows problem, it's a Windows bug.

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Cainrith#2807 wrote:

This part of your sentence is a complete and utter lie:
"No no, this is just a software problem, it's not going to damage the hardware."

I don't know why you are trying to harm other people but stop this behaviour.

If you were simply misinformed then you can educate yourself by reading this I'm copy-pasting from my old reply:

That is quite a stretch, congratulations. You are basically saying that any power cut to a computer is damaging the hardware.

And it's not going to damage the software either, unless said software has also bugs (which is possible, this is Windows). File systems have journaling, and properly written software will update files in a manner that is safe if interrupted at any point by a power cut (write()/fsync()/rename()/fsync(), etc.).

I'm not going to respond to every statement, but there's no need to be condescending in your peculiar crusade to claim that GGG is damaging people's hardware (programmer for the past 20 years here, plenty of CUDA/Vulkan, some contributions to the Linux kernel and system libraries, etc.).

Currently trying POE-Uncrasher, so far it got me passed the character selection which has been plaguing me for a few hours today.

After playing with Processor Lasso settings, I did manage to have POE terminate the process after 5 seconds of freezing up, atleast allowing me to restart POE2 without a hard PC reset, but today I kept crashing after character selection and couldn't even get into the game.

edit: Hard crashed after a few zones
edit2: Apparently didnt have .NET installed, now trying poe again with POE-Uncrasher actually running and the command line window monitoring the game

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durew#3403 wrote:

Currently trying POE-Uncrasher, so far it got me passed the character selection which has been plaguing me for a few hours today.

After playing with Processor Lasso settings, I did manage to have POE terminate the process after 5 seconds of freezing up, atleast allowing me to restart POE2 without a hard PC reset, but today I kept crashing after character selection and couldn't even get into the game.

edit: Hard crashed after a few zones

EVERYONE SPAM NEGATIVE REVIEWS AND FORUM SO WE CAN GET THIS RESOLVED

I've been playing for a couple days now with no crashes after crashing to desktop every portal and mid zone. I used Intel extreme tuning utility to turn my performance cores down and my crashes stopped. Separate issue I'm sure but worked for me in case anyone is having similar problems.

4090 rtx
I9 14900ks

The armchair IT guy GGG apologists are the absolute worst. Stop it.

It is not Windows. It is not peoples hardware. It is not fking unstable intel cpus or windows defender like that one guy yesterday.

It is path of exile. It only happens with path of exile 2, and reportedly poe1 can't confirm tho.

GGG needs to fix it.

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Reid91#2041 wrote:

The armchair IT guy GGG apologists are the absolute worst. Stop it.

It is not Windows. It is not peoples hardware. It is not fking unstable intel cpus or windows defender like that one guy yesterday.

It is path of exile. It only happens with path of exile 2, and reportedly poe1 can't confirm tho.

GGG needs to fix it.

Yup. We're almost 250 pages into this issue on this forum alone. At this point every combination of hardware / software has been failing and every solution has been patchy at best.

The only common factor is they're people who paid $30 to play POE2.

Refund it now linking to this thread, or wait a couple weeks and do chargeback under 30 days if it's not fixed by then.