POE 2 Complete PC Freeze while loading screen

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Grayer#1680 wrote:

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Ulsarek#7159 wrote:

First of all I am not your "homie". Second, I literally am on 23H2. Windows 10 and Linux on another rig. All of them are affected. Go on, tell me how the 24H2 update for Windows 11 fucks with my Windows 10. Better yet, I'm eager to hear about how it screws with my Linux distro on top.

The only thing in front of my face are people like you and other GGG apologists trying to shove this on Windows 11 entirely. Yes, 24H2 has problems, no - this isn't one of them.

Lol you need to chill buddy.

My personal experience is that I downgraded to 23H2 and have not experienced a single freeze in over a week. I think the first thing people should try is doing a clean install of 23H2 because all that CPU fiddling is pretty sus.

Anyways, I'm gonna go back to playing the game without any freezes. See you later homie

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maclane#2974 wrote:

Hello everyone I believe i have discovered an actual real fix.
the culprit appears to be hardware-accelerated gpu scheduling.

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Middletons#1014 wrote:

It's very simple to me. This issue only occurs for me with PoE2. Is it a problem with the latest windows update? Maybe, but by the simple process of elimination the fact that all my other programs and games work without any issue makes it rather obvious that there's some kind of incompatibility between the latest windows update and the current version of PoE2.

So if people could stop saying it's unrelated to PoE2 now that'd be great. It most definitely, 100% is.

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maclane#2974 wrote:

Hello everyone I believe i have discovered an actual real fix.
the culprit appears to be hardware-accelerated gpu scheduling.
this windows feature can be disabled like so
settings->system->display->graphics->advanced graphics settings->hardware-accelerated gpu scheduling->off and then restarting your pc

if you are experiencing complete hard pc lockup during loading screens, (especially on latest windows update 24h2) then try disabling this feature as it seems to have a very bad interaction with poe 2.

I was experiencing hard pc lockup at least 50% of the time when loading into a new zone. I tried pretty much every potential solution i could come across with no success. After disabling this feature i have had no lockups and no crashes.

If disabling this feature doesn't completely prevent the issue for you then you can also try enabling v-sync and capping framerate at least below 100fps in the games settings.

to add further info a modern cpu should be designed to reach 100% utilization without crashing a system, therefore this is likely not the direct cause as many people have assumed. The issue seems to be a combination of this windows feature and the game itself.

Hardware-accelerated gpu scheduling for those wondering is a feature integrated into windows that is designed to offload certain tasks from the cpu to the gpu. This in theory reduces the load on the cpu, however the opposite effect seems to occur with poe 2. There is no need to worry about disabling this feature as it is only really designed to help pcs that are bottlenecked by a weaker cpu, and it can be re-enabled at any time.

I hope this helps everyone, and thanks for reading!