POE 2 Complete PC Freeze while loading screen

Just here to also say I have the same issue. Was fine since launch but has frozen my computer every single session so far.

Didn't crash on Windows 11 update 23. Went to 24, started crashing. Restored back to 23, continued crashing.

5800X/3080

Edit: Currently completely unplayable without PoEUncrasher.
Last edited by sirit#2969 on Dec 27, 2024, 7:08:35 PM
I know this isnt a hard fix or anything, but I legit could not play the game when trying to load Keth its been a day or 2 (stopped trying and went and played marvel rivals) I turned off Nvidia Reflex this morning and it just loaded in first try since turning it off so maybe it'll help someone whos where i was
People, i think i found solution at the moment

I tried everything. Nothing works to be honest, to avoid game freezing
Of course, You can use coligation to avoid total freezes but game still can freeze

I realized that the bug rely on threads schedule nad maybe there is a problem so ... i turned OFF SMT (on AMD) in UEFI. Right now - i have raw 8 cores/8 threads (instead of 8/16) but ... game dont have any problems anymore. Works fine, without freezing from 2 days

On Intel - it is called HT as i remember.

Try to turn off and see if will helps You

btw. - "turning off" SMT on process Lasso doesnt work, You need to disable it by hardware, in UEFI
Same here. Crashes everyday. Now even on tje loading-screen into the game. Having an AMD, so it's not on Intel for me. And yes, I've updated Windows 11. But it was fine and just broke after one update. I don't want to download any program to fix this issue, if the issue isn't on my end. I really hope that GGG sees this whole thread and tries to figure out what went wrong. Game isn't playable for so many people atm. And it's not "get a new pc". Playing on a 4060ti and had no problems on any other game.
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POSSIBLE FIX

So I found this idea online somewhere and so far it has been working great. Navigate to the Steam folder where POE2 is installed. Should look like:

Drive Letter\Steam\steamapps\common\Path of Exile 2

Find the PathOfExile_x64Steam.exe file and right click. Go to Properties. Go to Compatability tab. Check box run as Admin and Check box run in compatability mode for Windows 8. Hit Apply and OK.

Haven't had one crash yet since this change. Hopefully it works for you all. Best of luck!

Computer Specs
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
GPU: RTX 4090
RAM: 32.0 GB
NV.2: Samsung 990 PRO 4TB
OS: Windows 11 Pro
OS VERSION: 24H2


Thank you very much. I used to get a freeze every few hours(when i switched from dx12 to vulkan i had no freeze for 2 days but after that it came back). Now i've been playing since i saw your post(i play 8+ h each day). I had for a few second a sound loop and the cursor slowing down when joining a very loaded hideout(it happend only 2 times in total) but other than that everything works fine.
Last edited by xAbySsx#1078 on Dec 27, 2024, 7:22:43 AM
Ive been shutting off CPU cores through affinity in task manager. This makes it possible to end task instead of having to killswitch your computer these past weeks. The crash on loading screen happens multiple times every day for me.

The past two days ive been using the uncrasher tool. I have not had a crash yet and I hope it holds the line.

https://github.com/Kapps/PoEUncrasher


System:
9800x3d
4080
Hi, for 3 days of playing with my "fix" i noticed, that freezing and crashing after teleport is gone.

I've got memory leak like this one in another game and fix was to change Virtual Memory. For people who don't know how to do it:

https://mcci.com/support/guides/how-to-change-the-windows-pagefile-size/

Just take your RAM size (in my case is 32 GB) and multiply it by 1.5 =
So 32 x 1,5 = 48. And next step is multiply it with 1024 (correct value of 1GB to MB). 48 x 1024 = 49152.

Try this "fix" and let know.

Cheers.
Last edited by Nickellson#6320 on Dec 27, 2024, 8:33:37 AM
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Gaptor#6218 wrote:
Ive been shutting off CPU cores through affinity in task manager. This makes it possible to end task instead of having to killswitch your computer these past weeks. The crash on loading screen happens multiple times every day for me.

The past two days ive been using the uncrasher tool. I have not had a crash yet and I hope it holds the line.

https://github.com/Kapps/PoEUncrasher


System:
9800x3d
4080


Same specs as you. Didn’t play for like 10 days and kinda just said let me try the Uncrasher. I played for two hours a few nights ago and the log showed it recovered from a crash by moving the app to realtime. But tbh, I have such a sour taste in my mouth from all the crashing I been dealing with that I didn’t even have motivation to play even though it was actually working
Most horrible Early Access I have ever experienced because of this. This is some pre-alpha bug you should feel bad GGG...
Task Manger - Details - Right Click - Set affinity unclick 1-2 procesors off path of exile 2 and it will not lock up ur whole pc and poe2 will crash then u will be able to reopen it again.

This is very bad bug and they should fix it, until then u have workaround.

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