POE 2 Complete PC Freeze while loading screen

As of today, i cant even play the game. reinstalled nvidia drivers, verified game files, tried changing all kinds of in-game graphics settings (too many to list). As soon as i portal, game will crash and lock up the pc. mouse moves a bit stuttery, but as soon as i try to bring up task manager, pc crashes. gotta hit that reset button. absolutely love this game. Sad i cant play it anymore.
4080 super. 7800x3d, 32gb 6000 ram.
fingers crossed it gets fixed eventually...

If you are crashing don't forget to leave a negative review on Steam.

This is now day 35 of the crash...

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

still happening even after the recent hotfix

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SpaceChief#3328 wrote:

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3) Uninstall the Security update for KB5048667 - removes the conflict which is causing the processors to run up to 100% and freeze your computer.

Okay, this let me get to the character select screen and load in again. We'll see how much of an actual extended play session I get, but this is actual progress for me.

Nevermind. After a few hours I switched characters and it did the same garbage on load-in.

Im done.

Well of course lol. His "definitive fix" is pure BS fishing for views on some dogwater yt channel lol. These people are the worst adding so much misinformation and just trying to profit off the issue. Like actual brainrot

Just throwing in as well. Can't risk destroying my computer. Never had this issue in the past but after POE 2 EA and updates both POE 1 and 2 have issues now. Tried two computers, same thing.

Laptop:
ASUS ROG G14
Desktop:
AMD 9800x3d
4080 Super
64GB Ram

As a former network engineer, I understand bad interactions happen. It needs to be addressed quickly though. If it were to damage such expensive components, that could make it very bad for people. People are trusting GGG to be competent, not just with game content. Yes, equipment is designed to turn off to protect itself, but for the naysayers, yes it is also very possible for equipment to fail due to continued abuse (Seen it with all sorts of equipment).

No other game is having issues. Same symptoms, stuttering followed by hard crash. I understand the priority of EA is to get content out but I wish they would address this huge issue (300 something pages deep). Also, since it is now preventing me from playing POE 1 as well, the EA isn't an excuse. I guess I'll keep playing Hades 2 for now, I have 0 problems with that game.

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Hexarism#4824 wrote:

OK, "0.1.0f Hotfix 1" fixes problems with freeze (for me) on

24h2
7800x3d
4080

bb poeuncrasher, you worked well, thanks for that

Well, don't count your chickens. It's only been one day since the fix was released.

I didn't get the problem last night either after the fix (without PoEUncrasher), but I'll see how it goes this weekend.

What fix? Is this announced anywhere? It's just a "hotfix" that doesn't specify that it's addressing this specific issue.

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steinamo#6835 wrote:

What fix? Is this announced anywhere? It's just a "hotfix" that doesn't specify that it's addressing this specific issue.

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0.1.0f Hotfix

Adjusted thread priorities to reduce CPU over-utilization. This can help prevent crashes under specific circumstances.

Sounds similar to the problem we have.

Latest hotfix doesn't fix this issue, it can still happen, workaround like disabling engine multithreading to pass the loading the screen and then re-enable works but it can happen later on when loading into a map or any zone, the issue is not new is very old and it still happens in PoE1 as well.