POE 2 Complete PC Freeze while loading screen

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dangflabit#4486 wrote:

Greetings fellow crashers,

There may be hope- for most or for some. In the past couple of days, I have gamed and grinded where, in some instances, I thought my pc would crash. I have been proven wrong in the these past three days after hours of gameplay. Through hundreds of research, the one and only option that have worked for me without rolling back to 23H2... is... dun dun dun... setting pathofexile.exe as a high priority in task manager before logging in... Give it a try. Hope it works.

The opposite happened to me. POE Uncrasher was helping with the zoning, but was still getting CTDs. I then fixed my swap file (1.5x ram min, 3x ram max) and that took care of the CTDs, but POE Crasher was still showing "not responding" on loading screens frequently.

Then MS forced 24H2 on me, and I don't get the "not responding" anymore. Game is working flawlessly now. Of note is that the 24H2 is the January 14th version, and there's an insider build that is supposed to have a lot more fixes. NOTE: Do NOT join the insider program unless it's a spare computer. You never know what you're going to get...it's for testing only.

So, to sum it up...24H2 actually IMPROVED my POE 2 situation. Moral of the story? It's not Windows (crashes happen on Linux too). It's in the way the game code interacts with Windows. Could be DirectX, Nvidia, AMD, Intel...who knows? It's safe to say at this point that even GGG doesn't know, let alone all of us beta testers doing all of the diagnostics for them.

Unfortunately Poeuncrusher also couldn't save my game now.

From launch, stuck in loading screen into act 3 camp. Music keeps playing but unable to load into game successfully.

I really liked the game but now it has finally become unplayable to me.

Bought a new Ryzen CPU and I'm really scared to try the game again.

Lets be honest here GGG you have good game that people love. But it is unplayable for 50% of users is just concept. Your lack of communication end keep people informed for time frame to fix the issue is appalling. FIX the game!

I checked this thread recently, but what fixed for me since 1 month ago was swapping to vulgan, since then I plaed over 300 hours without any crash or issues.

POE Uncrasher didn’t do anything for me. Crashing has been happening since the release on my PC, which has a 24-core Intel and a GTX 4090. I also bought it for the Xbox Series X, and while it plays flawlessly, but the graphics are terrible on the xbox. Please save the game, GGG!

same issue:

Ryzen 5 9600X
Win11 24H2 26100.2894
Geforce RTX 3060

Workaround:
turn off multi-core support

hows investigation going ?

Just wanted to share that I've been crashing relentlessly for about 2 weeks now. Went ahead and turned off my cosmetics and toggle engine multithreading off before I go to a load screen (back on while im mapping) and haven't crashed in days.

I know the issue is bigger than that but maybe this can help some people get to actually play the game.

Edit Update: 2 days straight no crashing, ive even tried spamming load screens with engine multithreading turned off and it does NOT crash.

Tried EVERYTHING in is world to stop this game from hard crashing my pc. Finally gave up and upgraded to a new $3000k pc.


Now, this game just crashed for the 2nd time, hardlocking my PC. Im not altering this computer just to play a broken game. They made ALL this money off of this and cant even stop a issue that is/could destroy computers.


I think uninstalling it at this point is the only safe bet. Not risking it anymore. GGG REALLY needs to make this a TOP priority.