POE 2 Complete PC Freeze while loading screen

OK so i had planned to come back to this today but am i reading correctly that this is still not fixed?

i had no problems playing poe2 before... since the patch game freeze before login screen. after 10 trys to start the game i can log in and game freeze before i enter the game

Back 2 game after 3 months and.. Crash 2 win even with PoE2Uncrasher. 30sec in game. Still sucks... Maybe they neeed whole year or even 2 for fix this problem. WP GGG.

GGG, we said it, we still checking the game and waiting a day that we can play
this post gonna revive for 1 week i think and we will go on other games

i'm waiting realese ;) u will have more than 500 little pages :D

you can't hide behind 24H2 and nvidia anymore we already test the game with all OS and different product

the fact that people still have this problem is 100% on GGG
bad optimization combined with rushed content release and the classic: forum shills with colorful badges blaming it on nvidia/microsoft (ignoring people say they have the same on linux/amd)

cya maybe in patch 1.0

Started the game up again for the first time since launch to try the new patch and supposed "fixes".

Immediately killed my PC. Brand new MOBO, brand new CPU. GG, GGG. Wish I could refund this hot garbage. Did not even make it out of character creation.

Tentatively started the game without poeuncrasher as I heard the problem was fixed for most people since I last played months ago. Played for a few hours with dx12 and although I was concerned with the cpu highs of 84c (9800x3d with an AIO, I play helldivers/cyberpunk with full path tracing and never get that high) the averages were much lower and the total lockups nowhere to be seen.
Until I entered act 2 and not only got a lockup that force restarted my computer but I was greeted with "checking media presence start pxe over ip4" which I have never seen before but apparently happens when the computer wants to boot over the network instead of from the NVME/Hard drive. Killing power and restarting again resolved it but still.

Truly amazing that months on this problem seems to have only gotten more spooky, I never failed to boot after the hard crashes at launch, though they were more frequent.
I'm not even going to go through the effort of trying all sorts of settings/renderers again as the game itself felt pretty miserable to play and this was just the final push I needed to shelve it again until this issue is finally fixed.

As I mentioned earlier I have been playing all sorts of demanding games since I last dropped poe2 with absolutely NO issues. This is entirely a POE2 problem.

Here is the error message preceding the crash (I think)

[RENDER] Shader uses incorrect vertex layout (shader: 0x00000218 mesh: 0x00000208)
Signature: "Metadata/EngineGraphs/base.fxgraph" "Metadata/EngineGraphs/GpuParticles/render_default.fxgraph" "Metadata/EngineGraphs/GpuParticles/Conversion/render_downscale.fxgraph" "Metadata/EngineGraphs/GpuParticles/Conversion/lock_mode.fxgraph" "Metadata/EngineGraphs/GpuParticles/Conversion/render_gravity.fxgraph" "Metadata/EngineGraphs/GpuParticles/Conversion/face_camera.fxgraph" "Metadata/EngineGraphs/GpuParticles/render_transform.fxgraph" "Metadata/EngineGraphs/GpuParticles/render_flip_normal.fxgraph" "Metadata/Effects/Graphs/General/BasicColour.fxgraph" "Metadata/Effects/Graphs/General/FlipbookOld.fxgraph" "Metadata/Effects/Graphs/General/DisableLighting.fxgraph" "Metadata/Effects/Graphs/General/DarkenTex.fxgraph"

My specs
Ryzen 7 9800X3D
ASUS ROG STRIX B650E-F GAMING WIFI
RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
64GB RAM
Windows 11 Home 24H2