POE2 keeps freezing my computer

win10
not a single freeze in over 45 hours

A solution that worked for me is to limit the number of CPU cores my system devotes to POE. I think the crashes are memory leaks, in general, so once POE2 is running, open your Task Manager, right click on POE2 -> Select Details -> select Affinity - deselect one of two cores of your CPU which limits the resources POE2 can use.

Crashes might still happen, but your PC should allow you to simply close the game then without hanging the whole shebang.

Hope this helps.

Hi,
Your solution has helped me.

The game freezes and now I can close it with task manager.

Ty

Same problem, Win 10 LTSC, Intel 10400F/64GB RAM/RTX 3080.
I was playing just fine until the first patch/hotfix went through and after that RIP, can't even login without freezing the entire PC.
I tried some of the stuff mentioned in this thread but it didn't help. The game is "on ice" until they fix that, if ever...

Same thing is happening on my machine, windows 11 24H2 as well.

Just to let you guys know, you might not want to hear this, but I fixed the problem on my end. I had tcrate memory on my am5 mobo, I switched to corsair memory today and the problem went away completely. It was a hardware issue for me, incompatible ram with the motherboard apparently this game wasn't fond of. Also, another work-out is capping FPS at 90 in foreground in game settings. good luck.

if yours pc freeze and you can still hear sound from game, it's not exactly frozen, just your graphic card disconnected monitor

fix: disable in bios PCI-Express Native Power management

Win 10 full update ( Fresh instal ) + 5700x3D + 7700XT

Yesterday fter fresh install Windows 10 ( 22H2 ), install game and play for 9 hours. No lag, spike or crashing.

Now, open the game and i see the gears, then the game crashes Bluescreen!!!

WTF!! Come on GGG!!

Win 11 24H2 | AMD 7800X3D | RTX 4080 SUPER
Today in Act 2 POE 2 is unplayable. When im teleports to the camp my pc getting freeze at loading screen.
I Used everything:
-Battle Encoder Shirasé -5% for POE
-in task manager for process the lower priority and turned effinicy mode.

Probably i think its a memory leak because when i have loading screen music is looped and the fans just runs at 100% of power while i have an AIO water cooler and when im playing POE i dont even hear the fans.

Is any information from GGG they are works at workaround or fix?


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Edit i've just added also affinity to for poe in task manager.

1. Battle encoder -5% for POE
2. Lower priority for POE in task manager
3. Effinicy mode for poe process in task manager
4. Affinity to 0 core for POE (it wont use first core).

Finally 2 hours without crash with many loadings! :D

im getting a lot of random crashes.

1 - when using portals, game just freeze
2 - using waypoints to another area
3 - sometimes the game just closes (mostly while streaming on discord)