POE2 Win11 24H2 Crashes - Constant crashing, >100% CPU usage, and more

I also have an High CPU usage while changing maps. Sometimes the Caravan is also a Problem. In some maps, the shaders are also a problem.

System Specs:
CPU: Ryzen R5 5600x
GPU: Asrock PhantomGaming RX6750XT
RAM: Corsair Vengance RGB Pro 32GB 3200MHZ cl16
SSD: WD Blue SN570 2tb

Windows 11 24h2

After playing the game for 250+ hours i started experiencing screen freezes where the only option i have is to press the power button and do full reset. I've have now applied all the fixes i could find online up to and including deleting shader caches . allocating more shader cache space in Nvidia (100GB) when i load the game i turn of 2 CPU cores so when it does inevitably freeze at least i can turn of the program without having to reboot entire system... For the life of me io cant seem to get it figures out... Some people are blaming the new windows update others say its POE 2 coding. regardless , this needs to be fixed asap... not only makes the game unplayable but is very detrimental to my hardware.

Operating System
Windows 11 Pro 64-bit
CPU
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
R
RAM
64.0GB Dual-Channel Unknown @ 2999MHz (40-40-40-80)

ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. TUF GAMING X670E-PLUS WIFI (AM5)

4087MB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER (ASUStek Computer Inc)

512MB ATI AMD Radeon Graphics (ASUStek Computer Inc)


Storage
894GB SanDisk Ultra II 960GB (SATA (SSD)) 26 °C
931GB Samsung SSD 990 PRO 1TB (Unknown (SSD))
931GB Samsung SSD 970 EVO 1TB (Unknown (SSD))

played fine this morning before work , have also played a few hundred hours with zero issues , game gets a patch now cant even get past loading screen , what have they broken with this patch ??????

i just build my pc yesterday.
I use Ryzen 7 9800x3d and I also upgraded to Win 11 24h2.

2 times crashing within 1 day.

nvm

@GGG any update on this issue ? Win 11 24h2, freeze pc on loading screen.

This situation is devastating to my goodwill towards GGG.

I can only decide if the game will be tedious (turning off MultiThreading engine EVERY time I change zones), bad (turn it off forever) or terrible (forgetting to turn it off and freezing entire PC)

Not to mention it is not healthy for my precious hardware at all.
Heart broken :(

Just throwing my hat in the thread here. Game is also unplayable for me (AMD CPU).
This is on top of the other gamebreaking bug where the game will just randomly brick your maps with lagspikes, and there's no way to fix that either, outside of just closing the game and trying against a few hours later.
And apparently that bug dates back to PoE1 as well.

Pretty shocked these issues are still in PoE2, on top of this PC crashing multithreading issue.
You'd think these issues would be top priority before anything else for the devs. Until then, I cannot recommend this game to my friends and colleagues. You have to do better GGG, this is very disappointing.

After playing the game for many hours i started experiencing screen freezes where the only option i have is to press the power button and do full reset.

the game is currently unplayable, leaving the city in 3 out of 4 cases ends with a freezes. today's patch didn't change anything

The game update on February 3, 2025 still failed to resolve this issue. It's hard to imagine that a game running on a system version with a large user base continues to experience crashes and freezes, even two months after its launch. This is almost inconceivable by common sense and is utterly disappointing and shocking.



System Specs:
CPU: AMD 9800X3D
GPU: 4060Ti（16G）

Windows 11 24h2