PoE 2 is actively damaging PCs and GGG is on Holiday without fixing it - Loading Screen PC Freeze

Nvidia driver 566.36 is incredibly unstable. If your having GPU issues I would suggest rolling the driver back. Its not poe2 thats crashing computers, its the driver that is being advertised for poe2.

I also have this Crash Problem with my 9800X3D.
It only crashes while loading a map (escpecially the city) and my whole PC freezes in a way that I can only do a hard shutdown by cutting power.
I NEVER had to do something like this in the last 6 years.

This is a major problem and GGG is responsable for damages should they occur.

After reading the comments here, I've limited the core-affinity via Task-Manager from 16 threads to 12.
And after my third loading screen the game froze again, Windows DID slow down, but didn't crash this time.

Looking at the core-load during the loadingscreens, the game indeed forces the CPU to give it as much as it can, it reached 100% core load on POE2. Literally grabbing any performance from any other app it can.
AFTER lowering the threadcount from 16 to 12, the game still grabs 86% of the CPU, but that is enough for the PC not to crash.
The game itself freezes and continues to suck 86% load from the CPU indefinetly.

I also found out that those crashes only happen when porting TO the city or when loading a map the first time. (especially the city)
When I port back to a map I already visited, the core load would not go above 70%.

FYI I use Vulkan as the API, not DX11 or 12.

Fix that shit crashes:
- Loading screen = crash
- Playing the Game = crash
- beeing 2mins afk = crash

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heckbacon#7226 wrote:

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At this point I'm too tired to explain basic electrical and computer engineering concepts once again.

So you don't have any evidence, just LARPing.

I put that evidence multiple times in each thread. If you are unable to read or lack the ability to find them then the onus is on you.

I know you are working hard to get that year's end bonus from GGG but tell them that it is not helping their case.

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

My crashes are tied exclusively to when i kill rare mobs while mapping. There is something about that special death animation that rare mobs have that crash my GPU. My screen turns black and nothing responds forcing me to hard reset my computer. Currently running an asus strix 4090 OC.

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flclkun#0630 wrote:

My crashes are tied exclusively to when i kill rare mobs while mapping. There is something about that special death animation that rare mobs have that crash my GPU. My screen turns black and nothing responds forcing me to hard reset my computer. Currently running an asus strix 4090 OC.

Haven’t seen much of this in any of the crashing threads. My crashes resulting in a pc reset are solely at loading screens, 9800X3D 4080’super

Im getting real sick of this shit hard reseting my laptop (win 11 4060rtx 16gb AMD Ryzen 7) 4-5 times a day at least what the fuck is this, if my computer gets destroyed ill mail the bill to GGG.

I'm giving them until the end of January, if the issue isn't addressed, I'm getting a refund on the basis of the product being potentially dangerous to my PC's health and the Devs' lack of response.

I think 2 months is more than a fair amount of time for the Devs to fix such a critical issue. THIS should be their TOP priority.

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I'm giving them until the end of January, if the issue isn't addressed, I'm getting a refund on the basis of the product being potentially dangerous to my PC's health and the Devs' lack of response.

I think 2 months is more than a fair amount of time for the Devs to fix such a critical issue. THIS should be their TOP priority.

I agree with you! If this isn't resolved by the end of January, I'll request a refund. My financial situation isn't great, and I can't afford to lose components of my PC because of a poorly optimized game!

This issue must be GGG top priority!

Bump because this error aligns exactly with what I've been experiencing. Makes me not want to log into the game to play at all for fear of bricking my system. Really hope GGG get on this soon.