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

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arsenicblithely#7141 wrote:

You should be embarrassed and frankly banned for posting such hyperbole. Nothing you described threatens anyone's hardware, you're just throwing a temper tantrum and fearmongering because the beta early access game has some flaws.

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JirinaForever#5513 wrote:

Use Process Lasso or manually remove at least 1 core through Core Affinity in Windows. Google it.

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ErosEngineer#6213 wrote:

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arsenicblithely#7141 wrote:

You should be embarrassed and frankly banned for posting such hyperbole. Nothing you described threatens anyone's hardware, you're just throwing a temper tantrum and fearmongering because the beta early access game has some flaws.

Forcing PC shutdowns can and will eventually lead to hardware wear and damage if repeated enough. This is a fact.

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ErosEngineer#6213 wrote:

Many users are experiencing full PC crashes/freezes due to CPU utilization hitting 100% during certain loading screens which leaves no CPU power for the OS and cause the PC to Freeze.

This has been tested and confirmed by removing core 0 and 1 from the affinity of PoE2 through the task manager. (PC no longer hangs but the PoE2 client will crash)

It has also been tested by disabling multi-threading in the options before going through portals/loading screens while obviously tanking game performance. (No crashes occur)

Unwitting users who play PoE2 and suffer this crash risk the chance of bricking their hardrives, SSDs, RAM and other hardware.

In fact there are reports of this happening.

The two most replied to threads on the Early access forum are related to this issue and GGG has been silent:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3594471/page/219

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3594126/page/252

Please GGG fix this issue before unwitting kids start frying their PCs while attempting to play over the holidays.

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Cainrith#2807 wrote:

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arsenicblithely#7141 wrote:

You should be embarrassed and frankly banned for posting such hyperbole. Nothing you described threatens anyone's hardware, you're just throwing a temper tantrum and fearmongering because the beta early access game has some flaws.

Incompleteness of shutdown process interrupts system operations, which can interrupt critical tasks leading to data corruption. Even with modern file systems, an abrupt shutdown may leave temporary files or critical system configurations in an inconsistent state, requiring repairs during the next boot.

In mechanical drives, a forced shutdown could interrupt the normal parking of the read/write head, potentially causing minor wear. While rare, repeated occurrences could increase the risk of a catastrophic "head crash", a severe mechanical failure in a HDDs that occurs when the read/write head, which hovers right above the spinning platters, comes into direct physical contact with the platter surface. Since the platters are coated with a thin magnetic material used to store data, any contact with the head can cause permanent physical damage and data loss.

For SSDs, which lack moving parts, and rely on firmware to manage data, if a forced shutdown interrupts critical internal operations (like garbage collection or wear leveling), it could result in data loss or even firmware corruption.

There is also electrostatic and capacitive effects. The key here is "Charge Imbalance". Capacitors in power circuitry store charge. A sudden shutdown might not allow for controlled discharge, which could affect components over time due to uneven stress cycles.