GGG Opportunity: PC Freezing Randomly - Detailed System Specs

I give up... Please tell me what hardware I need to buy or swap out in order to play this game. I've spent ~$400 on this game and would like to play it without these constant random hardlocks. My PC hard freezes at RANDOM times throughout the game. Nothing in particular seems to cause the freeze. GGG, if you're reading this, tell me what to do/buy so I can play your game.  


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PoE 2 - Steam client

WinVer: Windows 11 Pro 24H2 (OS Build 26100.2894)

RAM: CORSAIR Vengeance RGB Pro 32GB (4 x 8GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800) Desktop Memory Model CMW32GX4M4D3600C18

GPU: EVGA FTW3 ULTRA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB GDDR6X PCI Express 4.0 ATX Video Card, LHR 12G-P5-4877-KL

CPU: Intel Core i9-11900K - Core i9 11th Gen Rocket Lake 8-Core 3.5 GHz LGA 1200 125W Intel UHD Graphics 750 Desktop Processor - BX8070811900K

Motherboard: GIGABYTE Z590 AORUS MASTER LGA 1200 Intel Z590 ATX Motherboard with Triple M.2, PCIe 4.0, USB 3.2 Gen2X2 Type-C, Intel WIFI 6E, AQUANTIA 10GbE LAN BIOS: F10

CPU Cooling:CW-9060048-WW iCUE H150i ELITE CAPELLIX Liquid CPU Cooler

PSU: HX Series™ HX1200 — 1200 Watt 80 PLUS® PLATINUM Certified Fully Modular PSU

Case: iCUE 7000X RGB Tempered Glass Full-Tower ATX PC Case — Black

SSD (Game install location): SAMSUNG 980 PRO SSD 2TB, PCIe 4.0 M.2 2280, Speeds Up-to 6,400MB/s Firmware 5B2QGXA7

SSD (Win11 OS) Samsung SSD 990 Pro 4TB PCIe Gen. 4x4 Firmware 4B2QJXD7
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DxDiag:
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System Information
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Time of this report: 1/24/2025, 07:00:27
Operating System: Windows 11 Pro for Workstations 64-bit (10.0, Build 26100) (26100.ge_release.240331-1435)

System Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model: Z590 AORUS MASTER
BIOS: F10 (type: UEFI)
Processor: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11900K @ 3.50GHz (16 CPUs), ~3.5GHz
Memory: 32768MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 32632MB RAM
Page File: 10346MB used, 24333MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 12

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Display Devices
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Card name: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Device Problem Code: No Problem

Display Memory: 28409 MB
Dedicated Memory: 12093 MB
Shared Memory: 16316 MB
Current Mode: 2560 x 1440 (32 bit) (59Hz)
HDR Support: Not Supported
Display Topology: Extend
Monitor Model: XG270QG
Monitor Id: VSCF838
Native Mode: 2560 x 1440(p) (59.951Hz)
Output Type: Displayport External
Monitor Capabilities: HDR Not Supported
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Sound Devices
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Description: Realtek Digital Output (Realtek(R) Audio)
Description: XG270QG (NVIDIA High Definition Audio)

My gripe with this is it's a known Win 11 24H2 Issue but only seems to affect PoE2 on my pc.

I'm at the point where i have to rollback my Win 11 version to enjoy the game or simply stop playing PoE2 until there is a bug fix.

I lost multiple Divines in Waystones and Fragments to this bs.

It also only ever freezes during loading screens and the game ran fine before i updated to 24H2 without reading about it first.

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Revlol#6815 wrote:

My gripe with this is it's a known Win 11 24H2 Issue but only seems to affect PoE2 on my pc.

I'm at the point where i have to rollback my Win 11 version to enjoy the game or simply stop playing PoE2 until there is a bug fix.

I lost multiple Divines in Waystones and Fragments to this bs.

It also only ever freezes during loading screens and the game ran fine before i updated to 24H2 without reading about it first.

Yeah, for some reason I can't downgrade anymore. I think MS made 24H2 mandatory or something. I was thinking about running a Win10 VM on my Linux box to see if that would fix it, but I haven't had time with work and life.

It's not win 11 24h2 related, and probably not hardware related. There's 2 threads with over 400 pages each and there's people from every spec imaginable: a couple of linuxes, intel cpus, amd cpus, nvidia cards, amd cards, win10, win11, rolled back win 11's, clean installs of win11 23 like mine, etc.

Of course 24h2 and amd is going to be more prevalent, it's what everyone buys from a few years ago to this day if they want to game on their pc's. It's the more widespread bought option, amd and win11. That doesn't mean it's the reason for the freeze (on my group, everyone freezes and we have a win10, intel and nvidia so go figure).

It's been a month and it's still freezing, it's not getting resolved any time soon.