Game freezes on loading screen

My game freezes right after start (sometimes on loading cogs, sometimes get to the menu and nothing is clickable). Game suddenly jumps from 4-5GB of ram usage to 17GB and poe stops responding. It is so bad that I cannot even kill it from Task manager and if i don't restart pc and let it hang, it freezes my entire computer. I had standalone poe, uninstalled it and installed from Steam, no change.

Did anybody experienced this? How can I fix this?

My configuration:
AMD Ryzen 7 5800x
32GB DDR4
ROG STRIX RTX3070

I ran through bunch of ideas how to fix it. Cleared AppData, drivers, reinstall. In the end I cleaned Documents/My Games/Path of Exile folder and game started working normally.

Normal settlers league was working fine when i quit a few months ago. Trying out necro settlers and game freezing during loading screen. Sometimes even before. Tried reinstalling and didnt work.

Able to log into normal settlers.

I have the same issue. My game keeps freezing in Act 4 loading screens, and I need to hard reset my PC to fix it. I had zero issues before in settlers. I also logged into a settlers character to test it there, and everything worked perfectly fine. It's only in the necro settlers event.

Edit:

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor
32GB Ram
Nvidia RTX 3070

Happens to me as well. Twice now, on switching zone game just freezes and whole computer locks up.

AMD Ryzen 5 5600x
32GB ram
RTX3070
windows 11 24H2

edit: 3 times now

Same here, trying to get into The control blocks in Act5. Loading screen freezes and game shuts down.

Intel I5-9600K
16gb ram
RTX3070

Stuck w same prob at the beggining. Played last time long ago but I had files in system folders. Cleaned them - didnt help.



P.S.
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DirectX12 seems to have resolved this issue !
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I've had my PC hard lock 3 times now on loading screens. Unable to move mouse, keyboard lights not responding. Had to hold the power button each time.

I've noticed that when on a loading screen my CPU temp is jumping from 58/60c up to as high as 72. Only for the duration of the loading screen, temp quickly falls back to where it was.


Brand new PC and new install.
Ryzen 7 7800x3d
32gb ram
nvidia 3070

I'd recommend if your GPU driver for nvidia is newer than 561.09, then run DDU in safe mode to uninstall the newer driver, reboot into Windows with internet disconnected and install the 561.09 driver... then reboot the PC.

I rolled my driver back a few months. Nothing else worked.