Loading screens sometime completely freeze my PC.

I've been enjoying this league like A TON, but this issue is very very frustrating, it's basically unplayable.

I've tried absolutely everything on my side, any other game runs perfectly. Path of Exile since the league has started didn't had any issues at all up until act 3-4 kinda, after act 3-4 freezes kept appearing when in loading screens. Sometimes when in loading screens and only in loading screens pc freezes, audio keeps looping and I have to hard restart my pc by the power button.

Nothing in event viewer, no BSOD, latest drivers and bios, no overclocks, nothing sketchy done to my system or hardware.

Windows 11 24h2 Insider Preview (OS Build 26100.1297).
RTX 3050, i5-9400f, 32GB DDR4 3200MHz, 500GB SSD (Windows), 250GB SSD(PoE), 1TB HDD(Other), 550W PSU, Main Display 240hz 1080p HDR10+, Second Display 144hz 1080p, Third Display 60hz 768p. Amazing cooling. I regularly optimize my pc and clean it on software side.

My game runs at 1080p, DX12, multithreaded-rendering is turned on and most of my settings are on low. Tried clearing all the DirectX cache from both PoE and my GPU drivers didn't help.

Same here, just started and even cannot get into the league. Stuck on loading screen and my pc freeze. WTF?

Same issue here. I can play but at times it lasts for 1-2 hours at tother times it just crashes on loading screen ONLY. In game I get great performance no issues.... I am sad....

Bump. This exact same issue is constantly happening to me as well. It has never happened in any previous league. Having to hard restart my PC already caused some data corruption (not in poe), so I'd really like to have this fixed soon!

Same here, cant enter the game anymore with one of the characters.. but standard league works fine.

i have not been able to play more then 5 min without a freeze and disconnect.
then takes an hour to get back on with freeze on login. i have turned everything off and down and still no play??
Worst i have seen since 2016..

sometimes cant log into hideout or even town. loading screen and "not responding"

Crashing for me always about 1 hour into the game, when returning to town loading screen. Have to restart frozen PC everytime.

It would be normal if only the game froze, closed and returned to Windows.

But if your entire PC froze, you may have a problem with your SSD, especially if you are using a NVME (PCIE) SSD like Kingston and some other brands.

This type of SSD have greater chances of being corrupted (according to the brand) and the read rate of sectors gets so low that the program freezes while waiting for the data that never comes

You can do a read test to check your disk using HD Tune Pro. Select the disk above then click Benchmark and Start. If the graph shows some dips, your SSD is damaged and needs to be replaced

Here is an example: this disk got damaged from 110gb to 210gb
https://imgur.com/a/jxdB0Wf

The issue persists for me, even despite trying two different SSDs. One SATA, one NVME.