Loading screens sometime completely freeze my PC.

Same thing happening to me. I hadn't had any problems but then today trying to load into Overseers tower, it refuses to load and then get the white screen of stopped responding. I was able to log into another character once but now all of my characters crash the game

I dont have the whole system crash, but ever since the last hotfix, its a 20% chance to make it past the first loading screen. And then from there opening UI's like the atlas tree sometimes crashes the game.

Try:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_L0VdQFQbc

Bumping because I cannot play the game at all. Steadily getting worse day-after-day. Before it was only loading screens crashing my whole cpu, now I can be playing and it freezes!

I have the same issue. I hope it gets fixed soon.

installed win 11 and same start happening for me, its like 50/50 some times its freeze on load screen after character choose, some times its not.

Same situation, like the person above, I installed windows 11 just 2 days ago and that's when it started happening. For now I've experienced it only 2 times and both times I invited someone to my party, then portaled to my hideout, maybe that has something to do with this issue?

If you're running Win11 24H2, then it's possible it's related to video drivers.

I'm not sure about AMD issues but there are a lot of issues with 24H2 and the newer NVIDIA ones on the Reddit thread. A possible roll back, disabling overlays (nvidia included), and disabling HDR are some of the recommended adjustments.

I'm not sure if any of this will help, but apparently there's a lot of issues with 24H2 and drivers.

Hello, i had the same issue, it turned out to be Windows 11 build 24H2, downgrading to 23H2 fixed the issue. Apparently 24H2 is not PoE-Ready yet.

Same issue. I've put around 200 hours in this league and have only noticed the issue of not being able to make it past the character select screen in the past week or so. Tried uninstalling, changing the shader cache allocation, disabled engine multithreading and that worked for a day or so but I'm back to being unable to play my Settlers characters.