Game freezes on loading screen

My theory might be correct as I've been able to play for 1 1/2 hours without a crash with CPU 0 and 1 disabled on the Path of Exile process. I just spam loaded like 30 waypoints on my map for 5 minutes and was not able to cause a freeze.

Could still just be a fluke though as I've been able to play for a couple hours without a freeze before. I gotta go to work now but maybe someone else can try to test it a bit more for me.

Start Path of Exile and make sure Engine Multithreading is enabled -> Open Task Manager -> Click Details -> Right-click PathOfExile.exe or PathOfExileSteam.exe -> Click "Set affinity" -> Uncheck CPU 0 and 1 and click OK.

Might be enough to just disable CPU 0, or disable CPU 16 or something, I haven't tested it extensively.

I've just accepted that this game has been a crashy game since I started years back, on console or pc it still crashes regularly. I have been told to turn my sound modules off, but meh I'll just deal with the crashes lol I don't want to play a game in silence. Once I restart after a crash I generally have to restart again a few times. I just get "POE Not Responding" While the gears start grinding and then they stop grinding. This is after I select my char and load to load into game. It's unfortunate because I'm a hardcore player and have opted out of hc because of this. I remember we had the same issue on PSN years back. HC was a crapshoot.

All right I got a game crash on a loading screen now but because I blocked 2 threads on the game I was able to still control my Windows and simply close the game. So it prevents the complete OS freezes at least.

Thanks for this workaround. I tried it, immediately crashed on first load (lol) and can confirm - this way you can just kill PoE using task manager and avoid having to reboot your entire PC.

Can confirm, disabling core 0 in task manager is working!
Just don't forget to do this every time you restart the game.

The problem seems to be related to AMD Ryzen processors.

It is currently unplayable - so I personally consider my return to the community unsuccessful. I am waiting for a patch.

laptop details:
AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics 4.00 GHz + RTX 4070 GPU.

Fix this ;))

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Logith wrote:

The problem seems to be related to AMD Ryzen processors.

It is currently unplayable - so I personally consider my return to the community unsuccessful. I am waiting for a patch.

laptop details:
AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics 4.00 GHz + RTX 4070 GPU.

Fix this ;))

My Ryzen 9 5900x + 3080 are working perfectly fine on Windows 11 23H2 + nvidia driver 561.09 or if I load up 551.86.

patch isn't going to fix your pc

Mine doesn't need fixing ;))

Having the same issues since Necro Settlers launch. Entire PC crashes on loading screen in windows mode and windowed full screen

Here is my rig info



NVIDIA system information report created on: 11/13/2024 13:04:59
NVIDIA app version: 11.0.1.163
Operating system: Microsoft Windows 11 Home, Version 10.0.26100
DirectX runtime version: DirectX 12
Driver: Game Ready Driver - 566.14 - Tue Nov 12, 2024
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70GHz
RAM: 32.0 GB
Storage (3): SSD - 931.5 GB,SSD - 931.5 GB,+1 more

Graphics card
GPU processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
Direct3D feature level: 12_1
CUDA cores: 2944
Graphics clock: 1710 MHz
Resizable bar: No
Memory data rate: 14.00 Gbps
Memory interface: 256-bit
Memory bandwidth: 448 GB/s
Total available graphics memory: 24534 MB
Dedicated video memory: 8192 MB GDDR6
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 16342 MB
Video BIOS version: 90.04.23.00.1c
IRQ: Not used
Bus: PCI Express x8 Gen3
Device ID: 10DE 1E82 351019DA
Part number: G180 0001

Display (1): AOC AG241QG4
Resolution: 2560 x 1440 (recommended)
Refresh rate: 144 Hz
Desktop color depth: Highest (32-bit)
Display technology: G-SYNC Compatible
HDCP: Supported

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Kyu wrote:

Start Path of Exile and make sure Engine Multithreading is enabled -> Open Task Manager -> Click Details -> Right-click PathOfExile.exe or PathOfExileSteam.exe -> Click "Set affinity" -> Uncheck CPU 0 and 1 and click OK.

I try this, unfortunately do not work for me :(
And then the game still crash. (but i do not need the restart in this situation.

Previously I did try reinstall the game > new drivers > old drivers > reinstall windows > @GGG please give us a solution .

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Xpucmo wrote:

I try this, unfortunately do not work for me :(
And then the game still crash. (but i do not need the restart in this situation.

Previously I did try reinstall the game > new drivers > old drivers > reinstall windows > @GGG please give us a solution .

This workaround does not fix the game crashing. It fixes you having to reboot your entire machine when it does because you have at least one CPU thread that remains available to kill the game process and free up the other threads.