Game freezes on loading screen

OK so after a clean install with Win 11 23H2 and using the generally accepted Nvidia 561.09 drivers, can confirm all freezing issues and hard locks/force restarts are gone. Not just PoE but other games also.

24H2 has a lot of issues not just with PoE (just have a search on the win11 subreddit), and Id be suggesting anyone that is having any issues to revert to 23H2 (the ISO can be found with a bit of digging from multiple trusted sources)