Hard crashing PC locks up

Praying a fix comes soon, I feel like this was my GOTY but its hard to feel excited with 10 hardcrashes a day.
im playing for several days with capped performance but pretty stable with half threads (8 core)
with this

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%comspec% /C start /normal /affinity 5555 PathOfExile.exe


so its running 0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14 threads only with this affinity code 5555 (google code for your cpu and desired affinity)

seems as safe compromise while it getting fixed
Last edited by hyperboria#6847 on Dec 10, 2024, 10:59:59 PM
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GPython#5980 wrote:
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You can just look through the various threads on the GGG forums to see that effectively everyone that lists their winver on the crash & loading threads is in 24H2 or later which tells me that is more than likely the culprit. The reality is that getting an official response from GGG about it would be appreciated b.c. my computer crashes 70% of zone/login attempts.


Why do people keep saying this? This is not solely caused by the 24H2 version of Windows. In those same threads that you cite you can find plenty of people reporting it both on earlier versions of Windows 11 as well as on Windows 10, which stops its support at version 22H2. The version of Windows, and particularly version 24H2, are not the only cause of this problem.


It's obvious to me because it happens during POE1 too, and it never happened, ever, before the 24h4 update. 99% of the people writing in this thread have 24h4. Not trying to argue but it's clear in my case that 24h4 is causing these load screen hard freezes. I'm not saying GGG can't potentially fix it either, just that it started after updating to 24h4.
Glad this issue is finally being looked at, sent my dxdiag file as requested.

Hoping for the best, because I have tried everything I can and yet the issue seemingly is getting worse with time. I can't even limit my cpu usage with a third party program or windows to fix it anymore - it still ends up freezing after jumping my cpu usage (even on cores I told the game not to use) to 100%.
Even if 24h4 is part of the issue, I'd rather GGG look into their multi-threading that is triggering the issue because something isn't right there, and just blaming Microsoft and hoping one of their patches blocks whatever strange thing their loading does is pretty much abandoning the game at this point.
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GPython#5980 wrote:
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You can just look through the various threads on the GGG forums to see that effectively everyone that lists their winver on the crash & loading threads is in 24H2 or later which tells me that is more than likely the culprit. The reality is that getting an official response from GGG about it would be appreciated b.c. my computer crashes 70% of zone/login attempts.


Why do people keep saying this? This is not solely caused by the 24H2 version of Windows. In those same threads that you cite you can find plenty of people reporting it both on earlier versions of Windows 11 as well as on Windows 10, which stops its support at version 22H2. The version of Windows, and particularly version 24H2, are not the only cause of this problem.


It's obvious to me because it happens during POE1 too, and it never happened, ever, before the 24h4 update. 99% of the people writing in this thread have 24h4. Not trying to argue but it's clear in my case that 24h4 is causing these load screen hard freezes. I'm not saying GGG can't potentially fix it either, just that it started after updating to 24h4.


It has happened in POE1 for years with threads both on here and Reddit. It's great that it never happened to you until the 24H4 update, and it might be the cause in your case, but its clearly not the sole cause of the issue. Acting like the issue has one cause or is at all new is going to do nothing to help GGG actually get to the bottom of it.
Last edited by GPython#5980 on Dec 11, 2024, 12:36:00 AM
Bit of a p*** take tbh... With how many people are having these issues, this should have been caught ages ago, the 24h2 windows update also came out like 2 months and regardless... these issues have been present and ignored in POE1.

There are so many crashes during loading screen. I just lost a key for trial in temple of chaos.
It's just annoying, frustrating and unfun, I am going to take a break until they fix the crashing issue.
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The majority of load screen hard freeze/lock is due to win 11 patch 24h4 which affects me too. Surprised it's taking Microsoft so long to fix... :( Otherwise game runs great.


Microsoft fix?? This is a GGG issue not the OS


https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/status-windows-11-24h2#3448msgdesc

The crashes are a result of updating to windows 11 24h4. They are aware of this, but why it's taking so long to fix I'm not sure. Dunno why you think it's a GGG issue as it's affecting multiple games from different studios.


It's not 24H2 issue.
A lot of people, including me are on Win10 (22H2) and are experiencing same issues.
2 more freezes this morning. All when loading.

The last windows update does nothing.

PLEASE FIX THIS.

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