Hard crashing PC locks up

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People on the steam forum have used the following band-aid to at least avoid crashes, so hopefully GGG will see this and get to the root cause of the workaround to fix this.


Adjusting Multi-threading
Open POE2, open task manager, find path of exile 2 in the list, right click it and go details. Then in the next list right click it and select affinity. Then in the new popup window untick CPU 0 and CPU 1 (unticking 1 didn't fix the issue).

This will force POE2 to leave 2 cores for the system when it does its lockups, meaning it doesn't crash.


This doesnt work for everyone, been discussed million times. Core 0,1, core 15,16, BES 5%/10%/15%, change to vulkan, update your bios, rollback your whole fucking system. Apparently PoE 1 had the exact same problem for a very long time and they didnt give a shit, unlucky i guess
If the "set affinity" trick works to stop your entire PC from crashing but not the game, here's a tip for a smoother experience:

When the game freezes up, temporarily add back one of the cores you disabled instead of force closing it. I have 4 of my 16 permanently disabled for POE (using Process Lasso), and when I flip one back on one of the 4, the game unfreezes and finishes loading, at which point I can re-disable it. So far I've been able to unfreeze several times with this trick.
I still can’t believe there isn’t a fix yet. In 30 years of gaming I have never seen a more horrible launch. It really sucks to be part of this group of people who can’t enjoy the game, while the masses are singing sweet praise, reviews are positive and no one mentions anything about the crashing. If I even want to attempt to play I have to fiddle with different settings, download third party software, limit my cpu cores, roll back my windows… it’s just ridiculous and there really is Nothing worse than opening my discord chat to my friend discussing their builds and how much fun they’re having and I’m lucky to even load the damn game without crashing and having to reboot. Really is such a shame and I really hope we see a fix soon. The more this lingers the less likely I am to ever want to invest time into this game. It’s the only game I’ve ever purchased to have this issue. And even mf last epoch can launch without this bug and that entire studio works from home
Last edited by chrisEm119#1403 on Dec 11, 2024, 8:49:43 PM
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3621299

Patch 0.1.0d notes, on their way. Fingers crossed for a fix.
PoE2: A good, giving game
Last edited by interbeing#5112 on Dec 11, 2024, 8:52:08 PM
Same here.

5800X3D
3080
32GB ram

I had to disable the multicore function for it to work but now the game keeps crashing as I am fighting a boss in the cemetary.

Theyvr updated IMPORTANT ISSUES -the crashing terms..mark my words they will say to rollback to previus version of windows which people told multiple times that they have same issue on diff versions aswell xD..


IMPORTANT ISSUES
"Investigating cases where some players experience crashes related to Multithreading and have to restart their PCs. This seems to mostly be for players with the Windows 24H2 update"
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I still can’t believe there isn’t a fix yet. In 30 years of gaming I have never seen a more horrible launch. It really sucks to be part of this group of people who can’t enjoy the game, while the masses are singing sweet praise, reviews are positive and no one mentions anything about the crashing. If I even want to attempt to play I have to fiddle with different settings, download third party software, limit my cpu cores, roll back my windows… it’s just ridiculous and there really is Nothing worse than opening my discord chat to my friend discussing their builds and how much fun they’re having and I’m lucky to even load the damn game without crashing and having to reboot. Really is such a shame and I really hope we see a fix soon. The more this lingers the less likely I am to ever want to invest time into this game. It’s the only game I’ve ever purchased to have this issue. And even mf last epoch can launch without this bug and that entire studio works from home


they wont def fix it

check new important issues update on crashing xD

they will just say prob to rollback to previous version of windows
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Theyvr updated IMPORTANT ISSUES -the crashing terms..mark my words they will say to rollback to previus version of windows which people told multiple times that they have same issue on diff versions aswell xD..


IMPORTANT ISSUES
"Investigating cases where some players experience crashes related to Multithreading and have to restart their PCs. This seems to mostly be for players with the Windows 24H2 update"


Lol that's just great. Shaping up just like when this happened in POE1. They're going to fix it for a percentage of users and then just ignore all of the rest that still have the issue occur.
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I still can’t believe there isn’t a fix yet. In 30 years of gaming I have never seen a more horrible launch. It really sucks to be part of this group of people who can’t enjoy the game, while the masses are singing sweet praise, reviews are positive and no one mentions anything about the crashing. If I even want to attempt to play I have to fiddle with different settings, download third party software, limit my cpu cores, roll back my windows… it’s just ridiculous and there really is Nothing worse than opening my discord chat to my friend discussing their builds and how much fun they’re having and I’m lucky to even load the damn game without crashing and having to reboot. Really is such a shame and I really hope we see a fix soon. The more this lingers the less likely I am to ever want to invest time into this game. It’s the only game I’ve ever purchased to have this issue. And even mf last epoch can launch without this bug and that entire studio works from home


they wont def fix it

check new important issues update on crashing xD

they will just say prob to rollback to previous version of windows
I was crashing almost every load screen to the caravan with my new 7800x3D build. I tried turning multithreading off like I had read from various forum posts that tried to address this in POE 1 and my performance dropped significantly (drop from 120+ to <20fps) and continued to crash. I have since found a fix and haven’t had any crashes for the last 20+ hours of gameplay.

FIX: I swapped from DX12 to Vulcan and haven’t crashed since. Hope this works for others and GGG can spread this fix if it does work for others.

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