Hard crashing PC locks up

I'm pretty disheartened at this point after a month of silence from GGG, and no mention of the bug in the DarthMicrotransaction live stream with the devs and over 30k viewers. I think for me the time has come to step away from Poe2 and start playing some other games that are more deserving of my time investment.

Chill guys, Una will now play his song correctly on town!

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Sindica#0929 wrote:

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VooDooh#4115 wrote:

Has anyone had any luck when changing the affinity to not include a couple CPU cores BUT then when it freezes turning them back on and off again? My game will unfreeze and be playable when doing so.

I use poeuncrasher program and it does just that. Works 90% of the time

so it works except when it doesnt?

Windows 11 Pro
Version 23H2

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Diagnostics
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Windows Error Reporting:
+++ WER0 +++:
Fault bucket 2300531846632317575, type 4
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response:
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: PathOfExileSteam.exe
P2: 0.0.0.0
P3: 67803958
P4: KERNELBASE.dll
P5: 10.0.22621.4541
P6: 8ca6fab8
P7: e0000001
P8: 000000000005fb4c
P9:
P10:


+++ WER1 +++:
Fault bucket , type 0
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: PathOfExileSteam.exe
P2: 0.0.0.0
P3: 67803958
P4: KERNELBASE.dll
P5: 10.0.22621.4541
P6: 8ca6fab8
P7: e0000001
P8: 000000000005fb4c
P9:
P10:


+++ WER2 +++:
Fault bucket 2300531846632317575, type 4
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response:
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: PathOfExileSteam.exe
P2: 0.0.0.0
P3: 67803958
P4: KERNELBASE.dll
P5: 10.0.22621.4541
P6: 8ca6fab8
P7: e0000001
P8: 000000000005fb4c
P9:
P10:


+++ WER3 +++:
Fault bucket , type 0
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: PathOfExileSteam.exe
P2: 0.0.0.0
P3: 67803958
P4: KERNELBASE.dll
P5: 10.0.22621.4541
P6: 8ca6fab8
P7: e0000001
P8: 000000000005fb4c
P9:
P10:


+++ WER4 +++:
Fault bucket 2300531846632317575, type 4
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response:
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: PathOfExileSteam.exe
P2: 0.0.0.0
P3: 67803958
P4: KERNELBASE.dll
P5: 10.0.22621.4541
P6: 8ca6fab8
P7: e0000001
P8: 000000000005fb4c
P9:
P10:


+++ WER5 +++:
Fault bucket , type 0
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: PathOfExileSteam.exe
P2: 0.0.0.0
P3: 67803958
P4: KERNELBASE.dll
P5: 10.0.22621.4541
P6: 8ca6fab8
P7: e0000001
P8: 000000000005fb4c
P9:
P10:


+++ WER6 +++:
Fault bucket 1366126936053734863, type 4
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response:
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: PathOfExileSteam.exe
P2: 0.0.0.0
P3: 67803958
P4: KERNELBASE.dll
P5: 10.0.22621.4541
P6: 8ca6fab8
P7: c000041d
P8: 000000000005fb4c
P9:
P10:


+++ WER7 +++:
Fault bucket , type 0
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: PathOfExileSteam.exe
P2: 0.0.0.0
P3: 67803958
P4: KERNELBASE.dll
P5: 10.0.22621.4541
P6: 8ca6fab8
P7: c000041d
P8: 000000000005fb4c
P9:
P10:


+++ WER8 +++:
Fault bucket 1950367584771108519, type 4
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response:
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: PathOfExileSteam.exe
P2: 0.0.0.0
P3: 67803958
P4: KERNELBASE.dll
P5: 10.0.22621.4541
P6: 8ca6fab8
P7: e0000002
P8: 000000000005fb4c
P9:
P10:


+++ WER9 +++:
Fault bucket , type 0
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: PathOfExileSteam.exe
P2: 0.0.0.0
P3: 67803958
P4: KERNELBASE.dll
P5: 10.0.22621.4541
P6: 8ca6fab8
P7: e0000002
P8: 000000000005fb4c
P9:
P10:

I'm officially done playing this game until it's addressed .. and who knows after that ..

The latest "patch notes" video was a joke!

there are 3 main issues that a majority are experiencing, and have been for nearly a month:

Game crashing
Complete system lockup - forcing hard reset or the use of a CPU Affinity (doesn't always work)

Not to mention, the appalling integration (if you want to call it that) with KBM/Controller .. Character Screen to swap? seriously?

The system lockup/crashing is pretty big and should've been address in the patch notes. Using a blanket statement, "If I don't mention the issues, it doesn't mean we aren't working on it", just doesn't cut it. It's not a small issue, and should've been addressed.


Fixing a Toon NPC playing a song was a priority? ..


Just my thoughts anyway, they only mean something to me

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shane3547#9651 wrote:

I'm officially done playing this game until it's addressed .. and who knows after that ..

The latest "patch notes" video was a joke!

there are 3 main issues that a majority are experiencing, and have been for nearly a month:

Game crashing
Complete system lockup - forcing hard reset or the use of a CPU Affinity (doesn't always work)

Not to mention, the appalling integration (if you want to call it that) with KBM/Controller .. Character Screen to swap? seriously?

The system lockup/crashing is pretty big and should've been address in the patch notes. Using a blanket statement, "If I don't mention the issues, it doesn't mean we aren't working on it", just doesn't cut it. It's not a small issue, and should've been addressed.


Fixing a Toon NPC playing a song was a priority? ..


Just my thoughts anyway, they only mean something to me

I mean fixing an npc to play a sound file and fixing this crash are not even in the same ballpark of bugs. That being said the silence on this issue is deafening. Been playing poe for 12 or 13 years now and I dont ever remember them being this silent on anything.

As long as all the streamers with 10k computers are playing no need to fix anything for the average Joe

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Drexxon#3918 wrote:

As long as all the streamers with 10k computers are playing no need to fix anything for the average Joe

That doesn't really mean much, the latest hardware seems to be having issues and a $10k PC isn't much different than mine which is an AMD 9800X3D and a 4080. Sure they may have a 4090 but there isn't much more to really do to a PC to make it more high end. Expensive water cooling maybe?

Negative review on steam here, we need a solution to this problem.

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EiG#3709 wrote:

I found a way to play the game without my PC freezing. I tried all possible solutions, but none worked. The only way it worked was by setting affinity in the task manager on the PathOfExile process, disabling CPU 0 and CPU 1. However, I experienced FPS problems during gameplay using this method.

Then I tried a new way, and it worked—my FPS problem is gone, and the freezing too. Instead of disabling CPU 0 and CPU 1, I disabled CPU 2 and CPU 3. Now my game is running very well, and loading times are pretty quick. I tested this for 5 days and the issues are all gone. I would like to share this with you guys, maybe it can help someone else.

Thanks

Setting CPU affinity never fixed the soft crash for me (although it did seem to help). It did fix the hard lock allowing me to kill the process. Are you saying switching to core 2 and 3 made the soft lock AND the hard crash stop?