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Hello, is it me you're looking for? I can see it in your eyes I can see it in your smile You're all I've ever wanted And my arms are open wide 'Cause you know just what to say And you know just what to do And I want to tell you so much I wanted to love you but you are LITERALLY UNPLAYABLE. Last edited by Wellgosh#3093 on Jan 28, 2025, 1:19:14 PM	Posted by Wellgosh#3093 on Jan 28, 2025, 1:18:08 PM Quote this Post
I just got the following Windows 11 24H2 updates. 2025-01 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 11 Version 24H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5050094) Successfully installed on ‎1/‎28/‎2025 2025-01 Cumulative Update Preview for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8.1 for Windows 11, version 24H2 for x64 (KB5050577) Successfully installed on ‎1/‎28/‎2025 I don't know if any of these updates will fix the current freezing issues, though. I am definitely not launching PoE 2.	Posted by Cinchona#2705 on Jan 28, 2025, 6:57:14 PM Quote this Post
" Wellgosh#3093 wrote: Hello, is it me you're looking for? I can see it in your eyes I can see it in your smile You're all I've ever wanted And my arms are open wide 'Cause you know just what to say And you know just what to do And I want to tell you so much I wanted to love you but you are LITERALLY UNPLAYABLE. Hey GGG...say something I'm giving up on you :(	Posted by xkyfire#6923 on Jan 28, 2025, 9:04:23 PM Quote this Post
Radio silence?	Posted by samkolegend#5841 on Jan 28, 2025, 9:53:08 PM Quote this Post
New player here. Brand new to PoE as a whole. Loving the game but the crashes every hour (sometimes) less is just too much for me. Decided to sign in and share that this is STILL a problem. A problem i didnt even know existed until i finally decided to google my issues.	Posted by JudasPlague#1436 on Jan 29, 2025, 1:21:01 AM Quote this Post
" JudasPlague#1436 wrote: New player here. Brand new to PoE as a whole. Loving the game but the crashes every hour (sometimes) less is just too much for me. Decided to sign in and share that this is STILL a problem. A problem i didnt even know existed until i finally decided to google my issues. Welcome brother. Yes many of us with brand new specs have this issue. I can run the game great at 150 fps on breaches with sparks flying every which way but the loading screens will freeze my new PC unless I run POE uncrasher in the background	Posted by samkolegend#5841 on Jan 29, 2025, 1:28:37 AM Quote this Post
Crickets... What you think they're gonna fix first: PC bricking bug or finally fixing that NPC playing her flute properly in Act 1?	Posted by GitGudEZ#3382 on Jan 29, 2025, 2:20:13 AM Quote this Post
I was totally unaware of this issue on my old Win10 system, had a real fright trying to get past the character select screen just now... Really don't feel like jumping through hoops and/or torturing a brand new setup.	Posted by Ervonymous#4357 on Jan 29, 2025, 3:36:30 AM Quote this Post
I run Windows 11 Pro, Update 24H2, on a Ryzen 5 5600X with a 3080 Ti and 32 GB RAM. When loading areas, the game would occasionally freeze, hardlocking my system and requiring a reboot. I have over 80 hours played, so I clearly can play the game, but this was very annoying. A workaround that made this less annoying for me was switching to Vulkan as my renderer (in hindsight, I'm not sure this helped at all) and then, after starting the game, changing its processor affinity by removing two CPUs from the game process. You do that by calling up the Task Manager (Ctrl+ALt+Del), going to "Details", searching for the Path of Exile process and right clicking on it. Makes no difference in performance from what I can tell and now only the game crashes. After a few seconds, Windows terminates the process, I get a desktop and can launch it again. Not a fix, but beats having to reboot a hard lock every time. Sure, I do want GGG to fix this issue. It's bloody annoying. But looking at it from another point of view, we basically had to tinker with every single game like this to get it to run back in the 286 & DOS days. It's a bit of a nostalgic feeling for me. Ah, the good old times! :D	Posted by fabsh#4323 on Jan 29, 2025, 3:50:33 AM Quote this Post
" Blackheart6004#3483 wrote: " CovidPatientZero#0332 wrote: " Cainrith#2807 wrote: The hard crash code GGG have implemented cannot send messages during hard crash most of the time. Because by the time the crash happens the system has been locked up(frozen). They can see the crash itself but cannot learn anything new from that code, other than the triggers. Triggers, which they should have been able to know if they were actually working on it. Dear GGG, Your Customers' PCs are not your landmine mules. Once again I'm bumping with these questions, in hopes that maybe they will get answered by GGG's official staff: 1) What went wrong? 2) What you are doing to fix it? 3) What possible causes have you eliminated as the source of the problem? 4) What triggers have you discovered that starts the resource hog loop other than "zone change"? (This one is really important because it allows players to create workarounds) 5) What is your estimated time of fix? 6) How did this sort of bug managed to avoid detection in your testing period? 7) What you will be doing to compensate players that have been affected by this issue? 8) Whether refunds would be made available for those that are no longer interested in playing the game? To other paying customers like me who have spent their money on this faulty product: As long as GGG is not interested in open communication our only other option is to increase the pressure and warn others by giving a negative review for Path of Exile 2 on Steam in a detailed and informative manner. I think telling people to add a command line to report crashes is a complete slap in the face. It not only shows they have no clue what's causing it, but now they want people who paid for the game to act as beta testers and for the hard crashes risk bricking their PC. That command line is only for GPU issues. It has NOTHING to do with the CPU crashes.	Posted by Celtayu#2790 on Jan 29, 2025, 3:51:29 AM Quote this Post