POE 2 Complete PC Freeze while loading screen

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kinglucifer#0490 wrote:

I can't believe they haven't fixed it yet.

To be fair, this is a low-level engine/library/driver issue that few (maybe even zero) of GGG's developers are likely equipped to debug without in-depth help from Microsoft and/or NVidia.

One might wonder why GGG released PoE 2.0 into early access when even the lightest amount of alpha testing would have discovered these crashes. But now we just need to be patient---GGG is focusing on the bugs they know how to fix.

Really, the only trick that prevents a freeze is to disable multithreading in the options every time before you go in a portal or to another map and then turn it on again. Also, before you load into your character in the beginning.

It's not a fix but a temporary workaround.

I'm affected as well. See fix below
7800X3D
4080 super
Win 11 24H2

Tried many "fixes" that did not work. The one that did was this one:
"Other solution is using a CPU limiter like BES CPU limited and setting POE to -5% limit." https://mion.yosei.fi/BES/

This has to be activated each time I start the game though, so a better solution would be nice.

So I only get the hard freeze crashes, I'm daily testing options.

- Change DX12 to Vulkan
- Enable Multithreading

Still it doesnt work and hard freeze my Computer in the first loading screen.

At least the idea of starting the game, going into Details of Task Manager and reduce the no. of used cores around 4 it stopped hard freezing my comp. So I can force stop the game and restart it.

Tbh my solution is playing without Multithreading and having 20 fps max., still better than not playing tho.

It seems like this issue has gotten worse since the last update. I'm consistently crashing and having to force restart when trying to enter the Trials of Sekhemas.

I'm not playing any more until this issue is resolved. Not worth risking any hardware issues to my PC over a game bug.

still crashing

9800X3D
4080
Win 11 24H2

all system drivers and bios updated to the latest ones

Just wanted to share, had success playing one session today without any freezes after trying both BES limiter (at -5%) and disabling affinity on cores 0 and 1. Prior to this I had 2 hard freezes (power cycle required) much like those described plenty in the thread I'm sure; stopped playing for a while due to it. Multithreading/other ingame options all untouched.

This bug is really a problem. Sometimes I can play for hours no problem and sometimes It freezes every single loading screen.

I have no idea how it got worse for me. Since release, I have averaged 4 to 6 crashes a session, but I was at least able to get into the game. I would crash after I tried to zone out of where I was currently at. Now, my PC crashes with the cogs after Grinding Gear Games comes out or after I choose my character. At this rate, I probably won't be able to hover over the desktop shortcut without a crash.

cpu : amd ryzen 5 5600G
gpu : RTX3060 Ti
ram : 32GB
OS : Windows 11

BES Limiter is also the only thing helping me. -5% and now I’m playing fine with dx12 and multithreading.