POE2 Win11 24H2 Crashes - Constant crashing, >100% CPU usage, and more

tried launching the game today and hard locked my whole PC on enter world loading screen.
rebooted, immediately tried again and full system lockup again before even trying to enter world.
updated BIOS to latest version from last week and tried changing from dx12 to vulkan, again full system lockup on enter world loading screen.
during lockup i notice fans go to 100% and whole system slows to a crawl (cursor etc), eventually fans go back down to idle speed and system is locked up.

i already got over 15 hours in the game during 1st week so i imagine it's probably some more recent patch that caused the issue.
my whole system is brand new (other than GPU), less than 2 weeks old. all drivers etc up to date.

w11 24h2
9800x3d
1080 ti

I'm experiencing the same problem. The game is unplayable for me right now. It either freezes on almost every loading screen, causing the entire system to freeze, or, if I change the process affinity and disable one or two cores (out of 8), it freezes even more frequently. At least in this case, I can close the process without having to hard reset my PC.
All 16 threads 100% usage.

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>100% CPU usage

Wow! By utilizing hidden secret core? Like nitro? How do I utilize my CPU over 100%?

Exact same thing for me man It is insane that this hasn't been fixed in legit hours its been this way btw since 24H over 4 weeks ago for a lot of us this update just made it way worse and affected more people idk whats going on over there.

yeah, I am raging over here where I have to close POE 2 7 times just to play again, and then an hr later load screen crash... I have a 4090 r7 7800XD with 32 gb of ram there is no way my system should be crashing while my little brother who is playing with a toaster doesn't get any crashes. Everything is updated too...

Programs crash not because they run on "toasters", but because of errors in the code. On the next page it will be forgotten. "Joe" has very short memory.

This is 99,9999% related to Win11 24H2. I haven't experienced any sort of crash before I updated to 24H2 yesterday and since then it happens constantly.

Somebody help. Literally unplayable.

Played for about 4 hours yesterday on my HTPC with no crashes. It's not as comfortable to play there, but I guess I can finally finish the campaign at least...

Desktop: Win 11 24H2 / 7800X3D / 64GB D5 6400 / 4090 (this system crashes hard on loading screens about once an hour)
HTPC: Win 11 24H2 / 5800X / 32GB D4 3200 / 4070 Super

happening to me, fresh install of win 11 today all drivers updated played for 2 hours, stopped had dinner come back and zone transfers with multi threading on locked up, disable it and can change zones but it chuggs please fix