PoE killing Windows & PC with cpu core 4 usage

Hi, when will this be fixed?

Since I tried to walk into the Ogham Village, every loading screen has frozen my whole PC, and all I can do is force shutdown, which is pretty sad, with a quite nice PC setup. At first, I tried to change DX12 to Vulkan, which was suggested in one of your topics on the forum, but the change itself froze my PC the same way.

Ryzen 5 7600X
MSI B650 GAMING PLUS WIFI
RTX 4080 Super

I have discovered by googling that it is the CPU core 4 usage.
When I turn it off in the task manager for the PathOfExileSteam.exe process, then my PC will stay alive, but PoE is limited to 20-40 FPS during gameplay and 50 FPS when standing somewhere peaceful.

People recommend using an exterior app to limit target process CPU usage. I got this app myself and it made me able to play the game at 110-120 FPS, so at comfy FPS. The game went beyond that one day and it froze my PC when loading the main menu even before logging into the server. That gave me kind of 2 seconds and I didn't limit the target process CPU usage in 2 seconds.

I have verified drivers, I have reinstalled clean drivers, and I have tried to lower to potato video settings, but none of this works.

I saw that this issue may come from the 24H2 Win update, but I am not able to roll it back to 23H2. Anyways no other game fucks up my PC like this.

I am just freaking afraid of having to reinstall Windows (again) or burn something on the process due to this shitty optimization.

My friend with a bit worse specs or my other friend with the same specs but i7 instead of Ryzen 5 don't ever experience such freeze.

So, when will this be fixed? I mean I paid to play, why can't I play? :(
Last bumped on Dec 19, 2024, 6:18:09 AM

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