PC HARD FREEZE ISSUE NEEDS TO BE FIXED ALREADY

A big percentage of the community has been experiencing hard freezes since the launch of this game. I myself am playing since day 2 and now I had enough. I mean, I understand that the game is its early access, but this prevents people actually logging in and playing the game to find bugs.

This is not a bug, this is not a balance issue, not a skill being too OP or too weak. This is preventing people from logging in the game! This HAS to be THE PRIORITY!

I have probably tried all the fixes I could find. The sheer amount of threads opened because of this issue everywhere - here, steam comments, reddit and so on. Tried them all. Just FYI:

Updated drivers,
Reinstalled game,
Reinstalled NVIDIA fully,
Cleared cache folders (game and steam),
Updated BIOS,
Limited CPU usage,
Game setting on Vulkan without multithreading (actually better, but fps wise, game is barely playable),
Used separate apps to help control CPU usage,
Put exception to Windows Defender for cache folder and the game itself,
Ran the game with various launch options......

All of this to just get the game to run??? And guess what, none of these actually fixed the issue!


This might seem like a hurt person speech, but it's just too much already. This has been going on since day one. I understand that devs have a lot of things to do, but I have yet seen at least 1 official response from the devs about the issue. Until this is fixed, no PoE2 for me and probably a lot of other people.