I have to quit POE2 until PC crashes are fixed. Where's the communication?

Almost A4 post.
And i don't see Your Hardware setup, your drivers if it OC or not, or even if you try other api and go with different settings, capped fps etc.
Not mention if there is something in your windows logs like 00005C aka Appcrash Error, or if your Bluscreen says anything.

I bet you probably have some new gen of Intel 222435435 broken edition, and you deserve IT!

I have Ryzen 5 3600 with RX 6700XT and 16gb of 3600 Vram on W10 22H2 capped 60 fps and use FSR so it wont tax my gpu heavy and to reduce lags, all stable all day long.

Hundreds of people are having this issue across a wide range of hardware setups, including brand new builds. This isn't the bug report forum and I've already provided my DxDiag to GGG alerting them to my issues. I'm glad you aren't having any problems, but your insensitivity to those who are doesn't feel very helpful to anyone.

I had ~10 crashes in a week. Some were just CTD, others threw a dx12 error before crashing. I switched from DirectX to Vulkan and I've seemingly been relieved of all crashing.

Win11 (not 24h2), 3080, intel

Hi all,

I've had 30 plus crashes since launch.

Quite a few hard crashes as discussed here but mostly DX12 errors.

I've been troubleshooting this fairly hard (system stability tests etc) and have found a solution that has fixed 99% of this for me.

No crashes for 2 days now :)

To get here I download and clean installed the Vulkan 1.4 beta developer driver (553.51).

Then in game options switched the graphics driver from DX12 to Vulkan.

Please try this workaround and test for yourself.

Every time I launch the game it now warns me that the driver is not the latest but just ignore this and continue ;)

Hope this helps!

Link to download page here:

https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver

I'll communicate with you right now, as another human with tech issues, and not GGG.

This is an early access Beta, that term gets thrown around a lot with games these days to the point it's lost its meaning. This is a deeply flawed version of the game made to playtest for the final release version. It's going to be a bug riddled mess, it's going to have server crashes and be unoptimized garbage.

It's because GGG is actually competent that it's playable and feels like an actual full release, because they didn't half ass it.

Your issues crashing you to BIOS is a windows issue. What facet of windows is failing and what about PoE2 is causing it to happen is still a windows issue. There are at least a hundred thousand people, myself included using windows 10 stable. If I had to guess at your problem, I'd start with checking your event viewer for issues marked 'Warning' and 'Error' around the time of the crash and right before it. If you see 'NVLDDMKM.SYS' then it's a Nvidia driver crash and you'll have to troubleshoot and try different drivers til it's stable.

There are so many things that can go wrong with individual differing hardware. But the first thing is to to check your GPU, CPU, and HDD/SSD temps with a tool like HWmonitor or CPU/GPUZ. If you're running anywhere close to 90 degrees then you're likely overheating and need to make sure your fans are clean and working, that there's good airflow in your case, the heatsinks are seated correctly, or put on new thermal paste. If that's beyond your ability then lower your graphical settings and try to lower your temps.

If a specific windows version is causing a bluescreen, then you can easily recover your windows key and download an official Windows ISO free and legally from microsoft and update to a different version and reinstall with a USB stick.

9/10 its going to be a driver or hardware issue. If you're playing on a laptop or anything with an integrated and dedicated GPU, you need to go into your 3D settings and turn on single display performance mode for the PoE2.exe files, and switch your power settings both there, and in windows to 'prefer maximum performance'

Good luck.

I updated my Bios and everything else on the Weekend and had also complete freezes. I activated the new x3d boost in Bios and it seems that was causing the freezes but i had still crashes over the weekend. On Monday i swapped to Vulcan and i never had any crash during gameplay, only when i tab out game just closes to for some reason.

My Pc is also pretty new with a 7950 x3d and 4080 super. Maybe it helps someone, this x3d boost was 100% my issue for the complete freezes.

They are 100% working on all kinds of issues, but its really hard to induce the same problem on their testrigs to find a solution when there is like 1% of the playerbase (That would be around 8000 players) that has the same issue as you.
In the end, it may be about bad luck, bad CPU/GPU chip for this game, bad ram, bad sound board, one setting wrong somewhere in your computer that does something and makes your computer freeze.

All you can do is report your dxdiag to bug report forum since its an EA release and try different solutions on your computer.

Good luck!

Over the past 2 days I can't play for more than 2-10 minutes at a time before it hard crashes. It was just happening when I went to a loading screen between areas. Then it started happening when I opened any of the menus. Now it just happens as soon as I start to walk around in a map without doing anything out of the ordinary. I have no issues with any other games. I switched to Vulcan and tried turning my graphics down where it looked like a PS3 game. Nothing helps. I really want to play, and it is super frustrating. I don't know if it progresses as you get further into the game. I am in Act 3 and it became completely unplayable after the

As soon as I launch PoE2 my AIO fans go crazy cooling the processor. My computer doesn't crash though. I bet some of these hard crashes are overheating processors.

This Temp fix will cause just the game to crash (rather than freezing the whole pc). Here's what I found for you or anyone else having this issue:

1). While POE is running, open Task Manager
2). Right click anywhere and select "Go to details"
3). From the detailed list of processes find PathOfExile.exe
4). Right click and select "Set affinity"
5). Uncheck cores 1 and 2 (leaving a core uncheck means PoE wont try to use it, the program will crash but it wont freeze your PC)

Only issue is you'll have to repeat this step every time you boot up the game.
I believe there's a free program you can download that will automate this, but I opted to just do it manually.