PoE Keeps Crashing/Freezing PC During Load Screens

I've had this issue for a while now so I figured I would post it for visibility and to see if others had this issue and did anything to fix it.

Both PoE1 and PoE2 occasionally freeze my PC during load screens. I have a 15 month old PC with gen12 intel, 4070super, 32gb ram, and SSD.

This is not an issue in any other game I play, only PoE1 and PoE2.

I have to hard reset my PC every single time to get everything working again.

I use the steam launcher and dx12. Most of my settings are default high and fullscreen mode.
Last bumped on Jan 30, 2025, 7:04:16 PM
Same, every 1 to 5 logins on poe1 means I get a full PC freeze and have to restart
100% same thing and its driving me nuts. The only fix has seemed to be to switch the Region in the top-right before I login every time, that can sometimes let me continue playing.

The only char that seems to be immune is my end-game char, the rest of the ones in the leveling/progression phase are all screwed.

Please fix this!
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100% same thing and its driving me nuts. The only fix has seemed to be to switch the Region in the top-right before I login every time, that can sometimes let me continue playing.

The only char that seems to be immune is my end-game char, the rest of the ones in the leveling/progression phase are all screwed.

Please fix this!


I am on Xbox and same thing happens. I did the patch update and it constantly crashes
Man!.....seems it's not just me. My PC is not old and has good hardware. Guess I'll stop playing the game until I'm guaranteed it won't happen as much at the least but prefer never like every other game i have.
same thing, once it starts to crash it is almost impossible to make it work again!
Yep this started happening to me yesterday and now the game freezes 80% of the time I try to load anywhere. Tried capping FPS, limiting affinity, Vulkan. Nothing is working. Love this game! But it's become unplayable. Please fix GGG I want back in. Stopping for now sad face.
Its a Problem with windows 24H2 Net. Update.

The Problem is that POE2 with multi Threating is using 100% CPU load while loading screens, which leaves no room for the OS, which causes the OS to Freeze.

For me the only option is to remove Multi Threating, which means i drop from 100FPS to 30FPS -.-

Windwos is aware of this and has implemented a Tool this morning to monitore the Problem. Hopefully they come up with a fix fast!

hi guys I'm on Mac but we are all having the same issue as well crashing after a few mins of gameplay. anyone know of a fix or when there be a update. literally a new player and straight away there's problems :(
cheers guys
While yes I agree there are a TON of issues with 24H2, anyone with NVIDIA GPU's might benefit from the newest driver (572.16) released today Jan 30th, 2025.

There was discussion in the 566.36 thread that mentioned PoE2 and other EA type releases having crash issues between a specific driver range.

Take a look at this thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1idme1q/game_ready_studio_driver_57216_faqdiscussion/

Original post mentioning the Path of Exile 2 related issues:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1h7br0d/game_ready_driver_56636_faqdiscussion/

User comment:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1hkko9c/comment/ma3t7ok/?context=3

This may not fix the specific issue you're experiencing, but it is worth a shot to try.
Last edited by ps7ekken#7379 on Jan 30, 2025, 7:06:27 PM

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