An actual fix for the constant crashing / freezing

Quick backstory I guess. I've tried every graphics setting this game offers and have had no luck in solving the crashes. DX12 freezes just about every 30 mins. Vulkan pins my CPU and causes ridiculous frame dips. DX11 is worse than both and has caused a full BSOD crash.

I got tired of dealing with it and came across this reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1pqzg0p/fix_random_freezes_and_shader_reloading_error/

The TLDR is:

(regedit)
- Disable MPO
- Increase TdrDelay

From what I've read this is more of an issue for NVidia 30xx and 40xx users, and Intel 13xxx users, which I am both. If you make either of these changes, restart your PC before starting the game.

You can get a regedit file to disable MPO here: https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5157

^ There's also a file to undo the change if it doesn't work and you want to back out.

You most likely only need to disable MPO, to increase TdrDelay (copied from the reddit post):

- Press Win + R, type regedit.
- Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers
- Right-click in the right pane -> New -> DWORD (32-bit) Value.
- Name it TdrDelay.
- Double-click it, set "Base" to Decimal, and Value to 10.
- Restart your PC.

Yes, this is a ridiculous thing to have to do just to prevent a game from crashing but it worked for me.

Edit: Forgot to add, this has resolved all of my issues with lag and crashing. The game runs totally smooth now and I haven't had any crashes / random loading screens.

THANK YOU, FINALLY

We have damage on Tuesday, loots on Wednesday and now FPS on Thursday mech. Truely peak ARPG

If you don't want download and run the .reg file, it's just a single registry change as well:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Dwm]
"OverlayTestMode"=dword:00000005

Just navigate there and create a new DWORD (32-bit) value named OverlayTestMode, and set it to hexadecimal base with a value of 5.

Crashing has certainly increased since the beginning of 0.4, whatever they've patched so far this league has made it worse to 0.3 levels.

Made the changes so will keep my fingers crossed it helps.

Thanks for posting.

still crashing with (logo GGG after 5 sec comeback to game) Dx12 Win23H2 32gb ram Rtx4060 Ryzen 7 5700X3D nvdia driver latest version

with vulkan everything fine, but FPS so baddddd

I may have spoke too soon, I still hit some random freezes but it's a lot less often (edit) and with a more stable framerate generally. I don't know what they've done with the graphics this league but it's a huge pain.

My hardware:
- 13900K
- 4090
- 32GB DDR5 6000Mhz

posting here to come back to it in the future

so far the change OP suggested is working great

Hellooo fellow crashers and freezers. If you are running windows 11 24h2 or anything older than that please update windows to the lastest version after you have done that please update your bios to the lastest version bcuz the next windows update will involve dual monitor setups that use the onboard graphics for the second monitor or vis versa dedicated to the second monitor. Reasoning is that there is a pointer setting that gives focus to the monitor even if the mouse is moved to the second monitor to allow u to scroll the page without having to click onto the page and to begin scrolling. The pointer focus is the problem. As for the bios update there is a new injection into the uefi and the use of window's backup of system directories thats causing the crashing for quick responses of the states of ur cpu and gpu accessing simultaneously the storage of solid state drives for file paging access which is slower than previous generations of motherboards that are no longer being mass produced that used ddr3 single lane memory. U will know that ur suffering the symptoms of this change by drawing ur mouse around a black screen by removing ur background and swipiing between monitors u will see lasting trails of ur cursor after a few seconds of not clicking on either monitor. Even if ur not using a second monitor the game or video does not remove mouse pointer focus as it should when watching a video or game. Inturn the response between ur cpu gpu to the paging system of ur solid state drive which is probably a v5 and gpu gddr6 or 7 is quicker than previous generations by which i mean more than 10yrs older that are no longer being supported. So legacy bios or uefi that supported legacy variants of the older pcie 2,3,and 4 i.e. dirx 10, 11, 11.5. DirX 12 and vulkan have more support for gpu's that has more compiling speed than needed in older ones i.e. less paging during sequenced actions. This code that is in the bios is causing more sleep states when the cpu and paging system is being used less therefore game freeze or crawl bcuz ur gpu is busy but ur cpu is tryin to go to sleep use less cores. Ya thx green energy that I didn't ask for while playin my dam game, anyhow windows will still try to do this even if u have all of ur power settings to performance on all game related devices being used.

Anyhow, gl, hf and see u ingame I hope:]