Constant freeze/crash

Hi,
It started maybe yesterday or the day before. My game start to freeze randomly, on a map, on a loading screen...and it freeze my entire pc, i can't even ctrl-alt-supr, the only way is to force shutdown the pc.
With time passing the crash start to appear faster and when i load the game animations and textures are missing.
Now i can't even launch the game, it freeze while it start or when i try to open options on the title screen.

I have reinstalled the game, reinstalled windows, checked windows updates, cg drivers, tried others games without problems, only poe2 make me crash...

Can you help me please?

Kyrrah

Edit : i got acess to poe options via nvidia app so i have reset some options and now it seems to work again !
Last edited by Kyrrah#4723 on Feb 2, 2026, 4:14:10 AM
Last bumped on Feb 5, 2026, 2:30:53 AM
Hey you can try to delete your Shader Folder locatec in

c:/Users/Appdata/"Your Windows Login Name"/Roaming/PathofExile2/ShaderDX12

After that you have to be a bit patient for the game to redownload the shaders in game a new but once that is done you should be fine again.

I did it several times when i was not sure if the stutters and freeze i got where server sided or originated from my pc.

Hope that works for you. Don´t be a stranger and leave a reply if that did the trick.

Hi,

Thanks for the tip, i already tried to delete the shader cahe earlier but nothing change.
Right now the crashes are gone after the windows reinstal and poe options reset, i hope il will lasts.
This is happening to me too, and only started in the last few days.
Oh same as me, thanks, i hope i will be resolved soon.

The crashes still occurs to me but less frequently than before.
The problem is back, i can't play =/
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Kyrrah#4723 wrote:
The problem is back, i can't play =/


Seriously don't listen to these mooks....

The ONLY real fix that 100% works is going into your video cards app/setting and disabling it for poe2.

100% fix for anyone having these problems.
Hi,

I already did that and reset the game options ingame but still crashes...
Last edited by Kyrrah#4723 on Feb 5, 2026, 2:27:19 AM
So I did a full reformatting, erasing all my storage and reinstalled windows from an usb driver.

Right now it works, again i hope il will lasts...

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