Zone loading crashes galore

Very frustrating situation and it seems I'm not alone. Up until 3 days ago I was gaming with POE just fine. Loading zones and instances without issue. Then, 3 days ago the "gears stop spinning on loading" issue began and now its just "POE is not responding" 75% of the time. If I keep trying I can eventually get in, but I crash much more than I get in.

It mostly happens when first loading into game from the character screen but happens frequently after that as well with maps, Kingsmarch, Hideout, etc. I've tried a bunch of things mentioned in other threads but nothing works.

Today, I tried a full factory reset of my computer, downloaded POE, and on the very first load into game it crashed. I'm convinced this is something on GGG's end and would love to hear if they are investigating/working on a fix.

I'm on a Victus gaming laptop, 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-13420H 2.10 GHz, 32.0 GB RAM, GForce RTX 3050 6 GB.

Settings are default for POE since I just reinstalled it and havent changed anything.

Im in the same boat. Half the time I d/c while trying to load into the game, and once I finally do get in, I lose about half my map portals to d/c. Started about 3 days ago as well... definitely something on GGG end.

I'm in the same boat. The game is nearly unplayable with crash almost every zone load. Issue started suddenly over the weekend.

Same situation. Unplayable game.

Me too, the game can freeze on any loading screen. Loading into the game from the character screen, loading from zone to zone, loading from hideout to settlers, loading when moving from zones in ascendancy instance etc. I don't know what the fix it, I have tried updating drivers, all updated. Restarting / shutting down PC. Closing down programs in task manager. Clearing cache - %AppData% -Roaming-Path of Exile.

Not sure what else to do? Have only had this issue recently. Once the crash happens, it's very difficult to log back in as after selecting a character, the loading screen crashes.

Same for me, have doen all the stuff advised, but still crashing - literally on demand crashing.

I run an Aura char, and it was fine until this week, now the whole game is pointless.

Nothing wrong with my PC - AMD 12 cores, 3060Ti 8Bb, Windows 11, DX11/12/Vulcan (all the same). Nothing changed my end, but the game is unplayable now.

Sad to see this.

Same problem happening with me the past couple days. Really infuriating trying to run lab and can't get anything done. Hopefully they fix this soon because it's ridiculous

I thought it was working better today as I could still log in after the crash when logging into Kingsmarch so I tried lab. 2/3 of the way through lab it crashed. Thankyou POE on the improvement though, at least I can try some maps to grind.

Was working fine after crashing multiple times yesterday, however my characters are now stuck in Loading Loops where it attempts to load Karui Shores and then crashes, all my characters are stuck trying to load to Karui and then it crashes. I was able to make a new character and load fine after a few crashes. The worse part is that there is no error codes, it just force closes to window.

I too am completely crashing when loading a map, making a trade, going to kings march. all loading screens 50% change to close program

13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700KF 3.40 GHz
32gb ram Windows 11 home.

Reinstalled game does not fix it. dism & sfc /scannow doees nothing. turned off firewall does not work. I suspect graphics drivers, but mine are up to date.