whole pc freeze after/during loading screen - probable temporaly solution

---try disabling multythread (most bottom setting)-—

issue appeared for me only after 3.25.1b patch.

whole pc were freeze after/during loading screen, usually after character selection.
not any inputs works, just mouse moving very slovely and laggy, and only way out is reset/shut down pc.

it seems that issue appers few times before for some ppl since jan 2024, and no respond/fix from ggg so far.

after disabling multythread i did ~50 game loadings, and load every campaing wavepoint - so far without problems.

ofc i lost 30-50% of performance and cant normally play the game, but at least i can login and stay afk in ho or trade while waiting for a fix from ggg.

P.S. weren't able to post it on technical support thread, so posted it here.

Thank you. I'm having the exact same problem, and this "fixed it." Well, it allows me to play, at least. Hopefully, we'll get a real fix soon.

Having the exact same issue, but I can't manage to pinpoint the cause.
Started to happen 2-3 days ago, I did an update of windows, steelseries sonar, nvidia, most drivers.

I'm not having any heat issue and I believe it's only a PoE issue on my side but haven't tested a lot of games yet

Do you guys have any update on this ?

Guys check the technical support forum.
From what I gather the only solutions are these:
1. Disable one of your CPU cores to be able to shutdown POE when the crash happens.
2. Roll back Windows 11 to 23H2 or earlier
3. Play on Vulkan/DX11

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vauno1 wrote:

Guys check the technical support forum.
From what I gather the only solutions are these:
1. Disable one of your CPU cores to be able to shutdown POE when the crash happens.
2. Roll back Windows 11 to 23H2 or earlier
3. Play on Vulkan/DX11

1. i cant do anything, exept shut down pc
2. i played like a month on 24h2 before game patch come in, only after that problem appears
3. tryed every render with whole shaders clear

u can disable some cores tho, via task manager while in login screen, but u have to do it every time u open the game coz task manager not saving this setting... and i dont tested this method.

1- Hopefully only the game crash, not the whole PC on my side.
2- I'm on 23H2 and the game crash 10 time before I could enter in the game
3- I've tried all 3; DX11-12 or Vulkan and none was better then the other.

Didn't had any issue early this week and now it's mostly unplayable and IF I'm able to enter a map, I can't finish it without crashing 1 or 2 time but before getting in the map as I wrote above, I should try to login in and enter my game like 10 time...

Thank you! I thought I was only one with this and I was ready to blame newest Windows update.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1guvizl/pc_freezing_in_loading_screens_with_workaround/

Some ideas over here. Someone told to park two cores to at least be able to alt+f4 when you crash.

Damn I hope this gets fixed soon.

I have the same problem since necro settlers.
CPU usage is around 40%, which is fine, but when switching between maps, the whole PC suddenly freezes and I cannot operate at all. (especially kings march)
I almost lost my mind when it froze on the pirate portal with a full stack and the best sailors at stake.

I looked again at technical support and was informed that turning off the game mode setting in win11 solved the problem. If it is simply a CPU spec issue, using an app that limits CPU usage will solve the problem.

I am going to try this when I get home. If anyone has improved the problem, I'd be happy to hear a report ^^.