Hard crashing PC locks up

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Stormscourge#2254 wrote:

Hmmmmmmm........


I saw a small "shader pre-caching update" downloading to POE2 on Steam this evening.

Could it in fact be the shader cache that's messing everything up for our PCs?

Is this a possible fix? Or unrelated?

This is unrelated, these are pushed by steam, pre-caching update is just a way of steam to share compatible shaders (think operating system version, driver, game version) that someone else built while playing with other users. That way you don't need to build these shaders yourself and saves some of the async shader compilation stutter games do have.

That helps far more in devices like Steam Deck, but it is available everywhere.

Basically so far, disabling write on the shaders folder might help or deleting them non stop. They should have a pretty good idea how to fix those.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1hddxsl/psa_path_of_exile_2_likely_killed_my_1_year_old_pc/

Could be skill issue on OP's part in troubleshooting since its a non loading crash. Us here are concerned with the loading crash but:

We literally have not played enough for consistently long sessions over the week that we didnt even have the chance to experience other bugs and crash. lol.

Ofc he was downvoted and told that his pc was already faulty and POE2 only exposed the fault.

I tried to get a Steam refund, but I was rejected.
I want my money back. I'm 100% OK with EA bugs, but this is bullshit.

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rmwrip123#1564 wrote:

Good idea to put something up on utube about this issue. Maybe clue in sites like Maxroll?

Perfect situation was if one of the big streamers had this problem. But oh well

I have a similar issue. The whole PC freezes up and the only solution is to restart it completely. I am not certain that the Windows update is the problem though considering that I am still on 23H2. I have tried limiting POE2's core usage through BES and affinity settings in the task manager, but I am still running into the same issue.

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__yerfdog__#3132 wrote:

I have a similar issue. The whole PC freezes up and the only solution is to restart it completely. I am not certain that the Windows update is the problem though considering that I am still on 23H2. I have tried limiting POE2's core usage through BES and affinity settings in the task manager, but I am still running into the same issue.

With the affinity limiting you should at least be able to avoid the lock-up, saving yourself from having to restart your PC via power button.

My workaround: switch to DirectX 11. Unfortunately it's not really working solution - constant stuttering and with high spikes in shader graph.

New patch is out. Looks like no fix for load crash.


0.1.0d Hotfix 3

Fixed two instance crashes.
Fixed a bug where Summon Raging Spirits failed to cleanup on death when they were killed on the same frame they were created.

Made a thread on this fix.

Project Lasso (Free)

Set CPU Limiter (Rule)

If PoE2 uses more than 90% CPU
for 0 seconds
Disable 2 cores
For 10 seconds

No more crashes =)