Hard crashing PC locks up

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Kapps#5390 wrote:

For those who are having the issue where your PC hard freezes during loading screens, either this tool or the manual workaround (setting the process affinity of PoE) might help: https://github.com/Kapps/PoEUncrasher/

That's a very clever approach. Thanks for taking the time to write that.

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Fire_BERKUT#1769 wrote:

I have no issues, but maybe that's because I limited my CPU performance to 99% a long time ago.
I don't know if it's possible in Windows 11, but in Windows 10 you can do this:

Open Control Panel:
Press Win + S to open the search bar.
Type Control Panel and press Enter.

Navigate to Power Options:
In the Control Panel, select Hardware and Sound.
Click on Power Options.
Next to your active power plan, click Change plan settings.

Open Advanced Power Settings:
Click Change advanced power settings.

Adjust Processor Power Management:
In the Advanced settings window, scroll down and expand Processor power management.
Expand Maximum processor state.
Set the value for On battery and Plugged in to 99%.

Apply Changes:
Click Apply and then OK to save your changes.

Just to leave it on a new page if it works for someone else.

If anyone sees this try this it has helped solve my issues:

Open Control Panel:
Press Win + S to open the search bar.
Type Control Panel and press Enter.

Navigate to Power Options:
In the Control Panel, select Hardware and Sound.
Click on Power Options.
Next to your active power plan, click Change plan settings.

Open Advanced Power Settings:
Click Change advanced power settings.

Adjust Processor Power Management:
In the Advanced settings window, scroll down and expand Processor power management.
Expand Maximum processor state.
Set the value for On battery and Plugged in to 99%.

Apply Changes:
Click Apply and then OK to save your changes.

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Kapps#5390 wrote:

For those who are having the issue where your PC hard freezes during loading screens, either this tool or the manual workaround (setting the process affinity of PoE) might help: https://github.com/Kapps/PoEUncrasher/

After checking the source code I cloned & compiled your repo, and so far it seems to work well. Nice work!

So i got desperate enough to format to windows 10 from 2h42 because i figured it was worth a shot and i want to share a couple things.
Firstly. My crashes would completely freeze my pc every time, there was no saving it. BES to -10% still caused crashes. I was worried about damaging hardware so i formatted and did a clean install. All thats on my pc is the nvidia app, an updated version of windows 10 and poe 2.
The first thing i noticed was that the nvidia app on 2h42 was detecting poe 2 as poe 1, on the fresh install it detected the correct game. It gave me a quite a few more optimization options. Not sure whats going on there, but im wondering if that was causing driver issues? Idk im dumb.
Check your nvidia app if you had poe 1 on your computer and uninstalled it before poe 2 like i did. Poe 2 says "path of exile 2" in nvidia.
Im getting 30% more fps, no lags, no stutters, a flate line on the graph, and most of all no crashes. I was hopeless before i formated. Nothing would work.
It runs amazing now.
Just thought id share. I know formatting may not be possible for a lot of people, but i wanted to play and after 70 hoirs of crashes and fps dips i got desperate enough enough to take the leap.

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It definitely something with the CPU Maxing out during zone load that then triggers the crash. After setting my CPU max to 99% I haven't seen the issue. Looking at task manager, its pretty clear. The cpu runs pretty steady around 70% while playing and then maxes out for the entirety of zone loading, then back to normal.

May Event Viewer Give me this.



Faulting application name: PathOfExileSteam.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x6760cbdd
Faulting module name: PathOfExileSteam.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x6760cbdd
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000000c7ff25
Faulting process id: 0x33D8
Faulting application start time: 0x1DB5109AD3F6E3B
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Path of Exile 2\PathOfExileSteam.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Path of Exile 2\PathOfExileSteam.exe
Report Id: a01f3114-afdd-4fc3-9d2b-53e175efce3e
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

I had 15 minutes of playtime on new patch and 2 deadlock PC Crashes in the due time.

I am running vulkan, disabled windows defender, did about everything, It crashes again.

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interbeing#5112 wrote:

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Kapps#5390 wrote:

For those who are having the issue where your PC hard freezes during loading screens, either this tool or the manual workaround (setting the process affinity of PoE) might help: https://github.com/Kapps/PoEUncrasher/

That's a very clever approach. Thanks for taking the time to write that.

Wow! Nice work. Now I'm considering update to win11 after switching back to win10 (lack of freezes since poe2 premiere). Can you confirm no freezes on loading screen after prolonged use?

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RealMarsbar#1169 wrote:

I'm curious how everyone else's crashes have been. It seems my PC has stopped locking up but every few maps, shortly after entering the map the game will just go straight to desktop. I have been monitoring my cpu and gpu and both of them are remaining at a very stable temperature alongside their usage. My only assumption is that it is related to shaders. The crashes definitely happen significantly less for me when using Vulkan but that still doesn't prevent them entirely.

I could be superstitious but it seems that upon entering a map, if I sit in front of the portal and don't touch anything that it seems to stop the game from crashing more often than not. It almost feels like I'm loading too quickly into the map.

Same here. I also crash to desktop when in town looking at stash inventory organizing loot for a long time,

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