Hard crashing PC locks up

Can someone confirm there are using the standalone client and having this crashes? or it is only steam users? I try everything so far and nothing works. I may try that next...

PS: no I am not getting so many the loading screen crash but one there it says d12 couldn't find resources or something like that.
I play Steam version.

And I have the same as everyone else. Sometimes I can play for an hour, sometimes on the first switch to a new area. Hard crash.

I can move my cursor, but have to hard reset my pc.
Don't Touch my Sweep please GGG!
PoE showed as PoE1 instead of PoE2 in the NVidia app.
Do whatever it takes to make it show correctly in the NVidia app and you will not have any crashes anymore. Tested it myself, no crash anymore.

Here's some suggested ways to make it show correctly in the NVidia app:
1. Uninstall POE2 and if you have it POE1 as well.
2. Important... delete both POE1 and 2 folders from your Documents/ My Games folder.
3. Do a search on your drive(s) for anything "Path of Exile", highlight all results and delete the files and folders then do the same search for "Grinding Gears" just in case there's any remnants that may be there. Then, empty your recycle bin!
4. Clean your shader cache... empty that sucker.
5. Rerun a scan in Nvidia App and make certain Path of exile is gone from your installed games.
6. Restart windows.
7. Do a fresh install of POE2 only (don't install POE1)

Or

1. Try reinstalling the NVidia app
2. Start the game from the NVidia app
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PoE showed as PoE1 instead of PoE2 in the NVidia app.
Do whatever it takes to make it show correctly in the NVidia app and you will not have any crashes anymore. Tested it myself, no crash anymore.

Here's some suggested ways to make it show correctly in the NVidia app:
1. Uninstall POE2 and if you have it POE1 as well.
2. Important... delete both POE1 and 2 folders from your Documents/ My Games folder.
3. Do a search on your drive(s) for anything "Path of Exile", highlight all results and delete the files and folders then do the same search for "Grinding Gears" just in case there's any remnants that may be there. Then, empty your recycle bin!
4. Clean your shader cache... empty that sucker.
5. Rerun a scan in Nvidia App and make certain Path of exile is gone from your installed games.
6. Restart windows.
7. Do a fresh install of POE2 only (don't install POE1)

Or

1. Try reinstalling the NVidia app
2. Start the game from the NVidia app


This is a placebo. The part that works somewhat is "Clean your shader cache", which lengthens the time between crashes in some cases.

Furthermore, I ask anyone who sees this message to please give a negative review for Path of Exile 2 on Steam.
No placebo, I will further test but I had no more crashes after I solved the NVidia app discrepancy.

Try it yourself, before this I did the affinity disable of 1-2 cores in order for the crashes not to freeze my whole PC. Now there's no issue anymore.
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No placebo, I will further test but I had no more crashes after I solved the NVidia app discrepancy.

Try it yourself, before this I did the affinity disable of 1-2 cores in order for the crashes not to freeze my whole PC. Now there's no issue anymore.


What about all the people who don't even use nvidia app.
are we gonna hit the 500 pages mark before ggg replies? we will know soon


RTX 3070
I9 9900k

same fucking problem
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No placebo, I will further test but I had no more crashes after I solved the NVidia app discrepancy.

Try it yourself, before this I did the affinity disable of 1-2 cores in order for the crashes not to freeze my whole PC. Now there's no issue anymore.


This is a placebo. Remember that the crash is ubiquitous across all brands of GPUs and CPUs, Nvidia drivers cannot explain the reason behind AMD GPU crashes. The part that works somewhat is "Clean your shader cache", which lengthens the time between crashes in some cases.

Furthermore, I ask anyone who sees this message to please give a negative review for Path of Exile 2 on Steam.
A week later and still no fix. A game at this level in 2024 shouldn’t have these issues. It’s so bad I switched over to PlayStation because my computer locks after 30 minutes and I have to hard reset. Fucking fix this!
Would the Auto HDR issue be relevant to those of us having the crashes with 23H2?

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