Hard crashing PC locks up

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Fatalyzm#1241 wrote:

Same here. 4070ti, i7-13700KF, 64gb ram, SSD, have used Vulcan and Direct X12. It has to be something to do with the CPU. Every time my toon goes to a new area, the CPU goes batshit crazy, to 50% usage or more. The latest crash was five minutes ago, when my toon got surrounded, died, and the game froze and so did my computer. No other game has done this to my computer.

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Stormscourge#2254 wrote:

I've been running the game pretty smoothly now doing this:

(For 16 Core AMD CPUs Only)


1. Create a desktop shortcut: (right-click anywhere on your desktop, click New -> Create Shortcut.)

2. In the "type the location of your item" box, copy-n-paste this whole thing with the quotes included: C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c start "PathOfExileSteam" /affinity 5554 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Path of Exile 2\PathOfExileSteam.exe"

^double check that your POE2.exe is in the same directory as mine. If not, change that directory location inside the quotes to match yours.

3. On the next tab you can "name" the shortcut whatever you want. Then click Finish.

4. Close Steam if it's open. It's important that you always run the shortcut launcher with Steam completely closed first.

5. Double-click the shortcut to automatically launch Steam and the game.

6. If you get to the login screen without issue, don't login yet. Open the options menu first and make sure you have VULKAN enabled, if it's not already. Do not use Direct X 11 or Direct X 12.

7. You might have a brief freeze while it downloads all the Vulkan Shaders.

8. Login to the game and play.

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Stormscourge#2254 wrote:

I've been running the game pretty smoothly now doing this:

(For 16 Core AMD CPUs Only)


1. Create a desktop shortcut: (right-click anywhere on your desktop, click New -> Create Shortcut.)

2. In the "type the location of your item" box, copy-n-paste this whole thing with the quotes included: C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c start "PathOfExileSteam" /affinity 5554 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Path of Exile 2\PathOfExileSteam.exe"

^double check that your POE2.exe is in the same directory as mine. If not, change that directory location inside the quotes to match yours.

3. On the next tab you can "name" the shortcut whatever you want. Then click Finish.

4. Close Steam if it's open. It's important that you always run the shortcut launcher with Steam completely closed first.

5. Double-click the shortcut to automatically launch Steam and the game.

6. If you get to the login screen without issue, don't login yet. Open the options menu first and make sure you have VULKAN enabled, if it's not already. Do not use Direct X 11 or Direct X 12.

7. You might have a brief freeze while it downloads all the Vulkan Shaders.

8. Login to the game and play.

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theilya#4879 wrote:

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Stormscourge#2254 wrote:

I've been running the game pretty smoothly now doing this:

(For 16 Core AMD CPUs Only)


1. Create a desktop shortcut: (right-click anywhere on your desktop, click New -> Create Shortcut.)

2. In the "type the location of your item" box, copy-n-paste this whole thing with the quotes included: C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c start "PathOfExileSteam" /affinity 5554 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Path of Exile 2\PathOfExileSteam.exe"

^double check that your POE2.exe is in the same directory as mine. If not, change that directory location inside the quotes to match yours.

3. On the next tab you can "name" the shortcut whatever you want. Then click Finish.

4. Close Steam if it's open. It's important that you always run the shortcut launcher with Steam completely closed first.

5. Double-click the shortcut to automatically launch Steam and the game.

6. If you get to the login screen without issue, don't login yet. Open the options menu first and make sure you have VULKAN enabled, if it's not already. Do not use Direct X 11 or Direct X 12.

7. You might have a brief freeze while it downloads all the Vulkan Shaders.

8. Login to the game and play.

what does this do exactly?

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Stormscourge#2254 wrote:

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theilya#4879 wrote:

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Stormscourge#2254 wrote:

I've been running the game pretty smoothly now doing this:

(For 16 Core AMD CPUs Only)


1. Create a desktop shortcut: (right-click anywhere on your desktop, click New -> Create Shortcut.)

2. In the "type the location of your item" box, copy-n-paste this whole thing with the quotes included: C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c start "PathOfExileSteam" /affinity 5554 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Path of Exile 2\PathOfExileSteam.exe"

^double check that your POE2.exe is in the same directory as mine. If not, change that directory location inside the quotes to match yours.

3. On the next tab you can "name" the shortcut whatever you want. Then click Finish.

4. Close Steam if it's open. It's important that you always run the shortcut launcher with Steam completely closed first.

5. Double-click the shortcut to automatically launch Steam and the game.

6. If you get to the login screen without issue, don't login yet. Open the options menu first and make sure you have VULKAN enabled, if it's not already. Do not use Direct X 11 or Direct X 12.

7. You might have a brief freeze while it downloads all the Vulkan Shaders.

8. Login to the game and play.

what does this do exactly?

This blocks POE from using your AMD CPU's 8 CMT cores, plus the 1st primary core.

It forces the game to only run on your AMD CPUs 7 Primary Cores the entire time.

I used AMD Ryzen Master to confirm which cores my 5800X3D prefers and it happens to be the primary cores. So this affinity shortcut disables all the other cores. I let it also disable Core 0 (the first primary core) just so Windows can use it as a failsafe.

Seems to work well with Vulkan. For me anyway.

Again, this shortcut is specific for a 16 core AMD CPU.