Hard crashing PC locks up

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Kaltern#5539 wrote:

I have had some good success with an app called Process Lasso. You can use this to specifically set a rule for the PoE2 process to drop to IDLE priority and unassign 2 cores if the CPU usage rises above 95% for a second, and then remain at IDLE for say, 10 seconds. And then resume normal processes.

Find the tool here: https://bitsum.com/

To do this:

* Open Options, CPU Limiter
* New CPU Limit Rule:
Process match: pathofexilesteam.exe
When CPU use is: 85%
For a period of: 1 seconds
Reduce by this many cores: 2
For a period of: 10 seconds.

I also use ProBalance settings:
Advanced/
Leave all settings except:

Lower to idle priority instead of below normal: Ticked
Ignore all foreground processes: Unticked
Change affinity during restraint: Ticked
CPUs: 2-15 (or how many cores you have, just ensure you start at core 2)

This has immediately solved the issue for me - and it even decreases load time dramatically as well. Any tool that can reduce the CPU priority and remove cores will probably work, but this can be done on a rule basis per running process.

Of course, I cannot say if this is guaranteed to work for everyone. But I can say I've had hardlocking constantly, and I've now been able to play for 5 hours continuously. Except for one REALLY off bug that may be a server issue (says my controller is unplugged then dumps me back to the login screen).

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chrisEm119#1403 wrote:

Happy holidays everyone. If there was any hope for a fix or some communication it would have taken place today, the last day before everyone goes on Christmas break.

Sucks so badly but this will not be fixed until 2025, at the earliest it will be the week of Jan 2, but considering we’re pushing two weeks of radio silence from GGG, it wouldn’t surprise me to see this linger into mid February, possible even March.

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Path of exile 2 players on forums and Reddit discovered a workaround for crashes: manually disabling CPU cores 0 and 1 (CPU0/CPU1) in Task Manager's process affinity settings. This, however, is inconvenient, requiring manual adjustment every launch and preventing the use of these cores even outside of loading screens.

This tool automates this process. By monitoring the client.txt file, it detects the start and end of loading screens. During loading, it dynamically adjusts the PoE 2 process affinity to exclude CPU0/CPU1, preventing the crashes. Once loading is complete, it restores the affinity, allowing the game to utilize all cores.

While this solves the initial Windows freeze issue, some players still experience in-game freezes. Setting the PoE 2 process priority to "Realtime" has been found to resolve these in-game freezes. Therefore, when run as administrator, this tool also monitors for these freezes. If detected, it temporarily sets the PoE 2 process priority to "Realtime" to force recovery, then returns it to normal priority afterward. This provides a more robust solution for both system and in-game freezes.

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AzOOR1#4648 wrote:

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Kaltern#5539 wrote:

I have had some good success with an app called Process Lasso. You can use this to specifically set a rule for the PoE2 process to drop to IDLE priority and unassign 2 cores if the CPU usage rises above 95% for a second, and then remain at IDLE for say, 10 seconds. And then resume normal processes.

Find the tool here: https://bitsum.com/

To do this:

* Open Options, CPU Limiter
* New CPU Limit Rule:
Process match: pathofexilesteam.exe
When CPU use is: 85%
For a period of: 1 seconds
Reduce by this many cores: 2
For a period of: 10 seconds.

I also use ProBalance settings:
Advanced/
Leave all settings except:

Lower to idle priority instead of below normal: Ticked
Ignore all foreground processes: Unticked
Change affinity during restraint: Ticked
CPUs: 2-15 (or how many cores you have, just ensure you start at core 2)

This has immediately solved the issue for me - and it even decreases load time dramatically as well. Any tool that can reduce the CPU priority and remove cores will probably work, but this can be done on a rule basis per running process.

Of course, I cannot say if this is guaranteed to work for everyone. But I can say I've had hardlocking constantly, and I've now been able to play for 5 hours continuously. Except for one REALLY off bug that may be a server issue (says my controller is unplugged then dumps me back to the login screen).

+1

no more pc freeze/ hard reboot. The game crashes from time to time, no big deal. It's a shame devs can't give us a patch. Maybe there is a mayem between windows11r24/nvidia/games etc.

I do not care, studios should take care of CUSTOMERS EA or not .

Edit : Ubisoft patches outlaws/etc in october when win11r24 was really an issue.