Hard crashing PC locks up

Same, I had to format my Windows after the game bricked my PC! Seriously, GGG, I spent €60 only to get so many problems in return. I’m extremely disappointed. I didn’t even reinstall the game because it left me so disgusted—too bad for me. It was the only Christmas gift I got myself this year.

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This Game has become unplayable.

Like the previous people, I have the same problems. The entire system constantly freezes and I have to hard reset the computer. If you manage to play, you have constant lags. I've died so often because of this, lost loot and so on. It's just a joke.

We now have more than 280 pages in this thread and GGG hasn't said anything at all about this issue.

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im at the point of not logging in incase it damages my new PC!

same for me. complete hang up PC upon loading screen. Taks manager not responding as well.. only hard reset. Please fix this. This is a major issue.
5800x3D cpu
4070ti video

facing this issue especially in Act 3, is there any fix so far? 280+ pages lol

I was doing a bios update yesterday to solve some other problems but hear this out. This never happened to me but after the bios update motherboard resets your cpu clock ram freq etc. to defaults. I set up my rams and then i noticed that asus mobos has an auto OC function named Oc tuner or something like that mine was set on normal switched to asus optimal to see if it makes a difference (which is an oc option for cpu by the looks of it icon). Rebooted the pc started the game opened a map bam pc locked on loading screen forced me to do a hard reset. I was like yeah maybe the game didn't get the hang of it with new clock speeds. I tried like 5 times nope i enter my ho w/o problems but when i click the portal pc locks on loading screen everytime resulting a hard restart. So i went back to bios turned off the oc thing back to normal, rebooted entered the game and everything was fine.

Tl;dr is we all know POE handles the multi thread cpus veeeeeeeery poorly so if your cpu clocks are oc'ed in any way i suggest turn them back to normal even if its set to auto boost on default.

I'm still having issues with constant shader loadings where you do literally anything and the shader bar spiking like crazy not gonna play the game unless this is fixed. But i hope this helps with ppl having this issue...

Rtx 2070 super
R5 5600x
32gbs of ram
Windows 11 pro 24h2 drivers are up to date

All i want for Christmas is this bug getting resolved

It is weird that i read allot of your reply that everyone has problems with shaders and everything.

I have an:

RTX 4080 16gb OC
13 gen i5-13600K 14 cores
64 gb ram DDR4
PSU 1150 watt

Windows 11 Version 10.0.22631 Build 22631
I had before this version installed the latest w11 update 24H2 i had also freezing stuff random on my pc after deinstall that update by me was it fixed.
Another guy said on the forums not everyone cant deinstall the latest version of windows 11, if you have a new pc build. But you can download the prev versions of windows on the official site of windows.

I read someone on this topic that alot of games suffer if you have a 13 a 14 gen intel cpu but i have no problems at all.

I set DLLS on and not DLAA because my gpu is than hotter now max 65 otherwise arond 75 a 80 des

This is my settinga everything on ultra ingame.

my ingame settings:





And this is how much the ask from my hardware:




I mean it is litle weird that everyone blaming GGG for this than other games has also this sort of problems by some people in the community. I think because it is working by me that it not only GGG / Poe 22 but also the latest updates from windows 10 / windows 11.