POE 2 Complete PC Freeze while loading screen

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same issue here, happened 10 times.
GPU: 980ti
CPU: 5600X
Win 11 24H2

If i turn off Engine Multithreating, then the loading screens works fine for me, otherwise i got game closes 50-50.

Also DX12 is completely unusable, can't pass trough the laoding screen, just 1 from 5 attempts.

DX11 is so-so, but Vulkan is the only one i can play with.

So i'm playing with minimal everything, Vulkan, windowed and when i'm using portals, i'm turning off multithreating, then turning back on after. Works like a charm... but if i forgot, i'm getting the crash.

I dont know if you guys have tried to change the Affinity through windows Task manager -> Details -> Find PathOfExile.exe -> RightClick -> Set Affinity -> maybe disable half of the cores. That may fix the issue for now dunno just a thought. I've had this issue, and disable multithreading ruins the whole performance, I'm trying this now maybe it fixes who knows. :p


**5800X3D here.

Changing the API to vulkan seemed to have completely resolved this issue for me.

Worth a try, would like to hear if it works for others

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vlr442#0358 wrote:

Changing the API to vulkan seemed to have completely resolved this issue for me.

Worth a try, would like to hear if it works for others

Many others have tried and many of them reported back this did not fix the issue. The freezes are random and can happen once per 2 hours or 1 per minute.

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dkdmvs#2168 wrote:

I dont know if you guys have tried to change the Affinity through windows Task manager -> Details -> Find PathOfExile.exe -> RightClick -> Set Affinity -> maybe disable half of the cores. That may fix the issue for now dunno just a thought. I've had this issue, and disable multithreading ruins the whole performance, I'm trying this now maybe it fixes who knows. :p


**5800X3D here.

Try using BES instead, with 95% max cpu usage for POE. So far the best workaround I found unless you can revert to windows 23H2 that does not cause these issues.

Switching to Vulkan did not fix the issue completely but did seem to make it rarer.

dunno if just concidence but for now is working for me, no crashes or freeze for around 6/7 hours , i checked /deaths and i died 58 times so imagine all loading screens + tps for questing, the only thing i did is downgrading to 23H2 when i tried Vulkan, BES didnt work for me.

Do you use Steam version? If yes then i recommend trying to delete PoE1 NVIDIA Profile using NVIDIA profile inspector - because is used (incorrectly) for PoE2 too.