POE 2 Complete PC Freeze while loading screen

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sekyno#6517 wrote:
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We should also all be posting negative reviews on Steam.


This has been incredibly baffling to me, why don't people post negative reviews on Steam to get the devs to do something. There were games that got negative reviews for less, but somehow PoE gets a pass. Even in early access, the game should be in playable state, which clearly it is not.

This whole situation is just mind blowing, I don't believe they didn't catch this freezing issue during testing (hope they did test it at least), so they must've knowingly decided to release this before Christmas, reasons being obvious.

And all the people finding miriads of sketchy workarounds instead of demanding a fix from the company they gave money to for a product that doesn't work, I have never seen this kind of behaviour before.

GGG should at least offer a refund to everyone who has been affected by this. They can cash it back later on MTX anyway.


It’s behavior that you except from Bungie or activision or blizzard. Get the bag and who cares. Never thought GGG would behave this way. Sucks to be in this minority of ppl but damn is it a shame.
Same issue for me. Just put together a new PC with fresh Windows 11 install, newest drivers and BIOS update. PoE2 freezes my PC within seconds of launching the game (can't even load into account sign-up). The system and game hangs while the GGG gears are spinning on the splash screen. After 1-2 mins the system reboots.

AMD Ryzen 5 7600
MSI B650 Tomahawk
Nvidia GTX 4060
32GB(2x16) DDR5 @ EXPO 6000
Windows 24H2 (Windows won't let me roll back to test previous version)

Tried a few other games and some benchmarks / stress tests and everything is stable, cool and runs fine with the exception of PoE2.

Sent DxDiag report to Timothy_GGG.
+1 on this problem. Entire PC freezes when loading into new zones.
Disregard my earlier garbage suggestion anyone who found it i'm sorry. The crashes have returned 10 fold. every 30 min to desktop for me now :')
GG's guys.

The second I click LOGIN on the main screen, it pegs my cpu to 100% even with all the affinity set on process lasso and every other tweak - and crashes.

I'm actually not even able to load into the game to even try to hit a waypoint or nothing. Login = Brick.

What other games are cool like POE2 that I can buy that actually work? I feel like I was just schemazzed for my 30usd here.
What sucks is GGG is going on holiday so this probably won't get fixed til after. So fuck all of us I guess.
For me crashes are gone. If I switch to DX12 they are back but gone with Vulkan. I am not using any workarounds anymore(except exclusions with windows security) but the freeze occurred often just few days ago still. I mean I still get one freeze if I don't play for 4-6h but after reboot gone again.

And my Windows is latest Windows 11 Insider Developer build but I mean I had them with this just few days ago and still get them with DX12. I don't think it's about what version of Windows one has as people get them with Windows 10 as well.
Last edited by shaga#1453 on Dec 18, 2024, 7:20:39 PM
my solution was to disable global c-state in bios. Never had a crash again
Update 0.1.0e made crashes 10 times worse. I can't even login anymore (this on Windows 11 22H2 with 7800x3D, not even 24H2)
If I change the application to full screen instead of window full screen and move PoE2 to the background with Alt+Tab, etc. each time at the load screen, it no longer freezes. I rely on the task manager CPU usage and background audio to play to see if it has finished loading. Sorry for my poor English.

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