POE 2 Complete PC Freeze while loading screen

I'm still having this issue. Really frustrating to have to force shut my pc constantly
Same issue, it started when I made it to act 3 and now it's constantly happening whenever I load into a zone. It's unplayable. Act 3 may be coincidental, as I have also just recently updated to Windows 11 v 24H2.

I load into a zone, the game freezes at the load screen with the gears. I'm then unable to interact with any part of my Windows PC; I cannot CTRL ALT DEL, I cannot CTRL L-SHIFT ESC (to bring up Task Manager). I am forced to hold the power button down on my PC and hard shutdown.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
Intel Core i9-9900K 3.60GHz

Graphics all set to default except also using Nvidia DLSS, but also tried lowering graphics.
Last edited by SailboatOfDoom#8865 on Dec 20, 2024, 7:37:12 PM
I have been having this issue non stop since release and I feel like this is degrading my brand new PC...

9800X3D, 4080 Super, 64GB DDR5

I have tried setting POE2 using 2 less CPU cores. This prevents the PC freezing but the game freezes so bad and sometimes I can't even restart my PC.

I notice when the freezing occurs, my fan colors revert back to default and are on high speed. This will stay this way until I manually shut off my PC.
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takgoo#4920 wrote:
I have been having this issue non stop since release and I feel like this is degrading my brand new PC...

9800X3D, 4080 Super, 64GB DDR5

I have tried setting POE2 using 2 less CPU cores. This prevents the PC freezing but the game freezes so bad and sometimes I can't even restart my PC.

I notice when the freezing occurs, my fan colors revert back to default and are on high speed. This will stay this way until I manually shut off my PC.


I had a similar crash last week and haven’t touched it since. Had no video output on the reboot and the AIO lost its display.
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Guys,

I got Win 11 24H2 build and my games 2 or 3 times per 1 teleport freezed my pc to hard reset button.

But I found one solution and now my game is not freezing whole PC and i think maps loading faster.

Windows -> Settings System -> Display -> Graphics ->
1. Disable HDR mode
2. Disable Optimalization for Windowed Games (I'm playing on windowed mode)


Even Microsoft writing about this "feature" here > https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/status-windows-11-24h2#3466msgdesc


"After installing Windows 11, version 24H2, you might experience issues with games if you have AutoHDR enabled in your device. You might observe that the game colors are incorrect in certain display configurations. You might also observe that some games stop responding. "

Good luck :D



Holy shit this actually fixed it for me. After turning off 'Optimizations for windowed games' my game no longer freezes
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mkdr#2100 wrote:
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Its not a windows only issue, I have the same with my 7950X3D on Nobara.


Do you have any proof for that? How does it manifest, POE2 crashing or total PC lockup with 100% cpu and you cant ping the PC anymore on LAN? Both different issues. If that was true, it might indicate a more drastic issue with Ryzen architecture, which the new CPU scheduler of Windows 11 have shown to manifest because of better/perfect core utilization which was maybe already be true under Linux.


I highly doubt there would be any Ryzen hardware issue. It's clearly a software problem on some versions of Windows...

Running PoE 2 here on various Linux machines, both Ryzen and Epyc, all Nvidia GPUs, and none of them had any issue whatsoever (we have a little LAN party going on since the 6th).
Logged in to document, having this issue myself. Went from solid 144fps, froze while loading into a trial with a friend and computer wouldn't turn on after. A3 ram slot doesn't seem to be working anymore, sticks seem to be fine. Managed to get the PC to turn on with 16gigs but game is now fps capped at 44 and falls to 10fps in maps. Unplayable even if I weren't scared for something else to break.


i7 10700, 2080super, 32gig vengeance lpx. mobo, ram, m.2 and fans are less than a year old
Last edited by SaintGray#2727 on Dec 20, 2024, 7:38:59 PM
Hello I am also experiencing crashes, they happen randomly once an hour my game closes suddenly
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Guys,

I got Win 11 24H2 build and my games 2 or 3 times per 1 teleport freezed my pc to hard reset button.

But I found one solution and now my game is not freezing whole PC and i think maps loading faster.

Windows -> Settings System -> Display -> Graphics ->
1. Disable HDR mode
2. Disable Optimalization for Windowed Games (I'm playing on windowed mode)


Even Microsoft writing about this "feature" here > https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/status-windows-11-24h2#3466msgdesc


"After installing Windows 11, version 24H2, you might experience issues with games if you have AutoHDR enabled in your device. You might observe that the game colors are incorrect in certain display configurations. You might also observe that some games stop responding. "

Good luck :D



Holy shit this actually fixed it for me. After turning off 'Optimizations for windowed games' my game no longer freezes


this solved the issue for me, was having since launchm now working fine with multithread enabled
I’ve been experiencing constant crashes in Path of Exile 2 whenever transitioning between zones, even ones I’ve visited before. It doesn’t seem to matter whether the zones are newly loaded or revisited—the crashes persist.

I’ve tried several fixes, including making changes to CPU core affinities and various performance settings, but unfortunately, none of these adjustments have resolved the issue. While I’m relieved that my PC doesn’t lock up entirely, the game itself crashes so frequently that it’s become difficult to progress.

I’m hoping there’s a fix I haven’t yet tried because this crashing is making the game almost unplayable. Hoping to hear positive something soon :)

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