POE 2 Complete PC Freeze while loading screen

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ViperThunder#0584 wrote:

It doesn't matter if it only happens in PoE out of the 20 application you use. There are millions of apps and games, and you don't play them all, so you have no idea how many games this is affecting. Furthermore, it is indeed possible that the issue only affects PoE but not other games and is still the fault of Nvidia, AMD, or Microsoft - there can be executable-specific code that runs for one game but not any other.

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SpiritsOfLight#9105 wrote:

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Panczka#1217 wrote:

In my case, rolling back to 23H2 solved the freezing issue. Anyone who says it's the fault of the GGG is mistaken. The operating system should never allow internal software to freeze the entire system, even if such software is designed with that exact purpose

So i tested 30 games on my PC and the Problem is only with PoE, yeah, totally Windows Update fault that this is happening only in PoE1 and 2 and how u explain that even Linus Users has this freezing problem? Bad new Windows Update right? There was also already people who have the problem still with the old Windows Version

AND this Problem had PoE 1 already a few years ago, bet also Windows problem right? Bad Windows always, seems Microsoft hates PoE thats why they integrate a crasher in the latest Window Version that PoE has no success X)

It matters a lot for me, cause i will not downgrade a windows version just cause of one game if every other game is working =) GGG has to fix their game and not the users to downgrade any windows version (still also LINUX has the same problem). Incredible how the people act like experts and making suspicious "helpings" with settings or tools of random people where they dont know how safe this will be. But ey, your computer not minw

Some user experiencing similar issue in Cyberpunk 2077. NVIDIA promised to fix it in upcomming January driver release.

One of my characters is literally bricked right now because of this. If I select them it goes to the loading screen and bricks 100% of the time. Pretty damn frustrating that I literally cannot play that character at all now until this issue gets fixed.

Posting from my toilet, about to flush my Christmas goods and I was reminded that my goods are going to the same place my $30 went when I purchased the PoE2 alpha. Merry Christmas exiles!!!

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chrisEm119#1403 wrote:

Posting from my toilet, about to flush my Christmas goods and I was reminded that my goods are going to the same place my $30 went when I purchased the PoE2 alpha. Merry Christmas exiles!!!

Wanna play a game? I'm right next to your stall.

Never have I ever been screwed by a gaming company as hard as GGG.

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Vairly#2678 wrote:

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RyanEmber#2207 wrote:

What worked for me was verify steam files and a restart on pc. 5600x, 3070Ti 32gb RAM, Win 11 24h2.

After i did this yesterday the problem seemed to have gone away. 4 hours and no crashes yet

Maybe for some, try it or re install. If that doesnt work then yeah sorry i wasted your time reading this

4 hours is too short time, I guarantee if you've already had a freeze once, it will happen again.
I haven't had any crashes for more than a day, haha ​​yeah, I almost completed 6 acts without a freeze. But then they came back
Play for a few days and you'll understand that it didn't help you.

I have now played 11 hours and not a single issue, one time my FPS dropped to 0 but then the game stuttered a bit and carried on. Im calling it a night though. All i can say, luck be with me, it worked

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OlDirtyNacho#6936 wrote:

Lmfao what the hell do you think leaving a negative review will do?

I bet GGG would be a hell of a lot quicker to put out a response if PoE2 were to drop to a "positive" or even "mixed" rating. Half of the negative reviews are due to crashing on load screens and that's just on Steam. This issue is way bigger than just those posting here. It takes 30 seconds to leave a review and can easily be amended when resolved.

Everyone deserves a break but to leave players in the dark for 3 weeks is disgusting. Its very possible this is a windows/nvidia/amd issue but its on GGG to respond because no one with this issue can replicate it elsewhere.

CHECK THIS, it solved my loading screen issue.

https://github.com/Kapps/PoEUncrasher

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RyanEmber#2207 wrote:

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Vairly#2678 wrote:

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RyanEmber#2207 wrote:

What worked for me was verify steam files and a restart on pc. 5600x, 3070Ti 32gb RAM, Win 11 24h2.

After i did this yesterday the problem seemed to have gone away. 4 hours and no crashes yet

Maybe for some, try it or re install. If that doesnt work then yeah sorry i wasted your time reading this

4 hours is too short time, I guarantee if you've already had a freeze once, it will happen again.
I haven't had any crashes for more than a day, haha ​​yeah, I almost completed 6 acts without a freeze. But then they came back
Play for a few days and you'll understand that it didn't help you.

I have now played 11 hours and not a single issue, one time my FPS dropped to 0 but then the game stuttered a bit and carried on. Im calling it a night though. All i can say, luck be with me, it worked

Just to add more context, around the time my fps tanked to 0 for a few seconds this was what the log said

2024/12/26 00:57:36 83781187 4d32db07 [WARN Client 24716] Tried to SetExtraActivationRangeAroundTile() after level generation was complete

Then i noticed afterward

2024/12/26 01:10:12 84537437 d8012f20 [CRIT Client 24716] Error executing GEAL on Metadata/Terrain/Gallows/Act2/2_12_1/Objects/ChainBuilder_Anchor_Side [3221228633]: Expression passed to function gave an empty result, expected a location or object

The latter error occured a lot. SO i do believe everyone that states its not fixed. Seems to be a lot of CRIT errors in my log file and it seems to happen often. I wouldnt be surprised if these are causing all the crashes.

In the meantime, ill just keep an eye out on the thread. Best of luck everyone

The BES app spoken about in one of the earlier posts is working for me, I limited POE 2 by 10% instead of the recommended 5%. I changed some of the options in game as well like the renderer to Vulcan or whatever it's called. It's great that I have to gimp my brand new 9800X3D build to play this game. Is it a big deal? No but it's annoying.