POE 2 Complete PC Freeze while loading screen

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+1 (3070, ryzen 5700, w11 24h2, current nvidia drivers)

+1, ryzen, nvidia, all the same

This started for me yesterday morning after I had been playing for a few hours. Up until that point I had no issues.

I can reproduce the crash to desktop every time. I did have 1 BSOD but that only occurred once.

Steps:
Launch Game
Select Character
Game starts to load, will crash prior to loading level.

These are the steps I have tried to fix it.

I tried multiple Nvidia Drivers:
566.03
566.14
566.36

I tried all of the following in game settings:
DX11, 12, and Vulcan. Settings to Medium, low, basically all minimal. Threading off.

After a BSOD I decided to just wipe my PC and start over. Fresh install, BIOS update. I still have this issue. It isn't tied to a specific character because I'm able to log in with my laptop and play it is just specific to my desktop PC.

Specs:
Win11 Pro. 10.0.22631 Build 22631 Ver23H2
i9-13900KS
RogStrix Z790-F GAMING Wifi
128GB RAM Corsair DDR5-6600
Asus Rog Strix Gaming OC RTX4090 24GB
Corsair MP600 8TB M.2-2280

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Really annoying

+1 (AMD 7800X3D, Nvidia 3090, Win11 24H2, latest video drivers)

I have been plagued by this issue for the last two days both in group play with one friend as well as solo. I've tried many things suggested in this post with no results.
What finally worked for me was updating my BIOS and using Process Lasso to always set CPU priority to high for the game (I did both steps at the same time which I know is not best practice but this was my last resort before reinstalling Windows to W10). Setting the priority was also something that helped me eliminate all stutters in PoE1 in the past and I suspect that this might have been more impactful change than the BIOS update.

In case it's helpful, I am on the new Ryzen 9800X3D cpu, RTX 4090 gpu and W11 24H2.

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Can confirm it still locks and requires a hardware reset on loading screens even in 0.1.0b.
I had the same problem in PoE1 that started after I updated windows to 24h2.

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oGsShadow#5368 wrote:

Is anyone experiencing these crashes on Windows 10? I keep seeing 23 H2 and mostly 24h2 Windows 11. I might just go back to Windows 10 but so far I've only seen one person mention that they're having these issues on Windows 10 so maybe they're an outlier

I'm still on w10 and have similar specs to most people in here (amd cpu + nvidia gpu) and have been crashing like a motherfucker.