POE 2 Complete PC Freeze while loading screen

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SaiyanAscent#7409 wrote:

I have been using POEUncrasher to get around this issue but it only lowers the amount of times it happens and prevents the full PC from locking up when it happens 9 times out of 10.

This has been going on since day 2 for me.

7800x3d, RTX 4090, 32gb 6000mhz DDR5 RAM, Asus B650 Prime, Windows 11,

Game located on nvme drive.

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SleepySinn#7695 wrote:

Tune in to watch GGG actively avoid discussing this issue at all and instead talk about meaningless balance changes that nobody has the capacity to care about because the game crashes.

It's literally happening right now. Whether they have chat open or not people have been talking about this for long enough where this is clearly ignorance by choice lol

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SleepySinn#7695 wrote:

Tune in to watch GGG actively avoid discussing this issue at all and instead talk about meaningless balance changes that nobody has the capacity to care about because the game crashes.

It's literally happening right now. Whether they have chat open or not people have been talking about this for long enough where this is clearly ignorance by choice lol

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civillis#3298 wrote:

That's maybe last thing I can try- move on steam
Even I dont believe it will sort crashes, thats the last straw for me.
Can I just move my account to steam?

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kazelone#7933 wrote:

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SleepySinn#7695 wrote:

Tune in to watch GGG actively avoid discussing this issue at all and instead talk about meaningless balance changes that nobody has the capacity to care about because the game crashes.

It's literally happening right now. Whether they have chat open or not people have been talking about this for long enough where this is clearly ignorance by choice lol

Well, there's nothing they can do about it, because it's not on their end.

Game crashes are stuff they can fix, and are fixing.

IF your WHOLE PC is freezing, the game is simply exposing an actual system instability. Nowaday, it is excessively, excessively rare that a user-space software without lower level access can *accidentally* cause system freeze (of course this can still happen from actually malicious software, or with bugs within software with lower-level access, such as kernel-level anti-cheat).

Actual issues could be:
- Running an unstable operating system version (Windows 11 24H2 IS a buggy mess, if you are on that OS version and experiencing freeze, for the love of god please just install a stable version instead)
- Degraded or otherwise non-properly-functionning CPU, such as Intel 13th/14th gen CPU that were degraded and/or still running on the old BIOS versions (if you are in this case, uptate your BIOS ASAP! And if your CPU is physically, permanantly degraded, I'm sorry for you, but call Intel support and have a RMA)
- Unstable Memory; This is not necessarily from overclock, XMP/EXPO/DOCP are "preset overclocks" that *should* be stable on *most* system, but are not *NECESSARILY* stable depending on your Motherboard / CPU's memory controller / number of RAM sticks (4 sticks are harder to run stable than 2) / quality of your RAM sticks. In this case, run a stress-test with OCCT's memory test (https://www.ocbase.com/occt/personal) and if it's unstable, either try the other XMP/DOCP/EXPO profile (there are 2 usually), or disable it if it's still not stable. (You could manually tune them, but if you're unaware of this issue, I assume you probably do not have the knowledge on how to do that).
- Insufficient / bad quality PSU. A lot of people have systems with insufficient PSU. Some people are running a 4080 SUPER on 750W or 850W PSU, or running a 4090 on a 850W PSU / low-quality 1000W PSU. GPU can have much higher *TRANSIENT* POWER USAGE SPIKES than their rated / sustained Wattage consumption, which can trigger the PSU's OCP (Over-Current Protection) and/or damage cheaper PSU that have improper OCP.

TL;DR : If your WHOLE SYSTEM crash or freeze when playing PoE2, it is NOT a game issue, you have an ACTUAL instability issue with your system, please look into the above.

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Grayer#1680 wrote:

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SleepySinn#7695 wrote:

Tune in to watch GGG actively avoid discussing this issue at all and instead talk about meaningless balance changes that nobody has the capacity to care about because the game crashes.

It's literally happening right now. Whether they have chat open or not people have been talking about this for long enough where this is clearly ignorance by choice lol

That's because this is not an issue with the game. I haven't experienced this issue for almost a full month now after downgrading to Windows 23H2. I also installed the game on my Fedora (Linux) drive and it works flawlessly.

The people who are having issues are either too lazy to downgrade the Windows version, or have a very specific issue related to some drivers/hardware that is not on GGG to solve