POE 2 Complete PC Freeze while loading screen
" Both opening the world map and teleporting with checkpoints have caused freezes for me, this never happened before. I saw some guy further down saying that not even disabling multithread works when it had worked before. I still believe that works for me but thats still scary. hlp |
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Want to share my experience in case it is helpful for those who still experience crashes:
I've had very frequent crashes both before and after the latest patch; actually, the latest patch (0.1.1c) seems to have made it worse. The game would crash after about 1–2 hours of playing, mostly when using the portal (but sometimes when opening the passive tree and rarely in other situations). After the game crashed, it would take 10–20 tries before I could start the game again. Most of the time, it would crash after clicking "Play" from the character screen. The cogs would spin for a few seconds, and then the game client would shut down (no PC freeze). I have Windows 24H2 and all the latest drivers and BIOS updates. Intel i9-14900k and RTX 4060. I tried this solution a few days ago and have had no crashes! SOLUTION: REDUCE THE NUMBER OF CORES THE GAME CAN USE TO 8 OR FEWER. Do this from Task Manager -> Details -> right-click on PathOfExile -> Set affinity -> uncheck "All Processors" and check at most eight. The game seems to crash when too many CPU cores are dedicated to it. It also seems that the more cores, the worse the problem gets. |
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" I agree we've come far from 24/30 fps to 240+ but let's be honest here, 30fps has never been a standard in video games, it always been minimum 60, even old video game consoles like the NES play their games at 60hz, 30 is not a number you compare with in terms of videogames or even computers. Tech guy
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" Thanks for the "fresh news". " As expected and was mentioned many times by me - the problem scope lies behind the OS / driver level while the local mcdonald workers were crying at GGG. At least GGG introduced some workaround, temporarily solution which is good. I believe they're having hard time tracking the issue. For the "workers", this issue MUST be fixed at the OS level to prevent such behaviour in the future or possible abuse from malware. It seems Microsoft engineers are also struggling to understand what's going on. As for the other games they also crash in similar conditions (parallel shader processing): Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur's Gate 3, Space Engine but just less common. " Temporal solution, a workaround, sacrificng some performance. " This is not the way modern OS operates. Having limited knowledge leads to wrong conclusions. 100% CPU doesn't mean your PC will freeze. Run any CPU stress test and see it by your own eyes. Ring 0 ALWAYS has priority over anything because of its nature. 100% load at user mode only means you will start to experience performance degradation at user mode with the applications with the same priority Unless they use shared system resources. Last edited by cursorTarget#1174 on Feb 7, 2025, 7:57:54 PM
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The one thing I'm sick of seeing is the crashing is being caused by windows 24H2 blah blah blah , I was and still am on windows 23H2 and thanks to the absolute state of the hard crashing cause by this game I had to replace a B550 motherboard , a Ryzen 7 5700X and 32GB of ram. cant get a refund or anything ive been building pcs for years and ive never had a game completely brick components. Even though it is a great game and I was enjoying it before all the issues this isn't something that I cant look past anymore. Not when there are so many other ARPG games I can play without the slightest fear of my pc being at risk.
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" I'm on Windows 23h2 and had to re-install windows after a hard crash(didn't have a single one until a week ago) because I was getting a blue screen on boot up. It happened right after the crash and it wasn't one that I had to press the power button, it restarted the computer on it's own then Windows wouldn't boot up. The game engine itself is flawed. They slapped some new graphics on top of an outdated sloppy engine and I don't think they can actually fix it. Last edited by CovidPatientZero#0332 on Feb 7, 2025, 8:39:51 PM
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" Or your OS (and OS related stuff) that allows to let it happen. |
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" They did apply several fixes a few days ago with the last patch 0.1.1c. " Tell us that you don't know what you are talking about, without telling us that you don't know what you're talking about. Sometimes it better to stay quiet rather than spreading all the random fake news across the entire topic like you do with your lack of knowledge. The entire crash issue has been nothing but a client issue all along, and GGG did already fix some issues regarding to it, so respectfully just stop telling people that the OS is at fault while neither the OS nor OS patch had any impact on the issue to begin with. Flames and madness. I'm so glad I didn't miss the fun. Last edited by Pashid#4643 on Feb 7, 2025, 8:56:49 PM
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" Right? It's never GGG's fault. They are perfect and the poe1 engine has no flaws whatsoever |
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