POE 2 Complete PC Freeze while loading screen

Same issue here hard locks at the loading screen to a new zone. Have to hard reset pc.
9900k and 3080

I've been experiencing this issue with both PoE 1 and 2 now.

Windows 11 24h2
Ryzen 7 9800X3D
RTX 4070

The only thing that fixes it for me is opening Task Manager and manually setting the affinity to 2 less CPU cores. This allows me to keep the multi-core support without having to settle for 40 FPS. Downside is that it still crashes, just PoE though. It only happens when loading between areas and the CPU usage for PoE spikes to 90%-100%. Thankfully the full system doesn't crash anymore. However, it does suck that I have to restart PoE.

I hope they can figure this out and acknowledge the problem at the very least.

The only things that works so far:
Disable Multithreading in the Graphics settings
Reinstalling 23h2 seems to fix the problem.

Things I've tried and didn't work:
D11
D12
Vulkan
Set Affinity to 2x CPU (This causes _just_ PoE to crash instead of the whole system)
Windows 7 Compatibility Mode
Turned off Game Mode

+1
This is getting very frustrating to be able to hard reboot and log in to freeze on certain instances and the only bandaid solution is to disable multithreading? I mean who would like to play on a 40fps game?

I had the same issue, I changed to DirectX11 and now it works for me. Been playing for 4h+.

Same issue.

7700x
4070S

Same Issue Crush and reset PC
Amd 7500F
4070 Super
Win 11 24H2

Keeps happening, I lowered things, messed with affinity, downloaded another program as suggested by another user. Same thing, if it's going to happen anyway I might as well enjoy the graphics if it bothers to load. Hopefully this is fixed soon, it's disheartening reading that some had this issue with POE1 and it's still an issue. Really enjoying the game but I'm still in act 1 and I'm afraid I won't be able to play much longer. All my tweaks have just made it a stuttering mess.

OPERATING SYSTEM
Microsoft Windows 11 Home
- Release ID: 2009
- Version: 10.0.26100
- Build: 26100
CPU
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor
- Clock speed: 3801MHz
- Description: AMD64 Family 25 Model 33 Stepping 0
GPU
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
- Refresh rate: 143Hz
RAM
HP37D4U1S8MR-8XR
- Capacity: 8GB
- Type: DDR4
- Default clock speed: 3200MHz
HP37D4U1S8MR-8XR
- Capacity: 8GB
- Type: DDR4
- Default clock speed: 3200MHz

same
r5 3600
rtx 3060 12gb
32gb ram
nvme drive
w11 24h2

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Couldn't even load back into the game. I switched to Vulkan and turned Reflex off, no freeze since then.

I had this issue too but I found a different way for it to be fixed, at least up until now.

All I had to do was go Control Panel>Hardware and Sound>Power Options>Change Plan Settings>Change Advanced Power Settings>Processor Power Management>Maximum processor state> set to 99 instead of 100.

No idea what this worked but I saw it recommended on a Steam forum so thought I'd share it here too.