As of time of this post, POE2 now unstable on my computer.

I possibly made the mistake of updating win 11 but this is the first issue I've run into... But I don't think that's the issue because I played POE2 since updating win 11 - yesterday. Today is a different story apparently.

This evening it's like 50/50 that the game is going to hard lock my computer while loading. Plays maps just fine, just don't port to town.

I thought it was related to the game not liking if my monitor goes to sleep when POE2 is up, I have to alt/tab out/back in to get the game to respond to input when that happens. But it has hard-locked my computer twice tonight, second time was after being freshly rebooted without the monitor going to sleep beforehand.

Video drive has been the same since Dec, haven't updated anything else.

Played a number of other games today with no issues.

Same. Played without issue and better performance for a month+ and then updated from 10 to 11. Experienced slow performance and loading screen lockups.

Use PoEUncrasher. Stops the PC lockups. Sometimes PoE2 will stop responding and you close/restart but it at least saves me a reboot.

It's maybe just the recent update to Win 11 doing it. Unless they changed something not client side in POE2 yesterday some time.

Thanks, I'll look into poeuncrasher. I do have AMD processor so that's probably it.

update: PoEuncrasher works AND I feel like the game is loading faster than it was when I was playing before it started freezing windows - like this has been a problem that just got worse recently.