PC hard crashes on load screens

The patch for this issue is working on PoE 2 for me, but I decided to hop onto poe 1 to practice campaign for the upcoming event and my PC locked up as soon as I tried to log into my character. Please apply the fix to PoE 1 or this event will be dead on arrival for me. I am so excited for the content, but I refuse to deal with these PC crashes again.

Lmao its the same for me. Tired of the poe 2 loadscreencrash so went to poe1. Same shit happens there too...

Same thing for me. They patched the issue for me in PoE2 but when I load up PoE1 it crashes on loading screens much like the issues that were on PoE2. Seems like disabling multithreading is a work around but thats certainly not ideal.

I built my PC in October and I remember having no issues with PoE1 when I played before the launch of PoE2. People have been saying its more an issue with a Windows update rather than a problem PoE, so I assume there was a problematic update between October and the launch of PoE2.

It would be great if they could transfer the patch/code to poe1 before the event but I doubt that will be the case. Looks like I will just run the game on one core at 20 fps.


Also, there will probably be a LOT more of these posts after the launch of the event.

Also crashing on load screens here. Never had the issue until recently (aka poe2 launch)

Not sure if still related to 24h2

I just had the same issue. It didn't happen until late today. My PC froze when I was loading the game for a second time today.

Edit: Second time after force restart that my game froze on first loading screen (thankfully not my PC). Same as other people, these issues started with poe2 launch!

Same here, after fews checking, some says recent window update could be the cause, and they mentionned bios update as well. I got an new bios update for my MB 2 week ago and didnt know. So far after bios update no crash yet but could be something not even related to this.

Crashed in kings marchs on bandit portal for my shippers so I lost all my shipements and workers.

Same crash in poe1 or poe 2

Same thing happening to me, but it causes my pc to shutdown. This was also happening with POE 2 which a workaround was put in till they find the route cause of the issue with Microsoft. I was really looking forward to playing the event, but not going to be able to if it's just going to crash my computer...

GGG please add that workaround to POE 1 as well.

Edit: I crashed today 2/17/2025 at around 10:45am EST