POE 2 Complete PC Freeze while loading screen

9800X3D/4090 User here
Win 11 R24

Today I've been playing and having the hard crash issue that requires PC restart maybe 2-3x a day - so it's been annoying, but not completely impossible to have fun.

Today I finished Trials 4th floor on my character and ever since I have been crashing every other time I hit a loading screen. Each crash renders my computer completely unable to function and forces me to power cycle it.

I have no idea why today of all days has made the game almost completely unplayable, but I am pretty disappointed. I'm probably going to try to update windows to R23 and see if that helps at all.

I have no issues in any other game or applications. Machine has been stress tested for hours with no issue.

Something definitely changed today.

I rolled back to Win11 23H2 and the issue seems to be gone.

PoE > new Win11 feature bloat

Has anyone had success gaming consistently without crashes at loading screens by just turning the Multithreading option off before fast traveling? Enable it back when you are back to blasting? This is what I see shroud do.

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ThE1cY#9666 написал:

You need to download .net9 to run the program.

Thanks! That did it and the windows appears now.

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chrisEm119#1403 написал:

Has anyone had success gaming consistently without crashes at loading screens by just turning the Multithreading option off before fast traveling? Enable it back when you are back to blasting? This is what I see shroud do.

This works for loading screens, but occasionally the game still crashes during certain boss fights.

Totally unacceptable how this hasn't been resolved yet. Will most likely not play the game again until its fixed, just had back to back freeze on login screen and first loading screen.

Very disappointing, 5 crashes today already...

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X
NVIDIA 4070 TI Super

Hey guys, MrBonez on reddit had a nice solution for getting nvidia to actually recognize POE2 as a game.

"I got mine to work, I think, by adding PathofExileSteam_x64.exe to the Windows Graphic Settings and forcing it to use High Performance. After doing that and going into the graphic settings of PoE2 I noticed that the Nvidia App started recognizing POE2. I also have PathofExileSteam.exe set to the same thing, the Nvidia App didn't change until I added the x64 version."

After I did this I noticed a huge performance improvement for myself. No crashes since I have done it with playing for half a day.

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chrisEm119#1403 написал:

Has anyone had success gaming consistently without crashes at loading screens by just turning the Multithreading option off before fast traveling? Enable it back when you are back to blasting? This is what I see shroud do.

Yes, but sometimes i forget to disable multithreading its very annoying, ive been farming sanctum all day for days because requires less area transitions (4 per run)

Can't even get on the game anymore since the update. Actually ridiculous at this point, how have these guys not figured out he issue yet? and its not a 24h2 issue, i've never upgraded and its still happening on 23h2.

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