POE 2 Complete PC Freeze while loading screen

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StragusPoE#7529 написал:

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Cainrith#2807 написал:

How does Linux also get this Windows bug then?

There is a PoE bug where the loading freezes (on Windows/Linux/whatever). There's also a Windows bug where the whole operating system goes down (which is something no user land software should ever be able to cause). Does the PoE bug lead to the Windows bug? Maybe, it's quite possible. They may also be two unrelated bugs.

No. The exact same bug also causes the exact same problem on Linux, but Linux, being the more stable one (no need to discuss this, I won't even touch Win 11 and Win 10 barely works well enough) allows options to save the OS. Honestly speaking as Linux compatibility of games and programs increases and SteamOS launches we will see a massive decrease in Windows users.

The PoE2 code tries to use things it should not be using, and throws a fit(endless requests and resource hogs) when it is not allowed to. Windows simply freezes because it (normally) allows programs installed in it to use the resources available to it. That's why you can stop the freezing by limiting the number of cores the game can access to.

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StragusPoE#7529 написал:

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Cainrith#2807 написал:

"any power cut to a computer is damaging the hardware"

It does. This is literally one of the very first things you learn in electrical and computer engineering. Being a programmer does not make you an engineer, so I don't know why you have added that info there as if it would mean something.

If you are interested you can educate yourself by using the spoilered portion of the previous post as a starter.

All right! Hey people, don't ever turn off your computer. Turning off your computer is damaging your hardware, so said Cainrith in a forum post.

(It's not like people are yanking on the cable when their OS becomes unresponsive, the motherboard is shutting down gracefully with a 3 seconds power button press.)

"Hey people, don't ever turn off your computer." Yes do not ever turn off your computer without allowing it to complete the shutdown process. This is literally one of the first things you learn about them. Do not ever shutdown an electrical device without going through the full shutdown process specified.

That "graceful shutdown" is a failsafe. A failsafe is not a feature. In this case the power button shutdown mechanism is designed as a failsafe for situations where the OS or system becomes unresponsive. It is not intended to be the primary or routine method for shutting down a PC. Using it frequently undermines the purpose of a controlled shutdown process. If that process was not needed then it would not be put in there. It protects the hardware, and saves the parts from unnecessary shortenings of component lifespan.

Furthermore, I ask anyone who sees this message to please give a negative review for Path of Exile 2 on Steam.

If they release another set of patch notes with balance changes first before addressing this ... I am going to lose my mind

If they release another set of patch notes with balance changes first before addressing this ... I am going to lose my mind

Here, my PC freezes completely. The only solution was using Vulkan on Windows with everything set to low. On Linux, using Vulkan allows me to increase the settings without freezing. (Specs: 7800X3D and 4080)

I've been experiencing this problem since launch. I tried a clean installation with 23H2, and guess what? No more freezing! For me, 24H2 was the issue.

It's mind-boggling to see such a serious issue remain unresolved for so long, especially since it poses a danger to the hardware.

I've never seen anything like this in 25 years of gaming. Steam should display a warning on the store page.

I tried adding the Windows Defender exclusion and no difference. Game hard lock crashed when loading into an area.

fix it please it is driving me crazy

I noticed when changing maps or when teleporting to town the CPU temperatures get really high. Alarming high as CPU use is 100%. Sometimes resulting in a crash. I tried lowering the FPS in settings but it's not enough. When playing there's no problems with the temperature but once you load the game or teleport to town it's unhealthy how high temperature and how much CPU is being used. As if the CPU power is used for something else.

Just chiming in that this error bricked my brand new PC completely. It was a day old, just unboxed, installed steam, installed Poe2, started playing and everything froze in the first couple of zone changes. Nothing worked. I had to hard reboot because ctrl-alt-del didn't work.

This happened a couple more times. I had monitors running, and they recorded the CPU usage shooting up to 100% just before everything became unresponsive.

During one of these freezes, the PC powered itself off suddenly and refused to turn back on.

Brand new 2000+ dollar PC turned into a brick.

It's since been repaired and the necessary parts were replaced, but I can confirm that the only thing that prevents the full lockup of the PC is Process Lasso keeping the game from using 100% of all the CPU's cores. I still crash, apparently, but at the very least I can ctrl-alt-del the game with cores 0 and 1 locked.

I've played POE since the Beta. I have one of the original Kiwis. I'm extremely invested... and I may just quit permanently over this. I can't risk thousands of dollars to play a game, and this has permanently damaged my confidence in GGG. I Mean, what if the same problem happens in another update in the distant future, and I don't have Process Lasso running at the time? Will I lose another PC?

Absolutely, unequivocally unacceptable.