POE 2 Complete PC Freeze while loading screen

perhaps ive been too harsh to diablo 4... i would refund poe 2 and never play again, a bad game is till better than a unplayable one... ive tried to play yesterday and got insta pc freeze on login, and ggg still thinks its only a portion of people thats having this issue, i bet theres more people who having this and doesnt post here just stop playing with anger.
i suggest people downvote on steam to make poe 2 mostly negative, until ggg fix this issue.

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Nyek#6508 написал:

They have communicated with us but I agree the lack of constant communication is annoying.

Sure, and what they communicated (we're aware of the error and trying to fix it) was fine for the first week or two, but it's been well over a month for me, around two for some people. A little more in-depth response is the very least that should have given since then, be it to warn people to stop playing when they meet this kind of error, talk about community workarounds or even talk about general progress on the fix so people don't waste their time checking this thread day after day only to learn nothing new.

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Nyek#6508 написал:

You signed up for an early access which by its very definition is an incomplete game which may or may not contain software issues that affect your system, when those issues occur you report and stop playing, I've got games on my steam account that never left early access and had crazy bugs that never got fixed, its early access not a head start.
is annoying.

An incomplete game? Sure. Bugged and crashing? Absolutely, but those issues should be contained in the game, and not spill out into my system. Those kind of errors should have been filtered during their internal alpha testing, not early access. I've done that, reported and stopped playing but it's been well over a month already with no updates, it's already past the point of calling it ridiculous.

If these issues somehow got through their internal testing unnoticed, or started happening during early access, GGG should take actions promptly to safeguard their users until that stuff is fixed. Fuck ups are expected, even big ones, but the way they're handling it is as unprofessional as it can be and gives me no confidence at all on the company. The fact that you had to compare this mess to scams that never got finished and ended up in an unplayable state in order for them to even be seen in a positive light, just proves how bad this is being handled.

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Nyek#6508 написал:

The thread keeps turning into idiotic conspiracy theories instead of fresh reports of the issue that are still popping for people that hadnt previously been affected, this is clearly an issue they havent figured out as of yet, does it make much of a difference if they come and say we are still trying to figure this out for you to then come back to this thread and respond angrily that they havent figured it out yet? They cant win no matter what they do so no wonder they remain silent and drip feed us instance crash fixes with each patch

Well, maybe if they talked about it, this thread wouldn't have turned into "idiotic conspiracy theories". And although I can't speak for everyone, I know that I would be way less worried about this bug and have way more respect for the company, if they posted something along the lines of:

"We're looking at it, but the problem is more complex than it seemed at first. It looks like it's related to x, y and z but right now we have idea when it's gonna be fixed.

Some workarounds that seem to work for some are X and Y, we don't recommend Z cause it can do more bad for your machine than good, even if it helps you run the game. If those workarounds don't work for you, we suggest you to stop playing it for a while as those hard resets aren't good for your machine.

We apologize for the inconvenience and as soon as this is fixed we will compesate those affected by giving out a 1.1x exp event for a week, or an item that makes your character look like it's frozen, or whatever nice and cheap thing we can think of as an apology."

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fractis_8645#6003 написал:

In the past this happened a few times, but fine in general. Today it was the worst. 4 crashes over a few hours during the loading screen, having to hard-reboot the PC each time. Makes the game unplayable

Wondering if it could be related to the lastest updates to Windows 11 (Installed 2025-01 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 11 Version 24H2 for x64-based Systems today) and NVidia drivers (566.36)

This is happening to Linux users as well don't let them blame windows on their buggy code.

So, just read an article about the Nidia driver update. It updates RTX card series 20, 30, 40, and 50 with DLSS 4.

I'm assuming that can help with the visuals in the game?

Sorry, that's all I've got for you on that.

i updated to 24H2 last night, and now PoE 2 Crashes my computer everytime i try to play.

Cant do anything and have to hardreset whole system

I happen to have a W10 PC built that has everything besides a Graphics card. So out of curiosity I moved my gpu to that system and have played for 20 plus hours on that system and have had ZERO crashes.

It has half the ram, much slower storage solutions, a older and a bit slower CPU, etc. So there are downsides to using that system, but no matter how laggy it gets sometimes I haven't even had one game crash let alone a whole PC freeze.

Please fix this GGG. The current GPU market is making it hard to upgrade my GPU to what I want to and if this game could just be fixed I can hold off for a bit and wait for march when we get 9070XT launch and more details.

Either this gets fixed soon or I'll have to drop it and periodically look up if it's been fixed. Tired of whole PC freezes that I have to hold my power button down to get out of. Doubt that happening often is good for a PC.

I know there's a lot on the plate at the moment, but like some other people have said, this should be top priority. Major crashes and especially those nasty PC freezes are a no go.

after latest windows and nvidia updates, still keeps crashing. made me two hard resets so far. okay, i love this game but love my system more. so won't play anymore.

Ok...my take on an OPPOSITE situation than what others are reporting.

I had crashes. Was using POE Uncrasher to help with it, with the occassional CTD, especially when I had a browser up on the other monitor. I would also get "not responding messages" while loading zones.

Then, a few days ago, M$ made me upgrade to 24H2. The "not responding" and CTD went away. This morning, I updated to the new Nvidia drivers, and still the same situation. I still keep POE Uncrasher going on the other monitor, but I'm not getting any errors whatsoever. The game is just running nice and smooth. No stuttering either.

I don't know how or why I'm having these positive results while others are not. Pretty generic AMD cpu, and a RTX 4060 8GB.

What I DO know, though, is that I'm running a 1000W PSU, and my computer is plugged into a UPS. When I game, my UPS goes nuts, beeping warnings that the draw is too high. Can't say it's related, but it's consistently an issue (and annoying).

I am in no way thinking like one of those "I'm fine..sux for you" people. I get it. All the complaints here are valid and need to be addressed asap. I hope GGG figures it out for you guys as immediately as immediately gets.

Anyone tried to change they PCIE speed from 5.0 to 4.0 in bios?

I am curios if all that experience crashes have PCIE 5.0, because on my old system the game didn't crash

Hello everyone, for those that still have this issue. Emptying the shader cash seems to have solve it for me.

Here is a video tutorial : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDcvc43yzG0

You should try it just in case.