Still 100% cpu usage anyone else?

[DrGabbaGandalf]

I7-11700KF

[Georgyeporgie]

STEAM DECK HAS ZERO ISSUES, PC GETS TO LOADING SCREEN, CRASHED.

[hAZE]

Feb 9th my game was running normal, I leave to watch the super bowl and come back after the game and my game began to run like complete crap. Game would hard lock, Audio distorted, Even pieces of the map would not render right away. Sometimes taking up to 10 seconds before it would finally render in. Typically a floor area. Tried doing a bunch of self diagnosing, Playing with settings till I finally looked at the CPU usage and the game was taking upwards of 90% of my CPU, Ultimately hard locking my PC because it was at 100% usage. Since then I have tried every "Solution" under the sun to fix this. If there is a youtube video or reddit suggestion. I tried it. And so far nothing has fixed it. I even went as far as doing a fresh install of windows making sure everything was up to date. Bios, Chipsets, you name it. Its done. NOTHING. Im so LIVID. I have put a lot of money into this game between cosmetics and the back packages. I just dont get it. Literally out of no where. Every other game on my PC runs flawlessly.

[Scissorman]

Originally posted by hAZE:

Feb 9th my game was running normal, I leave to watch the super bowl and come back after the game and my game began to run like complete crap. Game would hard lock, Audio distorted, Even pieces of the map would not render right away. Sometimes taking up to 10 seconds before it would finally render in. Typically a floor area. Tried doing a bunch of self diagnosing, Playing with settings till I finally looked at the CPU usage and the game was taking upwards of 90% of my CPU, Ultimately hard locking my PC because it was at 100% usage. Since then I have tried every "Solution" under the sun to fix this. If there is a youtube video or reddit suggestion. I tried it. And so far nothing has fixed it. I even went as far as doing a fresh install of windows making sure everything was up to date. Bios, Chipsets, you name it. Its done. NOTHING. Im so LIVID. I have put a lot of money into this game between cosmetics and the back packages. I just dont get it. Literally out of no where. Every other game on my PC runs flawlessly.

I'm still running POEuncrasher
https://github.com/Kapps/PoEUncrasher

They're trying to fix the issue that came with the Windows update and deployed a "potential" fix. The keyword here is "potential" in the patch notes. It's really the 24H2 Windows update that brought the issue.

Until there is an official fix, I recommend POEuncrasher. It parks 2 CPU cores during loading and unpars them right after, so all are available during maps and such.

I did not have a single issue since I run that tool. Oh, and switch to Vulkan if you haven't already.

[TinyApocalypse]

Always. All the time.

[Luk3]

cant even load ingame. Crashes started happening in act 2 before that i had no problems.
CPU usage is at 100 percent while i load ingame , crash follows.
i7 13700k rtx 4080

[hAZE]

Finally found a "solution" to mine. CPU still remains pretty high but its not creating the bottle neck that it was before. Where the CPU was doing 20-30 MS at times while the GPU was only doing 4-8. I rolled back to the Nvidia 490.96 driver. No longer massive gaps creating bottle necks that stutter / lock the game.

[NEMESIS2K5]

game is broken for me too. I was able to play up till their recent update in the past 7-14 days but now every time I select a character or get onto a post game Atlas map, the game will crash within minutes.

I cannot play PoE2 at all

[RebiReb]

Originally posted by CORM:

The game barely runs and its getting worse in time. I can't even play with groups, the textures/shaders take so long to load the maps are done before mine even starts doing T15 runs. I have tried everything suggested, and other things I haven't ready also. I am an IT professional for a living. It is 100% the software and cannot be hardware related, when it seems hundreds or thousands of people are all complaining of the same main problem. I never have this issue on other games, my setup is solid. At the very least I would expect to see a huge boost by lowering graphics settings and disabling many options, but that actually seems to make it worse. The only reason a game would lockup an entire OS, and force a soft reset of the system, is just a bug. It's hogging way too much CPU, unintended, and that is causing the OS to miss some sort of critical input. I checked my event log in the system, and as it pertains to this game i get event Id 153,,,, error for nvlddmkm.sys - which is the nvidia graphics driver (never happened prior to POE2). I believe the game has some bug that makes it incompatible with the driver, causing a bottleneck. Hopefully that helps the devs figure out a fix or work with Nvidia on it.

I started having the same problem in January. Everything was fine on the 18th, I didn't play on January 19th, and on the 20th my game started crashing and an error occurred in nvlddmkm events. To date, nothing has been fixed. I conclude that the developers don't care. I'm leaving for the Last Epoch

[nakter]

Yesterday it worked without a problem, today it's a disaster.
Linux Mint.

[AngryError]

The high %CPU problem might be caused because of mouse polling rate, try to lower it to 500 or around that number.
Higher polling rate require more processing power which may result in reduced frame rates when playing CPU bound games.

For PoE2 I reduced it from 8k to 500-1000. Also try to set Vsync to "Locked".