Crashing PC

[Qunisth]

Guys, we need to spread the word everywhere we can to the developers as soon as possible so they can fix the issue of system crashes during loading screens.
It's not normal for people to have to restart their computers dozens of times a day and worry about the overall state of their PC.

[DreadLordAvatar]

This is normal for GGG games. They don't test anything. Just deal with it yourself. Enjoy.

[Vалентин]

+1

[Got Beef]

welp at least i got a hoodie for that supporter pack i gave em to get in the game and crash

[Caldrin]

Windows 11 24H2 by any chance ?

If so then that is the issue right there.. It is having issues with many games not just POE2.. it would be best to roll back to an earlier version of Windows or wait and hope that Microsoft push out a fix for it.

[Sadis1452]

i got 10-20 crash to day and yesterday all happen in hideout not when im mapping even im stand still it can be crash or open storage or open map then click the portal before that i has no issue what so ever in fact i dint even crash once in my 200 hour pls gameplay

[Peek A Boo]

For me game was crashing maybe once or twice a session. Then i updated my graphics driver after ignoring "update drivers" prompt at the start for a week and i havent had a crash since. So try if that helps for you, it did for me.

[Zingyb]

ive had trouble with the crashing at least once a day usually at the start up but sometimes between areas its kinda random

[TaTü]

Same problem for me. Since today, the entire PC freezes in the loading screen. I have to switch it off completely. I've never had such problems as with this game. All drivers are up to date. That's why you should never pay money for early access, luckily I got my key at a giveaway. This Game really sucks.

[Xypha]

how ppl are saying its just poe2 is beyond me, this freezing during load screens is occurring a ♥♥♥♥ load as of about October/November to a huge chunk of games, jsut do soem googling, just gotta get past the microsoft caring about themselves first with their ubisoft ♥♥♥♥, under taht you will see all games are getting affected, currently MS blames 'AutoHDR' but thats crap, i dont have HRD monotors or options for it, personally i reinstalled back to 23h2 and freezing 100% stopped after a month of trying to get it to stop, but i dont know tahts its the whole of 24h2, but there is something that microsoft have done in recent months to send ♥♥♥♥ bad.
it started for me on updating to 24h2 before poe2 released and was freezing in poe 1, and every other game.
if you changed primary task such as alt tab or click on a second monitor during any 100% cpu usage, particularly if you are running a video, shortly after the pc starts acting erm, choppy i guess, it would freeze.
you can force it to freeze by rapidly switching tasks at any time during a game load. this applies to any game or any application where cpu is peaking.
literally spent a whole month trouble shooting this ♥♥♥♥ trawling through event logs and dump logs, my conclusion, hypervisor ♥♥♥♥ got changed, its causing some memory leak, your memory looks fine in resource monitors (but i guess it would if its behind the hypervisor) but games actively start responding like they have no memory left. click something thats a load after the chopppiness starts and you freeze at that point.
i spent almost a week watching procmon and poe on a side monitor, before the crashes, it would start having trouble with memallocs read/writes despite memory being 40% use and poe showing 4-5gb used. this behaviour applied to ALL games, and likely applications that press that high,
wallpaper engine makes this significantly worse.
the alternate point if not the memory, was directx kernal drivers are ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up.
for the moment i blocked 24h2, and have 0 crashes since rolling back, while prior it was hourly.

[Anubis Mann]

The problem is Windows 11 24H2. I rolled back to version 23H2 (clean install), and now PoE 2 works perfectly.

[Мaйкл Фаccбeндеpъ]

I was waiting for the hella 3 weeks until they start to work. And today the released the patch. 1.43 mb. Wut? It's still crashing my pc and I cant even log in to the very first location.

[⎝⧹DarkArisen⧸⎠]

Originally posted by Anubis Mann:

The problem is Windows 11 24H2. I rolled back to version 23H2 (clean install), and now PoE 2 works perfectly.

+1 i did the same and i resolved the problem

[Qunisth]

Originally posted by Caldrin:

Windows 11 24H2 by any chance ?

If so then that is the issue right there.. It is having issues with many games not just POE2.. it would be best to roll back to an earlier version of Windows or wait and hope that Microsoft push out a fix for it.

Dude, I mentioned this before in the thread. I used to play POE on Windows 10 and had the same issue.

[Qunisth]

Originally posted by Sadis1452:

i got 10-20 crash to day and yesterday all happen in hideout not when im mapping even im stand still it can be crash or open storage or open map then click the portal before that i has no issue what so ever in fact i dint even crash once in my 200 hour pls gameplay

Welcome to the club, buddy. *Slapped on the butt

[This PC]

Originally posted by Qunisth:

Seriously, dude? I used to play on my old Windows 10 and got a completely frozen PC dozens of times a day in poe 2. Reinstalled a clean Windows 11, and I’m getting the exact same completely frozen PC dozens of times a day in poe 2. HMM, WHAT AM I DOING WRONG? MISSED SOMETHING, BUT WHERE...:lunar2019scowlingpig::lunar2019crylaughingpig:

hundreds of thousands of people are playing concurrently fine. Playerbase must be in the low million rn.
the common denominators in this is you and your gear.
people crashing is nowhere near as common as you think, it's a minority of people. Just that people who don't crash aren't here opening new threads saying "hey guys I don't crash", so you don't see them represented here. If they did, 99% of this board would be that, and am being generous rn. It's probably more. :P