Game freeze and crash while trying to exit the game

While in game, since the last patch, if I try to exit the game using the "Exit the game" option of the ESC menu, the game freeze for couple seconds, then stop responding and finally crash, if I don't manually taskkill it.

The "exit" option in the main menu seems to work fine.

Quite anoying to have to Ctrl + Alt + Del -> taskkill PoE, everytime I try close PoE, otherwise it freeze the whole computer for several seconds...