POE 2 Complete PC Freeze while loading screen

Fixed three of the GAZILION of crashes:

One of the lucky ones getting the PC frozen on every login screen + infinite amounts of D3D12 crashes

YES. GGG gotta fix their shit but in the mean time. Can confirm the following as many people here addressed.


Freeze- it really has something to do with Windows most recent update (it might happen on other versions if whatever is causing it was also bad built like the recent one)

I had the rollback option - It's annoying having most of your PC and Software configs reset but it WORKS, ROLL that shit back if you can



D3D12- kinda obvious but just get the fuck out of DirectX 12. Vulkan sucks but its stable


Bonus- I had many crashes like the D3D12 without the error. these one were usually on busy screen animations like starting a boss fight or engaging a huge pack

Can confirm NVIDIA Reflex OFF got rid of them



Taking suggestions on the the one which makes you still be able the hear in game sounds and press your buttons but the screen freezes right before closing it if you keep spamming skills/trying to move. It seems to be the one MFer remaining with these changes.

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Goose_33er#2793 wrote:

That Program helped me. Could play normally after days of crashing

https://github.com/Kapps/PoEUncrasher/releases/tag/v1.2.0

This worked for me. Got into one of the freeze events and it recovered!! Whoever developed this is the MVP.

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chrisEm119#1403 wrote:

And how the last crash I experienced left me with no video output on the reboot.

Dude, that's how my old pc started to die. It'd crash and have no video output on reboot. You might want to avoid freezes poe is causing...

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chrisEm119#1403 wrote:

I have ever played in 10+ years of PC gaming has ever behaved like this.

So, you just recently started to play the videogames and made conclusion based on your small experience? Seriously?

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Dude, that's how my old pc started to die. It'd crash and have no video output on reboot. You might want to avoid freezes poe is causing...

So, look. Just few days and everyone forgot the topic we were discussing. Sure, it's game kills your old PC, not anything else... seriously?

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Imahuntudown#1330 wrote:

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JackAvalon#2125 wrote:

POSSIBLE FIX

So I found this idea online somewhere and so far it has been working great. Navigate to the Steam folder where POE2 is installed. Should look like:

Drive Letter\Steam\steamapps\common\Path of Exile 2

Find the PathOfExile_x64Steam.exe file and right click. Go to Properties. Go to Compatability tab. Check box run as Admin and Check box run in compatability mode for Windows 8. Hit Apply and OK.

Haven't had one crash yet since this change. Hopefully it works for you all. Best of luck!

Computer Specs
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
GPU: RTX 4090
RAM: 32.0 GB
NV.2: Samsung 990 PRO 4TB
OS: Windows 11 Pro
OS VERSION: 24H2

Omg this worked... I used to disable core 0+1 every time I open the game and disable multi threading on every loading screen. Considerably dropped cpu temp as well. Thank you so much!!

Ryzen 7 5600X3d
RTX 3070 TI
Win 11 24H2

This fixed it for me as well!
Ryzen 7 9800x3d
RTX 4090
Win 11 24H2

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Just another quick confirmation that PoEUncrasher (https://github.com/Kapps/PoEUncrasher) is indeed able to prevent the freezes caused by the Windows 24H2 update.

Huge kudos for the author!

Damn you are right, this fixed the problem for me, the game no longer crashes with this.

Game still crashing my computer every other map, sometimes when I launch the game, this is pretty inexcusable.

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Nhaj#5300 wrote:

Disabling the "Threading Optimization" in the Nvidia driver control panel solved the 24H2 freeze problem.

This works for me, all day wishout crashes. Thanks.

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cursorTarget#1174 wrote:

So, look. Just few days and everyone forgot the topic we were discussing. Sure, it's game kills your old PC, not anything else... seriously?

Who the fuck invited you to this party, and more importantly, why the fuck are you attacking me for trying warn someone that's experiencing something I experienced too? How the fuck is that forgetting about the topic in this thread?

My pc was 10 years old and started malfunctioning after a hard freeze playing Destiny 2. It hard freezed while playing and after that, it'd boot without video output. 3 months after, it was completely dead.

So yeah, it absolutely was a game causing a hard freeze that killed my old pc. Had to power it down with the button and some voltage regulator component went bad and over time, it fried the PSU, videocard and mobo. The fuck do you know about anything? My god, people this days. Absolute numbnuts.

If someone is experiencing no video output after a hard freeze, don't you see it's like, normal, to give them the heads up about their pc maybe dying, when I experienced a big problem because of it? In a thread about hard freezes, I wouldn't say that's even off-topic. Nor did I forget what the thread's about, if you check my messages here I often am answering about missinformation.

Don't bother answering my dude, I'm not going to read your sorry reply.

Can confirm reinstall of windows to 23H2 solved the issue for me