Freezing Whole PC on Load Screens

Most of the time while entering load screens, particularly the initial load in of a session, the game will freeze along with my entire computer, requiring a manual restart of the PC. It has happened most of the time I try to login, and occasionally during the middle of a session.


Windows 11 24H2
Intel I7 9700k
RTX 3080

Same issue here + MANY reddit and steam users

I have Nvidia 4080 super + Amd 7800x3d

When loading into zones my PC rabdomly freeze and I have restart PC by holding power button

GI have teh same issue with Nvidia 4080 super + AMD 9800x3d.

When set POE2 binary to not use 1 virutal CPU threads system not freeze anymore, but application is closed.

How do you change that setting?

I have a 9800x3d and 4080 as well, same issue with whole PC freeze with looping sound on either startup or traversal to a new location...

Same for me with a 4070 and AMD 7800.

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morthyl#6653 wrote:

How do you change that setting?

I have a 9800x3d and 4080 as well, same issue with whole PC freeze with looping sound on either startup or traversal to a new location...

What you can try is to open task manager when game is running. Go to information tab and find Pathofexile.exe and right click on it. Then choose set affinity and disable one core. Then try to load through zones again and see if it works better.

GGG has to fix this ASAP. Trying to find some workaround fixes is horrible.

I've been reseting my PC, just to play the game a bit more. At this point, its just annoying and damaging my PC. Please, like its been a DAY for you guys to attend this problem..

I managed to Alt-F4 out before it completely froze my PC one time. The last entry in Client.txt was

2024/12/08 20:38:26 85057906 93b1a151 [CRIT Client 25128] [RENDER] Shader uses incorrect vertex layout (expecting 0x8)

Maybe the cause of the issue? I've never seen this one before when the game fully freezes the PC.