Report of the game crashing when loading in win11 24H2 system.

I found that when running POE2, once the map is loaded (the gear turning screen), there is a high probability that the game will freeze, and the PC will freeze and have to be restarted.

After my inquiry, I initially thought that POE2 is not compatible with the latest 24H2 system version.
In 23H2 or even earlier operating systems, this problem does not exist.

The current temporary solution is to quickly find the POE process through Task Manager-Details-after POE2 starts, right-click, and set dependencies.
Then shut down the two CPU core resources so that the computer will not freeze.

However, POE2 games will still freeze and become unresponsive, but at least the PC no longer needs to be restarted.

I hope GGG can quickly fix this problem, which has seriously affected the game experience.

I constantly freeze, crash, lose currency because of this, passes cost money
24H2, I cant back on prev vers its fresh install
fix this

Not meaning to be a dick but to counter that I am on the same version and have absolutely no issues. I think It's a configuration issue.

My Specs for comparison are:

Operating system: Microsoft Windows 11 Pro, Version 10.0.26100
DirectX runtime version: DirectX 12
Driver: Game Ready Driver - 566.36 - Thu Dec 5, 2024

CPU: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900K

RAM: 32.0 GB

Storage (2): SSD - 3.6 TB,SSD - 931.5 GB

Graphics card
GPU processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
Direct3D feature level: 12_1
CUDA cores: 16384
Graphics clock: 2565 MHz
Resizable bar: Yes
Memory data rate: 21.00 Gbps
Memory interface: 384-bit
Memory bandwidth: 1.01 TB/s
Total available graphics memory: 40853 MB
Dedicated video memory: 24564 MB GDDR6X
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 16289 MB
Video BIOS version: 95.02.18.00.36
IRQ: Not used
Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen4
Device ID: 10DE 2684 889A1043
Part number: G139 0330

Display (2): Dell AW3225QF
Resolution: 3840 x 2160 (recommended)
Refresh rate: 120 Hz
Desktop colour depth: Highest (32-bit)
Display technology: Variable Refresh Rate
HDCP: Supported

Using a bluetooth audio device.

I see this as well on a Ryzen 7700 system (24H2). Game works fine for the most part but occasionally on zoning, all CPU cores will spike to 100% and the system becomes completely unusable. Can't alt-tab, can't ctrl-alt-del to get to task manager, nothing. As OP mentioned, setting affinity to exclude 2 cores at least allows the client to be killed off and restarted when this happens. What also appears to work is to turn off multi-threading before zoning then turn it back on so you're not playing a slide show.