The Game suffers from Multiple Crash Bugs Yet GGG Is Silent

To anyone that has messaged me but did not receive a reply:

It is not because I'm stuck up or anything. It is because GGG forums does not allow players with low level characters to use private message function.

When we try we get this message "You may only message the Support account at this time."
I cannot send/reply to direct messages because my in-game character has not finished Act 1.
What to do:
1)Write a short review about the hard crashes in notepad.
2)Copy and paste it to steam reviews, put up a negative review.
3)Copy and paste it to steam discussions, put it up there.
I reviewed the game as negative on steam.

This is my review, if you want you can simply copy/paste it.
The game hard crashes taking the OS with it, requiring manual shutdown by using the power button.

GGG has been silent about this issue except a single post in known issues which misdiagnoses the problem as a "Win 11 24H2 issue". GGG requested DxDiags and did not access them. GGG does not mention this issue in the patch notes.

Currently on the Path of Exile 2 Early Access Bug Reports Forum has two main threads:
1) Hard crashing PC locks up: 248 Pages, 2471 Replies, 146069 Views. Created at 7th of December, 2024.

2) POE 2 Complete PC Freeze while loading screen: 216 Pages, 2159 Replies, 204635 Views. Created at 7th of December, 2024.

In comparison the entire "[POE 2] Bugs" thread has 138 Pages, 1370 Replies, 29196 Views.

In terms of ratio, more than half of the replies and views to the forum belong to these two threads.

There are no bugs that are more important than this. This is not "I cannot use X skill bug". This is "improper usage of system APIs by the application" causing "100% CPU utilization" leading to a crash, resulting in "shortened component lifespan and possibly bricking PC".

There are people who have lost their PSUs, SSDs, GPUs, CPUs, Bluetooths, USBs... Any part you can put in a PC, there is someone on the forum that have lost it due to this "bug".

This happens on every kind of OS and hardware.

OS: Happens on Linux, Win10, Win11.
Hardware: AMD and Intel CPUs, AMD and Nvidia GPUs in all types of combination. If a hardware can run it, there is a person with that hardware on those 400 page threads with this crashing bug.
I cannot send/reply to direct messages because my in-game character has not finished Act 1.
What to do:
1)Write a short review about the hard crashes in notepad.
2)Copy and paste it to steam reviews, put up a negative review.
3)Copy and paste it to steam discussions, put it up there.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X

Hard crash of PC during load screens.

GGG won’t acknowledge or update us on this issue.

Steam review updated to negative until fixed.
Yeah, I am getting worried now. My PC has hard crashed so much in the last 2 days. I should have given up. But I am hooked... So I really want to find a solution.

I am 200 hours in. And this started a few days ago. Now I can't even get in without a hard crash.

I need a solution ASAP. This is kinda sad, not gonna lie. I haven't posted any negative posts here before. But this is worrying.

Vacation right after the biggest release of their life. I get it though! But if the rumors about bricking PCs are true. This is terrible. My PC has been glitching since it started to crash outside of the game also. So I am a bit worried it bricked my CPU or motherboard.

My first hard crash, it took me hours to get the GPU to post again.

EDIT:I found a solution that works for me! I was worried my PC was getting bricked. But I downgraded my BIOS a few years. And now no crashes so far.

So it could be resizable bar or some over-protection update that made it hard crash. hope it last

Last edited by Skubaben#6167 on Dec 25, 2024, 5:53:08 PM
Reading some data in a infinite loop in the user space doesn't cause the total system hang up. You can just prove it by writing your own code which utilizes several threads (equal or more than amount of your CPU virtual cores).
Still experiencing constant crashing ** NO CPU LOCK UP ** just crash to desktop. Like every 10-20 minutes or less but on average i can play for about 10-20 minutes then about 2-5 minutes of downtime.

after crash
- game crashes about 2-3 times before making it to login button
- then game will crash 1-2 times after login button before charselect
- then after those roudns of crashes game will crash 0-5 times before i actuallyt get in game

This have been a constanant pain point since launch.

I have tried all the things
- Windwos version downgrade/ upgrade
- Nvidia driver downgrade / upgrade
- aLL kinds of Environment Variables and Admin permissions and Compatability modes
- Removing Shader folder
- All kinds of Video settings
- enable / disable Hpyerthreading in BIOS
- increase SHADER gb allocation

OS: Win 11 Home
Version 10.0.22631 Build 22631
cpu i9-14900k
Ram 64.0 gb
GPU RTX4070 Ti Super

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