PoE 2 is NOT destroying my PC hardware (FIXED)

Since launch, PoE will randomly black screen during gameplay and completely hard crash my display adapter leaving me with no choice but to hard reboot. Some days its 20-30 times a day..

My PC:

7800x3D CPU
Crosshair Extreme x670E motherboard
1600w Corsair CPU
4090 Nvidia GPU Founders
Optane 905p
128GB Memory
a number of other SSDs and storage

So far I've:

Fell back to numerous different nvidia drivers
adjusted resolution to various settings and both windowed and fullscreen
adjusted all graphics settings down to minimum
switched to Vulkan
limited CPU cores in task manager upon launch
turned off multi-threading in settings
uninstalled and reinstalled the game
adjusted shader cache in nvidia control panel

All firmware, BIOS and hardware drivers are the latest.

At this point, i can see some people frying hardware if this keeps up. I've finally just uninstalled the game for now as its just not playable. Are there any others who simply cannot play PoE2 with similar hardware?

New Windows install as well and this happens with ZERO other games.

Last edited by Cirdecus#2925 on Jan 17, 2025, 6:57:08 PM
Last bumped on Jan 17, 2025, 7:01:04 PM
Are you on Windows 24H2? If so, that's the culprit. Roll back to 23H2 and future note never update until you're forced to or verify that the build isn't unstable for your specific uses.
awesome i'll try that, thanks man
Shoot it looks like I'm already on 23H2

Edition Windows 11 Pro
Version 23H2
Installed on ‎9/‎8/‎2024
OS build 22631.4751
Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.22700.1055.0
Last edited by Cirdecus#2925 on Jan 16, 2025, 7:30:49 PM
So we can not enjoy this game because of the windows update?.....
Guess I'll uninstall too. I mean idk what to do and would not have dropped the $30 had i researched more. I'm lowkey pissed.
Last edited by Dirty_Mexchi#1545 on Jan 16, 2025, 7:36:33 PM
yeah, i feel you. I actually smell my graphics card burning when i play this game.

I had to throttle the fk outr of it to get it to stop happening and no knowing how much dagame this badly coded game has already caused.
Theamazonbasin
is this hard crash still happening after the recent patch ?
If the crash happens during load screens there is a fix on github. look up POEUncrasher
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is this hard crash still happening after the recent patch ?


Yes

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