POE 2 Complete PC Freeze while loading screen

Here is the solution and I hope thread can be closed :)

Issue is that certain models of SSD disks (those without DRAM) use incorrect size of system memory to cache data via HMB (they use too much). This was triggered by 24H2 update.

It is said that this happens with WD drives, but I had same issue with PNY.

There are two solutions:

1. Update firmware of SSD. Patch was done few months ago.


2. Disable HMB (or set it to 64MB) via registry:

Open REGEDIT.
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorPort.
Create a subkey named HmbAllocationPolicy (if it doesn't exist).
Set the DWORD value for this key to 0 (disable HMB) or 2 (64 MB).
Restart your computer.

Issue didnt happen for me again after firmware update. It's been a month.
Hope this helps.

guys i think i finally fixed my loading screen crashing to desktop problems with POE2 and some other scenarios

so i bought my computer in march 2024 ( i7 14700k + 4070 ti super, msi pro z790 p) , 14th gen intel core were kinda new at that moment, and i didnt know but there was a lot of issues with motherboards default setting being too high for these 13th 14th gen cores causing the symptomatic crashes i was experiencing lately . in May 2024 MSI made a BIOS update to adress these stability problems , i didnt know that until today . i checked my bios version which was wayyy overdue ( feb 2024 ) , basically i was 15 update late on the problem .

for all that time i never got any issue, the game was running good until early june, but i guess the last few patches inflated that problem with the cpu

so i just flashed my bios , booted and changed some settings to lower some cpu consuption

so far so good,poe2 is running Flawless now , lets see if it can stay like that


less noobish about stuffs everyday

hope it can help some of you guys