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- Windows 11 24H2 is seriously bad news for the action RPG Path of Exile 2
- Bugs cause the game to crash and eventually require the PC to be reset
- Assassin’s Creed Origin buyers are also up in arms over the problems of 24H2, review the game bombing on Steam
Windows 11 24H2 has had more problems on the gaming front, suggesting that 2025 may not be that different from last year for PC gamers who have installed the latest update for MicrosoftOS of
At least in the early stages of this new year, however, as there are already reports of major problems with Windows 11 24H2 is a new game – problems compounded by a separate development in the form of a review bombardment of Microsoft and Ubisoft in progress. Ships.
We’ll get back to the reviews later, as the main concern here is the cool bug that hit Path of Exile 2and boy, is it ugly, it basically closes the PC completely according to some reports.
Latest Windows noted this, describing several complaints on Microsoft’s Feedback Hub (and on Valve’s Steam forums), indicating that when loading a new area in Path of Exile 2, the game becomes essentially unresponsive on Windows 11 24H2, need a reboot to fix things.
Others say that the action RPG freezes on the loading screen, and then requires the PC to be restarted to get the system working again.
There are also many complaints on Reddit, like this one one: “I’ve seen a few posts about performance issues more specifically when the game crashes at a loading screen and the PC becomes unresponsive and a reset is required.
“I had no problems with the game until I updated Windows 11 from version 23H2 to 24H2. Apparently, it is a widespread problem with the new build of W11 and it causes this to other games as well.”
Or really this reportor there is another here – seems to be a fairly widespread problem as the comment above notes.
Microsoft is apparently investigating this bug, because as Windows Ultimi noted, a post on the Feedback Hub has been marked with a “we’re looking into it” panel.
Analysis: Path to ruin for Windows 11’s gaming reputation?
What can you do if you are affected by this? One option for Path of Exile 2 players is to roll back to Windows 11 23H2 and quit 24H2, although this is not exactly ideal (as rolling your system back to a previous installation is a big step to take ).
Rather than going that route, another possible solution as recommended on the Reddit threads above is to disable “engine multithreading” in the game’s options, which apparently solves the problem entirely. However, it creates another problem in that leaving multithreading out of the mix seriously slows down the performance of your processor, so you may find Path of Exile 2 is much more nervous – but this one, it will (hopefully) be stable (hat). tip to Jims-Garage on Reddit for this tip). And this might be preferable to returning your PC, as a temporary fudge while Microsoft concocts a fix (again – I hope).
The other possible fudge is achieved via the Windows 11 Task Manager, where you can right-click on Path of Exile 2 (while it’s running) and select “Set Affinity” and then disable CPU 4 (hat tip to Embinyu in Reddit for this). With any luck, one of these CPU solutions might do the trick without destroying the game’s fluidity so much that it becomes unplayable.
At this point, gamers are clearly losing faith in Windows 11 24H2. Too many bugs are collected with specific games, or only general ingenuity affecting PC players – including random crashes – and gremlins in the works with various pieces of hardware. It all adds up to a bad taste in the mouth, especially for Assassin’s Creed players, as well as other Ubisoft games that have was hit hard by glitches with 24H2.
This brings us back to the review bombing on Steam that we mentioned earlier, which happens to Assassin’s Creed Origins (as Latest Windows noticed). This is due to Ubisoft giving a huge discount (90% off) in the recent Steam sale, attracting a lot of new buyers – but not noticing that 24H2 does not play well with the game.
So, while you have Origins installed, your PC will be blocked from updating to 24H2 due to the presence of the mentioned bugs, if the situation is reversed – you already have 24H2, but not Origins – you are out of luck. You will be allowed to buy and install the game, and only then will you discover that it is a disaster in 24H2.
Unsurprisingly, Steam gamers in this boat feel they should have been warned about the big gremlins in the works with Origins and 24H2 before their purchase, and that’s completely understandable. As one reviewer said: “Steam says I’ve played for 1.5 hours, but thanks to Windows that’s 1.5 hours of locked screen at the start of the game!”
Assassin’s Creed Origins has an all-time rating of “very positive” on Steam, but recent reviews have dropped to “mixed” thanks to the influx of negative feedback from gamers 24H2.
Is there a risk that this bad feeling will start to spread and trash the reputation of Windows 11 as a gaming platform? I believe that at this point, we are at least approaching that it is a reality, and that Microsoft should really consider strengthening efforts to smooth the problems that PC gamers encounter with the latest update.
