Deadlock Detected error causing the whole computer to crash

UPDATE: Received no support at all, issue has worsened, happens every few minutes and upon performing very essential actions such as opening the atlas, skill tree, genesis tree or crafting via the benches, and sometimes even after opening my stash or Faustus's shop. Anything and everything is a landmine that could cause my entire PC to go into an irrecoverable mess until I force it to shut down via the power button. Impossible to play the game as a result, so I have to uninstall the game until a fix is implemented I guess. And I was having fun this league too. Oh well!

Greetings,
I am currently plagued by an issue while playing the game that involves complete freezing of the game every few minutes, followed by a popup that reads "Deadlock Detected". In the log files, the error right before the crash is "Deadlock detected with timeout 10000ms; running graph nodes: Present". This does not automatically go away, nor does it end the game process on its own. Even if I force the game process to end via the taskbar option "End task", the next time I open the game, it still crashes before the GGG icon even appears. The task manager also does not start and instead freezes. The start menu refuses to open as well. I cannot even shut down or restart my PC. The only fix is to literally kill switch my laptop using the power button. These are very serious issues and absolutely not to be expected in a game the calibre of Path of Exile. Never has a game ever forced me to go to such drastic lengths just to run it. It began on league start 3.28. Since then it keeps coming back with varying frequency.

I have attempted to solve it using all the usual methods, namely, updating drivers, re-downloading the game, clearing my cache, testing different versions of NVIDIA drivers and countless other minor fixes. Nothing worked at all. I play on a laptop with device specifications as follows:

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8250U CPU @ 1.60GHz (1.80 GHz)
Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.9 GB usable)
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce MX130
Dedicated video memory: 2048 GDDRS

OS:
Edition Windows 11 Pro
Version 25H2
Installed on ‎21-‎09-‎2025
OS build 26200.7840
Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.291.0


I have also attached my log files as a drive link (as it is larger than 75MB) up to the last instance of the crash right before this mail was sent. The crash data is at the bottom of the file naturally. There are many other crashes accessible by searching for the keyword "Deadlock".
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oOud2CAXSAzeXEqE9oS-5lbAmwF--gQV/view?usp=drive_web
If any other information is required, do let me know.

I sincerely hope that this issue does not go unnoticed and I receive a working fix as this is affecting not just the game since kill switching a device is not healthy practice but I am left with no other fix.


Sincerely,
Rawkstar

Having the same issue starting today. My uninformed bet is on a memory leak caused in one of the latest patches.

Edit: I managed to finish my map by switching to Vulkan, but that crashed as well in my hideout.

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Akavuuh#1564 wrote:

Having the same issue starting today. My uninformed bet is on a memory leak caused in one of the latest patches.

Edit: I managed to finish my map by switching to Vulkan, but that crashed as well in my hideout.

Vulkan for me as well. But that only postpones the crash, yeah.

There is a bigger thread with same issue, post new posts there for better visibility with GGG staff.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3914632