Crash / Long Loading Screen / Wasted Map

> Used Tower map with Grand project tabby

> I finished the map.

> Activated Tower Beacon. Precursor tablet dropped.

> Map completed

> Portal to Hideout

> Loading screen and then crashed

> Relaunched POE2

> Logged back in and Tower map says Map attempted.

Grand Project gone.

Waystone gone.

Time wasted

How long are we going to experience this shit? Its almost a week of constant crashing. This might be my 2nd or 3rd post already about this.

I had no crashing issues until I changed to DX12 from Vulkan because of performance issues. In Vulkan, FPS is 30 on Abyss and other apps. FPS drops very high especially while using Headhunter. So changed to DX12, now game crashes frequently and loading screens are endless. I have DDR5 32GB ram, AM5 CPU, RTX 4090 GPU.

I will probably change to Vulkan for crashes and play with poor optimisation.

Yep. Tried Vulkan. Tried DX12. Still the same. This only started happening maybe 4-5 days ago. It must be from the recent patches that triggered this.

Just want to add my frustration...
0.4 is nothing but a darn roller coaster, except *dirt* is flying in in your face while riding it.
Regular crashes.
Regular "paused+cogwheels".
Regular lag spikes.


I almost get over the above, if it wasn't for the killing of motivation due to lost temples, maps, loot, map visibility and on top the economy screw up due to insane room-stacking-group-abuse ...

tried:
- fresh game install (incl. deleting all folders and traces)
- different gfx drivers
- d12/vulkan/d11
- different toons

Please help.


(rig: 5090 suprim, i7, 128gb ram, m.2 drives)

I also have this problem, and I think it affects everyone. It appears to be an issue with the game itself that should be fixed by the developers, not a problem related to game settings. After the update about three days ago, I started experiencing many bugs, ranging from mobs spawning under the map and being impossible to kill, to the fact that I no longer have a minimap in the game.

Sometimes (maybe once every 30-60min) game freezes (if I click on screen I see game is not responding message) and if I wait about 30 seconds I see cogwheels and after that game is back (in party this means I am dead)

Also if I try to change any graphic settings game freezes and unexpected error or disconnect happen

PC: 4080, 980 pro ssd, 32gb 6000mhz ram, i5-13k, 4k dlss balanced 120fps.