Stuck at loading screen

Game launches fine. But after selecting character and click "Play", I got stuck at loading screen with the "two gears" not moving but the BGM is playing.

Tried many ways below but doesn't solve the issue of being stuck at loading.
1. Select my main character or other (new) character.
2. Deleted and reinstalled the game in Steam client.
3. Launching on stand-alone client.
4. Tried different gateway.

When stuck at loading screen, Task Manager will show POE 'Not responding".

This problem started since yesterday 07/06/2024.


Clocked in about 145 hours of gameplay and this is the first time encountering such problem.

Hi, did you recently update any graphics drivers?

Yes, recently updated NVIDIA graphic driver.
But I dont think I can roll back to previous update?
I did reinstall the latest version couple of times since the problem came out.
Other games worked fine.

-update-

Used system restore (roll back to previous GPU update).
I think it fixed the problem.

Thanks!