PoE1 crashing ever since the launch of PoE2

Could the launch of Path of Exile 2 be related to why I am now crashing regularly (almost every 30 minutes) most noticeably in town at random and sometimes mid map? I haven't changed any of my settings in game, the only thing that changed is Path of Exile 2 launched and now Path of Exile 1 is extremely unstable for me. I guess I updated the drivers of my 3070 before downloading PoE2, that is really the only thing I can think of but haven't noticed changes in any other game. Any ideas?

Thanks

Hey, I've got the exact same problem. After almost every 30 minutes POE1 will freeze for 1-2 seconds before crashing completly.
I did find out in the eventviewer that the KERNELBASE.dll has something to do with it.
The strange thing is, that I had zero problems and it has never even crashed once before the PoE2 release. The only thing I did was a driver udpate as well (I think there was a promt upon starting poe2?)... maybe I should try to install an old driver and try again.

Hey, I just wanted to follow up on this, because I found the culprit.
The issue seems to be DX12. I found some microsoft forum post where someone else hat similar crashes in another game, and the support found something with DX12.

After changing the renderer in the ingame "Graphics" settings to Vulkan (from DirectX12) the crashes have stopped and I can finally play multiple hours without issues again.

I'm not if the problem occured because of the poe2 release or maybe some poe1 patch released after that time, but I'm 100% sure I didn't have any problems beforehand.

Hope that changing the renderer will help you or some others too.

Cheers