Gpu Device "crashing"

From how the problem manifests it feels like its the gpu device crashing and recovering because of path of exile 2.

I never had this problem when playing before and all other games i play are fine:


Sometimes whil i play the game will freeze, for after 5 seconds the 3D aspect of the game will turn black, the UI will remain and the 3D part will come back.

But during this time the game/server kept going and this also can affect other game+ application running in the background (an idle game)


Didnt see this mentioned anywhere on the forumm, so wanted to report about this.


Its an irregular regular occurence (doesnt happen in fixed intervals, but happens multiple times during the day)

Maybe this is connected to an effect/node overload of the engine, as in the previous league, i've got the game visually glitching when there were too many effects on the screen at once. Maybe this is related.

Edit: after the 3D "Reset" the map will be completely veiled again.

Update: It seems this was caused by the gpu-driver version that i updated at the launch of the new league:

576.52

With this version i got a "rendering device lost" in overwatch 2

with the most current version 576.80 both path of exile and overwatch 2 dont have those problems anymore

Thank you for posting your update!

I was on the same driver version from updating at league start and was having the same exact issues. Hopefully it clears things up on my end! Installing the new driver now. :)