Game freezing only on Directx 12

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GrafVanRotz#5151 wrote:

3.26.0d Hotfix 4 - Path of Exile

Increased the memory limit of the DirectX12 renderer. This can help cases where assets keep reloading in performance-heavy situations, such as in Blight-ravaged maps.

Maybe it helps???

Someone tested?

nope, still doesn't help, literally can't play at this point, perma black screen. I am starting to think I won't be able to play ever again unless i get a new PC, cause they didn't fix it for a whole month now.

BUT AT LEAST THEY GET MONEY FROM POE2 RIGHT, WHO CARES ABOUT POE1 ANYMORE, LET'S GET THE BREAD.

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GrafVanRotz#5151 wrote:

3.26.0d Hotfix 4 - Path of Exile

Increased the memory limit of the DirectX12 renderer. This can help cases where assets keep reloading in performance-heavy situations, such as in Blight-ravaged maps.

Maybe it helps???

Someone tested?

I had hoped that this would fix it, but the problem persists...

+1, having this problem as well since Settlers, but it feels much worse now in Secrets. Even when I'm in my hideout, the game will freeze for 5-10 seconds and reload immediately after. Is there not even a clue about what makes this happen so far? This issue is going for a while now.

yeah, nvidia cooked something with the newer drivers.

you can either switch to the vulkan renderer, or downgrade to the all powerful 572.60 driver, see https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/241087/

I didn't see this yet, maybe it has something to do with this problem which we have. Normally it would only crash whole map making it all black and removing the explored map.

(idk if image works= https://imgur.com/ZkuYH96)

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Tearlauala#0816 wrote:

yeah, nvidia cooked something with the newer drivers.

you can either switch to the vulkan renderer, or downgrade to the all powerful 572.60 driver, see https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/241087/

Bingo. I was suspecting Nvidia drivers could be the problem since not only I'm having issues with PoE for a while, but performance in general feels worse since the DLSS 4 batch went online, and damn, it actually was, seeing your comment made me do the push to test it out.

I went with the old, stable 566.36 nvidia driver, clean install after removing the garbage 576.88 driver with DDU (display driver uninstaller), no nvidia app. Hell, not only those freezes were fixed (4h playthrough, no issue), the game is actually running better again on my 4060, with your usual FPS drop when hell is set loose on the screen, but that's just my weak gear.

Not the expected solution, but it works. Downgrade your driver to a stable version, and things should run smooth again.

+1

It happens on POE 2 and 1, for a while it only happened in 2 but as of 3.26 it's been happening on 1 as well. Game freezes for 5-10 seconds, then a black screen, grinding gear icons and then everything loads back in again. Minimap is reset, everything. Tried rolling back drivers to the one suggested in here and no go.

Noticed a fair amount of us are running 30 series graphics cards. Could be the issue? Almost seems like there are corrupt textures because it all reloads after the hard freeze. I did try clearing the ShaderCache (both dx12 and vulkan's), still have the issue. Only fix for me so far is using Vulkan...

CPU: 12th Gen Intel Core i7-12700k
GPU: RTX 3070Ti
32 GB of RAM

This still happen after 3.26.0e :(

New NVIDIA Driver released: 577.00

Don´t know it is better???

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Tearlauala#0816 wrote:

yeah, nvidia cooked something with the newer drivers.

you can either switch to the vulkan renderer, or downgrade to the all powerful 572.60 driver, see https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/241087/

I'd just like to thank you for this. Updated driver for another game and it absolutely destroyed PoEs performance. Reverted to 572.60 and it's back to normal (2080 super on Vulkan if anyone cares)