Rendering issues

Entire league experiencing stuff not rendering on the screen - sometimes monsters models (just seeing flying health bars) but more often ground/skill effects. Most of my deaths are from not seeing some ground effect that just weren't rendered for me, which is very frustrating, can't really avoid what you can not see. Had no such issues last league (0.3).

My computer specs:
Processor AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core Processor 3.40 GHz
Installed RAM 16.0 GB
Storage 466 GB SSD Samsung SSD 960 EVO 500GB
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (8 GB)
System Type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Display 2560x1440
Last bumped on Jan 4, 2026, 2:42:26 PM
It might help GGG investigate this if you post a link to your config file on Pastebin.





You can find it by pasting the below into File Explorer's address bar;

%UserProfile%\Documents\My Games\Path of Exile 2
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Here's the config file: https://pastebin.com/53UcDJbu
I had this issue and found a reddit thread mentioning a fix and it worked for me so it may for you.

Delete CachesHLSLShaders folder in steamapps/common/pathofexile2 or wherever you've installed it.

Then open POE2 and play and it'll rebuild shaders as it seems that they keep corrupting every patch they do. I've sometimes had delete the folder, switch to Vulkan using the config file then open the game and switch to Dx12 but its always fixed the issue for me
Xbox Here. Have the same issue. Textures aren’t loading most off the time. Inventory items aren’t visible. It makes playing unbearable.

Only thing that helps is to log-out, close the game. And start up again. But this only works for a short time.

Even when logging out to character selection (before closing the game), the visuals aren’t even loading on the background and characters.

I don’t see any proper feedback at all on how this is handled.

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