Crashes and Invisible Items/Enemies - Game Unplayable After 1000+ Hours

Hello everyone,

I want to address some significant issues I've been facing with Path of Exile 2. It’s a great game, but unfortunately, after over 1000 hours of gameplay, it has become unplayable due to various patches throughout the years. The game crashes regularly, to the point where my entire PC suddenly shuts down.

There’s no support from GGG regarding this issue, and all the workarounds I’ve tried have not resolved the problem. In fact, I have encountered additional known bugs. For instance, items and enemies are invisible at the start of EVERY map, even when using GeForce Now.

Also, I found that the shader-cache in Steam had over 125 GB stored! After uninstalling, almost the entire game was still distributed across my system. This feels like very sloppy programming.

Has anyone else experienced similar issues? I’d appreciate any insights or assistance.

Thank you!