Using Vulkan or DX12 doesn't make difference. When the screen becomes busy with monsters and lightning effects, the game often freezes and crashes to desktop.
This happens with level 16 maps, blighted or not, with high quality and 3-4 scarabs.
windows 10 x64 pro, ryzen 9 5900X, GTX 1070 TI, 1080p monitor, windowed mode, fps locked to monitor refresh rate, game installed on SSD, 32GB ram. All graphics set to the lowest settings allowed by the options.
I really hope that poe 2 will offer more customization regarding the graphics, because poe 1 becomes dead slow, unplayable, when the screen get filled with effects.
Not every player can afford the latest and powerful hardware.
It's about time to listen the userbase, because people asked for the options to make the game less heavy for the hardware millions of times.