Game freezes constantly

My game just freezes randomly for 5-10secs, then black screen with loading animation (gears), and then it comes to normal. I am not kicked from game during freezes, the game just pauzes for freeze duration, but still its hard to play with that. I have readed on some threads, that this is how game crashes without closing and then restarting. I already have tried to change renderer to Vulcan, but it just crushes game with closing instead. Have no ideas, what problem it can be. Before league start, updated Nvidia driver, bc was asked to. Never had this issue in prev leagues.

I have the same exact issue, had it last league too but not before that.

[D3D12] Device Removed. Reason: 0x887a0006

This is the error that corresponds with the freezes. I have tried different driver versions and no luck.

Oh thank the heavens I finally found someone with the same issue!

I have pretty much ran out of ideas to try on my part, so I need some more data on the subject to maybe progress this somewhere.

Couple things i'd like to ask you if you can answer:

- GPU (including amount of VRAM)
- CPU
- Resolution you're running the game on
- Operating system
- did you play PoE 2 and did this also happen there?
- DX11/12 or Vulkan?

In my case these are:

- GTX 1080 Ti
- Ryzen 5 7600X
- 1080p
- windows 11
- ran into this first time in PoE 2, my guess is something got updated from there to PoE 1 and this started happening around last league.
- DX12

Here's my setup:
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 6GB
- Intel Core i7-8700 3.2GHz
- 16GB RAM
- Window Resolution is 1080p, Render Resolution is 1067x600
- Windows 11
- I haven't played PoE2
- DX12

I have a ryzen 5600 and rtx3070, game res 1440p native, borderless fullscreen, latest drivers (though had the same issue with previous ones). I went back to my windows 10 install, which was working fine but it just started having the same issue. This is with DX12 but I have the same exact error with Vulkan, and on Vulkan it always fully crashes.

I tried reinstalling drivers with DDU, which didn't work, though I wasn't able to do it in safe mode as is recommended bc safe mode input is broken on win 11 :))

At this point I might try and install linux on another drive just for PoE lol, really frustrating.

Oh and yea I haven't played poe2 but this issue began last league for me.

I took off XMP/EXPO from bios and been running 2 hours now without issues.Even if it does still happen, this is by far the biggest length of time without it happening.

Will report back after further testing.

same problem
WIN11 25H2
7900X3D, XMP6000
RTX3060 12gb

Been having the same problem, be it with Vulkan or Directx 12.

I'm on a i5 13450-hx, 16gb ram, RTX 3050 6GB, windows 11 up to date. Nvidia driver up to date.

Its really annoying. The game constantly freezes (usually when there will be a new addition to the game, like mobs spawning from Breach encounters, or me initiating an abyss encounter).

This been happening since Keepers of the Flame launch here.

Unfortunally I did a fresh install after the league launch and then this started to happen.

I've a feeling that is some random Shader problem, since everytime this happen the Shader bar in the metric graphs go to fullload.

Tried several things until now but no one succeed.

Not lucky with:
Fresh Reinstall
Deleting Caches
Switching to DX12, DX11
Vulkan keeps crashing with Excepetion Device Lost error
Drivers are the same I used last league.

GPU: RX 5700 XT
CPU: Ryzen 5600
RAM are running in EXPO but Idk if that matters

The only thing that I didnt tried yet was to disable AMD SmartAccess Memory. Had anyone tried?