Game crashing when loading into maps

POE 1 Keepers League Softcore

Intel i9-12900, 2400Mhz, 16 cores
16GB RAM
500GB SSD (mounted on M/board)
NVidia Geforce RTX 2060

Ive played all league fine from early maps to basic strats to some juiced strats, until last night

Loaded a t16 defiled cathedral map with an atlas with Deli, Beyond and Harvest on, with scarabs supporting same. Clicked on first portal to go in, game changed to loading screen, the gear turned, then stopped turning and the game crashed

I.e. I never went into the map, the game crashed on the loading screen before entering the map. The map was a rare t16 map, not 8-mod or anything fancy

This kept happening till I used up most portals, every time crashing before loading in

Thried another Defiled Cathedral maps, same problem

Today I tried again on a defiled Cathedral map and the same happened
Then I tried a Racecourse map and it went in first portal, no issues, andthere were no further issues in that map

At this time I had not changed and game / graphics settings

I was on Vulkan at the time, most settings on default

After this I changed to a destructive play atlas and ran a couple guardian maps and all was fine

Loaded a Baran t14 Racecourse map, rare, nothing special. With the first 4 portals the game crashed once again on the loading screen, before entering the map. Every time I had to log into the game again. Then the 5th portal I could go in and complete most of the map, died to the destructive play bosses

Then tried to go back in with the 6th portal and it crashed on loading screen again

I have since changed to DX12 to see if there will be some improvement

Note that earlier in the league I had a few occasions where I crashed while trying to teleport to a player hideout to purchase items from his merchant / shop. This happened very randomly and most of the time just going to another player fixed the issues, so nothing was reported as I did not think its serious, but could be related

Any assistance or attention to a possible bug would be appreciated

The same issue is happening on t16 Racecourse Baran maps as well

After the last crash I logged a bug report in game

Bug Report ID: #1 861 757 680

Update:

I have tried a couple different Baran maps and all crash on the loading screen before entering the map and thus I cant complete the Maven's Invitation: The Elderslayers

I have also encountered the same problem with the Rewritten Distant Memory. I can do all the other Synth maps, but not rewritten, as the game crashes on the loading screen and thus I also cannot complete the Maven's Invitation: The Forgotten