Game Crashing Consistently - High End PC

I'm new to POE2 and I recognize the game is in beta, but I was lured to the game by friends who have it and have insisted that my crashes are outside the norm and should be reported.

During gameplay, the screen will freeze and then in solo the game will sometimes reconnect after several seconds and the cog loading screen, or in multiplayer the game will full crash always, sometimes with a deadlock detected error.

The crash doesn't have a rhyme or reason for when it happens either. All maps, alone in hideout with no pets, opening atlas map, big crazy fight, browsing shop.

The issue seems to occur more in the last week and a half of play.
I do use a loot filter and Exiled Exchange, but I've also tried without both and still have the same issue.
Drivers are up to date, I've verified files with steam multiple times, and the game is installed on a high quality NVME separate from the windows drive.

Starting from Nvidia optimized for performance, then quality
What I have tried
Run nothing in the background (just game)
Capped game at 120 FPS
Swapped between Vulkan and DirectX12 renderer back and forth (Vulkan less likely to restore in single player)
Enabled "Dynamic Resolution"
Changed DLSS to Performance (from quality)
Turned shadows to low
Praying to the old gods

I've included system specs and screenshots of setting and two recent crashes below. These crashes were during fights in multiplayer, but I've had it crash during basic nothing too.

Processor
    AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D 16-Core Processor (4.30 GHz)
Installed RAM
    64.0 GB (61.7 GB usable) - DDR5 6400MHz C32
System type
    64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
GPU
    Nvidia 5090 Founder's Edition
SSD
    Crucial T705 in first PCIE slot




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Last edited by GameHIppie#5325 on Jan 8, 2026, 12:33:15 AM
Last bumped on Jan 9, 2026, 9:11:07 PM
Same here. About every 30 minutes game hangs / crashes started since 0.4. Sometimes with deadlock error sometimes without error.

OS: Windows 11
Video: Nvidia 4090
CPU: Intel 12900K
Memory: 32GB DDR5

Please fix / patch ASAP.
Regards.
Try opening up the NVCP, going to Manage 3D Settings and on the Global Settings tab set Shader Cache Size to Unlimited.

It also seems the more you make the GPU work the better it runs.

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