Freezing, black gear spinning loading screen, crashing

Hey all, not sure where to go from here. Have researched this on the forums, reddit, and youtube for past 6+ months or so. Several have the exact same issue. This happens in both POE1 and POE2.

My game will randomly freeze/lock up multiple times, and then go to a black screen with gears spinning, sometimes the game comes back other times it crashes. This happens about once every 20 to 30 minuets.

What I have tried:
different servers with and without exitlag (ping is at 11ms)
setting shader to unlimited in nvidia settings
using poeuncrasher
reinstalling game (multiple times)
reinstalling windows (both 10 and 11) on reformatted hard drive
having POE installed on second hardrive that doesnt have windows on it
various settings in the client (dynamic calling/resolution, dlss, fps cap, multithreading)
edit config files to disable things like sound
mtx not used
capping fps to limit shader
emptying every cache file (vulken, DX11, DX12)
trying all 3 options (vulken, DX11, DX12)
different nvidia drivers
different nvidia cards (3080/4080/5070ti)
running as admin with and witout compatibility mode
putting 3 commands into steam launch options
--nologo, preload, etc



My PC is pretty up to date and I have no idea what or where to go from here. Its only this game, doesnt happen in any other game I play. My Specs:

9800X3D (OC)
64GB DDR5 (OC) RAM
5070TI 16GB VRAM



Every other game I can run at max specs and have zero issues on any kind, with POE 1 and 2 this problem is just making the game unplayable. Game has worked fine for me for 5 years, and ever since settlers this issue has been nonstop. I have tried different video cards and memory as well with no resolution. Any help would be incredibly appreciated

Same here. Game will freeze for like 30 seconds, then the spinning cogs will show up, then its 50/50 it either will continue the game, or it will disconnect to main screen. Ryzen 5600 and RTX 3060Ti. Haappens every hour or so. This never happened a year ago when 0.1 came out, also dont remember it happening this much in 0.3.

Edit: sorry, didnt see its for PoE1, came here from google search. But basically same exact thing in PoE2, so its either engine issues or drivers etc.

Youre good. This happens to me in POE2 as well!