Deadlock Detected

Happening again.

I think i found a pattern : sometimes, the MEM and VRAM values shown when pressing F1 seem to be stuck at 2.1GB, the game become laggy and "Deadlock Detected" error appears. When this happens, both CPU's and GPU's latency gets a x10 multiplier (this is a nerf).
Then, without any action from my side, these value are allowed to go higher and the game runs smoothly.
Then this 2.1GB cap appears again.
Last edited by Freredacier#2113 on Mar 21, 2026, 3:18:00 PM
Not been able to play since the beginning of this league. I have this message from the start. Cannot avoid and even put it on the side as my screen freeze.
I switched to Vulkan and it stopped crashing. Hope this helps others.
Just got another dealock error. This time, on my gaming laptop. SO, 2 different computers, 2 different configurations, 2 different ISPS and 2 different states/servers.
issue has been fixed now they patched it
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Follow up to my last post in this thread, crash seems to just be specific to vulkan for now, dx12 doesn't crash anymore. Guess i'll take the performance hit when using dx12 to at least be able to play the game.


deadlock happened to me yesterday first time ever and since than game is unplayable i have 2 crashes per map. I was using vulcan and today switched to dx12 and i did already 2 maps withot failure. I dont know is it luck or switching helps
Just had another "Deadlock Detected" crash as well - followed as per the thread. Nothing placing load on the system, was in my hideout as well. Haven't had a chance to play yet today
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Now: Pathfinder CA / TRM ( Path of Evening hybrid ) Also trying out a Jug Boneshatter (Jorgen) build
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I might have found band-aid solution for this!!

I did the following things and the game started to "work"

1. windows updates ---> Update history ---> uninstall all expect security updates.
I only have updates from this year so I guess its fine to leave older ones if you have some there.

2. Reinstall gpu drivers with ddu

3. use dx12 in game.
This hit the performance badly but I guess its better than nothing

I hope this will help some of you.
Last edited by LaNSa#2186 on Mar 24, 2026, 1:28:04 PM
Continuing to observe. Without leaving the game, I haven't had any errors or crashes for 4 days now. I just used the window-only screen mode.
Been having this issue since the league started...multiple times daily.

Can't see any pattern to it all other than it seems to only happen when attempting to load instances - but within that, no pattern apparently. Going into maps, TP'ing back to HO, trying to load Kingsmarch/wherever all have it happening.

Seems others have it worse but it's frequent enough for me that it's really getting annoying. My GF is having the issue as well in about the same situation, but more frequently than me.

I've seen some folks saying this was being investigated and/or that it's been "addressed" in some patch recently. I'm seeing no difference now than I did day-one. Never had it happen before this current league.

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