Crash to desktop after changing to Vulkan
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I get crashes that send me directly to the desktop after changing from DX12 to Vulkan.
I was not satisfied with DX12 performance and wanted to change to Vulkan. At first I had less stutters and smoother gameplay but now I crash almost instantly in any zone as soon as monsters appear and I hit them. I have a i5 12600k paired with a fairly new AMD RX 9070 XT which has served me well in PoE2 and other games. I tried deleting the shader folders but this changed nothing. Also tried veryfying integrity of game files on steam. Any suggestions? Perhaps from people with similar hardware? Last edited by Reptyl#5808 on Mar 26, 2026, 1:06:18 PM Last bumped on Apr 2, 2026, 4:04:28 PM
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Yeah, same here 9070XT - DX 12 is ok, but Vulcan is crashing
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You're not alone, my situation is exactly the same (except AMD cpu). Changing to Vulcan for performance, on a 9070XT, crashes to desktop without error message. Was playing fine for a few days before. Didn't update any drivers in the meantime.
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" try to remove older shaders from Steam\steamapps\shadercache\238960 < if u using steam ...... this is other location for poe . the other thing is the new drivers are f up again on my rx5700tx i roll back to 25.12.1 good luck frend Last edited by Pavel636#4575 on Apr 2, 2026, 4:05:00 PM
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