PoE 1 and PoE 2 Crashing

Tried playing poe 2 but was getting the crash everyone else was getting on the big threads so I decided to play poe 1. Playing in standard I had zero issues. Played from the beginning until the end. I was able to do maps, delves, heists, everything with no issues but now that I'm trying to play settlers I have been getting the same issues as the ones from poe 2. Got some huge lag spikes as soon as I entered the game and thought it was just cause it was so populated compared to standard but then when I entered prisoner's gate I got some massive stuttering. We're talking one second I was at the entrance next second I was in the middle of a group of mobs. Now, I can't even enter the game with my settlers character. Can we get these issues fixed? Why is it so hard for me to be able to play this game? I started playing poe 1 a week before early access release and now that I understand the game a lot more, I'm excited to play but I'm not allowed to. I was upset about poe2 but I understand it's early access but poe 1 isn't.

cpu : amd ryzen 5 5600G
gpu : RTX3060 Ti
ram : 32GB
OS : Windows 11