(Poe1) ps5 player. Crash after crash.

Played settlers, made a few characters the game worked fine during this period. Jumped on today because I'm excited for the new league. I have a LS slayer with all the trimmings used for mapping, lost all my portals to crashes. How are people avoiding these crashes, these weren't juiced maps btw just incursions. Even tried trials crashes 3 times before the first izaro encounter. Any settings or anything I can change or am I cooked for the new league?

Are you playing on european realms and do you mean crash as in the game closes and you get the PS5 error reporting, or freezing of the game with an unexpected disconnection after some time? Because the latter is unfortunately the norm at the moment.