Constant crashes in PoE2 since patch 0.3

Hi GGG team and community,

Since the 0.3 patch in Path of Exile 2, I’ve been experiencing frequent and consistent crashes. Before this patch, I had around 900 hours in the game and never encountered such issues. This problem appears regardless of whether I use Vulkan, DirectX 12, or DirectX 11 – nothing seems to help. I’ve tried updating all drivers, verifying game files, and running the game in different graphics APIs, but crashes persist. They occur randomly during gameplay every single few minutes and make it almost impossible to play since the patch.
Has anyone else experienced similar issues after 0.3? Any advice, workarounds, or potential fixes would be greatly appreciated. I know many people experienced crashes and I hope the devs can look into it soon, as the game was, lets say, stable (it wasnt optimized for sure but yeah i wasnt that bad) for hundreds of hours prior to this patch.

Thanks in advance.

GPU: RTX 4070 Super
CPU: Ryzen 7 9800 X3D
RAM: 32 GB
OS: Windows 10

Found this in another thread, fixed it all for me. Performance isn't perfect, but no crashes, and it is playing way better.

Remove file: poe2_production_Config.ini
in directory c:\user\<user>\Documents\My Games\Path of Exile 2

Essentially, this resets all the settings in the game. But the graphic settings that it automatically sets for me fixed the constant issues. Basically, it reset things to use DX12, Native Res, NIS, and settings all on high. Before I did this, too, I completely reinstalled the game.

I wasn't able to get through the end of Act 3 until this fix last night.

Same here bro is impossible to play, every map i do crashes, i start to think its my pc, but this never happened, waiting for some help...

Can you post a screenshot of your graphics settings from within the game?

I'm going to test removing that file and will let you guys know. Screenshots of my settings won’t help because I’ve already tested every single option, and it’s not about them. Setting "Channel Count" to LOW improved performance for a while, but in the long term, it was illusory, I think.
I also suspected it might be caused by my item filter (I’ve made 1,300 changes from the original), but I played without it and it was the same, so I’m not sure. After removing the file, I did half a map and a crash occurred, so I think that option doesn’t work for me—but it was only a short test.
Now I’ve removed that file again and am reinstalling the game for the third time. We’ll see how it goes…

And btw my driver is - 581.15 from 28 August

same here, i have to give up this game because of the crashes

The same thing is happening here after patch 0.3c. Memory usage goes from 50GB to 60GB, and the game crashes.
I've already deleted the My Games\Path of Exile 2 folder, and it still didn't work.
I've tried the Steam and GGG client versions, and the problem persists.
Out of nowhere, memory usage reaches the machine's limit, and the game crashes.

+1.
i got a crash message that said it was trying to access memory at 0x0000000000000etc
basically a null pointer. There's definitely bugs.
I also kept crashing on game load. Switching from Vulkan to DX12 appears to have fixed it, but who knows what the real issue is. My drivers are like a year out of date
I've also had issues where it feels like the game uses up all my ram, 32gb and my pc chugs for minutes at a time when this game is involved.

I solved this problem.

Open command prompt in administrator mode.
And run this command for remove update KB5065426

wusa /uninstall /kb:5065426