I die mostly to techical issues and bugs. Optimalization

Recently it was at least 6 deaths, one of which was my fault.
I am listing death types that actually happened to present a variety of technical issues.

DEATHS AND ISSUES
1. PoE stops responding. I had to close it. When re-opened from alt-tab during like always a very long loading time, I here and see my character dieing with monsters moving around. Gold map lost

2. Some explosion kills me, but it was not visible effect at all. I am not sure what was most-recent, but eg. I am getting consistently siren whirpools invisible.

3. Invisible monsters around kill me with melee attacks.

4 (death?). Playing with a friend on a unique map with delirium, we both experienced extreme and rapidly increasing stutters to a point of a game crash. Going back to the game was a comeback to the hideout, map lost.

Invisible effects and monsters are a daily issue for me.
My current build is much squishier than what I've played before and I am being forced to stop playing in a desired way.


MY TAKE ABOUT IT
I've put a lot of effort and time to optimize settings. I've noticed game changes them on its own a lot. I was able to force launching with dx 12 through steam settings, but when it comes to sound chanell it changes on it's own to "speakers" instead of headphones, while retaining proper (low) channel count.

CPU usage used to be maxed, but it is much more stable now. VRAM is certainly working awfuly hard too, but I can controll it well enough in other modern games (Clair Obscure Eexpedition 33) - I do have enough disc space for graphic card to use it if needed too. I suppose RAM usage itself may be misshandled the most, I can hardly believe this game needs this much RAM as it shows (could it be used as VRAM in same way as a disc space?).

I know some will say my PC is just too weak, but lowering settings further changes nothing for the better. I am surprised how well my setup holds too.

If you'd like to take a look, GGG - I'd be willing to record issues I talk about. There were specific settings during which I had to controll RAM usage and displaying anything on discord / in browser in order for the game to perform properly, but right now I think I should be able to record it easily (I can stream the game on discord without lagging).

SETTINGS AND PC SPECS
2K 166 FPS
i5-9400F
Gigabyte Aorus GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB
SSD 860 EVO 1TB
B365 D3H-CF
HyperX 16GB 2666MHz Fury Black CL16 (2x8GB)


My graphic settings

Example of an invisible boss - luckily, this time it happened just when he died.