Shaders/DirectX12 huge FPS drop.

im already finished with the league so i don't feel like testing myself but is anyone affected running Windows 11 with the last update + a nvidia GPU?

apparently something broke with the last w11 update and some games got a really nasty performance loss so nvidia had to release a driver hotfix a couple of weeks ago (581.94) has anyone tested this?

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siitting in the same boat but with Vulkan as renderer and without FPS Drops, if its loading and stoping shadering its playing fine.

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perma shadering aka grinding the gear.



Happens from loging to town,
town to hideout, hideou to map, map to grove, grove back to map...etc you get the idea. perma shadering...

Win on NVME, game on another Nvme - both are under 50°C, tested and fully working.
Vulkan, multiple times cleared via Adrenalin and folder AppData\Roaming\Path of Exile\ShaderCacheVulkan

Ryzen 7 9800x3D
+Thermalright Peerless Assassin 140 @50%
Hellhound 9070 XT
Asus TUF B650-E
32 GB DDR5 G.Skill Flare X5 6000 CL30 XMP1
bequiet PP12M 850W
Phanteks XT Pro + 4 BQ Silent Wings 3@50%

Sys Nvme WD black SN850X
Game Nvme Lexar NM790"




https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3872620

Same happening to me since 3.27.0d Hotfix (2025.11.27). The game was fine before that.


5700x3d - 9060 xt - 32gm ram

bump

EDIT:
Contact support, guys. Describe the bug, mention that it's been around for a month, and provide a link to this post. You can find their email by clicking "Contact support" in the upper left corner.

Maybe they'll pay attention if there are a lot of messages.

bump

Bump

We can only hope that they care about optimization and fixing this mess in 3.28.

same problem

BUMP!

Similar issue here with the shaders bar sitting at max during a map.
Game becomes unplayable when killing multiple packs at once.

renderer: vulkan but swapping makes no difference.

9800x3d
64gb
ati radeon 6950xt