AMD Radeon driver 26.1.1 still has very long load times

As with other drivers after 25.9.2, the latest 26.1.1 still has very long load times. *sigh*

Using the Vulkan renderer, because the DX12 renderer crashes frequently.

-EDITED to correct version typo-

And not just "a bit", the shaders compile forever. Im at 20+ min waiting for the map to show up instead of the gears. That's one bloody weired problem specific to this game.

Terrible drivers. Game crashed (DriverTimeou) 6 times so far since installed 26.1.1.
And just found more people affected by exact same drivers, and everything happens with PoE2.

https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/amd-software-adrenalin-edition-26-1-1-whql.459135/page-18

Hello,

I copy / paste here, a reply that I did, related to this issue :

Sorry to hear that. Many of us own a similar AMD setup and unfortunately are facing to the same situation. Not improvements have been done at the moment for fixing this issue.

The most efficient way to avoid these crashes is to rollback on drivers flavor Adrenaline 25.9.2 available here : https://www.amd.com/en/resources/support-articles/release-notes/RN-RAD-WIN-25-9-2.html


I hope it will improve your poe2 gaming experience.