100% crashing with Vulkan even on login screen, DX12 works fine

PoE2 standalone client, already tried PackCheck.exe - no errors.
Looks like it started after I cleaned NVIDIA and PoE shader caches: they were clean and now the game crashes while trying to recreate them. I've cleaned the caches because they started taking more than 50Gb.
Why I want Vulkan: because PoE Overlay does not work for me in DX12 mode and VK mode feels snappier.

My pc is pretty decent: Ryzen 5800x, 32Gb ram, RTX 3080 10Gb

The log file ends with this:

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2026/02/05 17:44:44 974500 cb0f9693 [INFO Client 23600] [STREAMLINE][DLSS]: Loaded version 2.4.10 (NGX: 3.7.10)
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974500 cb0f9693 [INFO Client 23600] [STREAMLINE][Reflex]: Loaded version 2.4.10 (NGX: 0.0.0)
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974500 cb0f9693 [INFO Client 23600] [STREAMLINE][PCL]: Loaded version 2.4.10 (NGX: 0.0.0)
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974500 cb0f9752 [INFO Client 23600] [STREAMLINE][NIS]: Loaded proxy version
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974500 cb0f9752 [INFO Client 23600] [STREAMLINE][FSR]: Loaded proxy version
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974500 cb0f9752 [INFO Client 23600] [STREAMLINE][XeSS]: Loaded proxy version
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974500 cb0f9752 [INFO Client 23600] [STREAMLINE][PSSR]: Loaded proxy version
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974500 cb0f9771 [INFO Client 23600] [STREAMLINE][DLSS] Enabled: true
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974500 4436f5ae [INFO Client 23600] [STREAMLINE][Reflex] Reflex Low Latency: ON
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974500 4436f5ad [INFO Client 23600] [STREAMLINE][Reflex] Reflex Flash Indicator: ON
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974500 cb0f9771 [INFO Client 23600] [STREAMLINE][Reflex] Enabled: true
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974500 cb0f9771 [INFO Client 23600] [STREAMLINE][PCL] Enabled: true
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974500 cb0f9771 [INFO Client 23600] [STREAMLINE][NIS] Enabled: true
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974500 cb0f977e [INFO Client 23600] [STREAMLINE][FSR] Enabled: true
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974500 cb0f977e [INFO Client 23600] [STREAMLINE][XeSS] Enabled: false
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974500 cb0f977e [INFO Client 23600] [STREAMLINE][PSSR] Enabled: false
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974500 81f51949 [INFO Client 23600] [VULKAN] Init SwapChain = 3440x1440
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974515 db2b0b3e [INFO Client 23600] [VULKAN] Supported present mode = Fifo
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974515 db2b0b3e [INFO Client 23600] [VULKAN] Supported present mode = FifoRelaxed
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974515 db2b0b3e [INFO Client 23600] [VULKAN] Supported present mode = Mailbox
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974515 db2b0b3e [INFO Client 23600] [VULKAN] Supported present mode = Immediate
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974515 db2b0b3e [INFO Client 23600] [VULKAN] Supported present mode = invalid ( 3ba04c28 )
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974515 b14ee0aa [INFO Client 23600] [VULKAN] Min Image Count = 3
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974515 b14ee0ab [INFO Client 23600] [VULKAN] Present mode = FifoRelaxed
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974515 db2b16d2 [INFO Client 23600] [VULKAN] SwapChain = 3440x1392
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974671 3a81fdab [DEBUG Client 23600] [WINDOW] TriggerDeviceCreate
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974687 bdc24083 [INFO Client 23600] [EShop Request] Attempting to request site settings
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974687 3a81fd4d [DEBUG Client 23600] [WINDOW] TriggerDeviceReset
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974687 81f4eac5 [DEBUG Client 23600] [VULKAN] ResizeBuffers
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974687 81f51900 [DEBUG Client 23600] [VULKAN] ReinitSwapChain
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974687 81f51949 [INFO Client 23600] [VULKAN] Init SwapChain = 3440x1440
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974687 db2b0b3e [INFO Client 23600] [VULKAN] Supported present mode = Fifo
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974687 db2b0b3e [INFO Client 23600] [VULKAN] Supported present mode = FifoRelaxed
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974687 db2b0b3e [INFO Client 23600] [VULKAN] Supported present mode = Mailbox
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974687 db2b0b3e [INFO Client 23600] [VULKAN] Supported present mode = Immediate
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974687 db2b0b3e [INFO Client 23600] [VULKAN] Supported present mode = invalid ( 3ba04c28 )
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974687 db2b0b3e [INFO Client 23600] [VULKAN] Supported present mode = Fifo
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974687 db2b0b3e [INFO Client 23600] [VULKAN] Supported present mode = FifoRelaxed
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974687 db2b0b3e [INFO Client 23600] [VULKAN] Supported present mode = Mailbox
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974687 db2b0b3e [INFO Client 23600] [VULKAN] Supported present mode = Immediate
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974687 db2b0b3e [INFO Client 23600] [VULKAN] Supported present mode = invalid ( 3ba04c28 )
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974687 b14ee0aa [INFO Client 23600] [VULKAN] Min Image Count = 3
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974687 b14ee0ab [INFO Client 23600] [VULKAN] Present mode = FifoRelaxed
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974687 db2b16d2 [INFO Client 23600] [VULKAN] SwapChain = 3440x1440
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974734 3a81fd4d [DEBUG Client 23600] [WINDOW] TriggerDeviceReset
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974734 bdfe0bdf [INFO Client 23600] [STARTUP] Device in 2.20892 seconds
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974734 bdfe0c38 [INFO Client 23600] [STARTUP] Tencent Start
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974734 bdfe0bdf [INFO Client 23600] [STARTUP] Tencent in 1.6e-05 seconds
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974734 bdfe0c38 [INFO Client 23600] [STARTUP] None Start
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974734 bdfe0bdf [INFO Client 23600] [STARTUP] None in 1.4e-05 seconds
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974734 bdfe0c38 [INFO Client 23600] [STARTUP] Loading Start
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974734 bdfe0bdf [INFO Client 23600] [STARTUP] Loading in 0.000909 seconds
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974734 bdfe0c38 [INFO Client 23600] [STARTUP] DebugGUI Start
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974734 bdfe0bdf [INFO Client 23600] [STARTUP] DebugGUI in 1.5e-05 seconds
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974734 7fbd122e [INFO Client 23600] [SCENE] Set Source [(unknown)]
2026/02/05 17:44:44 974750 99240e14 [DEBUG Client 23600] [SCENE] Height Map Texture: 525 x 3000
2026/02/05 17:44:45 974812 b394b073 [INFO Client 23600] [ENGINE] Reset static
2026/02/05 17:44:47 977609 64a60fe5 [WARN Client 23600] Failed to create effect graph node (ID: 1428025895). Node type does not exist
2026/02/05 17:44:47 977609 35d98e36 [WARN Client 23600] Failed to create effect graph node "VertexFlipBookOffset" in graph "Metadata/Effects/Graphs/General/FlipbookOld.fxgraph"


Last edited by xumix#3623 on Feb 5, 2026, 9:54:45 AM
Last bumped on Feb 5, 2026, 10:05:38 AM
Okay, so the culprit was PoE2 Overlay. As soon as I quit it, the game started working fine.

I don't know what happened because it was working fine together for months.

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