Game client crashing on port to town only since 0.5 release

Have only played a few hrs in Act one but many crashes of the game client which for me only seem to happen when porting to and from the town.
Some of the crashes required a whole PC restart

I did the following which made things slightly more stable but still getting a crash on porting every 15mins or so.
1. Ran a Steam install file integrity check
2. Updated to latest NVidia driver.
3. Changed in game rendor from DX12 to Vulkan.

I have played every league and new release in early access over the last year or so and never had any crashes before so something must of changed in this release to be causing this?

Posting this as new as the other thread was from 2025.

Played some more. Confirming that the client crash only occurs when porting to and from the main hub towns in Act 1 and now Act 2 its the same.
When porting at the very start of act 2 with no players around in the solo instance "caravan hub" there was no crashing.

I can find and post crash info if that helps.

Crashing about every 10-15mins of play depending on how many trips required back to hub to sort out loot.
Never crashed within a "map" or checkpoint porting within a map.

Now unable to port out of the Caravan hub in act 2.
Crash to desktop whenever I try to port be it waypoint or the campaign map device.
This is immediately after login.
So I guess I will have to wait for more fixes before I can try to play again.

I tried uninstalling and re-installing the game via Steam.
Now even a fresh character causes a crash after just 1 min on the beach!

Now all of my other character crash on login. Even standard league ones. Unable to do anything at all.

Too repeat I never had a single crash before until playing 0.5

If I reduce all video settings to minimum the game still crashes.

I have RTX4090, and 64GB of RAM, all other games are running fine.

UPDATE.

I may of fixed this now by running the Nvidia game optimiser for PoE2.

I just played for about 30mins several ports and no crash. Another new character that crashed before was fine also.

Will test some more tomorrow.

Or maybe this got fixed by the client crash fixes listed in Hotfixes 9 and 10 ?

Still getting client crashes on character login even after Hotfix 9 and 10.
Cannot test porting as unable to login to the game reliably ATM.