BUG Frequent 20-30 Game Freeze + map reset (multiple players affected).

Experiencing the same issue, using GeForce now ultimate tier. Game freezes, pauses and map is reset. Happens very frequently, at least once per map, usually after engaging large pack of mobs with lots of effects.

Also experience the same issue with DX12, I just swapped to vulkan and that solved it for me.

For anyone who has tried every renderer and still has freezes, try disabling hyperthreading in the bios. It was the only thing that stopped the freeze-crash for me.

I really cant believe GGG hasn't pushed any patches for a week to fix this. This crap wouldn't have flown on Chris's watch.

bounce for blue's attention.

first map today ...i got frozen (and reentered the game, no death but minimap black again)

This happens to me since 0.2

same issue here , about twice an hour (geforce user , don't know if there's a relation).

in map, i prefer to alt F4 to hope not to die (pressing ESC doesnt help !)

Really annoying , especially when it happens on the one big juiced map i was waiting for.... and die because of it....

Game was fine for me this afternoon (like 5 hours ago). Now its just constantly stuttering.

I was chasing an issue related to FPS degradation (thread here - https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3842642/page/2) that I thought got an interesting reply from Nvidia when I ran into this exact issue.

I posted this somewhere else, as well as sending in a support request to GGG and Nvidia. From Nvidia side they're chasing the GPU boost clock exceeding specs (I think it's a red herring but I'm waiting for feedback from the laptop Mfg), but the client.txt output it seems to be like the engine stops recognizing the GPU and it needs to restart it.

I'm unsure if this is solely related to Nvidia, the laptop 4070 or if it's a general game engine issue across all gpu's and API's. I've only experienced this in DX12, I've not tried Vulkan. And despite the GPU boost issue mentioned by Nvidia, I've not experienced this kind of crashes on ANY OTHER GAME - even when setting them to Ultra+++ settings.

Here's the other thread where I reported this: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3836453

Specs in case it helps:
Computer Information:
Manufacturer: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
Model: ASUS TUF Gaming A16 FA608WI_FA608WI
Form Factor: Laptop
No Touch Input Detected
Processor Information:
CPU Vendor: AuthenticAMD
CPU Brand: AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 w/ Radeon 890M
CPU Family: 0x1a
CPU Model: 0x24
CPU Stepping: 0x0
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 1996 MHz
24 logical processors
12 physical processors
Hyper-threading: Supported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Supported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported
AES: Supported
AVX: Supported
AVX2: Supported
AVX512F: Supported
AVX512PF: Unsupported
AVX512ER: Unsupported
AVX512CD: Supported
AVX512VNNI: Supported
SHA: Supported
CMPXCHG16B: Supported
LAHF/SAHF: Supported
PrefetchW: Unsupported
BMI1: Supported
BMI2: Supported
F16C: Supported
FMA: Supported
Operating System Version:
Windows 11 (64 bit)
NTFS: Supported
Crypto Provider Codes: Supported 311 0x0 0x0 0x0
Client Information:
Version: 1757650573
Browser GPU Acceleration Status: Enabled
Browser Canvas: Enabled
Browser Canvas out-of-process rasterization: Enabled
Browser Direct Rendering Display Compositor: Disabled
Browser Compositing: Enabled
Browser Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
Browser OpenGL: Enabled
Browser Rasterization: Enabled
Browser Raw Draw: Disabled
Browser Skia Graphite: Disabled
Browser Video Decode: Enabled
Browser Video Encode: Enabled
Browser Vulkan: Disabled
Browser WebGL: Enabled
Browser WebGL2: Enabled
Browser WebGPU: Enabled
Browser WebNN: Disabled
Video Card:
Driver: AMD Radeon(TM) 890M Graphics
DirectX Driver Name: nvldumd.dll
Driver Version: 32.0.21025.1024
DirectX Driver Version: 32.0.15.8129
Driver Date: 7 24 2025
Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
DirectX Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x2860
Revision: 0xa1
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
No SLI or Crossfire Detected
Primary Display Resolution: 2560 x 1600
Desktop Resolution: 2560 x 1600
Primary Display Size: 13.54" x 8.46" (15.94" diag), 34.4cm x 21.5cm (40.5cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 8x
Primary VRAM: 512 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x
Sound card:
Audio device: Speakers (Realtek(R) Audio)
Memory:
RAM: 31816 Mb

+1

Yup still game still freezing/crashing every map, sometimes twice per map, after trying every fix offered on the internet for this issue. Very frustrating, especially when playing in a group with my homie. I have rage quit many times over the last 3 weeks for this issue when sometimes it will happen 5-6 times in one hour. Why do I always get up the next day and login? :-/ F

Last night I was actually able to play for 5-6 hours with only 1 game freeze, and in that instance I didn't even have to close the game like I normally do, it actually came back on it's own after 20 seconds. The inconsistent behavior makes NO sense to me. Makes me feel that it's some how on the server side as opposed to being a bug/problem with my GPU/driver.