Syndicate Freezes, Stutters/Drops Frames Severely

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Having issues with syndicate. Here is DxDiag.

https://pastebin.com/Ae2zsiwz

Standalone client

EDIT: Tried using --noasync and it seems to have helped. I still experience quite a lot of lag when syndicate encounters happen, but I did not completely freeze for several seconds.

https://pastebin.com/K2PQ1thY

steam

I hope you fix this soon. I love Poe and i'm a actively playing since Perandus.

But this League is just not fun. And in addition to that i can't even enjoy the core game (and ignoring the league mechanic) because i crash or die everytime i get Betrayal in a map. This league is nearly 2 weeks old. Still no fixes. Normally i'd have 2 characters already past 90, atlas done long ago and farming/grinding. Now i'm barely past 80 on my first one in tier 4 maps. And everytime i log on, i log off on my first Betrayal death...

Don't even want to know how bad it must feel on HC.

Every single time syndicate spawns i crash and i die.
I think im done with this league.

its a shame they havnt fixed it or removed the useless content from the game.

in hc i have to skip every map with betrayal encounters and so its nearly impossible to sustain maps.

instant logout/closing client helps but im not sure if i continue if its that what ggg intends us to do when we are facing content.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2467350/page/1

Some potential fixes coming at the end of the week.

https://pastebin.com/CcuQmHHd

Steam
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