Everything awesome but crashing big time

New trade awesome
semi decent crafting awesome
4th act awesome
abyss awesome
lvling feels a bit harsh but good challenging
support gems changes awesome
late game needs a lot of stuff possibilities are endless thou (I personally like the towers and the whole heroes 3 maplike feel bring back memories)
I would personally add that from act 1-3 u can change skill tree for free, you can let ppl really try stuff out maybe lower gold drops but from couple of my friend who never played poe 1 this feels very weird and contraindicatory to what is it that you really try to tell the players to do make hard permanent choices without trying out stuff and no really way how to really know before you select the choice (this feels that you are punished for not following builds and meta skill from people on youtube) or let them really try thing out for themselves
that is my main complain if you will
and last but no least (very much so not least)
is the performance issues I never had any problem with crashing and performance in general (0,1 and 0,2 were both with mild mostly server problems)

this time on the other hand I had very very many problems with game crashing from simple crash and some note about keeping something alive and that I should try to stream just the game window (even when no streaming at all) but that one was let's say mild since game was paused and even let me back exactly where I was

but map issues were far more severe constant death in maps every crash I died -10% and even many instance of me dying let to no being able to get to map even though I have many portals left

this whole ordeal made me reinstall the game several times install like 6 different GPU drivers chipset drivers 2 trade macros and 6 days of constat hell trying to get the game I love to work with no avail and no success ( sometimes I was able to run 6-10 maps with no issues sometimes I got 3 crashes in map)

For me and my system this patch was huge miss I had to stop playing all together and I am very sorry even dare to say heartbroken since I really like the game so much

I love most of the changes some skill underperform so badly and focus on meta skills is huge but that is mostly balance and content problem which you can deal with easily

but those crashes man

keep up the good work beast of luck to the whole devs team
(mainly backend troubleshooters :D )

Anyways that is all I had to say

Disable shader cache in gpu drivers, restart pc, delete nv/amd shader cache somewhere in %appdata% also with path of exile 2 folder there and if you are running on steam, delete shadercache folder in steam/steamapps. Then reenable shader cache in gpu drivers and set it to 100gb or unlimited. Restart pc and play game. It will slutter like crazy and loading times will be slow, but... it improves more as you play. Because you finally allow game to have infinite space for caching and it will start remembering everything you see in game and storing it on disk. Before this fix game was constantly compiling shaders and then forgetting them running in loop and wasting your cpu performance. Shader is instruction how game should draw something on screen and without space for them this game tends to runs very slow and crash or freeze when it didnt compile fast enough shaders to draw something you see. Default shader cache is like 1gb for all games on your pc. But this game use like 20gb so after every few maps game will forget how to display something. And when it doesnt know, it micro pause game and compile shader aka slutter. If it is unsuccesful it crash or freeze. You need to do this fix only once. Enjoy the game and if u need help, i know even more tricks. ;)

I'll try this when i came home. Thanks for your time. It bothers me that in 0.1 i have not a single crash/freeze but since 0.2 i get those annoying freezes that restart my minimap.

In any case, I have more tricks in my sleeve if this doesn't help. I run 158 fps rock stable and only ultra endgame maps are dropping some fps. But it took me few days trying, but atleast for NVidia users I can run it pretty well and for AMD there should be similar settings. Anyone feel free to PM me and I Can help on Discord.

The shading thing doesn't help, it's here since 0.1 but I started crashing in 0.3...never had crashes before, using old drivers or switching to Vulkan doesn't help.

The early game tree reset idea actually makes a lot of sense. New players often get lost in the huge passive tree, and making permanent choices without testing feels punishing. Allowing some freedom before Act 4 could help people experiment and stick with the game longer.