Game freezes then auto-pauses for recovery

Bug Report ID: #2,752,239,903
Bug Report ID: #358,247,199

Repeating my previous report from https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3792646
This person seems to be experiencing the same thing: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3820070

The Bug started occurring after the 3.26 patch.
Occurs about once every 20-30 minutes while looking at tooltips, be it ground loot shown by item filter, chat links, character equipment, stashed items.

Duration lasts typically 5-15 seconds. The game window will go black and audio will cut out, then recover often with an auto-pause being triggered. The GGG loading gears will be displayed briefly, sometimes visually distorted while the game recovers visual and audio. I often stop all input during this freeze since it seems to kick me to the login screen if I try to take action.

Map fog of war is reset upon recovery, even in heist where the minimap is revealed.

System Information:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @ 4.0Ghz
GPU: MSI Nvidia RTX 4060
RAM: 32GB
Last bumped on Oct 23, 2025, 9:33:54 PM

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