Stuttering with DirectX since patch

I have done some testing, and am seeing significant stuttering using directx since the patch, most noticeable when anything is loading.

Every time I enter a zone, textures are reloading. This is causing stutter, and low res textures till enough pop in, including in the hideout. When i get to new enemy packs, it is stuttering every time i see them. It also stutters every time I cast vaal skeletons. This did not occur before today, as everything ran perfect last night.

When I switched to Vulkan, the stuttering stopped. Set it back to directx after this and it started stuttering again.

Rig is running with a 9700k and and RTX 3080,, with PoE on an M.2 SSD, so I don't think it is that. Windows is on recent version, 2004 as well.

Anyone else running into this?

same here

Having the same issues, and Vulkan does not work on my system due to the "No physical devices found" error which has been going on since Vulkan was introduced with no fix.

Glad I am not the only one. I noticed in the patch notes they made changes to texture streaming, I wonder if something there is contributing to this? The loading of textures, and the way they are fuzzy every time I jump into a zone makes me wonder if that's what this is. TBH, I would rather wait longer at first startup for it to load my textures (ya it takes a min or two, and i have invis char while waiting) and the rest of the play session to be smooth than to have a bit lower load time at the start and then have stutters for most of the time.

Not sure if that's simply a DirectX issue - I'm having incredibly slow texture loading with Vulkan. It was already a problem last time I played (Harvest league), but it's much, much worse now.

Goog old PoE, thought I give it a go after several months, and I have the same thing, constant stutters, and horrible texture loading. i9 10900k, 3080, and a Samsung 970 Evo M.2 SSD, it feels much worse than playing back in april last year on an i7 4770k and a 1070.

Game doesn't even load for me on directx anymore, and vulkan just stutters like absolute dog crap.

Same here. Especially when i enter Lioneye's Watch or other NPC Locations

Ryzen 7 2700 and RTX 2070

*Edit: I can also confirm that on Vulkan the Game runs better. Less stuttering and faster loading of environment/texture

well same here on 3080 and a Ryzen 3900XT with 32GB RAM at 5120x1440

*edit can confirm if i switch to vulkan - all fine