Bug vulkan since last patch

my screen goes black and textures jump in and out since the last patch

i tried direct x11 but i guess massive fps drop and it's unplayable.
directx12 has no proper textures loaded like i was in super low quality for 3d models so not really nice to play.

and vulkan is full black glitch.

https://imgur.com/a/twKucao

im on vulcan too and since a while loading times are crap af
with stucking into loading screen and hear sounds already while loading

and if new logged in (new poe process) textures are innvisible or hideout is black.

example:






reference number after log in and joining hideout:
2.537.589.566

I have a similar issue, whenever I tab out and alt tab back into the game, or bring up Awakened Trade overlay, the game flickers to black except for HUD and name tags of characters, the minimap also rehides itself as if its a new area (pretty annoying to deal with when trying to run logbooks).

I've just booted the game again now, and now the flashing black screen is now constant from the moment I spawned in Karui Shores to my hideout. When I tried to change from fullscreen windowed to windowed, nothing changed, but when I clicked 'Revert changes' instead of 'Keep', it fixed it. But now after tabbing back into the game while typing this reply, the black screen flickering is back.

The weird thing is, yesterday the game was fine, yet I decided to update my GPU drivers as this whole league I've had a weird issue where if im tabbed out of the game for more than say, 20-30 minutes and alt tab back in, the fps drops to single digits and stutters like crazy and is completely unplayable until I load a new area via portal scroll to hideout or open a new map or teleport to an act area etc. I haven't updated my GPU driver in months since I havent bought any new games since Forza Horizon 5, im now currently on the newest Nvidia driver for GTX 1070.

Ref number is 440,974,032

Edit: Switching from Vulcan to DX11 'fixes it', but the performance sucks and bringing up menus and interfaces is stuttery and lags a bit (such as engaging with Expedition vendors) and overall is not as smooth as Vulcan.

I currently have a similar issue.

For me, it was caused by updating nvidia's drivers (didn't remember the one I used before but update to the last one available for GTX 1060).

As temp fix I choose to go for DX12 but it's less smooth than Vulkan. Also DX11 is totally unplayable because of huge quality drop due to Dynamic Resolution.


edit : rolling back to nvidia 516.40 solve the problem. Waiting new driver patch to see if the problem persist. Also worth to mention that I had issue in others games than poe due to the driver update.

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Lyneia wrote:

I currently have a similar issue.

For me, it was caused by updating nvidia's drivers (didn't remember the one I used before but update to the last one available for GTX 1060).

As temp fix I choose to go for DX12 but it's less smooth than Vulkan. Also DX11 is totally unplayable because of huge quality drop due to Dynamic Resolution.

Yeah I think it's a Nvidia driver issue. As the issue for me happened after I updated to the latest driver which I hadn't done since last November lol.

Had a powercut all day so gonna revert to a version before the newest and see if that works tomorrow.

Edit: Rolling to an older Nvidia driver fixed the Vulcan issue for me.

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WhoMans wrote:

Edit: Rolling to an older Nvidia driver fixed the Vulcan issue for me.

ive installed newest nvidia vulcan beta driver and now it seems like loading times are down from 20sec to 3sec without black or transparent areas.