Launch Issue and Frame Stuttering After Playing

I currently am having 2 separate issues:

1. The game will not "launch" with Vulkan as the renderer. It will open and I can see my cursor change, but it is stuck on a black screen and nothing happens. I can change the renderer in game and things will be fine. But if I restart, I won't get past the load screen. I had to manually edit the config file to DirectX12 to even open the game.

2. Will be playing the game normally with a good frame rate (>100FPS most of the time.) when I will suddenly start having severe "stuttering". (Seems to be ~20mins or so into playing and I can't identify a cause.)

What's interesting is the "stuttering" is linked to character movement. If I take my hands off mouse/keyboard, will go back to buttery smooth, high frame rates. If I move with WASD or even just rotate direction with mouse, frame rates plummet/stutter. Graph shows my CPU times spiking when this occurs. Usually in the single digits for CPU, but when this issue appears, CPU times shoot up to >50ms.

Ryzen 5950x
Nvidia RTX 3090

For issue 1. I noted an error in my client.txt file:

2024/12/06 15:05:58 467678 db2b0f7b [INFO Client 292] [VULKAN] acquire: vk::Device::acquireNextImageKHR: ErrorOutOfDateKHR

This seems to be the same error in the Vulkan VkResult() documents - VK_ERROR_OUT_OF_DATE_KHR.

I think this might be something to do with the screen/game resizing on launch. This would also make sense since I can change the renderer post launch and not have any issues.

Issue 2. I am still investigating. The timing of it seems repeatable (~20-30 minutes) but I haven't yet documented things to confirm.

Looks like the 2nd issue is similar to the one I'm having: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3609878

Do you happen to also play on Linux?

For issue 2 - After timing a few instances, the stuttering seems to consistently start around 35 minutes after starting my client and will remain until I restart.

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Mittomain#1557 wrote:

Looks like the 2nd issue is similar to the one I'm having: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3609878

Do you happen to also play on Linux?

Yes I do play on Linux as well. FYI, I managed to find a post on ProtoDB that said to ENABLE Steam Overlay and the stuttering goes away. Normally, it's the opposite...

I enabled Steam overlay for PoE2 and I've now gone >1.5hrs without any stuttering or issues. (Beside still needing to run DirectX12 instead of Vulkan.)

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Yes I do play on Linux as well. FYI, I managed to find a post on ProtoDB that said to ENABLE Steam Overlay and the stuttering goes away. Normally, it's the opposite...

I enabled Steam overlay for PoE2 and I've now gone >1.5hrs without any stuttering or issues. (Beside still needing to run DirectX12 instead of Vulkan.)

Cool, I'll try that myself as well.
As for DX12, I've tried it, but it causes crashes for now, and it doesn't seem to be Linux related (just check this forum, there are a lot of reports about it).

It worked, alternatively you can also set LD_PRELOAD="" in launch options instead of activating steam overlay.