Graphics driver/Game crash in Act 1 with AMD

I had repeated crashes on act 1, in the tombs at the cemetery. The driver version is 24.12.1. I have no clue what is going on, but I will not verify the data and post if that changes anything.

Should have a log file in

Program Files (x86)\Grinding Gear Games\Path of Exile 2\logs

Can just search "CRIT Client" or "WARN Client" to see what's exactly happening. I do want to warn, that the log saves EVERYTHING, including what's being said in chat., So it might be a bit big to open.

I might have found the reason for the crash. I found this on several timestamps for today.

2025/04/05 16:15:49 261626265 93b1b552 [CRIT Client 5284] [RENDER] Shader uses incorrect vertex layout (shader: 0x00000218 mesh: 0x00000208)
Signature: "Metadata/EngineGraphs/base.fxgraph" "Metadata/EngineGraphs/GpuParticles/render_default.fxgraph" "Metadata/EngineGraphs/GpuParticles/Conversion/render_downscale.fxgraph" "Metadata/EngineGraphs/GpuParticles/Conversion/lock_mode.fxgraph" "Metadata/EngineGraphs/GpuParticles/Conversion/render_gravity.fxgraph" "Metadata/EngineGraphs/GpuParticles/Conversion/face_camera.fxgraph" "Metadata/EngineGraphs/GpuParticles/render_transform.fxgraph" "Metadata/EngineGraphs/GpuParticles/render_flip_normal.fxgraph" "Metadata/Effects/Graphs/General/BasicColour.fxgraph" "Metadata/Effects/Graphs/General/Ambient.fxgraph" "Metadata/Effects/Graphs/General/FlipbookOld.fxgraph" "Metadata/Effects/Graphs/General/DarkenTex.fxgraph"

Shader issue, only thing we can do on our end is to delete the cache folder and let it redownload it all and hope it fixes it.

C:\Users\YOURCOMPUTERNAMEHERE\AppData\Roaming\Path of Exile 2 and delete the cache located there.

For me it's ShaderCacheVulkan.

I deleted the cache and it still crashed. Did it again and will try playing.
I also foudn out that my game can not run in DX12, it runs in DX11. Vulkan doesn´t work eighter when I choose it the game just crashes.

I don´t really know howm but the game runs and it runs with Vulkan. It also runs mostly stable. There was maybe one or two crashes.