Bug: Game stops responding for ~5 secs every ~30 mins

Bug Report ID: #2874348978

Every 20-30 minutes or so, the game stops responding for 4-5 seconds. Sound keeps playing, but visual freeze. The instance seems to pause, and then the 2-gear spinner animation shows and the game comes back. I rarely die when this happens, monsters seem to pause. I only died once, to Xesht (RIP) when one of his attacks was already in progress when it happened. Usually the monsters wait while this happens.

It's very consistent, happens regularly during play but doesn't usually kill me so its not so bad. My internet is fine (wired gigabit fiber, US West, Seattle) and my computer is responsive when it happens, I can alt-tab out and back. Clicking or pressing any keyboard keys causes the windows "Not Responding" dialog to come up, so it seems like the game is stuck in a loop or waiting on the main thread.

Also: the minimap clears out when this happens.

same as here https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3781130 so you not the only 1

I am shocked that GGG has not fixed these faults in their engine yet. Been an awful experience since 0.2 came out.

I have the same issue, game runs fine otherwise. Been checking the graphs of both PoE2 and my PC to see if its something thats happening there, but so far no luck however.

same here I tried many things like rolling back drivers but it didn't work... it's actually making me lose the will of playing

sometimes i dies couse of that bug,and dying on 97 lvl not fun at all ((( ...any fix ?

Update: this seemed to fix it for me
https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1hf1m41/potential_fix_for_poe_2_fps_drops_due_to_shader/

spoke too soon. still happens