Early Access Bug Reports - PoE 2 Frequent Unexpected GPU Device Removal DX12 - Forum

Happy Holidays QA team, this one has me stumped. My PoE 2 client keeps saying my GPU is removed and then recognized again immediately for some reason completely lost on me. This triggers a soft crash in the client where it becomes unresponsive, then shows the grinding gears animation, and then finally it recovers and I can resume what I'm doing until the next time. I've never had this issue before and have been playing a lot of PoE 1 and 2. This is the only game I've had this issue with and was hoping you had some insight on how to fix it.

I'm attaching a screen video capture of some client behavior prior to a crash where the performance graphs were going insane while I idled at the beginning of a waystone. I am on the most recent nVidia game ready driver 591.59 and on a Windows 11 Pro machine running update 24H2. I pulled up my GPU temperature monitor and it never overheated and remained well within spec.

Thanks for your help on this one, happy to provide more info if needed!

https://streamable.com/6o7t4t

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2025/12/18 15:03:13 27165140 e0a4d558 [CRIT Client 17648] [D3D12] Device Removed. Reason: 0x887a0005
2025/12/18 15:03:13 27165140 62858696 [INFO Client 17648] [RENDER] Restarting device
2025/12/18 15:03:13 27165140 b335e0c2 [INFO Client 17648] [RENDER] Stopping device
2025/12/18 15:03:13 27165328 3a81fd40 [DEBUG Client 17648] [WINDOW] TriggerDeviceDestroyed
2025/12/18 15:03:13 27165343 5219671d [DEBUG Client 17648] [ENTITY2] Regather Pass Types
2025/12/18 15:03:13 27165375 5219675b [DEBUG Client 17648] [ENTITY2] Regather Object Types
2025/12/18 15:03:25 27176890 bdfe0c38 [INFO Client 17648] [STREAMLINE] Shutdown Start
2025/12/18 15:03:25 27177046 cb0f8f31 [INFO Client 17648] [STREAMLINE] Shutdown complete
2025/12/18 15:03:25 27177046 bdfe0bdf [INFO Client 17648] [STREAMLINE] Shutdown in 0.152338 seconds
2025/12/18 15:03:25 27177656 62858759 [INFO Client 17648] [RENDER] Starting device: DirectX12
2025/12/18 15:03:25 27177656 bdfe0c38 [INFO Client 17648] [STREAMLINE] Init Start
2025/12/18 15:03:26 27178234 bdfe0bdf [INFO Client 17648] [STREAMLINE] Init in 0.58243 seconds
2025/12/18 15:03:26 27178250 cb0f8ef6 [INFO Client 17648] [STREAMLINE] Initialized (Enabled)
2025/12/18 15:03:26 27178250 e0a4e4f3 [INFO Client 17648] [D3D12] Loaded Agility SDK 618
2025/12/18 15:03:26 27178421 e0a4d0ba [INFO Client 17648] [D3D12] Found matching adapter using LUID 000005A1220F1170 (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER - MPG491CX OLED)
2025/12/18 15:03:27 27179234 e0a4d93b [INFO Client 17648] [D3D12] SDK Version = 618
2025/12/18 15:03:27 27179234 e0a4bc7f [INFO Client 17648] [D3D12] GPU type: discrete
2025/12/18 15:03:27 27179234 e0a4bc1a [DEBUG Client 17648] [D3D12] VRAM size = 15.67 GB
2025/12/18 15:03:27 27179234 e0a4bc1b [INFO Client 17648] [D3D12] VRAM limit: 15.67 GB
2025/12/18 15:03:27 27179234 e0a4ed51 [INFO Client 17648] [D3D12] Shader Model: D3D_SHADER_MODEL_6_6
2025/12/18 15:03:27 27179234 e0a4ed10 [INFO Client 17648] [D3D12] Feature Level: 12.1
2025/12/18 15:03:27 27179234 e0a4e1bf [INFO Client 17648] [D3D12] Wave Lane Count: 32
2025/12/18 15:03:27 27179234 e0a4e19a [INFO Client 17648] [D3D12] Transfer Queue Timestamps: true
2025/12/18 15:03:27 27179234 e0a4e158 [INFO Client 17648] [D3D12] VRS Supported: true (4x4)