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Nvidia driver fix ends Path of Exile 2 crashes

8/1/2026

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  • Nvidia engineers raised shader-heap-size setting in Game Ready Driver 610.88, ending “Device Removed” error on GPUs with driver 566.36+.
  • Grinding Gear Games reproduced the crash in five-to-seven minutes and shipped a PC to Nvidia, prompting the fix.
  • Path of Exile 2 hotfix 0.5.4e fixed intermittent long pauses after extended DirectX 12 gameplay.
  • The driver update and hotfix together remove freezes for Nvidia users, clearing the way for the game’s 1.0 release.