Grinding Gear Games, the developer of Path of Exile 2, says Nvidia has fixed a long-running driver problem after the studio spent about 18 months investigating it and ultimately sent Nvidia a complete PC that reliably reproduced the fault. The issue caused severe pauses during extended DirectX 12 play, disrupting players and sometimes forcing recovery from a graphics-driver crash; the fix matters because it places responsibility in the driver rather than the game itself.

According to the report, Nvidia had struggled to reproduce the problem from conventional bug reports, despite extensive testing by the studio. Once it received the affected system, Nvidia identified the underlying shader-buffer issue and issued a GeForce hotfix, version 610.82, which specifically addresses intermittent long pauses in Path of Exile 2 under DX12; the change is expected to reach a normal driver release later.