Massive CPU spikes, Please help

Sharing my experience here as well

Last week my CPU shot to 20-80 MS while my GPU has remained at 4-8 creating a massive CPU bottle neck ultimately creating massive frame drops, Stuttering, Sound distortion and even missing parts of the world that arent rendering in. My CPU is sitting at 100% usage when the game is active. POE2 using upwards of 90% of that.

I have tried the following:

- Reinstall of windows making sure all drivers up to date, This includes BIOS and Chipset, Etc. (Happens on both 23h2 and 24h2 updates)
- Rolling back to Nvidia 490.96 video driver
- Clearing Caches / Changing cache size to 100GB
- Clearing chat / Joining random 4 digit chat number
- Changing power plan to high performance (Already set)
- Setting PathofExileSteam and _x64steam to High Performance
- Deleting Nvidia and POE2 shader caches
- Changing affinity in details
- Changing CPU priority in details
- NvidiaProfileInpector guide: Nvidia did recognize the game has POE1 and not POE2. I followed the guide and created the .Symlink (This made the game at least playable to some extent)
- Changing of in game settings
- Disabling sound / Disabling Nvidia HD Audio
- Changing settings within Nvidia Control Panel

* I have downloaded and tested the following games. All of which offered a normal playable experience.

- Cyberpunk 2077
- Diablo 4
- Ashes of Creation Alpha
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Rust
- CoD Black Ops 6
- Lost Ark

There are many more but I cant recall them one by one because I have been wracking my brain for a week now, Trying any solution I could find on youtube or reddit. At this point I am at a loss. The game ran fine until February 9th. I came home after the super bowl and thats when it all began. Nothing changed on my part. No hardware changes, No updates of any kind. Everything remained the same as it was before I left for the game.

Meanwhile I am watching people stream and run the game flawlessly. My setup is on the older side. I know that. But it runs everything else fine and ran this fine up until the 9th. Im at a point where Im going to upgrade but I am seeing even people with 9800x3d and 4090s are having the same issues. Yet other people with the same setup as theirs are running the game just fine??????

Any recommendations or solutions that people have found please share.

Intel 9700k
Strix 4070TI
32 gig corsair vengeance

Can we get some kind of acknowledgement from GGG please. With all the reports of this issue it needs to be in the "Known Issues" at least. Feels like nothing is being done about this and were all just screwed out of the hundreds that we spent on backer packages / MTX.