Textures blur + item/skill icons disappear after zone transitions (persists until restart)

After playing for a while (usually ~1 hour, sometimes 20 minutes, sometimes longer) or after loading several areas via portals (e.g., 3–4 zone loads), the game suddenly stops displaying textures correctly. Most world textures become heavily blurred/low-detail, many item images/icons disappear, and the UI begins to behave/glitch visually.

The only reliable workaround I found is restarting the game (relog/relaunch). After restarting, everything renders normally again until the issue returns.

This feels like some kind of texture streaming / memory (VRAM) cache overflow or leak, where the game fails to unload old textures and then stops loading new ones—sometimes even “dropping” previously loaded textures, leaving the entire scene in a blurry state.

Often triggered around a short FPS drop (example: zone transition where FPS briefly drops from ~70–90 down to ~30)

Normal gameplay: ~70–90 FPS

In version 0.3, the same issue happened but it also caused a severe FPS drop to ~3–10 FPS but In versions 0.1 and 0.2, I did not have this problem

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3885637

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3885340

Two massive threads about this already. Hotfix 9 fixed it for some people, but a lot of people still have this issue with radio silence from GGG.

Might be GGs for now, sorry.