Performance Issues + Crashing

Hey GGG,

This is my first league and I've been having a blast so far but I've also been experiencing some pretty severe performance issues that's causing me not to enjoy the game to its full potential.

I don't believe my hardware should be an issue since it's pretty up-to-date. I also don't have performance issues with other ARPGs (except Last Epoch). I've tried all sorts of combinations of settings in the Graphics menu but I constantly freeze and crash in high populated towns and Rogue Hideout. Performance also gets VERY choppy when there are a lot of mobs. I do see Dynamic Resolution kicking in all the time but sometimes that's not even enough. I feel like my specs shouldn't warrant having to need to use it in the first place.

Here are my specs and current Graphic settings below. For comparison reference, I'm able to run other games like Diablo 4 and Elden Ring on High settings just fine. Luckily, I've just finished the Campaign so I'm mostly in my Hideout or Kingsmarch now where the crashes don't occur, however, I still crash in Rogue Hideout and get major FPS drops with high density mob packs. I'd really like to get this resolved so I can fully enjoy POE!

Thanks in advance~

Specs:
- Razer Blade (2023)
- Windows 11 Enterprise
- 13th Gen i7 (i7-13800H), overclocked @ 5.2 GHz
- nVidia RTX 4070 (Laptop)
- 16GB DDR5
- Installed on SSD

Graphic Settings
- Resolution: 1920x1080
- Renderer: DX11 (I'll try playing with Vulkan today)
- VSync: Adaptive
- Triple-Buffering: Enabled
- AA Quality: Low
- Upscale Mode: NIS
- Lighting: Shadows
- Shadow Quality: Low
- Sun Shadow Quality: Low
- Depth of Field: Disabled
- Water Detail Level: Low
- Texture Quality: Medium
- Texture Filtering: 2X AF
- Dynamic Culling: Enabled
- Dynamic Resolution: Enabled
- Target Framerate: 45
- Engine Multithreading: Enabled