Heavy combat always crashes. Status of MoltenVK?

Stille_desAethers

I love this game, and everything in it worked beautifully on my Macbook Pro for the first few mo. Roughly two years later, I still do daily crafting, basic questing, housing, cards etc, but can no longer engage in serious combat. I once trouble-shot the problem into apparent Oblivion until the Catalina–>Big Sur update brought the problem back. "MoltenVKQueue-0-0-1.0-Dispatch" seems always to be the culprit, and in over a year, nothing has changed. I presume that ZOS has stopped Mac support since.

Details:

All bets are off in PVP, no dungeons unless I want to *** off other players, even busy wayshrines and mob combat are iffy. I have completed harrowstorms by firing into the mess and immediately averting my (camera's) gaze, yet still crash frequently. Not sure if turning/running away does anything, tbh. I associate the problem with large, flashy, multiplayer and/or multimob activity.

Most complaints regarding Mac crashes specific to MoltenVK happened during wayshrine travel and Murkmire (the dream cave quest was bugged to death for me, too). But why would I persistently crash during combat? ESO renders way better on my mac than on my husband's PC, yet has become virtually unplayable while he storms dungeons with little issue.

Stille_desAethers

perhaps a clue: when I try to run ESO in safe mode, it immediately crashes with the error message that my Vulkan support is insufficient or nonexistent.

I can easily run ESO in non-safe mode, only to crash during the above-mentioned combat situations.

Stille_desAethers

i am also aware that a new version of MoltenVK was released in October; is it necessary to download and/or arrange it to a particular folder?

and yea, i'm posting this in two threads because i still have no answers for this, specifically. just yelling into the abyss.