I totally understand your frustration. This patch could be a ¹⁰⁄₁₀ if the performance and major bug issues are fixed. I already put everything in low quality or high performance/low video quality, but the fps drop and loading screen are still too much. Got deadlock issue quite often.

I’ve been getting a lot of client crashes and deadlocks. Or the game will just close when I’m switch zones.

I’ve got a 13700k and a 2080 super, seems to be a lot of lag and frame drops! My cpu runs super hot in this game

Funny, just a couple minutes ago I was thinking how insanely they improved the performance. I was getting like 11 fps on my RX 9070 / 9800 X3D during Abyss with their release in 0.3, and now I’m at my locked max FPS of 171 all the time.

My PC performance of the game is so much worse than PS5 performance for no actual reason. It just randomly goes from 70 fps to fuckin 20 at random spikes

I had to switch back to the Xbox. I played every season on my laptop with very little issues besides frame drops when we could have a shit ton of pack size in abyss. This season it legit turned my laptop off because it was too hot. I have never seen that before lol. It runs fine on Xbox BUT there’s things that will kill you that don’t show up at all and that shit is annoying lmao

I was having tons of issues and crashes till I turned textures down from very high or whatever. The loading is instant now and I don’t crash so I hope this helps you out

Yeah Im loving the game but im genuinely worried for my PC and a little afraid to just play for hours. freezes, shaders loading everytime, deadlock detected, black screen, grinding gears etc.

I’m worried they won’t fix it and it will be only worse just like the performance of PoE 1 is getting worse with years.

The shader recompilation every time I relaunch the game or go to a new area is murdering my SSD!!!!

Switched to linux from windows cause my 2060 was seconds away ftom stroke. Game runs extremely smooth now.

Yeah the crashes have been bad and loading screens can be terrible. A lot of spaghetti code that needs work

4080 Super, strong ethernet connection, settings on performance, clearing out the shader cache from Hell every restart like I’m bailing out the Titanic, and I’m still crashing or disconnecting from the server every10 minutes since the start of the weekend. lol

Has anyone been experiencing random freezes in maps where your screen freezes for about 20 seconds then resumes and reloads all shaders? Only started happening for me this patch. Using DX12 with 3080 +5900x CPU

started playing today. stopped playing today. just cant deal anymore with the constant lags, stutter, disconnections and crashes this game has.

I had the same issue in 0.3 and 0.4, had to delete that one poe2 Folder in Documents (the one with the shaders) because the game kept crashing, after that it ran like smooth butter, can recommend trying that out

I would have long abandoned this game if PoE1 wasnt one of my favourites.

Currently im trying to understand why this game is at times consuming 10-20gb of my ram despite always reporting less than 3gb in game. On top of that my current mapping experience constantly involves multiple bugged mechanics per map along with a spinning cogs crash at least every other map. Opening the atlas in any form only loads half the time.

This is what finally pushed me to Linux,
runs perfectly fine with gen 11 i5 and an rtx2060

Barely ran on windows and had 10-15 mins load screens, it was fine for the first few weeks until that made whatever change they made and then I had to swap over to ps5 until they broke that too

so I went back to poe1 until a week before 0.5, tried poe2 again and saw it still ran like crap and decided fuck it everything I needed windows for (victron software) can be emulated and swapped to Linux (bazzite) and once the initial shaders were cached surprisingly it runs like butter

Steam auto runs it through proton and I’m capable of leaving a browser with two YouTube videos in the background and playing on high graphics settings, this would crash on windows if it even got to the login button screen

I was having issues but then a deleted the caching folder and it fixed a lot of my performance, I don’t have any lag spikes at all now, although cpu does run hot, I’m using 5800X3D and a 9070xt

sitting in vienna, somehow my routing to frankfurt was so bad, i had to get a vpn so i can route smoothly and my pc is by all means not bad, but i gave up, i dont think GGG can and will ever put effort into it, probably because nvdia sucks balls and should be abolished by anyone using a pc.

The fact they’re doubling down on absurd density means it will never get better.

Thats nothing, try playing in the middle east .. we the only region which dont have one..try playing with 150 ping

I just got the game and I’m also having. A shit time it even crashes for me a lot

My issues fixed it self when going vulcan and i had freezes on a 5090 Just a insight

Edit: i mean my freezes are gone with that decision.

I stay at 60 fps pretty much all the time but it is making my 6700xt run really hot. I feel like I shouldn’t play because if my GPU dies I can’t replace it.

My performance is phenomenal… except for once a map my game will freeze and then reload the shaders or something. It’s like they’re forcing me to take a ten second water break each map.

I could play 0.4 on mac with crossover but 0.5 is just too bad. The cpu and gpu goes into 100 degree celsius mode and the game crashes.

Thank you. I thought I was the only one suffering from this!

I have to abandon my run and start a new character everytime!

with a amd ryzen 5800X3D and a geforce 4070ti it shouldnt be so much Performance Problems tbh.

It’s the servers. They’re overloaded. Then it stutters and, if you don’t know it, you might think it’s your computer or your performance.

Same problem with Ryzen 5900x and 3080Ti here smh

Are you capping your fps? I had the same problem until i capped my fps in game

AMD GPU, capped at 99% but uses only about 65% of available power.

I have lots of server issues, my latency suddenly goes to like 50k ms for 30 seconds and then back to normal. And it has nothing to do with my internet connection because I checked my latency when it hapens.

I’ve been playing on console due to performance. It might not look as good but it’s stable.

How much ram you have? I have 16gb which i think is the problem.

Totally agree but comparing to previous leagues this one is better for sure.

My game has been running pretty good on my 3080, but my PC gets really hot to the point I have to turn on my AC.

That kinda strange i have rtx 4060 and i5-11400F and don’t have any problems with performance at 1440p

I reinstalled the game, have a little better CPU and a NVMe SSD and all I see sometimes are gears grinding, lol

Some things are clearly not right

Agree they need to optimize the game better

If I play in a party my fps drops from 120 to 30 because of the skill effects 😁😁

I have a Ryzen 7 1700 and 1070ti, playing 4k 60fps maxed. Maybe 40fps in chaotic fights.

My advice use Nvidia App to optimize, then set Maximum Performance.

This game also needs 16gb of ram if you want no stutters

I’ll say this. I have a 5700x3d with a 1080ti and I get good performance.(30fps-120fps) I did have poe 2 installed on my hard drive and was having issues where things would load slow as well as the game would freeze for half a second everyonce periodically.

To fix that I installed it on a new nvme ssd I got which fixed the loading slow issues. On top of that my windows ssd drive is small and almost full at all times. When I would play poe 2 windows would use the page system thing to save memory to the windows ssd which would almost make it full.

Ive ran into issue where previous games would run slow or have weird frame hitches if my windows drive was full or almost full. So I went ahead and switch the page system stuff to be on the new nvme ssd I got for poe2 and so far I my issues have been fixed and I don’t experience any frame lag or hitches like I was on the hard drive.

I’m running maps with stable 13fps, it’s fine (:

I have a 3060 and game is running suprisingly well. Yes it is at 90°C, but what can you do.

But I don’t jnderstand because I have wlrse specs than you.

Do you perhaps expect to run the game on 200fps?

I have locked on 90 and it playable.

I AM NOT AGAINST THEM OPTIMISING IT!

Just surprised tjat your machine is running it that poorly, maybe low ram? Or not enough disk space? Wrong settings? Different renderer?

Crazy thing is everything was working fine until the patch that hit a day or two BEFORE the league. After that it’s been stutter city for me. At least my game isn’t constantly crashing to desktop like I’ve seen from some I guess.

The problem is the game freezes or crashes every 3rd map.

Losing maps due to the game completely bricking is the worst experience ever.

Does anyone else have an issue where it feels like their character kinda skips every two steps. Like not freeze just like they stepped on a Lego for a second then back to normal.

In my witch she does that and it’s weird because nothing else on screen is lagging so it doesn’t seem to be a lag issue as the effects and attacks are for the most part smooth.

Yeah, I would love to properly play the league, but having to restart the game every 3 maps and then stare at the loading screen for five minutes is just not all that fun.

It’s just what happens when devs say “Eh, they can get better PCs” instead of optimizing.

And you can’t even improve that yourself by lowering settings, because it’s the game loading its thousands of fancy shaders, not any of the hardware actually struggling.

It’s pretty bad yeah. I urge you to experiment between Vulkan and dx12 though. And to delete all poe related shader cache files. Game’s been running somewhat better now for me with similar specs to yours

On a shitter PC my performance is a lot better than before, however I crash/dc like every 3 maps so there’s that

console needs help too

I keep getting freezes and shit

Goddamn Delirium still destroying my performance. Since 6 years 

When your CPU is maxed out it’s compiling the shaders. Press F1 and I guarantee your shader bar is maxed out. Enable shader caching so it only has to compile shaders once (each zone has different shaders).

I have a 4090 and my game crashed vs that sun boss in act 3. they need to fix this crap.

reduce the sound channels - helped me

PoE sometimes freezes up and makes my whole pc stop working, im even forced to reboot using the power button.

There’s definitely something up atleast with this last patch I guess. I have an intel i7-14700 KF and an RTX 5070-ti 16gb and 32GB of DDR5. I got my PC in late January early February of this year. I have legitimately played with no issues on Path of exile 2 until yesterday my memory was running at 98% usage (which is not the norm it barely ever reaches 62% usage) and windows wouldn’t even release the cache after closing both the steam client and Path of Exile 2. I fixed some of the performance last night significantly. I deleted all the files inside my DX cache folder, Deleted the DX12 and Vulkan Shader profile for Path of Exile 2, disabled fast startup and fully restarted my PC to force windows to dump the cache it wouldn’t release. I also increased my Nvidia Shader cache size from default to 100gb. Last Wednesday i was playing and crashed multiple times too and checked event viewer and saw i was getting a nvlddmkm error so I even ddu uninstalled and clean reinstalled all my nvidia graphics drivers.

But in regards to the memory usage and DX Cache reset i found in my DX Cache folder there was a file with 4 million kbs and another with 8 million kbs size which to me is just crazy lol. I say all that to agree there is most definitely something going on with performance this season 100%. My changes i did yesterday in regards to memore usage fixed the issue is was having though.

I was having occasional spikes to around 100ms before I hit the maps. However, I was running a t5 today and it was literally unplayable. It was going above 200ms to 400+.

I am really enjoying the game thus far and I have high hopes that GGG will get it together by the 1.0. It’s still in early access so I will cut them a slack.

Overall I think they are doing a great job.

I’ve had 2 crashes in little over a week. Rock solid at 100+ fps

I crash every time I open a ritual/breach/strongbox, I’m addicted so I can’t stop playing unfortunately

any GGG emplyee here ?
can we get finally answer wth with your game (poe1 and poe2 aswell)
shader problem for years
shader cache in nvidia settings\clear shader cache\disable shader precache on steam dont work
can u fix your game engine before doing new “cool” animations for every char action

I have to restart my game like once an hour because memory leaks or something and then FPS drops to 2 or 3. I’m not sure I’ve ever played a major game like this where you have to research Reddit for an hour to fix performance issues before you can play.

Network performance is just as poor as client performance which is pretty annoying (though both have slightly improved for me since I last played in September).

I really hope they sort it out before 1.0, but it’s something that plagued PoE 1 for the whole time I played it so I’m not holding my breath.

Stutters mostly stopped when I did similar to what I did in poe1.

Completely turn off all sound in files set it to false. I only kept dialogues and filter.

Now the only occasional stutter is under heavy heavy load.

Unreal how bad the performance is.

3060 7600x and this game is running perfectly fine on high for me

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I run an Intel CPU and performance is amazing. The X3Ds are known to dip. Check Framechasers and AMDip.

I got annoyed at those spinning gears every other zone and just stopped playing.

Honestly think its just windows 11, im on 10 with a 5900xt & 9070xt and runs nice only has crashed randomly a couple of times. Doesnt seem to be playing nice with nvidia this patch either.

3060 ryzen 7 16gb game runs fine not a problem with it

Mine has been running extremely well on PS5 Pro, with Hisense U8 4K UHD TV thankfully. Very smooth

ggg is just stalling at this point for people to upgrade their pc’s instead of optimizing game. Shame, but that’s just modern gaming i guess.

Have pretty much the same specs (But no TI) and don’t have that issue. Playing with DLSS Quality and without GI. There are some maps that are worse, but the worst that I have experienced so far are drops ti like 60-70 FPS.
Other than that it’s mostly 90-120 FPS in endgame maps.

It was a lot worse before they updated performance tho.

Playing with Vulkan btw, runs a lot better than DX12 for me.

press F1 when you load into new maps, you’ll see the green shader bar loading. Wait until it’s done loading then your performance will be fine. The overall performance will be better if you have encounter enough map variants.

perf is way better than it used to be

Im using a 9 year old i7 7700K and a 1080ti. I get 60+FPS everywhere in the game except in town or whatever the hell you call it when you are around a bunchnof other exiles where i get 20ish FPS because of all the microtransaction particle gore that i cant turn off.

A friend let me borrow his 5070ti recently, and even with the 7700K, i was still able to pump out more than 120fps consistently, except in the same areas mentioned before where even getting 40 is an impossible task due to the particles from other players.

Other than that, i dont see any performance issues.

PoE has always been a super CPU reliant game

If it’s either not good enough or not cooled properly then the game won’t run that well

I wouldn’t call it a mess at all. It’s in need of improvement for sure but it’s absolutely not a mess.

As for performance this is worlds better than the abyss league launch. Where the game was unplayable in endgame.

That’s not to say this league doesn’t have issues with performance. I have a 7900x with a 7900xtx on CachyOS and 128GB of DDR5 at 6000MT/s and out of the blue I’ll get stuttering for a few minutes once I’m a while. To the point where I just run back (in a map) and wait, no shader traffic or anything like that, just a 30-40ms on my CPU then all the sudden it goes back to normal and it’s fine.

9800x3d and Asus 5080 Prime. Zero problems, game runs perfectly on ultra settings.

Get a playstation

POE has always been incredibly CPU heavy, it is your AM4 5800X3D that is giving you a large bottleneck. Think about how many tens of thousands of calculations are happening behind the scenes at any given moment.

For reference, I’m running 4070ti super paired with a 9800x3d and get a super consistent 160+fps on maxed setting. I get the occasional stutter but that is due to network latency due to my current suboptimal internet setup.

Edit: Added context for my in game settings.

I play on ps5 and its fine

time for a pc upgrade, my game doesn’t dip below 240fps

your cpu is probably lacking, that or bad cooling