Game is unplayable - What's going on with the engine?

PoE never ran smoothly but since the last patch it came to a point where it became unplayable. Amoung many issues, the most aggravations ones I'm encountering are:

1. Alt-tabbing crashing the game in fullscreen mode
2. Huge HUGE FPS drops, reaching as low as 0 FPS
3. Again, huge FPS drop even standing still in towns
4. Can't change from windowed->fullscreen or fullscreen->windowed without crashing the game
5. PoE always start with some random resolution like 1904x1002, even edditing the config.txt doesn't change it

I've tried everything, running the game with Dx9, Dx11, lowest graphics available, every possible resolution for my monitor but nothing seems to fix the problems. Here are my specs

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AMD R9 270x
AMD FX 6100
12 GB RAM
500 GB HD
M5A88-V motherboard

And here are some screenshots showing the FPS drops

Piety fight, it gets specially bad near the center


Vs Dominus


Nothing happening on screen but that crate animation, still getting FPS drops

Lol people have 5-10fps even on that cpu congif,my cpu is so bad and i am facin terrible fps this league especially when open the breaches lags as hell with all this smoke\clouds\fog etc. in the past league was used --noasync and playing EA with solid 30-60fps now cant play even with flametotems lul.

I'll sign this post. Game is unplayable once I hit higher density maps and created Flame Sentinel spectres.

I have issues with the rain during the second dominus faze + the breacheds ofc.


It seems theres just to much stuff, with to much mobs going opn when you open a breach, its borderline unplayable.

Died yesterday after my screen got filled with breach mobs and my CPU went to 99% usage. Not to mention my path of exile client used 6.3 Giga from my 8 giga DDR.

I think I never saw a game consume that much ram in my entire life...


aaaa and I was only on cruel I cant even imagine to play a jungle valley filled with breach mobs.


You promised you will fix the game in like a year now and you are stil working to make the game look better when all we need is just performance. I never played this game becouse It looks good and I think there are a lot o people that dont give a hit how a character looks like.


Maybe it got something to do with that shadowy purple effect that I see from time to time in the game. Was that an adition to make the game look better? I stopped playing the last league becouse of performance problems and I might stop this league also. Maybe distant future will be brighter... It's sad that such a nice game acts like an alpha game in test.

I'm having lag issues after the patch. I will lag every 5 seconds. I will walk normally, and my game will stutter for 2 seconds.

i7 6700k
gtx 980ti
32gb Ram
105 Mbps Comcast internet.

maybe a NASA super-computer is able to handle this engine, but when even actuall top-end gaming pcs cant handle whats going on in the game, GGG should overthink how they can fix this.

HI,

I have similar issue and a slightly better PC spec...
AMD FX8350 @4000mhz
ATI 290x @4gb 512bit
8GB ram @1600

--> the game was running badly for me since before dx11 client, mainly when i had high-density maps and with flame sentinels on necro on the dx9 client, In the pre 2.5 patch, a few weeks back, when i was running the DX11 beta client, all this shit was gone, it was somehow magically fixed, finally I could play the game at constant 60-100 fps, with no fps drops and no problems, i was genuinely happy i can play whatever skills and class i want...

Until 2.5, breaches are absolutely killing my fps to 1-5, barely playable, 100% not playable for hardcore... I'm not yet in endgame but i suppose high density areas are also unplayable....

I have tried all combinations of settings possible, there is no difference if i max all out or put all on off/low.... tried forcing vsync through the ati driver, tried window mode, windowed full screen....

I even borrowed a 960gtx from a friend just to try out to see if anyhting changes... nope, it was even worse on that gpu....


WHAT DO? HOW CAN I ENJOY THIS GAME/LEAGUE?

(note that i can play witcher 3 on ultra, gta 5 on ultra with no fps drops... :D

The only thing i did not mention is that i run the steam version and did not try the standalone or to re-install... i might try with the standalone... but i doubt its installation issue.

playing the 64 bit client smoothly on a 3 year old win7, i7, gtx780, 8GB RAM machine with fully maxed settings. single player though and vsync disabled cause it seems bugged.

never tried fullscreen or windowed, always used windowed fullscreen which allows me to click my stat sheets on my second monitor without alt+tabbing.

having a second monitor for gaming is a must imho. but nonetheless ggg should fix the issue with crashing when the display type is changed. never tried this.

and this is what happens with my issue, I log on, go to level up or whatever, then about 5-10 minutes later my game just lag spikes, latency and fps spikes are not even that severe, but I still get disconnected. An image of the most the spikes go to. http://prnt.sc/dfiwfs They dont seem that serious of a problem, but I keep getting disconnected after 5-10 minutes of being connected.