Syndicate Freezes, Stutters/Drops Frames Severely
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Standalone, no launch parameters.
DxDiag: https://pastebin.com/uLA5MXks I don't get fullblown freezes but something more akin to stuttering. Before Intervention spawn animation started and shortly after it starts but before the dudes start moving I'm getting very short freezes. Not big enough to get me killed or significantly impact gameplay but definitely noticeable. FWIW, member spawn animations in other Syndicate encounters do not stutter whatsoever. | |
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Specs: https://pastebin.com/1160GbFg
Steam or Standalone: Steam Launch params: None |
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Specs: https://pastebin.com/5SS8KZZN
Steam or standalone: Steam Launch parameters: none | |
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I have two different systems that I play on: my home gaming PC and my work/travel laptop. I'll highlight the differences here in the hopes that this helps because I never, EVER get any Syndicate freezing on my home PC but I get crippling freezes (not just from the shitty on-board GPU, either) on my laptop.
Home PC: i7-8700 Coffee Lake MSI B-360A Mobo MSI Radeon RX580 16GB Ram 225GB Inetl SSD Windows 10 Pro 64 bit Standalone Client Laptop: i7-7600U HD620 integrated gpu 32 GB Ram Seagate 500GB ST500LM021 7200 RPM, 32MB cache HDD Windows 10 Pro 64 bit Steam Client Neither system has any launch parameters I suspect it is the HDD but I'll let you guys sort that out. | |
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Steam Version
DxDiag: https://pastebin.com/zQpFei6H Important to note that I already had problems with intervention before Synthesis, maybe not as frequent/severe, but still. Sometimes when I entered a map I could feel an intervention coming because i would get small frames drops | |
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DXDiag: https://pastebin.com/9wZDDGbt
System in short: CPU: Intel Core i5-4690k @ 3,5 GHz RAM: 8 GB DDR3 GPU: NVidia GTX 970 (Gigabyte) Mainboard: Gigabyte G1.Sniper Z97 SSD with System: 240 GB SATA SSD (SanDisk) HDD with Steam and PoE: 500 GB SATA HDD (Toshiba) Playing on Steam, tried with Standalone -> No Difference. Steam + PoE on HDD; Standalone was on HDD too. Already tried these Launch-Options: --waitforpreload -> No Difference. --nologo -> No Difference. --noasync -> No Difference. --nopreload -> Made it worse. What Happens (The Problem): My game runs on Minimum - Medium Settings with 60-90 fps. Last League I had no problems, besides exploding too many mobs at once using an Inpulsa on Arc Witch. I still do not have any real problems playing the game. But if Intervention Members pop up -> straight up freeze for 4-8 seconds, which results in a death screen all the time. I do not have any upcoming decrease in fps or something, but the moment the portal for Intervention starts to appear (like, just a small green puff of green smoke) the game just stops instantly with a freezed up screen. I can tab out of PoE, but do not get back into the window before the death screen after the freeze comes up. | |
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Standalone client, no parameters
https://pastebin.com/kkQ8WtnN | |
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DirectX 11 64bit Diag
https://pastebin.com/1JviRppd Standalone I know my Nvidia drivers are out of date. But I am waiting on updating them, mostly because if there's testing I can do on these I'll do it.(See below) I was doing a bit of research into this and moving around before intervention spawns seems to be causing a ton of information and calculations, once the event is over it's fine. I did not have these issues last league. I ran Windows 7 Resource Monitor - I clicked on Disk tab and then on the PathofExile_64.exe I watched what it was doing before the intervention happened, and it's loading a TON of shader information. It's loading some of the info from NVidia and then the shader cache from path of exile. Way more than other areas. Maybe this is an issue with older drivers and some shaders? I'd be happy to do some specific tests if a dev wants me too. I'm PC since the Apple IIe days! Message me let me know. | |
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Steam, no launch parameters
dxdiag: https://pastebin.com/BK08RRvZ problem: It takes 2-3 minutes to load into the game the 1st time starting it up. Sometimes it disconnects me then i have to log in again, albeit quicker than the 1st time. Even when i'm in it still takes a couple of minutes to load everything else then, then it's smooth until syndicate. When intervention appears, my game stutters and freezes. Lately it's frozen for one minute, then disconnecting me. Another time it straight up crashed and I had to alt-F4. Then, when I log back in again, it's back to square one. The loading times are as long, if not even longer, than logging in for the 1st time. I think the one time I died to the intervention encounter it didn't bring me back to the start screen. The other times I was holding my molten strike button so I don't die, maybe that extra stress crashes it. |
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