I'm done with this games horrible PERFORMANCE - Time to quit for an extended period

Their servers (atleast EU) also bad. In 18,00-20,00 latency spikes from 20 to 200 constantly. I believe its kind of double edged sword when it comes to performance. I also did what you did but stood on my asus 4070rtx i can tell the only bad gaming performance both FPS and Latency is POE2 atm.


I know how coding works but they had plenty of time to adress these performance issues. Guess they don't care. Given their "fix" on end-game last patch i lost my faith.
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smokesnugsYT#7752 a écrit :
I run a summoner, it seems my only option is to either

1. re-roll a build with no summons / little particles

2. quit the game and find something actually optimized

When I first got into POE1 and then POE2 I was that quintessential FAN BOY, literal SIMP status for GGG, I thought they were amazing and fully believed I had found the best company to support... But then time passed and ummm,

I'm quite bitter I won't lie, I love this game and have put over 1400+ hours between poe1 and poe2, I even went out and bought an entirely new PC SPECIFICALLY FOR POE2!!!

My previous PC could play every single game at ultra settings, it was a 4070ti with an i7 12700f, I figured the CPU was holding me back so I upgraded to a new 5070ti with 9800x3d... It was noticeable change, but we're talking , 40 FPS instead of 20... It's ridiculous!

My current PC runs 32GB ram, SSD , 5070ti and 9800x3d,

I HAVE DONE EVERY SINGLE CHANGE I CAN TO FIX PERFORMANCE!!! For nearly a YEAR I have been scouring these forums and reddit and online pages looking for fixes, I have done them ALL!!

From Cache folder deletion , Increasing cache size , lowering or raising certain settings, download Nvidia analyzer or w/e to change the ReBar,

I have spent a literal year almost finding every little change or "fix" you can think of, and have done it.... to absolutely NO AVAIL.

My only option is literally getting used to playing at 30 FPS despite spending dam near $3000 on a PC.


It has left me bitter, and looking at GGG as if they are outright incompetent and more interested in what their game looks like on streamers computers (Which is Ironic because it now even looks like crap on streamers PC's also)

And we hear all the time about how they are making POE2 more "visual clarity" focused, and "Better Performance"


Even with this latest patch, The performance was noted in the patch notes as focusing on abyss cracks, and it literally feels worse!!


I'm so over it, I feel like GGG doesn't even know what the hell they are doing. There are plenty of ARPGs out there that don't run like dogwater on high end systems.



I'm done supporting this game as long as it plays like a dam slide show, it's an embarrassment and GGG should truly feel ashamed to have people paying for a product (REMEMBER THIS ONE ISN'T FREE TO PLAY) and letting it run like absolute crap, it's a joke honestly, I can play literally any game on the market and they all run amazingly, even the most highest demanding graphical games... I mean, I'm willing to bet even BORDERLANDS4 would run better on my PC than POE2, HAHAHA LOL!!! WHAT A JOKE RIGHT? BORDERLANDS 4!!!!




Truly, GGG has lost all my respect for leaving the game in the state that it is, I feel like it will always be like this as well, I feel like I'm literally being lied to and mocked when they say they are working on performance here or there, when we know dam well that they won't even give us the ability to lower settings to actually improve performance because "THEY DON'T WANT THE GAME TO LOOK BAD ON STREAMS" while also saying that "POE2 will have an emphasis on VISUAL CLARITY" , when meanwhile we literally cant see ANYTHING at ALL, and people cant even play with friends literally AT ALL because they will crash or drop for 2fps because of particles.

LOL!!! What an absolute joke this company is, they should be ashamed to even step foot on those streams knowing this is the quality they are putting out.



My laptop
My home PC runs the game perfectly but my gaming laptop can't handle fire skills at all
And poe1 and bdo works perfectly fine on it
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THEY DON'T WANT THE GAME TO LOOK BAD ON STREAMS

They still not fixed black screen when you trying to capture game with Game Capture or window capture, on DX12, since 0.3 released, about what you talking? 🤣
Its simply, ground effects Layering infinitely on top of each other, from spells to layers added by abysalls to on ground effects, corpses. its all the useless particles, and overlays.

on my sorc, Warp would lay down 15 ground scar effects that are completely worthless and it dropped my FPS by about 60% in a hideout, from 140 down to like 60fps (I have the screenshot)

the delirium effect (that fog overlay) further drops frames

Fire effects are the biggest contributor.

then open a breach on pit infested juiced map

all those things on 1 maps, im lucky if im on 10 fps


If GGG just toned it the F down, there's no reason a ground fire effect needs 50 fire sprites on it.

if they did that, the average fps for me woudl be 50 which isn't great on 3080 i expect 80's but its 5X better then it now.

like some youtuber said, I would PAY to REMOVE these useless effects.
Wonder what’s going on with peoples pc’s, I don’t really see a huge performance issue.

Rtx 3080
old intel 10th gen cpu
32gb ram
Shitty windows 11
Normal 1440p monitor

Only sinks when it’s abyss, deli and breach.

Barely any crashes. Some latency issues when servers are being weird. That’s it really.
only way to play the game "somewhat smoothly" is using loseless scaling 3x framegen with r5 5600x rx 9060 xt 16gb @ 1080p
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HowToGusta#6151 a écrit :


Only sinks when it’s abyss, deli and breach.




You just described end-game in general and basically every juiced map..



You're right, the game runs amazingly, I'm currently at 142fps STEADY...... IN ABYSSAL DEPTHS WITH ZERO MOBS AROUND!


"Lmao, the game run's amazingly, EXCEPT when there's a lot of mobs on the screen!" isn't exactly a great endorsement for an ARPG game that's strictly about killing large groups of monsters, preferably as large of a group as possible!!



We all know the game is an unoptimized mess in terms of performance, and it doesn't help the community at all for these kinds of "Well my PC works fine I don't know whats wrong with the other 99.99% of computers!" posts..


We need to all come together and make this a glaring issue for GGG that they focus on completely...

And I understand well that performance is usually focused on towards the end of a launch after everything is ironed out and more steady, but usually the game is at least PLAYABLE at a decent steady 60 FPS during that wait period.. Me having to tolerate and get used to 20-30 FPS a majority of the time, and sometimes 20 FPS or lower on a 5070ti 9800x3d is unacceptable.

We should all be coming together as a community to demand optimization, whatever it requires, streamers should be on board also, I love this game and have nearly 2,000 hours across POE1/POE2....

Everyday that I have to deal with 20-30 FPS is 1 more day towards me giving up on the franchise.. which is extremely sad to realize...

And let's not forget that I'm not making this post suddenly out of nowhere, I have outright focused over almost a YEAR of time searching for, sharing, and discovering 1 "fix" after another and trying them all, I have done everything you can imagine and still today I find myself dealing with 20-30 FPS on a nearly $3,000 PC that can handle any of the most demanding graphical games, EXCEPT for POE2....


If literally out of 100 games, POE2 is the ONLY game that struggles... Even with a top of the line best for gaming CPU (9800x3d) then there's an issue.


I believe it should be focused on that the game struggles to even utilize the full usage of our GPU and CPUs, As I've said time and time again, when large groups like a breach of abyss happen in maps, I can see visibly my GPU and CPU usage drop significantly from high 60's 70's or higher, to literally 30% usage... that does NOT seem normal!!




Let it be well known, that I love this game.. I have spent 5+ years minimum feeling like a homeless gamer and spent those entire 5 years hopping from game to game never truly finding what spark again, until I found POE... POE brought back my gaming spark and I am so happy and thankful for that!! It saddens me that I have not been able to find a way to play at at least 60 FPS steady... Which should be easily possible in 2025, with the kind of hardware I have... EVEN in ABYSSAL HORDES, or LARGE GROUPS of mobs, considering it's an ARPG!!

Dernière édition par smokesnugsYT#7752, le 2 oct. 2025 à 12:20:52
We should all be coming together as a community to demand optimization, whatever it requires, streamers should be on board also, I love this game and have nearly 2,000 hours across POE1/POE2....

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except we have been screaming this for the last 10-15 years.
to every game dev.

and they still cant do it.

there used to be a yt video i saw, that some dude, like, an actual smart dude, that worked in the field/computers/game dev/etc.... like maybe a year back?

literally showed how games tried to save money on man power, and using different things/programs/ways to do things... instead of a better more optimized option, etc.

cant for the life of me remember who it was.. there were many streamers who covered it/watched it/reacted to it...

pretty sure asmon was one of them and one of his viewers on here might remember.

if you would watch it. it would explain the reasoning of why it never happens better than i could

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