Performance Improvements

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Mr_Dude wrote:

Good News.
I really hoped for some big performences imrpovements and here they are. Hope next thing to change will be new QoL Improvements as well (still hoping for nice Minion Overview and build in Jewel Overview :) )

Is it possible to make an Option for "Low Texture" or "Lower Graphics"? I really enjoy all the beautiful Art but sometimes it is hard to follow the game because of too many particles, lights and Skilleffects (when I'm playing Whispering my buddys still have FPS Problems in Partys... would be nice to change those :) )

You can change some ini setting to reduce texture quality:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/177500

The post doesn't really address the severe performance drops caused by the crazy amount of particle effects we get in the game, especially while in a party. Is there any chance that this problem will ever be resolved?

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Comfyasabadger wrote:

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Mr_Dude wrote:

Good News.
I really hoped for some big performences imrpovements and here they are. Hope next thing to change will be new QoL Improvements as well (still hoping for nice Minion Overview and build in Jewel Overview :) )

Is it possible to make an Option for "Low Texture" or "Lower Graphics"? I really enjoy all the beautiful Art but sometimes it is hard to follow the game because of too many particles, lights and Skilleffects (when I'm playing Whispering my buddys still have FPS Problems in Partys... would be nice to change those :) )

You can change some ini setting to reduce texture quality:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/177500

This wouldn't solve his problem though, it's all about the particle effects. Reduced texture quality only means lower VRAM and memory bandwith usage. Only useful for very old rigs.

It all started a few months ago ...
FPS We drop from 200 to 1
I have ATI Radeon nitro r7 370 4GB DDR5
SSD 120GB Kingston Hyper X 3K
Windows 7 64 bit
Ping about 20

I hope it will improve the fps drop soon
greeting

These improvements can't come soon enough. My game has been crashing constantly, five times alone last night which makes Master Rotations annoying to not only me but my fellow party members. It's been sullying what has otherwise been a very good league.


... and crashed again already, on my own fricking Zana mission. Next week can't come soon enough!

Thank you for your communication and transparency! I would have loved to learn something about multi-threading in PoE (Does it even exist?), and what kind of systems you use to run/troubleshoot/develop PoE.

I recently switched from a multicore AMD to a fast, cheap Intel dual core (G3258 @4.7ghz) and my performance went through the roof, all freezing gone.

Something needs to be done about that, too.

Hey Chris,

Thanks for giving us a little peek at the inner working of PoE. I'm a developer myself, C# business applications during the day, and c++ directx stuff in my free time.

I would highly recommend skipping the upgrade to DX11 and go straight to DX12. The API for DX12 is a massive change compared to the change from DX9 to DX11 so I can understand that you may not want to make too many changes to the rendering engine at this point, but I think the extra effort if you are already committing to a DX upgrade will be well worth it. You can actually run DX12 in "DX11 mode" which might be a middle ground which would save you time in the future if you did then want to upgrade to DX12 at some point further down the line.

Looking forward to more performance improvements :-)

Thanks to you and everyone at GGG for all of your awesome work. Keep it up!

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Xavderion wrote:

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Comfyasabadger wrote:

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Mr_Dude wrote:

Good News.
I really hoped for some big performences imrpovements and here they are. Hope next thing to change will be new QoL Improvements as well (still hoping for nice Minion Overview and build in Jewel Overview :) )

Is it possible to make an Option for "Low Texture" or "Lower Graphics"? I really enjoy all the beautiful Art but sometimes it is hard to follow the game because of too many particles, lights and Skilleffects (when I'm playing Whispering my buddys still have FPS Problems in Partys... would be nice to change those :) )

You can change some ini setting to reduce texture quality:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/177500

This wouldn't solve his problem though, it's all about the particle effects. Reduced texture quality only means lower VRAM and memory bandwith usage. Only useful for very old rigs.

I read "low Texture" and "Lower Graphics" then switched off.

I too have fps issues (i7 2600k @ 3.4Ghz, 8Gb RAM, GTX 970, Win 10) and put my issues down to POE only using 1 core (100% usage while the rest sit at 40-50%)and my GPU may see 70% when there's lots going on :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4-uDAJmCQ0

Blaming the internet is great, its not like anyone else plays in this space, right?

DX11? Yay!!!
2017? Yay..........
:(