3.21.2 Patch Notes (part 2 - restart)

Game unplayable patch loop. Mac Pro - Steam release tags 3.21.2

I'll leave this here maybe someone from the dev team can make some connection with the issues that come up with latest patch and fix the problems.

Currently cpu usage is all over the place and therefore lag issues appear. Going from 120+ fps to 20 fps in seconds constantly. No matter using Vulkan engine, dx12 or dx11 is the same thing although in Vulkan is a tiny bit more stable. But no matter what settings i used the game is in an unplayable state, at least from my end.

So after i was messing up with some setting and windows teaks i've found that if you set the cpu affinity on windows to anything below 4 threads, it stabilizes the game and the fluctuations on cpu usage disappear. Although the game after this has terrible performance it still is more stable and somewhat playable.
Anything above 4 threads its just completely broken.

I'm not an expert or anything like that just reporting something i've found while i was messing up and tweaking stuff.

I hope this helps somehow to fix the issues.

i5-2500k CPU @ 3.30GHz, 1660ti super, 32gb ram, win10

Before i can play only on DX12, but now fps down in fights from 20-30 to 5-10, its unplayable.

I tried settings all settings in this game. No changes with settings graphics. But on DX11 and vulcan was many fps drops, and Vsync doesnt help. Now fps drops on DX12 too. Graphip Fps like snake, up and down. And now sometimes CPU loaded 100%, but if it not load, fps about 20 in fights, it doesnt much matter. (gpu loaded up to 50%).

In many actual games i play on medium or high settings, but this game 10 years old, and i cant play it.

I hope u will find resolution with optimization. Good luck.

Seems quite worse on my end currently.

3080/5900X here.

Hope everything gets ironed out, good luck guys.

Edit: By worse I mean I am getting lower frames, especially in the hideout than I was before. My graphics card is running pretty loud compared to how it used to sound. Seems to take a long time to load into zones, but maybe that was because of a cache cleanup?

No issues found on the 3080ti with a ryzen 9 5950x, works pretty much the same

New patch makes load screens take 60+ seconds for me. Used to be 4-5 seconds.
Why is it everytime they make "improvements" the game's performance gets worse?

Love the patch balanced my fps so now it's not jumping around as much and also made it higher.

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No issues found on the 3080ti with a ryzen 9 5950x, works pretty much the same

Guys u just need a 5K pc to run the game(over 10 year old game btw). easy peacy

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Astri_X wrote:

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No issues found on the 3080ti with a ryzen 9 5950x, works pretty much the same

Guys u just need a 5K pc to run the game(over 10 year old game btw). easy peacy

If you look at the game 10 years ago you will see it has changed a lot in textures and lighting among other things so you can't expect a game to stay running the same for such a long time. Only difference between this and most other games is this one continues to run as POE and doesn't close of a game to release a new version every year or 2 which everyone understands those games require different machines to run them so why not POE?

The game crashes every 10 minutes