Long load times

Anyone else having long load times when changing areas since the league patch?

I've been playing this game for over 10 years, have SSD, etc and it's always been just a couple seconds to transition. For some reason this league patch changed something and now it can take up to 30 seconds to load. Seems worse when going back to a town vs changing areas in the wild, however in both cases they are longer than I have ever seen them before.

Anyone else figure out what's causing this or a fix?

Optimization is still embarrassingly bad despite the updates. Load times have slightly increased on my end since 3.22. Since the new "Particle System" patch 3-4 weeks PoE on low-mid settings at 80FPS spikes my CPU cores to higher temperatures loading into my Hideout or a Map for example(75-85C roughly) than Apex Legends at 165HZ(Cores rarely go above 65-70C) and BF2042 at 165FPS. I locked my FPS to 80FPS for the time being. Temperature spikes of such extreme magnitude didn't exist before the "Particle System" update. From the best of my memory my CPU cores rarely reached 70C before the "Particle System" update.

Feels good using a i7-13700kf, 4070, 32GB DDR5 RAM, 240MM AiO LC, SSD to run a 10 year old game at pathetic performance levels. I've seen far too many posts of people with i9-13900k/4090/32-64GB of DDR5 experiencing the same thing. Clearly they just need to upgrade to better specs haha.

I can confidently say the current PoE performance is the either the worst or close to the worst optimization I've ever seen in any game I've played. GGG is highly raved about, the performance issues since the "Particle System" update have left a sour taste in my mouth though. It's laughable how poor the optimization is. Many players can't even play yet they refuse to revert, very impressive lol.

OK thanks for the input. Maybe it is this new particle system. TBH, for the past while I've been trying out D4 waiting for this League to drop so didn't experience the new particle system 3-4 weeks ago, only just hitting it now, so that's probably it.

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NightCicer wrote:

OK thanks for the input. Maybe it is this new particle system. TBH, for the past while I've been trying out D4 waiting for this League to drop so didn't experience the new particle system 3-4 weeks ago, only just hitting it now, so that's probably it.

Glad to help man. From my experience, which is illustrated above I'm quite certain it is the "Particle System" update. If you take the time to search on these forums and Reddit you will see numerous reports stating similar issues started upon the release of said update. In regards to 3.22 it seems load times have increased for many, though a contributor to that may be down to having to re-load cache.

You are not alone. I and my brother having the exact same issue after that engine update or whatever it was called. Loading into towns are sometimes taking up to 1 minute while previously it was up to 5 seconds - I just played 1.5 months ago, and everything was fine.

I'm also running PoE on my brand new SSD.

25 seconds + to load into town!

If I remember right they made a change to caching in the same update they did the engine changes. Something about erasing the cache upon each relaunch? Could be the source of load times as well. They're pretty bad for me, even opening the Atlas for some reason takes a worryingly long time to load (relatively speaking), was never this bad before even though admittedly my laptop isn't the best.

Same here.
- very long loading screens
- almost mandatory death in the first map I play each day due to evil lagspikes
- capped fps at 60 and lowered game resolution .. still no help ^^

I haven't really done much trading yet but the load times are worrying me, also its super annoying.

cant play with others because of this. by the time i load in, they already cleared half the map