PoE2 Has a Consistently Low Frame Rate no Matter What my Settings are.

I have an AMD 9800X3D processor, Nvidia 2080 RTX GPU, and 32 GB of memory.

The main menu loads in at about 26 fps and the entire game never moves above or below that, no matter how low I change the settings. Even changing my resolution from 2560x1440 to 1280x720 does nothing performance wise and I maintain that rock solid 26 fps.

Here is a screenshot illustrating my settings and showing my GPU metrics fluctuating between 30-55 ms in the upper right corner:

I have this same problem! RTX 4070 GPU, Ryzen 7 5800X CPU, 16 GB of DDR4 RAM, and I still can't pull higher than 50 FPS for some reason. I've tried changing every setting available, and the only two things that helped were changing the shader cache size in NVIDIA Control Panel and reverting back to DirectX 11 instead of DX12 or Vulkan. I can pull ridiculous FPS in other games, but I can't get this one to have anything but choppy, slow visuals. And it basically becomes a slideshow when I enter combat or get near something that casts light. It feels like there's something there capping my frames, but I don't know what.

I also have a 4070 build here and get 26 frames capped regardless of any settings changed. I have swapped to Direct x11 because it's somewhat playable on there, I average 100 frames but get hitches for a few seconds every new chunk loaded. Pc of course gets great frames on everything else.

Ive tried all the basics:
Driver Updates
Reinstall
Lowering Settings
Setting higher priority etc

I have the same issue, in Clearfell the FPS is capped at 26.

I9-14900, 4080 super, 64g ram. Can't get past 50 frames no matter what I do.
Went through steam, uninstalled, reinstalled through the website, went back to a later nvidia driver, nothing works. Really frustrating.

Other than that, love the game!

This is very frustrating. I cannot get more than 20 fps no matter what changes I make to settings. I've tried everything.

My rig has a Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-14700F, 2100 Mhz, 20 Core(s), 28 Logical Processor(s), GeForce 4060 RTX, 64 gb DDR5 ram, yet I'm choppy as heck and it doesn't matter if I'm in a town or in the map.

It seems like a lot of people w/ GeForce 4060, 4070, and 4080s are having this same problem. I've updated graphics card drivers, windows, turned all graphic settings to the absolute lowest, nothing works.

What is odd is that my much older, 300 dollar laptop somehow runs this game totally fine with only 60 fps, with an i5 and a 2080 ti. It makes no sense.

I just want to play the game on my main tower computer. Great game otherwise. I wish I had just waited longer to purchase.

Take a look at this Reddit post on the NVIDIA drivers and the known issues..
specifically the post by m_w_h (who maintains these threads and updates the notes for a lot of the known issues and workaround fixes for each driver). There are many mentions in the post and by other user posts about frame caps and other frame issues.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1g9i6ot/comment/lt70jqr/

If you rolled back to a previous driver, you may not have gone back far enough.
It's HIGHLY recommended to do DDU in safe mode before rolling back to an older driver.

DDU is discussed higher up in that thread with links to download.
The DDU site has instructions if necessary.

This isn't a guarantee to fix the frame issues, but maybe some will be able to figure out their issue with this link.

Edit:
Also, make sure your PCIe bus link speed for the GPU is running at 4.0.
You can see this with the GPU-Z app.

I don't know how much RAM this game requires, but 16 might not be enough. Maybe higher end games will day they require 16RAM, which you may have installed. But some of it may be chewed up by other processes and you might not be getting the full use of your 16 gigs. I also have a 4070, but used to run in to similar issues a whole back. Upgraded to 32 gigs RAM with some faster speed to them, along with a better cpu, and my 4070 has done very nicely. There's also things you can do in your BIOS to let you get more out of your GPU and RAM.

For context, if I'm running this game at 4K, the lowest the game will dip is around 60 frames when there's a lot going on on the screen, otherwise it sticks to around 100 120 frames. if I'm running the game at 2K, I can have pretty much all the settings maxed out and stay around 100 frames even with the screen getting really busy with lots of enemies.

I'd start with your ram. Minimum specs say 8 gig. I just looked up the game requirements, and they recommend 16. And if that's all you got is 16, I'm guessing that's where you're getting bottlenecked because not all of that 16 is able to go to your game.

Same here, capped at 20~. Tried everything... No word from GGG yet about the problem...

It's March 2025 now and I still have the same issues as the other posters here. I have a 2x Geforce GTX 980ti in SLI with an Intel i7-5930k cpu 64gb ram and another comp with a Geforce RTX 4080 with an Intel i9-14900HX 64gb ram. Both comps use SSD hd. They both avg frames between 20-50fps no matter what I do on either comp. My 980ti system's monitor has a 60hz refresh rate at 1920x1080 so it's not doing so bad. Still getting my money's worth on that ancient rig. But my 4080 system has a 165hz refresh rate at 2560 x 1600 so I'm not really getting the most out of my setup atm with this game. My 4080 doesn't have this issue on other games I play though. I don't know if this makes any difference but my 980ti rig runs windows 10 pro x64 and my 4080 rig runs windows 11 pro x64.

The only thing I was able to fix after researching this issue and trying literally every solution I came across; was the little stuttering I was getting on my 4080 rig. I know it's off subject, but if you're also getting this issue here is the solution that worked for me. For game settings, uncheck dynamic resolution, use NIS for upscale mode (not Nvidia DLSS as I was), and uncheck Triple-Buffering. I haven't tested to see if it's just one of these changes that made the difference or a combination. I just changed it all at once and the stutter went away.

Lastly, they said in the Dawn of the Hunt interview recently during the Q&A that they haven't been able to get around to work on the performance issues yet because of all the crashing/freezing type issues they have been working on, if I recall correctly. You can see the interview for yourself if you haven't, it's up on YouTube. What I took away from it was that they are aware of performance issues and plan to work on the issue sometime in the future when they can get more people to focus on the task instead of splitting the manpower they have between crash fixing and performance fixing. So, there's hope!