PS5 Game Performance is just awful and unplayable

I have exactly the same problem on my standard PS5. The framerate drops to 10-15 fps in act 2 already (don't get me started on towns with other players being visible).

My workaround for the time being is to activate dynamic culling in graphics settings. The VFx are reduced to garbage but the gameplay feels way-way better (just like the PC client).

Please guys, instead of issuing the usual "git gud" or "it's early access" lines, just stay constructive. If you don't have these problems - fine, but please refrain from denying other people's feedback.

It's in our all interest to provide GGG with feedback so they can address these problems and polish the game to the state it actually deserves.

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CTRL-ALT-SPACE#9511 wrote:

I have exactly the same problem on my standard PS5. The framerate drops to 10-15 fps in act 2 already (don't get me started on towns with other players being visible).

My workaround for the time being is to activate dynamic culling in graphics settings. The VFx are reduced to garbage but the gameplay feels way-way better (just like the PC client).

Please guys, instead of issuing the usual "git gud" or "it's early access" lines, just stay constructive. If you don't have these problems - fine, but please refrain from denying other people's feedback.

It's in our all interest to provide GGG with feedback so they can address these problems and polish the game to the state it actually deserves.

Dynamic Culling completely disable some animation / effect from being played so it's the kind of option to be used in last resort ( on Xbox S lol ) .

Dear GGG,

Hope that someone sees this and adresses the issue and its potential solution

I have put in for about 200 hours in EA and have been enjoying it

However..... the performance is terrible and unacceptble, console gamers are not second hand gamers that should be ignored.

Please fix the performance, while I underdstand this is EA there seems to be no optimization made whatsoever for console.

The PS5 might be inferior to a good PC, its still should be enough to run this game with good frame rates.

While I am not a developer, i have many hours in diablo and it has 0 performance issues even with a million monsters on screen.

I repost this here due to how unplayable is became :

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Ashyev#5110 wrote:

Performance outside of server lags ( you can see the spikes in green ) :



Server lag spike occuring ( goes up to 1000 MS lag and beyond ) :

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Ashyev#5110 wrote:

I repost this here due to how unplayable is became :

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Ashyev#5110 wrote:

Performance outside of server lags ( you can see the spikes in green ) :



Server lag spike occuring ( goes up to 1000 MS lag and beyond ) :

Looks like youve been banned for truth.Ive been there too :D

Game is almost unplayable at the end game. Forget about juicing maps with pack modifiers. And if you want to do Rituals, Breach and Delirium, good luck with that! U just can't play maps if u can't do these important and lucrative resources wise activities.

TLDR

Issue:
- Using Standard PS5
- Ice Strike Monk until end of act 2 is what early access should look like (occasionally drops to 30 fps)
- Witch with firewall, raging spirits and 2 arsonists in Act 1 Hunting Grounds is unacceptable (drops regularly to 20 fps)
- I can only imagine what this looks like in multiplayer/endgame...

I will not:
- Use any upscale mode but NIS (as the game looks like D2 with anything else)
- Use Dynamic Culling (my beloved snowdrifts created by ice strike monk look like from a mobile game)
- Not use Global Illumination (some very beautiful areas like the caravan look like a mobile game without it)
- Buy a PS5 Pro (as it is not worth it for 4-5 fps improvement, for 10+ fps I might be willing)
- Buy a PC (as all my microtransactions like tabs are not cross platform with PS5)

Here my experience with the game and performance:

First of all I am fairly new to POE. I did play all Diablo games when they were release (yes I am a bit older) but for some reason never got past level 3 with POE. PEO2 on the other hand somehow got me addicted (maybe just because I had some time with the holidays). It is just a stunning game and thank you to GGG for releasing EA on PS5 at the same time as PC. I want you to know that I absolutely enjoy your fantastic game. Just there is this performance issue.

I do use an LG OLED TV with 4k, 120hz and VRR. This TV does a lot of magic and lower resolution or screen tearing is never a problem. It makes even 1080p look as sharp as 4k.

First I did play Ice Strike Monk and oh my, the voluminous snowdrifts make me feel like a train in the Alaskan winter. Pure joy and the occasional fps drop to ca. 30 fps do not bother me too much. Although I wonder how the performance will be in endgame.

As I went through act 2 I saw a video of Raxx talking about a witch build which uses firewall and minions. Looked stunning so I decided to try. Started out with a bow and lightning arrow as recommended. When I reached the hunting grounds I was ready to switch to firewall with raging spirit and arsonist skeletons....

When I started burning the hunting grounds to the ground it felt like the game came to a halt. It strongly reminded me of playing Max Pain. We are talking 20 fps in options screen and it feels like 10. I really thought something is wrong with my Playstation. I looked for cooling issues. Opened the console and looked for dust. Then I did look into Graphics settings. Everything but a low resolution is not negotiable:

Other upscaling modes than NIS make the game very blurry. It reminds me of how D2 looked like and I could maybe get used to it but to be honest, the performance is not even significantly better so the tradeoff is very bad. Using Dynamic Culling removes the snowdrifts of the monk almost completely and I refuse to play like this. It looks like a mobile game. Removing global illumination makes stunning places like the caravan look like a mobile game too and the 4 fps it gives me is again by far not worth it. And the console should just be capable to run the game at least with 30 fps with all of these in place.


I can not say enough good about your game. But I did not play any more after this experience. It left a bad taste and I hope that you will be able to resolve the performance issues without sacrificing how stunning the game looks.

The devs should fix the game for PS5 so that it has a minimum of 30 fps in all scenes - also in towns and heavy combat scenes. If they need to sacrifice some eyecandy for that then allright; a stable framerate is the most important a good multiplayer game needs to offer.

Freitag abend, und ich muss Glück haben, wieder ins Spiel zu kommen, nachdem ich mal wieder nach der schnellreise ins Hauptmenü geschmissen wurde. Zum Thema framerate kann ich bestätigen. Der söldner ist wegen diesen Grund kaum spielbar. Mehr als 3 granaten, und das Spiel kommt nicht mehr klar. Es ist mit Abstand technisch das schlimmste, was ich in 30 Jahren erlebt habe. Und ich habe sie Hoffnung aufgegeben, denn poe1 ist nach wie vor unspielbar für ps5. Bis zum nächsten Patch gebe ich denen noch Zeit, ansonsten wars das mit ggg für mich.

Lets get this thread to 20k views at least get a community goal going since... we know they know that we all know they looking at this thread but are they doing something..... maybe we will win a prize!!!