Massive FPS Drop After Waking PC from Sleep (Windows 11)

Hey everyone,

I’m having a strange issue with PoE2 and could use some help.

Whenever I start my PC fresh and launch a game, I get a stable 140 FPS. However, if I put my computer to sleep and then wake it up, the same game runs at around 40 FPS instead. A full system restart fixes the issue every time, but as soon as I use sleep mode again, the FPS drops return.

Here are my specs:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7600X

GPU: NVIDIA GTX 4070 Super

RAM: 32GB

OS: Windows 11

Everything is updated — GPU drivers, BIOS, and Windows.

Has anyone experienced this or know what could be causing it?

This is more than likely a driver issue. It is known that some driver version have issues with the wattage after coming out of sleep. You could confirm this by comparing the wattage of your GPU after sleep and after shutdown. If your drivers are up-to-date, I'd try a previous version to see if that fix the issue.

In any case, I would recommend never to use the sleep feature of windows as it's been problematic since it's conception, more than 20 years ago. Sleep mode is really just useful if you can't wait 1 minute for your computer to boot up.