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Considering I'm on a later version of the driver, would you expect reverting to the older version to help avoid the slow degradation of performance? I'll probably give it a shot later today - but I don't have high hopes. Thanks for the tip and I'll report back the results.
My older post
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I'm using RTX 3050Ti (laptop). I had issues with FPS degrading over time while playing PoE1 and PoE2 (from 144/100 FPS to 60/40 while in hideout after doing few maps/instances).
For me it was caused by NVIDIA Driver 577.00, 580.88, 580.97 and 581.15 (clean install through DDU)
I did not test 581.08 since I'm not interested in re-installing drivers another time).
Currently I'm using 576.88 (clean install through DDU) and both PoE1 and PoE2 no longer have problems with FPS degrading.
"Detected out-of-date GPU driver. Please update to latest version" message while launching PoE2 - ignore it, it works fine.
I suggest removing all PoE1 / PoE2 shader cache after clean installing new driver. Nvidia shader cache are automatically deleted upon using DDU. First maps/instances always will be laggy, since shaders are rebuilding.
Hi,
Just to report back - it works. Played a long session after performing DDU -> 576.88 and the issue has gone away. I deleted the shader after running the game a few minutes. The game does nag you for outdated drivers - but I'm unsure if the issue is with the game or the drivers - really weird and specific driver version to solve the issue.
I know have pretty consistent frame pacing. Only when the screen gets busy do I see dips, but that's to be expected. No stuttering, etc.
Thanks for the solution!
I've just come back to report that I got in touch with Nvidia support, and they provided an additional set of troubleshooting steps. After following them, I managed to upgrade to 581.29 and the game runs without this performance degradation.
I've reproduced the steps below:
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From the information provided thus far, it seems to be a possible compatibility issue of the game patch and the driver version which is causing the issue, however we wont be able to know for sure on what exactly is causing this, we may try a few troubleshooting steps to see if the issue gets fixed and that way try to narrow down to the root cause of the issue:
- Use the NVIDIA Clean up tool and then install the latest drivers:
a) Please create a system restore point before attempting to uninstall and reinstall the graphic card driver.
>> how to create the system restore point - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4027538/
b) Please download the NVIDIA Cleanup tool from the link below: https://developer.nvidia.com/cleanup-tool
Download the NVIDIA Cleanup Tool (CleanupTool.exe) from the download link provided above.
. Double-click the executable to launch the tool.
. Click ACCEPT to accept the End User License Agreement.
. Click Yes at the confirmation prompt.
The progress dialog appears
. Click OK at the completion dialog to close the dialog.
. Restart the computer after uninstall complete.
After Cleanup tool and restart, once back in Windows download and install the driver from here: https://www.nvidia.com/download/index.aspx
Reference steps: https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/10/
Also, links to the performance recordings with 581.15 vs 581.29 post fix
581.15: https://youtu.be/GUNb-fr2TJw / https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2563673377
581.29: https://youtu.be/JIcMnLGuiBw
Do try it out and see if it works for you. But seems legit :D
