This Patch is by far the worst for performance I've ever had

So I'm not too sure about everyone else but this patch has completely killed the performance I get higher than ever dips in framerate. I used to very consistently get 60 FPS at ultra settings. Now I have to take everything to low settings and I'm lucky if I get a stable 30 FPS most of the time assets don't load in and I get killed by invisible rares or I just can't see half the map

But worst of all is the load times oh my god they are awful no joke I made a joke with some buddies on discord they needed 2 exalts for an Item and I was running a map I said I could help him out in 2-3 buisness days as a joke I then had the 2 exalts in my inventory from the map and went to my firends hideout it took around 3-4 minutes and I said I was going to make a sandwich for myself I then made my entire sandwich and ate it and I still hadnt loaded in ittook around 30 minutes or something we didnt count the exact time and yes this was the worst case but usually they take around 6+ mins when loading into every zone I have the game on an SSD and last patch I would load into areas in a couple seconds

I have no idea what is the cause of this but it's actually becoming unplayable at this point, which is a shame because Ive been loving playing Bear and I haven't had the same Issues other people have had with it but these load times are beyond reasonable
Last bumped on Dec 15, 2025, 12:44:13 PM
0.4 is by far the best performance.

0 crashes, 0 stuttering
they fixed a lot.
I disagree. I play on a Acer Nitro V laptop and this league is the first time the laptop doesn't even seem to get warm. They def did a lot so kudos to GGG
I mean they talked about optimizations before launch but i get massive issues with textures- can't see terrain details, can't see flasks, can't see stuff in vendor or in inventory. Unplayable for me for now. It's too much this time- i paid for it, knowing what the minimum system requirements are, i meet those requirements and they still can't deliver. Very disappointed.
I am not having performance issues but there are so many bugs and textures not loading or looking all weird. I've never gotten this many bugs in a game, it's like they are going backwards.
Agreed. "Performance" in terms of overheating my 4090 and frequent crashes like never seen bore in PoE 1-2 or any other game or software. Whatever they introduced, I hope they fix it.
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xxn1927#3319 wrote:
Agreed. "Performance" in terms of overheating my 4090 and frequent crashes like never seen bore in PoE 1-2 or any other game or software. Whatever they introduced, I hope they fix it.



Bro what are you talking about. Im on a freaking gaming laptop and running everything on high...no overheating...upgrade your potato son
I am also having much worse performance. I gave up trying to solve it. The game runs like dog water and locks my system up constantly
I was getting awful performance on DX11/12,other leagues I was at120 fps this league around 30-60, switching to Vulkan as the renderer fixed it for me
Console is worse on this patch. Dreadnought is 15fps.

Totems/Fissure = 20fps.

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