My fight against micro (or macro) freezes

no that you shouldnt upgrade your gfx.. (as i play on my intel hd4000)

but you really could use a bit more ram also, you dont mention what o/s you have, im going to guess win7, you also dont mention if you have any ram slots left, hopefully you have 2 more, and put in another 2 sticks of 2 gig for 8gig total, of if you really were thinking about keeping this machine longer, and the board supports it, get 2 sticks of 4 gig, and then you can make a decent server out of it later.

priority? if you really only play games? get a better gfx card, then some ram, if you use your pc for more than just office and internet, get more ram, then gfx card..

if you can afford both, then you'll think you got a new PC

It's not the ram, game doesn't touch half my ram. As people have stated, the game doesn't handle texture caching right on ATI cards.

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Shadowness_ wrote:

Hey, look here if you have enough RAM !

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/108231

Yeah i've seen that topic and i'd really like to try but i only have 2 memory slots and no access to a 2x4gb mem right now.

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Sovyn wrote:

I have three systems, one with a fast SSD and an ATI graphics card, the others with slow HDDs and Nvidia cards. Guess which system hesitates on and off during combat. I think ATI drivers don't play nicely with PoE (in some cases? I've not heard from anyone that their ATI card *is* playing the game perfectly, but hey, maybe there is someone.).

I'd really love the SSD to solve that issue since it's a good "long-term" investment compared to a gfx/proc combo but my problem is when i'm seeing posts like that :

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/65141

It looks like he has a similar issue, but he's having a SSD, tried with a ramdisk and still freezes.

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wade001 wrote:

no that you shouldnt upgrade your gfx.. (as i play on my intel hd4000)

but you really could use a bit more ram also, you dont mention what o/s you have, im going to guess win7, you also dont mention if you have any ram slots left, hopefully you have 2 more, and put in another 2 sticks of 2 gig for 8gig total, of if you really were thinking about keeping this machine longer, and the board supports it, get 2 sticks of 4 gig, and then you can make a decent server out of it later.

priority? if you really only play games? get a better gfx card, then some ram, if you use your pc for more than just office and internet, get more ram, then gfx card..

I'm on Win7 64bits.
I'm using 3GB total when playing PoE.
I don't have any free mem slots.
I don't agree with your investment strategy.

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skyminder wrote:

It's not the ram, game doesn't touch half my ram. As people have stated, the game doesn't handle texture caching right on ATI cards.

It definitely seems so.
I've grabbed a list of ati cards having the same issue (according to the player) :

4200
4800 i7 2600k 3.4ghz
4850 Win7 64 bits
5150
5650
5400
5700 i7 / 8gb ram, win7 64 bits ultimate
5750
5850
5870 i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz / 16gb ram / Win7 64 bits Ultimate
6670
6850 OC
7850
7870 i7-3770k / 16gb ram / Win7 64 / SSD
7970

It worth checking those related topics :

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/83984
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/29234
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/61635
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/65141

As for my investigation, i've tried :

* 800*600
* vsync on/off
* -gc1 -gc2
* --nosound
* windowed/fullscreen

My graphic card specs :



DxDiag : http://pastebin.com/1zKkRXu7

I also monitored some stuff while playing :




Edit : I'll try the new ATI drivers this evening : http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst132BetaDriver.aspx

Those are not legacy drivers :'(

If you are having the same issue check this global ATI thread instead : http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/142392

Reddit related post : http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/142392

What programs are you using to monitor your computer in these pictures?
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I'm also having issues with fps drop. My setup: 7870 i7-3770k / 16gb ram / Win7 64 / SSD

He's using path of exile for the first 2 pictures (f1 key). GPU-Z for the 3rd picture. Speed fan for the 4th. Task Manager and ??? for the 5th.