New Engine Patches uses twice as much CPU/GPU yet causes insane micro stutter and lag

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/fjw702/nvidia_users_disable_those_2_for_a_huge/

Try this fix

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https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/fjw702/nvidia_users_disable_those_2_for_a_huge/

HUGE PERFORMANCE BOOST!
Love those Reddit posts

Unfortunately didn't work for me

What might cause abnormal stuttering (CPU going from 10 ms to 200 constantly) when I have multithreading enabled? Without it the game is smooth and stable, but for obvious reasons you can't map like that. What might cause this? Cores unparked, C-states disabled, everything was smooth before the league.

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Inscaped wrote:

What might cause abnormal stuttering (CPU going from 10 ms to 200 constantly) when I have multithreading enabled? Without it the game is smooth and stable, but for obvious reasons you can't map like that. What might cause this? Cores unparked, C-states disabled, everything was smooth before the league.

The problem is that the game only sees as far as the CPU but not what's happening behind it. When the game needs the GPU to do something (render a frame, whatever), it doesn't talk to the GPU directly. It tells the CPU to tell the GPU to render the frame. Then the GPU tells the CPU to tell the game whatever the result is. And this whole cycle would be "the latency" i.e. the time it takes from submitting the request to receiving the response all the way up and down this chain.

If the GPU takes its time, for whatever reason, the CPU has to wait for the GPU, and the game has to wait for the CPU, and so on.
So, from the game's perspective, it's always the CPU that's being slow because it's kind of a broker for all the operations, when in fact it could be any number of things.

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GregoryAdams wrote:

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Inscaped wrote:

What might cause abnormal stuttering (CPU going from 10 ms to 200 constantly) when I have multithreading enabled? Without it the game is smooth and stable, but for obvious reasons you can't map like that. What might cause this? Cores unparked, C-states disabled, everything was smooth before the league.

The problem is that the game only sees as far as the CPU but not what's happening behind it. When the game needs the GPU to do something (render a frame, whatever), it doesn't talk to the GPU directly. It tells the CPU to tell the GPU to render the frame. Then the GPU tells the CPU to tell the game whatever the result is. And this whole cycle would be "the latency" i.e. the time it takes from submitting the request to receiving the response all the way up and down this chain.

If the GPU takes its time, for whatever reason, the CPU has to wait for the GPU, and the game has to wait for the CPU, and so on.
So, from the game's perspective, it's always the CPU that's being slow because it's kind of a broker for all the operations, when in fact it could be any number of things.

Thank you for detailed response. Weird thing is when I disable multithreading game still utilizes all of the cores, but overall CPU usage is something like 40% on average and up to 80-90% in intense scenes while GPU load is around 70%. With multithreading on I have the same amount of threads, but CPU usage goes up to 40-50% (edit: nope, it stays the same as w/o mt), GPU sits at 60-70% and the game stutters like hell. So pretty much the same. That seems strange, but my knowledge is limited. Without MT game is so smooth it's insane.

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Inscaped wrote:

What might cause abnormal stuttering (CPU going from 10 ms to 200 constantly) when I have multithreading enabled? Without it the game is smooth and stable, but for obvious reasons you can't map like that. What might cause this? Cores unparked, C-states disabled, everything was smooth before the league.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/165nkla/how_i_fixed_cpu_stuttering_on_the_latest_patch/

literally 90% of the playerbase has issues yet they refuse to reverse it lol GG, GGG Clap Clap Hooray Hooray

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xb00niex wrote:

literally 90% of the playerbase has issues yet they refuse to reverse it lol GG, GGG Clap Clap Hooray Hooray

If they haven't changed anything (other than "performance fix patches" that didn't do much) it's because they're testing waters for Path of Exile 2. Not that I'm defending this, mind you.

I've tried some of the "fixes" that our fellow people suggested. My PC is a bit old but it used to run with consistent 60fps prior to Ancestor league, which it was pretty decent for me. But after the patch, the game runs with a 100% GPU usage (HELLO?!) with endless stuttering and lag.

Despite this, I'm reminded that:

1- Then again, I don't know why I should be the one working around to be able to play the game in a decent state. Especially if I know the problem isn't in my end.

2- For better or worse, Path of Exile is F2P. But I'm pretty sure that if it had a subscription model, the actual performance fix would have arrived by now.

3- Because of this -and though dissapointing the circumstances are- I remind myself that my life isn't defined after a video game.

And another up.

Crazy how many of those threads exist at this point, and still absolutely nothing. lol