Technical Support (Path of Exile 1) - New Engine Patches uses twice as much CPU/GPU yet causes insane micro stutter and lag - Forum

I cant play anymore. I bought a new GPU Nvidia GTX 1650 and I was having a blast game was smooth, but after the patch the game is unplayable. Microstuttering,FPS drop, huuge loading screen, etc, its horrible. i7 - 3770K 3,9 Ghz 16 Gb RAM GPU Nvidia GTX 1650 Kingstone SSD - 256 GB Win 10 Vulkan and Dx12 its worse.	Posted by TheLAur#6614 on Aug 6, 2023, 3:27:28 AM Quote this Post
After engine "improvements" my GPU turned into a high-energy-sucker. GPU fans ramping up like crazy when playing normal maps. Can't even do uberblight maps anymore, I'm lagging to death. Never had issues before engine-"improvements". Used to do 5-way all day long without any stutters. I also noticed that the loading time into maps, getting out of maps, portaling to towns or the Hideout has increased compared to "pre-upgrade". 3060Ti, AMD 3700X, RAM 32GB, 512GB NVMe, WIN10 Please revert changes. This is actually making parts of the game unplayable for me. You have not tested this before release. Last edited by Hydra1975#4696 on Aug 6, 2023, 7:02:35 AM	Posted by Hydra1975#4696 on Aug 6, 2023, 6:55:41 AM Quote this Post
" Golden_Ducky wrote: Ever since the 6gb patch arrives poe been giving me insane stutter and lag, with shader bar on the F1 chart constantly maxing out (which i think thats the reason for the lag). Ive noticed that many people has the same issur and i thought ill help provide another post to help report the problem. My specs: Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-9300H CPU @ 2.40GHz, 2400 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s) Memory: 8GB GPU: Nvidia GTX 1050 (Yes i know its potato spec but the game was running quite fine before the patch, but now its really struggling for no reason after the engine update :( ) Congratz!!! Your topic has become the "chosen" one!!! LOL,... sorry had to come up with something other than just "bump". Chuter. 44.	Posted by Chuter#5688 on Aug 6, 2023, 7:44:22 PM Quote this Post
Same problems, all up2date, dosent matter what i change in the ingame/windows/nvidia control panel/settings AMD Ryzen 5 1600X Six Core Processor 3,60 GHz 16 GB RAM Windows 10 Nvidia GTX 1080 Last edited by SirGorog#6407 on Aug 6, 2023, 7:47:09 PM	Posted by SirGorog#6407 on Aug 6, 2023, 7:45:23 PM Quote this Post
" AintCare wrote: " Chuter wrote: " DistributedAutomaton wrote: In the Nvidia Control Panel. Set this as high as your disk lets you get away with. (I set mine to Unlimited.) Just remember that doing that under "global" and not per client effects everything you run on your PC. including the desktop. Chuter. if per client you mean the application- I can't find it under poe.exe anyway That's very odd,... EDIT: Also you can manually add it if not there, but it was there in the drop down menu in alphabetical order for me. Chuter. 44. Last edited by Chuter#5688 on Aug 6, 2023, 7:52:19 PM	Posted by Chuter#5688 on Aug 6, 2023, 7:51:30 PM Quote this Post
Got ya. Shitty. Chuter. 44. Last edited by Chuter#5688 on Aug 6, 2023, 9:59:40 PM	Posted by Chuter#5688 on Aug 6, 2023, 9:58:37 PM Quote this Post
I found some idea's on the forum but none helped me. I decided to remove Path of Exile and re-install it. I'm not stuttering as much as I did before, but I lost around 20FPS during gaming and screen becomes a blur at times (too much happening). It's still adburd the amount of power being used after the new engine. All settings default. This is when I'm idle in Town: https://imgur.com/a/mKVFLSb It's using 30-40% more GPU-power and than before the update. Now the intitial startup of PoE uses 100% of CPU and it goes back to somewhat normal number after 10 second. There is a lot more going on than before. Way more CPU and GPU is beging used. 1 to 2 years ago people would accuse devs for implementing a crypto-miner after a specific "update-for-game-improvements" when they would see numbers like this. AMD 3700X 32GB RAM 512GB NVMe Win10 Pro-X64 NVidia 3060Ti Last edited by Hydra1975#4696 on Aug 7, 2023, 5:23:41 AM	Posted by Hydra1975#4696 on Aug 7, 2023, 5:22:30 AM Quote this Post
" AintCare wrote: " Chuter wrote: Got ya. Shitty. Chuter. does your Nvidia utility have separate setting for shader cashe size for each app? No. :( Chuter. 44.	Posted by Chuter#5688 on Aug 7, 2023, 6:18:08 PM Quote this Post
Updated my cache_directory in PoE config, which resolved the worst of CPU/Shader lag. Game is playable. Not sure where the Cache folder was prior/after update	Posted by Nazya#0578 on Aug 7, 2023, 6:29:50 PM Quote this Post
" Futbeidl wrote: Game performance is much worse than before the patch with the engine/shader update. The patch stated, that the shader processing moved from the CPU to the GPU. Could anyone tell me why the GPU is then just at halv load (<50% with no fps limiter) when it was at >90% before? The GPU isn't as well utilized as before the patch. That seems for me the main issue why my FPS is now almost halved compared to before, dropping frames to under 20 when in a busy shaderrich environment. The second reason for the low graphics performance seems to be the low memory usage of the GPU (<1GB on Vulkan, <2GB on DX11 and DX12) In addition I have immense stuttering with multithreading on. With this option off, the CPU-lag flattens out but over all performance hasn't gotten better. My graphic options I tried: ° Tripple Buffering: ON/OFF ° Vsync: fast/locked/off ° multithreading: ON/OFF ° API: DX11/Vulkan/DX12 ° Dynamic Culling: ON/OFF Shadows are kept at low and global illumination is turned OFF My specs: i7 3770k@4GHz 32GB RAM GTX 1060 6GB almost new 500GB SATA3 SSD Would be nice if you could do something about it before the start of the next league ;) I also set the shader cache to unlimited in the nvidia driver menue and all else application controlled. I just don't get it, why the CPU and GPU usage is quite low despite the low framerate. (Normally the game should force the CPU/GPU to power up until it reaches the 60FPS for Vsync locked?!) Last edited by Futbeidl#6937 on Aug 9, 2023, 4:38:51 PM	Posted by Futbeidl#6937 on Aug 7, 2023, 6:40:54 PM Quote this Post