Framerate drops rapidly

Same problem, i made a thread about it with more infos : http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/111522

(copy/paste from my topic)


While the geforce is having low fps, it remains consistent. The radeon has big fps spikes causing ingame freezes.


Specs :

MB : GA-MA78LMT-S2
Proc : AMD Athlon II X3 440
Graphic card : Radeon HD 4850 1GB
Memory : 2x2GB Kingston/Corsair
HDD : Hitachi HDS72105
O/S : Win7 64 bits

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

Graphic card :



Monitored datas while playing :

use ICE arrows and look how your ATI card DIE.

thats dump, im has better VGA them my friends they has Geforce and im the only 1 who need turn of shadows and get dc because all use lighting or frost atacks... but in WOW, D3 i dont has problems.

I think the problem with act3 docks is due to effects of that fire breath things those dogs do.

Another things that can cause lag spikes are....

1. summons ex:raise skeleton, raise zombies, Raise spector, totems, and etc
2. Lightning Strike (worse if person is using GMP or LMP)
3. Lightning Arrow/Poison Arrow (Worse if person is using GMP or LMP)
4. Fire Storm, spark.

I think ATI graphics card's new drivers are thought to be problem as well....

I have done things below to speed up my computer a bit...

1. deleting files in temp/prefetch
2. disabling paging
3. Game booster
4. Making PoE client as high priority
5. adding - gc-1 after the client shortcut on target box.
6. defragged/scanned registry problems.
7. disabling shadow

seems like game still lags when certain skills with particles are used... I guess it is due to how skill effects are not pre-loaded.

In another note...

1. I can run games like Wolrd of Warcraft, Runes of Magic or Allods Online with no problem.
2. I can run torchlight 2 and diablo III with no problem.

I am not sure why Path of the Exile is the only game I have these kind of problem with.

Ati user here, 4870 card

A bit old but can run, diablo 3, wow, guild wars 2 in good graphics almost smoothly.

I have everything except resolution in the lowest setting.
I have almost no problems at The Ledge, but at Docks in particular is almost unplayable. Same goes for other areas of the game.
Also Ice shot, lightning shot freezes everything for a couple of seconds at the start of a map, then it is just laggy.

I'm of course, using a radeon.

Not only everything is happening to me(that was said already), but loading screens are taking forever now to load, and I never had that problem when open beta started. Game is great so far, but these lags are really testing our patience.

Using a radeon 5870 btw.

Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X - Same problems here.
Especially in the Ancient Pyramid, it feels like a huge slowdown of everything ingame.

Running PoE on a Phenom II 965 BE @ 3,40 Ghz / 8 Gig ram (some hyper x ram from kingston) and its also installed on my SSD.

same problem...

It was a similar story for a long while with D3 for me too... But i think that was more Blizzards fault.

I just died cause i quicksilver flasked into a big group of mobs and spawned a skele totem. Lost ALL control, regained control dead...

The problem still exists. No answer from GGG. So bump.

Hi, i had the same problems i have an ati too.

only thing that helped me was tesselation to 2x in catalystcenter, vsync on, game settings low and (importent) cleanbooted pc (google it).

Now i can play even in fullpartys. But my OCed cpu is a bottleneck !

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