Severe Fps Drops post 3.1

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cipher_nemo wrote:

Still horrid performance.

Happened after 3.0, and worse with 3.1.

EVGA GTX 1080, Core i7 6700K, 32GB RAM, ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Formula motherboard
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

I've tried EVERYTHING, and I really mean that. DX9, DX11, graphics settings in client, adaptive VSync, client only Vsync, no vsync, windowed mode, fullscreen, NVIDIA settings including forced 3D settings for the PoE client, disabling display scaling, updated video drivers (and decent chipset, etc. drivers), new BIOS, removed everything else running in background, clearing all shader caches, performing a trim on the ggpk package file, wiping the entire client and installing from scratch, running /noasync, running with and without multithreading, etc., etc., etc. I even tried this on my old system, which I still have around, and sure enough after updating PoE, it ran far worse than I remember in the 2.x days. It's not as bad in DX11, but still there. In DX9 it's worse, but then I can't use DX11 with multiple monitors while running PoE fullscreen without occasional crashes and blanking of my secondary screen.

The problem is PoE, unfortunately. Bloat and eye candy, and now with abysses and ground effects combined while mapping, it's horrible. I ran run hundreds of frames a second without problems while standing still, but moving around is constant micro-stuttering, frame rate drops, and worse. Latency is smooth to the servers, it's just the frame rendering and framerate drops that cause horrid micro-stuttering.

Of note: I have a four-core CPU with hyperthreading, so 8 virtual cores. All eight of those cores are constantly 30-40% when playing and sometimes they spike to max out each core. You seriously can't tell me that PoE is supposed to randomly max out 8 virtual cores on a higher-mid range 2016 CPU. Something is seriously screwed up with PoE 3.x, especially 3.1.x

GGG, when are you guys going to optimize the client again? I'm so sick of the performance issues in 3.x, that I'm just no longer motivated to finish the league. Playing any game but PoE right now, and that's sad. I miss PoE.

DxDiag: https://pastebin.com/rnzFBwnD

WinMTR is fine to the DC server: https://pastebin.com/LS5BXV9z

I use AIDA64 to monitor my system. Notice the high CPU usage from PoE (DX9 Ex, fullscreen, Adaptive VSync)...



And a screen cap of framerate and rendering time in-game, desert map with consecrated ground, just popped an Abyss event, with a good number of mobs on the screen at once...

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Hughs wrote:

Is time for this guys to stop expending so much time creating new MTX and new content for the game, and focus only in optimize and fix the game (i know that people that work creating MTX and new content don't work in code or fixing bugs or or whatever, just get more people or make another team that focus on the fixes).

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GGorebachev wrote:

Still crashing randomly with multiple exceptions pointing towards GGGs internal code repository.

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GGorebachev wrote:

I have been enjoying this game a lot recently but the frustration of losing maps/breaches/abysses or the inability of playing Hardcore is taking over.

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makarsk1 wrote:

I have a state-of-the-art PC with a combination of Core i7 8700k, Samsung 960 EVO ssd, 32gb HyperX DDR4 3000 RAM and AORUS GTX 1080ti video card with 11GB of GDDR5 memory. It's obvious that I am able to run PoE on my PC with maxed settings (I have a 165hz 1440p IPS monitor) with 150+ fps.

However! I am experiencing constant periodical drops to 20-25 fps for example when I enter Lioneye's Watch, talk to Nissa, open settings windows, skill tree and such. As soon as I close trade window or similar, fps goes back to normal (160+). Please advise what to do now, as this is very irritating to me. I played during Harbinger league on a old pc and gameplay was smooth (average fps was, of course, much lower, but no fps drops apart from usual situations like breach or similar).

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berniebucket wrote:

I have been having fps spikes since 3.1.

Tried reverting nvidia drivers as recommended to 378.92 with no difference.

What actually seems to resolve my issue is when I am in game already, changing power management in nvidia control panel from prefer maximum performance to something else and then back to maximum performance. The spikes will not happen anymore until I close and launch poe again.

This isn't an issue in any other game I play.

Hopefully this helps.

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shadowingo wrote:

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Hughs wrote:

Is time for this guys to stop expending so much time creating new MTX and new content for the game, and focus only in optimize and fix the game (i know that people that work creating MTX and new content don't work in code or fixing bugs or or whatever, just get more people or make another team that focus on the fixes).

They won`t do this. They focus on rich players with high-end PC who always do a generous donation. More MTX=more money. I`m always die from sudden terrible FPS drop in Abyss or boss and it makes me so angry on that game with graphics of 2010 year.