Path of Exile 3.6.0 will not support Windows XP or Vista

what a big deal...who cares shadows or xp...fix better freeze screens and fps drops what is main reason of dying.

directx 11 works better nowadays or only after 3.6?

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mxxxxv wrote:

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Dzesis wrote:

I used Dx9, cause game ran like shit on Dx11 on particle heavy builds. since I could disable more stuff using Dx9.

7700k + gtx 1080 + game on ssd + 32gb ram = not a potato, but still due to poor optimasation have to run dx9 to run @60

edit: to run stable @60 without weird stutters.

i think ure braindead and dont know what ure doing with your pc if u have low fps with this set up...i have radeon r380 and 60-100 fps with dx 11

You have no idea what you're talking about kid ...

Fix client crashes first... I'm still getting crash if i activate shadow on with gtx 1070ti and 7700k pc.

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NocturnalRay wrote:

For those that don't know

Millenium = XP
Vista = Win7
Win8 = Win10

Every one of them is just a better improved version of the same framework dressed up to hide PR disasters.


Chris, Why discontinue Vista without doing the same for Win 7? they both operate on the DX10 framework, there is little point to supporting it other than the tin foil hat bumkins that refuse to jump on 10 which if you are "waiting for less intrusive", you are not going to get it from here on out(just opt out of everything, like everyone does). Just accept it and move on. It was the same argument between 95 and win 98 and honestly the trackers were not a big deal unless you were a criminal, then it became a problem.

Your history is a bit off. XP was 2k with a different skin and slightly improved support for legacy software. It (and all newer versions of WIndows) is a version of the NT family; ME was the last hurrah of the 9X code base and a completely different animal.

As for why W7 as the new minimum OS version instead of Vista or W8/10. There is the generic pragmatic one that applies to most Windows software written today that W7 still having a huge share of the user base meaning it can't be dropped while Vista having fewer users than XP. For POE specifically there's also that the game has 2 major versions DX9 (min OS of XP) and DX11 (min OS of W7). There's no DX10 version (and adding one would be a huge amount of work) because when GGG started on POE DX9 was still the common minimum standard because XP was still the most widely used Windows version; and DX10 would require writing 2 versions of all the graphics stuff for twice the work. Years later when GGG was larger and could afford to write all its GFX code a second time W7+ was in a dominant position allowing DX11 to work almost universally so there was no reason not to use it over DX10. (It's possible DX11 was also a requirement for XBox support, not sure on this though.) DX12 OTOH wouldn't work with ~1/3rd to 1/2 of the player base, meaning they'd need to keep the DX9 version around indefinitely; in addition to the fact that because it holds the developers hands much less DX12 is much harder to work with.

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Padlen_RU wrote:

POE don't need auction. Only thing that required is fully automatic trading, just set price and forget until money comes to you(maybe in message like season rewards in D3).

and thousands of bots will buy up rare lots rising prices. poe economy only works while u must chat with ur offer and then manually trade. its moderately difficult to automate trading at buyer's side.

sorry for bad english.

cities full of microtransactions that make xbox one crash, we need to go to the hideout and load all the crap to buy something, play at parties have to choose the skills to be allowed, we have several deaths with streamers in these situations with crashes, you may will not change the engine, okay, but could you think better?

do I really have to get into the city after I've finished all the business there? we get on a map and when the screen appears hundreds of monsters attacking our golem and what have you changed? minions get immune

your news GGG is a lost case, in the past came with news of the type, we improved the performance in 20%, 10% 50% and nobody noticed the improvement, after changing this comes saying that the shadows give more realism, yes we know of this, you talked about water last year?...lol, this crap only do lags

Mathil facing uber elder with fps exploding it was last week, and you do the impossible...make beyond mobs go back with freeze loading when they appear,every new path we have more than 1 gigabyte? this game will have more than 80 gigabytes someday only with microtransactions that makes even xbox one crash?

PS. xbox one was made to run games

change your mind or change your engine

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Ledox wrote:

Fix client crashes first... I'm still getting crash if i activate shadow on with gtx 1070ti and 7700k pc.

None on DX11. DX9 is obsolete (75% SLOWER, if not even slower, across the entire board - load times, fragmentation, patch times, you get the idea.)

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Dzesis wrote:

I used Dx9, cause game ran like shit on Dx11 on particle heavy builds. since I could disable more stuff using Dx9.

7700k + gtx 1080 + game on ssd + 32gb ram = not a potato, but still due to poor optimasation have to run dx9 to run @60

edit: to run stable @60 without weird stutters.

i agree,
i have done the same thing recently and for me DX9 is less beautiful but far better for gaming experience.

fair and more than reasonable !