Help! Cant play the game because of huge fps loss

Your cpu is too low of performance.

First, If you haven't read my own post on my path to great PoE performance do so now:

IMPORTANT: Everyone playing on Windows 7 or 8.1 immediately stop and upgrade to Windows 10

Make sure to look at my 2 edits after I've played a bunch of maps. Now as to my original statement about too slow of a cpu. There is a utility called PassMark that over the years millions and millions of cpus have been benchmarked so there is a huge database of stats. You can compare up to 3 cpus at once so here's your cpu compared to my old Xeon 4 core and current 8 core E5-2667 v2 cpu:



So your E5-6600K comes in with a 6659 average PassMark score. I originally had a Xeon E5-1620 v2 cpu in my Dell T3610 and it wasn't enough horsepower for PoE so it stuttered a lot and was frame crashing right and left. BTW: I have the same gpu as you have (Geforce 1060 with a slightly higher clock speed = AMP! version). Once I upgraded to Windows 10 Pro and upgraded to a better 8 core 16 thread cpu that made all the difference in the world playing PoE and I went from struggling to get 50 something fps in Win7 in my hideout to always being pegged at 200 fps in Win10:



Based on my own PoE experiences I'd want a ≥ 10000 Passmark score for PoE to play with good frame rates all/most of the time.

Granted the Geforce 1060 will max out at times playing PoE (mine did, see the OpenHardwareMonitor pic in my post) but PoE is very cpu computation heavy so a 4 core cpu won't be enough. Even worse is that the Intel E5-6600K has no hyper-threading so you only have 4 code threads in Windows. You need an 8 core cpu (it's possible that a 6 core/12 thread cpu will be adaquate for PoE but I made the jump from 4 to 8 cores so I have no way of knowing) and since an Intel I7 (my Xeon is the equivalent of an I7) has hyper-threading the 3.10 patch note stating that PoE can now utilize up to 16 threads should keep the frame rate up even more than before.

Other players that don't have any frame rate problems but have a lower PassMark score than 12000 will need to post their gaming rig specs in order to determine just how low of PassMark scored cpu is the minimum to be able to run PoE successfully but my guestimate of 10K is probably close enough.

EDIT: Even if you have a beefy cpu cooler and can get a stable overclock (you have the K model) of 4 GHz on all cores that probably won't be enough to offset the fact that the 6600K has only 4 cores for Windows 10 + PoE + more (browser, PoB, etc.).

Hmm,

maybe you are right! Thanks for the help! @arrowneous
I see, if i can get a better cpu cheap

Ive had my FPS drop to 1 with a rtx 2060

Ive had my FPS drop to 1 with a rtx 2060

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Arrowneous wrote:

Your cpu is too low of performance.

First, If you haven't read my own post on my path to great PoE performance do so now:

IMPORTANT: Everyone playing on Windows 7 or 8.1 immediately stop and upgrade to Windows 10

Make sure to look at my 2 edits after I've played a bunch of maps. Now as to my original statement about too slow of a cpu. There is a utility called PassMark that over the years millions and millions of cpus have been benchmarked so there is a huge database of stats. You can compare up to 3 cpus at once so here's your cpu compared to my old Xeon 4 core and current 8 core E5-2667 v2 cpu:



So your E5-6600K comes in with a 6659 average PassMark score. I originally had a Xeon E5-1620 v2 cpu in my Dell T3610 and it wasn't enough horsepower for PoE so it stuttered a lot and was frame crashing right and left. BTW: I have the same gpu as you have (Geforce 1060 with a slightly higher clock speed = AMP! version). Once I upgraded to Windows 10 Pro and upgraded to a better 8 core 16 thread cpu that made all the difference in the world playing PoE and I went from struggling to get 50 something fps in Win7 in my hideout to always being pegged at 200 fps in Win10:



Based om my own PoE experiences I'd not want a > 10000 Passmark score for PoE to play with good frame rates all/most of the time.

Granted the Geforce 1060 will max out at times playing PoE (mine did, see my OpenHardwareMonitor pic in my post) but PoE is very cpu computation heavy so a 4 core cpu won't do. You need an 8 core cpu and since an Intel I7 (my Xeon is the equivalent of an I7) has hyper-threading the 3.10 patch note stating that PoE can now utilize up to 16 threads should keep the frame rate up even more than before.

Other players that don't have any frame rate problems but have a lower PassMark score than 12000 will need to post their gaming rig specs in order to determine just how low of PassMark scored cpu is the minimum to be able to run PoE successfully but my guestimate of 10K is probably close enough.

GTX 1070 OC'ed
16 gb rab, at 3.2 Ggzh speed, Corsair
I7 7700 k , 4,4 Gghz, installed 2 months ago, cores unparked
Proper ventilation, gas cooling on cpu
SSD ON Board Plextor..... x2
Win 10 latest
Anything else am i missiing?
My fps is on teh dirt, highly fluctuates, from 20 to 60 (i have locked the fps at 60 actually...., the only game i do this)
When i start a delirium, i may aswell take my hand sof kepboard for a couple of seconds until is somehow stabilise
GGG need to fix their gameeeeeeeee

They need to fix spawning monsters choking players' computers. Delirium, Breach, Legion, Conqueror influence even metamorph chokes the CPU like Godzilla. last league - no problems. This league - a slideshow. It's a problem with this patch, not PC's.

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Ive had my FPS drop to 1 with a rtx 2060

It's not the video card that causes this. What's your cpu PassMark score? I think 8 core cpu with hyper-threading/multi-threading (2 code threads per cpu core) is now required for good PoE fps. Forget what the minimum hardware specs are, that just makes for a potato pc and nothing good for playing PoE.

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KopaKabana wrote:

GTX 1070 OC'ed
16 gb rab, at 3.2 Ggzh speed, Corsair
I7 7700 k , 4,4 Gghz, installed 2 months ago, cores unparked
Proper ventilation, gas cooling on cpu
SSD ON Board Plextor..... x2
Win 10 latest
Anything else am i missiing?
My fps is on teh dirt, highly fluctuates, from 20 to 60 (i have locked the fps at 60 actually...., the only game i do this)
When i start a delirium, i may aswell take my hand sof kepboard for a couple of seconds until is somehow stabilise
GGG need to fix their gameeeeeeeee

Again, check your cpu PassMark score:



Looks like "close but no cigar". I guestimated that ≥ 10K PassMark score is needed but it's quite possible and looking more and more likely as info comes in (thanks KopaKabana) on this thread that a 4 core cpu won't be enough for playing PoE on no matter how high of clock speed you can get. There is just too much client side processing for PoE to run on only 4 cores and if GGG had PoE tuned for an 8 core cpu (up to 8 PoE code threads) before (I never knew this) and now Delirium expands that up to 16 PoE code threads it's really looking more and more definitive that a 4 core cpu can't crunch the numbers fast enough to keep the frame rate high all the time.

Of course we all know that GGG's home rolled game engine is not good but we're stuck with it forever so the only thing to do is find an 8 core cpu that has a ≥ 10K PassMark score. If that doesn't work then Windows 10 is foobar-ed somehow with other background processes stealing cpu cycles away from PoE.

Im my own quest to get good PoE frame rates, I was shocked, first that my own Win 7 to Win 10 upgrade went so smoothly (look ma no driver errors at all), and secondly that after the upgrade and without re-installing any drivers (none) that PoE 3.9.x started up noticeably quicker and processing time from picking a character until the town comes up dropped from 4 to 5 seconds to @ 1 second. I can't explain what Windows 10 Pro version 1909 likes about my Dell T3610 + E5-2667 v2 cpu. Maybe it's the fact that this cpu has a quad-channel memory path and I have 4 4GB 1866 speed DDR3 memory modules (that's fast for DDR3 ram), or maybe it's that this Xeon is a 2011 pin cpu which allows for a whopping 40 PCI Express lanes so I have a full 16 PCIe lanes on my video + 4 on my plug in NVMe SSD card + 20 more for everything else so that there are no internal data flow bottlenecks running PoE. Whatever the reason this hardware combo works great for playing PoE as it now does (I had problems forever until I upgraded to Windows 10) I'm very happy that my frame rates are routinely hitting the 200 fps ceiling (definitely overkill for my monitor). I have to come back to the cpu having 8 cores to allow PoE to run on and now utilizing the full 16 code threads that I have available. That's huge multi-tasking and is looking more and more likely what everyone else still struggling (and cursing GGG for bad QoP) will need to upgrade to to get consistently high frame rates.

MAybe It is like my problem, since two patches ago, I always have to tell what graphic adapter should be used. I have notebook with onboard and extra power GPU. In the old past PoE used the nvidia card to start, but then it began to use always wrong GPU.
My solution is simple right click at ICon at desktop choose from context menu the use graphic adater nvidia. It is even said it would be standard but it is somehow not. THen ingame choose options and have look if it uses correct GPU.
Hope it helps you

I have big perfomance loss since update.
Mapping experience became much worse - in 3.9 I've got reasonable FPS (maybe 60 in maps, and 30-40 in difficult moments - big packs, effects, etc), in 3.10 I sometimes have totally unplayable framerate (below 20) + resolution drop.