[FIXED: 3.18.1.c2] Client deadlocks and very long map load times after 3.18.1c patch [id: 251,24..]
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PeterPwn420 wrote:
I used a RAMDisk as a workaround and put %APPDATA%\Path of Exile there. Just install https://sourceforge.net/projects/imdisk-toolkit/ or some other software and put %APPDATA%\Path of Exile on the RAMDisk (you'll have to repeat/automate this for reboots). After clicking a portal, it now takes a mere 3 seconds to load the map. If you have plenty of RAM (~64GB+), you may even put the entire game dir on the RAMDisk.
This might be helpful for those with slow disk medium, but even with an nvme device (which is more or less solid-state memory), this is still slow to load and still subject to periodic pausing.
Prior to the patch, there were not the freezes and area load times (including re-entering an area) were 1s or less.
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2022/05/13 13:18:18 103546312 118693c3 [DEBUG Client 15644] Generating level 3 area "1_1_2a" with seed 1273451211
2022/05/13 13:18:19 103546750 cff9459d [INFO Client 15644] : You have entered The Tidal Island.
2022/05/13 13:19:44 103632265 118693c3 [DEBUG Client 15644] Generating level 13 area "1_1_town" with seed 1
2022/05/13 13:19:45 103633593 cff9459d [INFO Client 15644] : You have entered Lioneye's Watch.
2022/05/13 13:20:49 103697375 118693c3 [DEBUG Client 15644] Generating level 2 area "1_1_2" with seed 1080596058
2022/05/13 13:20:50 103697921 cff9459d [INFO Client 15644] : You have entered The Coast.
2022/05/13 13:20:57 103705046 118693c3 [DEBUG Client 15644] Generating level 3 area "1_1_2a" with seed 1273451211
2022/05/13 13:20:57 103705484 cff9459d [INFO Client 15644] : You have entered The Tidal Island.
2022/06/28 21:50:52 856646421 118693c2 [DEBUG Client 11688] Generating level 60 area "HideoutLibrary" with seed 1
2022/06/28 21:50:53 856646984 cff9459d [INFO Client 11688] : You have entered Enlightened Hideout.
2022/06/28 21:50:55 856649125 118693c2 [DEBUG Client 11688] Generating level 83 area "MapWorldsPrimordialBoss2" with seed 3057452067
2022/06/28 21:50:56 856649656 cff9459d [INFO Client 11688] : You have entered Polaric Void.
2022/06/28 21:51:02 856655828 118693c2 [DEBUG Client 11688] Generating level 60 area "HideoutLibrary" with seed 1
2022/06/28 21:51:02 856656328 cff9459d [INFO Client 11688] : You have entered Enlightened Hideout.
2022/06/28 21:51:50 856703968 118693c2 [DEBUG Client 11688] Generating level 83 area "MapWorldsPrimordialBoss2" with seed 2834946235
2022/06/28 21:51:50 856704437 cff9459d [INFO Client 11688] : You have entered Polaric Void.
2022/06/28 12:36:42 823395953 118693c2 [DEBUG Client 1524] Generating level 60 area "HideoutBeach" with seed 1
2022/06/28 12:36:43 823397156 cff9459d [INFO Client 1524] : You have entered Coastal Hideout.
2022/06/28 12:36:57 823410718 118693c2 [DEBUG Client 1524] Generating level 60 area "HideoutLibrary" with seed 1
2022/06/28 12:36:57 823411468 cff9459d [INFO Client 1524] : You have entered Enlightened Hideout.
2022/06/28 12:45:09 823902593 118693c2 [DEBUG Client 1524] Generating level 83 area "MapWorldsShore" with seed 2615916179
2022/06/28 12:45:11 823905484 cff9459d [INFO Client 1524] : You have entered Shore.
2022/06/28 12:50:59 824253515 118693c2 [DEBUG Client 1524] Generating level 60 area "HideoutLibrary" with seed 1
2022/06/28 12:51:00 824254187 cff9459d [INFO Client 1524] : You have entered Enlightened Hideout.
2022/06/28 12:52:45 824359453 118693c2 [DEBUG Client 1524] Generating level 83 area "MapWorldsShore" with seed 2615916179
2022/06/28 12:52:46 824360171 cff9459d [INFO Client 1524] : You have entered Shore.
2022/06/28 12:59:04 824738437 118693c2 [DEBUG Client 1524] Generating level 60 area "HideoutLibrary" with seed 1
2022/06/28 12:59:05 824739140 cff9459d [INFO Client 1524] : You have entered Enlightened Hideout.
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Last edited by TwentyFiveEX#7096 on Jul 3, 2022, 11:58:11 AM
This might be helpful for those with slow disk medium, but even with an nvme device (which is more or less solid-state memory), this is still slow to load and still subject to periodic pausing.
"Slow" is relative. This is very helpful to me. My NVMe (Samsung 980 Pro) peaks at ~71MB/s random 4K read speed, RAM has 1350MB/s+. NVMe SSDs aren't even close to RAM's performance.
This might be helpful for those with slow disk medium, but even with an nvme device (which is more or less solid-state memory), this is still slow to load and still subject to periodic pausing.
"Slow" is relative. This is very helpful to me. My NVMe (Samsung 980 Pro) peaks at ~71MB/s random 4K read speed, RAM has 1350MB/s+. NVMe SSDs aren't even close to RAM's performance.
Absolutely. Measurably, by "this [patch] is still slow", I mean I went from 0 freezes to a 0-1.5s freeze in every map as well as map load times from 1s or less to a range of 4-8+ seconds. And by "slow disk medium" I mean those people that are still bound to spinning rust (many laptop players out there) or have high-latency-cpu-bound-software based disk controllers, etc. that a ranmdisk option is a significant performance boost especially for those cases, with the minor trade off of volatility.
In any case, the post-patch-performance has been outrageously bad and I do hope a proper fix is issued soon.
It's like this patch has regressed this game to the state it was in when texture streaming - or whatever the technique was - was first introduced.
Opening the any menu-type screens,such as the inventory or passive trees results in a low texture menu for a split second as it loads in.
Loading time are exactly the same with this hotfix as before with the initial patch, if not worse, and do the thing where you can hear activity before the scene is displayed, then upon encountering the first interactive thing such as a monster, an NPC etc, there's a hitch/stutter and intermitent stuttering thereafter.
Please revert somehow to the previous patch with just the bug fixes.
I understand you can't test every system configuration, but your 'technical' patches are always such a game of russian roulette.
Last edited by Converge57#5721 on Jul 2, 2022, 7:08:53 PM
Much more waiting on the loading screen. The texture streaming is way too aggressive. Every iteration of this technology breaks the game, but the early league iteration was ok
Looking good so far! I'll run a few maps to verify, but I believe performance is back to a good state.
Tested just one map so far and:
- Ran one map and didn't get a long load time while changing areas (Yay!)
- Did NOT get a freeze/pause on engagement with first pack of mobs (Nice!)
- Back to <=1 second transfer times between hideout and map (Stellar!)
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[Login->Hideout, <= 1s]
2022/07/03 19:19:33 133687953 cff9459d [INFO Client 13812] : You have entered Karui Shores.
2022/07/03 19:19:40 133694687 118693c2 [DEBUG Client 13812] Generating level 60 area "HideoutLibrary" with seed 1
2022/07/03 19:19:40 133695578 cff9459d [INFO Client 13812] : You have entered Enlightened Hideout.
[Hideout->Map 1, <=1s]
2022/07/03 19:19:48 133702671 118693c2 [DEBUG Client 13812] Generating level 83 area "MapWorldsAtoll" with seed 3,364,769,501
2022/07/03 19:19:49 133704203 cff9459d [INFO Client 13812] : You have entered Atoll.
[Map->Hideout 1, <=1s]
2022/07/03 19:20:11 133726031 118693c2 [DEBUG Client 13812] Generating level 60 area "HideoutLibrary" with seed 1
2022/07/03 19:20:11 133726578 cff9459d [INFO Client 13812] : You have entered Enlightened Hideout.
[Hideout->Map 2, <=1s]
2022/07/03 19:20:21 133735781 118693c2 [DEBUG Client 13812] Generating level 83 area "MapWorldsAtoll" with seed 3,364,769,501
2022/07/03 19:20:21 133736500 cff9459d [INFO Client 13812] : You have entered Atoll.
Edit: Ran a few more maps, everything is still looking good.
Thanks!
Edit2: Cache i/o is vastly difference between buggy patch and revert. It looks like the cache was always triggering a refresh, thus was defeating the point and benefit of the cache. Thanks again, and I'm calling this for-sure fixed.
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Last edited by TwentyFiveEX#7096 on Jul 4, 2022, 2:17:26 PM
