Constant FPS drops and Screentearing

The game is good but not enjoyable. There are constantly FPS drops 20-30 and ScreenTearings, mostly by Flame effects and fire (on the ground, casted spells, traps) and on highground, maze maps.

The game is really not well optimized for consoles, the trials of chaos is impossible to succeed on my side because of the big drops of fps

Trial of chaos is totally unplayable, its dropping probably to ~20 FPS on PS5. Similar situation is with outside areas on act3. Comfortably playable are only closed locations like f.e. molten core. Everywhere where is grass/water or some effects it's performance is dropping hugely.

Also, when playing sorc with spark + fire effects (basically all elemental effects), fps are dropping tremendously.

Of course i understand it's EA but i can't even imagine how to play endgame if finishing campaign is so demanding regarding performance.

At this point i would say its really not playable with pleasure. Keep getting crashes everytime i port anywhere. Every 10min crashed + frame drops. I hope they put some energy into this. We really wanna play this game but u are making it really hard for us.

I just want to port into town... crash.... logging back in... porting to town... crash... logging back in... trying to port to town... crash.... thanks for nothing.

yeah I get you, I just started to stick to the 30hz option because the screen tearing from act 2 onwards is just to frequent

Breach is completely unplayable. FPS plummets to single digits. I’ll be avoiding interacting with them in the future. I couldn’t remotely tell what I was doing and just spammed pots/evade. Ritual is pretty bad too with high density.

These have kept me from bothering adding any more monster density on atlas passives and hesitant to run stuff with density modifiers.

Canal hideout has same issues as Act 3 past.

Series X.

I believe it's a higher refresh rate issue. I dropped down to 30Hz, NIS, at no upscale. This is the best setting I've found that's worked for me so far.

Thx I’ll try and leave it on longer as I really didn’t want to do that. I did try that but still couldn’t see anything in a T5 after hitting a breach. Fps was about 18-24.

Fire by far really seems to slog it up, as I had a better experience as chaos.

Yea, performance on PS5 is atrocious. Especially if you're playing grenade build, FPS drops to 15-20. It is not optimised at all.