RTX 3050 – 15 FPS with drops to 7-8 frames

I play on an RTX 3050 and experience extremely long loading times (up to 5 minutes) and very poor game performance.

In other games, my FPS is sufficient for a comfortable experience, but in PoE 2, it stays consistently between 15 and 25 FPS. When there are a lot of mobs on the screen, FPS sometimes drops to 7-8 FPS for several seconds.

Additionally, sometimes when I enter a new area, I get attacked by mobs that I can't even see. This often results in my character dying unfairly.

Because of these issues, the game can be very frustrating at times. Please do something to fix this!

Which RTX 3050? There are six different ones

- 3050 A Mobile - 1792 CUDA 4GB/64bit
- 3050 Mobile - 2560 CUDA 6GB/96bit
- 3050 Mobile - 2048 CUDA 4GB/128bit
- 3050 Desktop - 2304 CUDA 6GB/96bit
- 3050 Destkop - 2304 CUDA 8GB/128GB
- 3050 Destkop - 2560 CUDA 8GB/128GB

First, lower all detail settings.
Next try these settings:
- Dynamic Resolution (checkbox) - Yes
- Upscale Mode - NIS
- Target Framerate - 60

RTX 3050 is a quite weak graphics card that does not like high resolution and details.
My GTX 1660 Super is also unable to provide stable FPS without dynamic resolution.

At the very end. After entering the map, click F1 and wait until shader compilation is finished.

What are the rest of your computer's specs, anyway?

IMHO there is no point in playing PoE 2 without a modern 6-core processor (at least: Ryzen 5 5600, i5 12400, or newer/better) and an NVMe SSD drive.

Yea, the SSD is a big one. Didn't realize why I was having so many load and chashe issues till I realized I had the game loaded on my HHD instead of the SSD. Fixed most every issue after swapping what drive the game was saved to.

I love the people who claim I have a 4080 and the game still crashes. What a trash game.

Almost like there's more to the game crashing other then what GPU you have. Some people

What are the other components in your PC?

At what resolution do you play?

What graphic settings do you have?


The 3050 is not a very good GPU for most modern games if you don't want to play with low resolution, low settings and low fps.

Long loading times would most likely be your HDD (You have an SSD?) being a bit on the low side as well.


While I agree that the game is not very optimized right now, it's not THAT bad either.

i'd suggest lossless scaling as temporary way to have stable 60 fps until you decide to upgrade gpu, because 3050 is getting old

I deeply advise against using Lossless Scaling once you have 7-15fps. It will help with smoothness but not with performance. The game will still be slow and unresponsive.

Let's be honest.

True minimum requirements for PoE 2:
- i5 12400
- Ryzen 5 5600
- RTX 2060 / RX 6600 with dynamic resolution on
- 16GB RAM
- NVMe SSD PCie 3.0

Budget used or recently bought for a noticeably better game experience at 1920x1080:
- i5 12600k / 13400 / 14400
- Ryzen 7 5700X / 7700
- RTX 3060 / RTX 4060 / RX 6700
- or better

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hboi#6131 wrote:

I love the people who claim I have a 4080 and the game still crashes. What a trash game.

Almost like there's more to the game crashing other then what GPU you have. Some people

Crashes are not related ever to the power of a video card. Crashes happen when some invalid state in the rendering API is reached (programming error), when the game access memory at a wrong place (programming error).. or when the operating system makes something wrong (MS programming error).. or when a hardware has a failure (may be overheat or some other more serious damage). It is not lack of horse powers in a GPU that make a software crash.