Any way to improve AMD performance?

Even if the difference wasn't noticeable, Intel CPU's consume less power and in long term that will be cheaper.

I'm in no way a fanboy or something. I really like AMD's video cards, but since about 4 years, they haven't been able to catch up with Intel in the CPU market. The difference is not only small.

I don't care for names and I only take, what works best for my money. In my opinion, going for an AMD CPU is just not worth it since it will be more expensive within time anyways.

I know it was fun to turn this into AMD vs Intel, but the bottom line is that POE runs terrible on AMD GPUs.

NO OTHER GAME IVE PLAYED PERFORMS THIS POORLY ON AMD. PERIOD. There is clearly something wrong on the coding side of POE that is causing the problems.

Again, my CPU and GPU are not even loaded highly. They run below 50%. The drop in FPS is like the game doesnt know what to feed the PC. It stops for split seconds trying to load things even though everything should already be loaded into RAM.

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Drakier wrote:

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xaeror35 wrote:

I know it was fun to turn this into AMD vs Intel, but the bottom line is that POE runs terrible on AMD GPUs.

NO OTHER GAME IVE PLAYED PERFORMS THIS POORLY ON AMD. PERIOD. There is clearly something wrong on the coding side of POE that is causing the problems.

Again, my CPU and GPU are not even loaded highly. They run below 50%. The drop in FPS is like the game doesnt know what to feed the PC. It stops for split seconds trying to load things even though everything should already be loaded into RAM.

Do you think it might have something to do with how responsive NVidia has been with the developers, while AMD has completely snubbed every and all attempts by GGG to work with them on the issues?

how to you know this? are you one of the ggg devs who tries to contact amd on a daily basis, are you an amd employee who enjoys to "snub" each and every day or is it just one of these "100% true internet facts" that a frog told you yesterday morning?


back to the topic:
since patch 1.2 the perfomance is very much worth than before. joining a party is way more risky than 100 beyond demons at the same time. opening boxes, upcoming beyond demons and sometimes just casting a single spell let my fps drop from 140 to 0.
even my pc crushes from time to time while playing the game; lost already 2 chars due to it.


tried already a lot, new installation of the game; updated all drivers + bios, manually changes settings in config, started game with
--nosound etc. but nothing really helped me.

during playing the game i monitored my pc via occt and not one component is really stressed; other games (with higher hardware requirements) are running smoothly.

my pc:
intel 3570k, amd 7870, 16 gb ram. win 7 pro 64bit, gigabyte z77x ud5h

It's a bit strange. I have an old AMD Radeon 6950 and the frames drop a bit sometimes, but never that bad even though it's an older card. In general, other people with newer AMD cards seem to have more difficulties than me. Some things I can suggest:
1. latest driver
2. shadows off or low
3. Anisotropic to 2x
4. Post Processing off
5. overwrite PoE's tessellation on the 3D settings to 64x
6. turning vsync certainly off (check framerates, because that can prevent 100% load of both)

I'm able to play smooth with these settings. If you still have problems, then somehow newer AMD cards actually perform worse or it's the CPU, maybe even both.
Notice these settings only help if the GPU is the problem.

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darkmatch wrote:

It's a bit strange. I have an old AMD Radeon 6950 and the frames drop a bit sometimes, but never that bad even though it's an older card. In general, other people with newer AMD cards seem to have more difficulties than me. Some things I can suggest:
1. latest driver
2. shadows off or low
3. Anisotropic to 2x
4. Post Processing off
5. overwrite PoE's tessellation on the 3D settings to 64x
6. turning vsync certainly off (check framerates, because that can prevent 100% load of both)

I'm able to play smooth with these settings. If you still have problems, then somehow newer AMD cards actually perform worse or it's the CPU, maybe even both.
Notice these settings only help if the GPU is the problem.

^^ I've done all of that. It helps for sure, but in parties I get framerate drops to sub 10FPS consistently.

I don't know if GGG is actually reading the AMD complaints and actively investigating it or have just given up at this point.

But the bottom line is that I should not have to turn the settings to potato quality to run on a high end system.

I am considering jumping to Nvidia but I don't really want to .