Any ETA on fixing these ridiculous AMD FPS drops? (e: Nvidia cards affected as well!)

I wonder if the computers at CERN are powerful enough to run this game smoothly^^

I've had this problem for over a week now to the point where I couldn't play any melee character. I downloaded the latest drivers, looked for connection problems, etc. etc.

Then I did the obvious ... and it worked.

Go into Game Options by hitting "O",
then video and ...
TURN OFF SHADOWS!

If that is not enough, change the detail from high to medium.

;)

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Stickleback wrote:

I've had this problem for over a week now to the point where I couldn't play any melee character. I downloaded the latest drivers, looked for connection problems, etc. etc.

Then I did the obvious ... and it worked.

Go into Game Options by hitting "O",
then video and ...
TURN OFF SHADOWS!

If that is not enough, change the detail from high to medium.

;)

yea .. thousands of ppl have FPS problems .. and u think no one thought of doing that?!

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Joel_GGG wrote:

Does this make a difference for anyone?
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/295001/page/1
Also, this post is not official post.

is there even an ounce of logic why this would work ..... its like ....
"when i put my mouse directly on the table instead of on a mouse pad the game runs better"

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At this stage we do not know of any AMD-specific issues with the game, other than the fact that many AMD users have changed settings in their overall AMD control panel that negatively affect Path of Exile. We can’t control those settings easily, and have posted on the forums about what types of settings they should not make system-wide changes to.

This is insulting.

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unkempt wrote:

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At this stage we do not know of any AMD-specific issues with the game, other than the fact that many AMD users have changed settings in their overall AMD control panel that negatively affect Path of Exile. We can’t control those settings easily, and have posted on the forums about what types of settings they should not make system-wide changes to.

This is insulting.

just face it ... we are not getting this fixed anytime soon (if ever)

^ starting to look that way

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Vepar90 wrote:

just face it ... we are not getting this fixed anytime soon (if ever)

I've read somewhere that they are planning to fix it sometime closer to official release, because doing it right now would be only temporal (after adding some kind of new content (act 3X? 4?) they would have to redo it anyway).
Still, if you would ask me, I'm perfectly fine with idea of even temporal fix. It's something, to begin with. That's one small step for overall performance, but one giant leap for AMD users.
Radeon HD 4850, 98,5% of the time everything runs more or less smoothly (stable at ~70FPS, and ~30 during bigger fights), but Act 3 Piety and/or some random skills... say hello to my little slideshow.

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unkempt wrote:

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At this stage we do not know of any AMD-specific issues with the game, other than the fact that many AMD users have changed settings in their overall AMD control panel that negatively affect Path of Exile. We can’t control those settings easily, and have posted on the forums about what types of settings they should not make system-wide changes to.

This is insulting.

Not to me. I haven't touched any 3D settings in my CCC, and PoE runs fine for me in solo play (AMD Phenom II X3 720 + Radeon HD 7850). Can't comment on party play though.

Edit: I'm sure it's been said already, but I'm really curious about these AMD-specific FPS issues. I've played fine in the past, although I mostly do solo play.

The fps drops are freaking ridiculous...just died on a lv74 Duelist with resists over cap, 10k Armor and 50% Evasion to freaking Void Bearers at Docks. How can that be you might ask: 10 Void Bearers with LMP show up, they fire --> Total Game Freeze, and i mean 100% freeze, nothing moved anymore, I'm already dead when game moves again 10 seconds later.

Saying: "We know about it", helps nobody, just fix it...You don't know how ? Fine i tell you: let us disable the uselesss particle effects as long as ur engine can't handle them properly.


/edit: To make that clear, i like the game itself a lot, but the engine is one of the worst optimized i've seen since Duke Nukem for the Gamecom handheld was released.

thx for reading.