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

Just Started to do 66 maps.

And died to brutus in Prison. Brutus makes his FIRST "Get Over Here" with chain = FPS Spike = everything freezes, then unfreezes = oops, I'm already dead.

Next map. Overgrown Ruin. Enetering the Boss room. Trying to kill those Skeleton Adds and Unique, then Fidelitas make his FIRST Lightning Strike = FPS spike = everything freezes, then unfreezes = oops, I'm already dead.

And I had 3000 life and 75 all res, but I don't even know how I died, cause i DIDN"T EVEN see it. 30% exp lost to FPS spikes. All other time steady 40 FPS.

It's totally unplayable in the Maps. Well I can play, and even get to bosses, but I will be dying every single time like with their first ability usage. So EndGame Maps are not possible for me. I could have let myself do die to this FPS-SPIKES in docks-catacombs like 1 time in 5 hours and it weren't a big loss. But to die EVERY SINGLE TIME to bosses on maps... I will never get pass 75. Well I can NOT EVEN TRY TO KILL BOSSES, but COMMON.

Well I was waiting for GGG to Fix this FPS-SPIKES problem from the start of OB, but now I just don't see any sense to stay in the game. Of course I will try to play more safer, will NOT BE DOING BOSSES (crap), but i think i'm pretty close to say goodbye to PoE, cause if you can't do MAPS = No sense in playing further. Too bad, cause I really like this game.

Hey guys, i will show you some CCC tweaks which greatly improved my performance during party play.



After turning triple buffering on and tessellation off my FPS never dropped below 20 FPS again during 6 man party play. I know 20 FPS doesn't sound great but it's playable. Setting Client.exe to high priority as mentioned elsewhere may help aswell.

My specs:
Intel i5-2430M 2.4 GHz
AMD HD 6850M with Catalyst v13.4
Windows 8 x64

I also tried out RadeonPro but it created heavy inputlag and desync. I hope these tweaks may help someone to enjoy this game again.

You know what even bother me than this fps drops?, there has not been a single response to this thread by one of the active developers... Its like they dont care what happens with this game. I play this game because they have made a perfect successor of Diablo 2, but they support to the community is just fualty, this game will die just before the end "open beta" btw this is the longest beta i have seen for a game...

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gianbf wrote:

You know what even bother me than this fps drops?, there has not been a single response to this thread by one of the active developers... Its like they don't care what happens with this game.

Bullshit

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/214895/filter-account-type/staff

Official responses for this thread, hardly like they don't care when the head guy asks you to email him, with all the details he asked for to try fix it.

Well, I have just Upgraded from a HD6670 2gb ddr3(old shit) to a HD7850 2gb gddr5...and



But i don't think it is to do with the game being graphically badly optimized, it seems to be more of a problem with loading of some things.

I tested in the docks with my LA/Chain/GMP/life on hit ranger which used to get dips in fps just soloing(there is a post with pic earlier in the thread) and in group on the old card and saw a large drop in some cases which tbh i would have put down to the card.

Tested both on the new card, solo there is hardly any movement in fps, can sit in a group of void bears and spam LA and it would only move 2 to 3 frames either way...however some things like the archers that have ice shot would make fps dip, however once they were on the screen and after the first cast it settled down again...the could cast as often as they liked and it went back to normal fps.

In the group the same problem occurred...would be spamming the shit out of LA/ice spear arc and all the auras and what not and the fps fluctuated but never to the point of being sub 20 until something like discharge or ice shot or the likes.

I'm not sure if the game is just a bit slow loading from the HDD for some things giving the micro pause and buggering the frame rates or if its on the systems ram or possibly something being loaded from the server.

Thinking about it though it would make more sense that the game pauses for a fraction of a second when it tries to load some effects or works out some big damage and you get a knock on effect...would also explain why it doesn't show up when GGG tests rigs.

GGG not even cares. wow just wow.

I'm pretty sure this game just burned up another of my video cards..

First was a hd7870 2gb ddr5
and now a sapphire 1gb ddr5

In case anyone is curious that's $450 usd worth of video cards.

I have no problems running any games except Path of exile.
Anything that is even remotely gpu intensive I get a huge spike.

I have absolutely no problems with AMD Radeon HD 6900 series , it's the DDR3 one with 2GB memory.
The Fps drops are always correlated with a lag spike so it's normal for me

[always running at 60 fps with Vsync on]

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lagrangian wrote:

GGG not even cares. wow just wow.

If you look at the thread you'll see that there are mod posts and one from Chris asking you to email him personally with the details so they can continue to look into it...so yeah they do care.

I am really, really tired of having framerate problems. I already manually changed the texture quality to 5. Even the resolution is much lower than what I am normally used to when playing a game. I don't have anything on which should effect my framerate negatively. I switched of shadows, AA and everything. There is no logical explanation why this game should be resource intensive. My system allows me to play most games with high framerate and decent settings. And this game should actually play on most systems without framerate dips. All these fps spiker combined with dsync, lag and high pings makes this game unplayable imho.

As mentioned, I am getting tired of dieing because of all this. If I get 2-3 frames after my framerate dips from 150+fps I am only left to quit. And I hope I'll just quit for ever soon because all of this is just more annoying than all the positive factors about this game do make up for it. PoE is a piece of art when it comes to gameplay and content. But technically it just breaks all of this once you are being reminded of how bad it is optimized.