The community guide to game performance and fixing lag! Updated with sound engine command!
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Hello,
and welcome to my comprehensive guide to performance of Path of exile and how to improve it if u have Problems! All Options are included as well as tips for specific problems! Note: Disabling sound through program properties added --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Test Specs
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Intel core i5 4570 Amd Radeon R9 290x OC 16gb Ram Test Case
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Path of exile patch 2.x (beta) Naked Scion Mud Flats 1920x1080 resolution Each test was run about 10 times in the same full cleared instance. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FPS: More = Better Vram: Less = Better Max Details Post processing ON
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FPS: 555 (+/- 0) (+/- 0%)
VRAM: 309 (+/- 0) (+/- 0%) Post processing OFF
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FPS: 505 (- 50) (- 10%)
Vram: 195 (- 114) (- 37%) Shadows Low
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FPS: 585 (+ 30) (+ 5%)
Vram: 300 (- 9) (- 2%) Shadows OFF
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FPS: 715 (+ 160) (+ 29%)
Vram: 293 (- 16) (- 5%) Anti Aliasing Medium
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FPS: 600 (+ 45) (+ 8%)
Vram: 307 (- 2) (- 0%) Anti Aliasing OFF
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FPS: 635 (+ 80) (+ 14%)
Vram: 304 (- 5) (- 1%) Texture Quality Medium
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FPS: 592 (+ 37) (+ 7%)
Vram: 245 (- 64) (- 21%) Texture Filtering
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FPS(trilinear): 572 (+ 17) (+ 3%)
FPS(2x): 567 (+ 12) (+ 2%) FPS(4x): 565 (+ 10) (+ 2%) Fps(8x): 558 (+ 3) (+ 1%) All minimum Post processing ON
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FPS: 1193 (+ 638) (+ 115%)
Vram: 151 (- 158) (- 51%) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resolution Scaling All max, post processing ON
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720p = 143% performance
900p = 115% performance 1080p = 100% performance 1440p = 73% of performance 1800p = 55% of performance All min, post processing ON
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720p = 135%
900p = 112% 1080p = 100% 1440% = 84% 1800% = 61% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Low textures How to activate them
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Open the productionconfig.ini. You can find it here: C:\Users\"username"\Documents\My Games\Path of Exile
Search for: texture_quality=0 Now delete the 0 and fill in a 3 instead. Save the ini. When u start the game dont change the texture quality or it will reset it back to the original. Performance compared to "high" and "medium" textures
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High = 530 fps (+/- 0) (+/- 0%)
Medium = 570 fps (+ 40) (+ 8%) Low = 680 fps (+ 150) (+ 28%) Disclaimer: The fps changed from the values in the original test due to using a new test instance. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Increasing performance out of the game with external tricks
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Turn down the quality of your AF in your graphics card driver.
Eliminate programmers running in the Background, such as steam for lower CPU usage. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disabling the sound engine for better performance
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Right-click your Path of Exile shortcut, select Properties and then add the option after the Target: "%ProgramFiles%\Grinding Gear Games\Path of Exile\Client.exe"
Add: --nosound Disabling the sound engine sometimes help alot with stuttering. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Problem solving: General low fps
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Turn of shadows
Turn down Anti aliasing Memory Problems or spiky fps
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Turn off post processing
Turn down Texture quality Turn down Texture Filtering Disable the soundengine (A "how to" is shown in the section above) High fps, but hard fps drops
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Limit your fps to 60.
1. Use Vsync (Not optimal) 2. Limit it within the nvidia driver (Nvidia cards) 3. Limit it with "RadeonPro" or "Msi Afterburner" (AMD cards) Disable the soundengine (A "how to" is shown in the section above) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Useful links
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How to limit fps on AMD cards
http://www.radeonpro.info/features/dynamic-frame-rate-control/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks so much for reading, aceCrasher Last edited by aceCrasher#1294 on Apr 23, 2016, 10:08:54 AM Last bumped on Apr 23, 2016, 10:09:23 AM
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Good guide.
I was interested how your FPS doubled when turning on post processing? Post processing is an additional graphical effect so it should decrease framerate, if anything. I wonder if this is a bug with the game or an error in your test? How many times did you run these tests? You might also consider testing: Window Fullscreen vs Fullscreen. The biggest problem with framerate in PoE for me is not maximum FPS but rather minimum FPS. I can achieve over 1,000 FPS in PoE but the minimum framerate can dip down to 10 FPS. So I'm not so sure how useful maximum FPS is in determining the overall effect on framerate. Nonetheless, your guide generally holds true as turning down graphical settings should increase framerate. |
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Turning on post processing increases fps for about 50 for me. I tested it multiple times. The double fps mostly come from the low details.
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" That's good to know. You might consider including how many times you ran each test in the guide. I really do wonder about post processing. It shouldn't increase framerate at all. There must be some bug with that setting. |
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I ran each test about 10 times. Yes it may be bugged ill test it again soon.
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Nothing new :(
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Let me sum up the entire post:
Low fps: turn down the settings IGN: ScionHasTheNicestAss (SC)
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" Except post processing, u need to turn that on. |
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" The post shows never players what to turn down if they have fps problems instead of just turning down everything or things that dont cost alot of performance anyway. Last edited by aceCrasher#1294 on May 21, 2015, 8:10:10 AM
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Awesome resource aceCrasher! Hopefully this helps anyone experiencing difficulty with Path of Exile. Another tip is you can change some of these settings via the production_config.ini file in My Documents -> My Games -> Path of Exile. For example, the Texture Quality number can be set higher to lower the quality further. It reduces the quality heavily, but if players are stretching their RAM it's a good diagnostic fix.
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