Playing PoE on laptops / older or slower computers

I find it very interesting that my laptop (very cheap one sporting an AMD A6) can play WoW at medium settings and get 30 fps but can hardly run PoE at lowest settings (and lowest resolution).

Does anybody know if there are plans to implement lower graphical options for those of us who do not wish to spend $700+ on a laptop to play PoE away from home?

I play on a pretty basic 4gb Laptop. I get a solid 30fps during play. But if I use Poison Arrow and run through the smoke i'm literally on 1-2fps which makes using that skill impossible at times.

Also coop is a no-go with more than 3 people. More than 3 and it's like i'm watching a timelapse cctv.

Why are you surprised?

WoW is over 8 years old.

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Angus wrote:

Why are you surprised?

WoW is over 8 years old.

WoW also lets you adjust nearly every graphical option you might want. PoE doesn't, so the particle effects for attacks like Poison Arrow overwhelm some computers.

WoW has those options becuase it's system requirements are drastically lower.

Plus its been released for over 8 years while POE is still in beta.

still in beta...forever and no1 can't blame, LOL

by the way, everytime i summon skeletons my fps also drop

I am playing PoE on a 1 1/2 year old $399 laptop, it's got a dual core AMD proc and an ATI GPU. In the early act 1 stuff i was able to play fine on my own on medium quality settings. When i got into act 3 and got into playing multiplayer, my FPS dropped right out. I get into games with 6 people, witches with all their summons, fireballs raining down and other enemy effects and i'm running like 5fps. I just try and stay out of the way, and i've even dialed down the resolution and quality settings to low.

It gets pretty graphically intense. But it's beta, which means there's been very little optimization work done to it. Likewise load times are pretty excessive as well, again this could be improved greatly with optimizations but they're still developing the game, it hasn't gone into polish and optimization phase yet.

All i can recommend is downgrading the quality of your options until you find something that'll be playable. Also look at your systems background running tasks, kill everything that isn't 100% necessary to run PoE. Every bit of freed up resources helps. You can also hop out and go into task manager and set Client.exe to run 'above normal' or 'high' in priority, that'll also help out some, i wouldn't pick realtime though since your background windows stuff will suffer and you need that running for networking.

Poe isn't very well optimised right now. There will be implementations in the future, but right now, the team are solving important things requiring their full attention. Right now, its server stability, then it will be desync.

Be patient, and good things will eventually come.

That being said, I run a $800 laptop with 1gb of video memory, so I'm kinda sitting on a high horse here.

If this can help I read that closing the chat channel improves performance drastically

You can try messing around with the config file production_Config(located in Documents/games/path of exile).

Changing texture quality to "3" helped a lot on my laptop. When changing that make note "1" is the highest and I believe default quality.