Technical Support (Path of Exile 1) - Bad Performance - GTX 970 - Forum

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dEus__ wrote:

I have similar problems with my new rig.

i5-4460
Geforce GTX 960
8 gb ram
ssd

shadows are off
anti-aliasing is off
post-processing is off
texture quality is on medium
texture filtering is on trilinear
playing in windowed mode

I have 100+ fps when I'm idle in town. But as soon as I move around I experience fps spikes down to 30. It's just a split second but still annoying. The same thing happens while mapping.
VSync on or off makes no difference. The "--nosound" command doesn't improve it either. I don't have Geforce Experience installed.

Sorry to hear mate.

I personally believe that there is a DirectX issue because POE is using DirectX 9 and also other games with dx9 have a low performance in my case. In contrast games with dx11 have a high performance. Remark that I'm using Win 8.1

Can someone confirm this?

Are there ppl having the same problem with Win10?

IGN: Privatkunde

Posted by
Joschn#2485
on Oct 29, 2015, 4:06:33 AM

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Well yeah the engine is just really old and ggg is constantly tweaking it instead of just overhauling it completely.

I'm no expert regarding drivers etc, but dx9 could easily be the problem imo if you see how many people with older hardware don't have a problem with their fps.

Do you still have fps drops? I played a fractured beyond map yesterday with a friend using flame totems. It was horrible. All these corpses cause so much lag.