Stuttering and freezing (Partially Fixed)

Hi guys,

I'm trying to run Path of Exile on my Laptop (its a bit of a potato but still). Every 10-20sec I get slight stuttering that lasts for a few seconds but when I approahce a perandus mob, shrine or use a strongbox, breach portal or spawn beyond mobs the stuttering intensifies and the game even freezes which usually results in me dying. I can't even fathom doing any endgame bosses or higher tier maps as even the slightest stutter/freeze will kill me. I can upgrade to SSD but unfortuntely I don't have that type of money lying around.

I am using an Eternet Cable Cat6a with Auto and my latency is around 30ms-50ms which is fine.

I've trying messing around with Dx9e and Dx11 both with switching Engine Multithreading on/off. I've tried the --noasync and --nopreload (I don't know what they do).

Graphics Cards - the game is currently using AMD Radeon HD 8650G + HD 8750M Dual Graphics which isn't changable.

AMD Radeon HD 8750M
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Graphics Card Manufacturer - Powered by AMD
Graphics Chipset - AMD Radeon HD 8750M
Device ID - 6600
Vendor ID - 1002
SubSystem ID - 198A
SubSystem Vendor ID - 103C
Revision ID - 00
Bus Type - PCI Express 3.0
Current Bus Settings - PCI Express 2.0 x8
BIOS Version - 015.030.000.002
BIOS Part Number - BR45768.001
BIOS Date - 2014/10/14 01:59
Memory Size - 2048 MB
Memory Type - DDR3
Memory Clock - 900 MHz
Core Clock - 825 MHz
Total Memory Bandwidth - 28 GByte/s
2D Driver File Path - /REGISTRY/MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet001/Control/Class/{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}/0000


AMD Radeon HD 8650G + HD 8750M Dual Graphics
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Graphics Card Manufacturer - Powered by AMD
Graphics Chipset - AMD Radeon HD 8650G + HD 8750M Dual Graphics
Device ID - 990B
Vendor ID - 1002
SubSystem ID - 198A
SubSystem Vendor ID - 103C
Revision ID - 00
Bus Type - PCI
Current Bus Settings - PCI
BIOS Version - 015.031.000.000
BIOS Part Number - BR44400.bin
BIOS Date - 2013/02/19 04:07
Memory Size - 768 MB
Memory Type - DDR3
Memory Clock - 800 MHz
Core Clock - 720 MHz
Total Memory Bandwidth - 25 GByte/s
2D Driver File Path - /REGISTRY/MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet001/Control/Class/{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}/0001


System Overview
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Radeon Software Version - 16.2.1
Radeon Software Edition - Crimson
Windows Version - Windows 10
System Memory - 8 GB
CPU Type - AMD A10-5750M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics
Radeon Settings Version - 2016.0226.1531.27895
Driver Packaging Version - 15.20.1055-150706a-186585C-HP
Provider - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
2D Driver Version - 8.1.1.1533
Direct3D® Version - 9.14.10.1171
OpenGL® Version - 6.14.10.13417
OpenCL™ Version - 2.0.4.0
AMD Mantle Version - 9.1.10.99
AMD Mantle API Version - 98309
AMD Audio Driver Version - 10.0.0.2


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I've also tried lowering the Texture mode to 4 which doesn't seem to help alot and also removed a lot of the Skills so I've no idea what the enemies are doing.
Last edited by Erichan on Jun 24, 2017, 11:29:14 AM
Last bumped on Jun 24, 2017, 11:28:56 AM
I've been able to fix this now by using --nosound. I get a little bit of fps drop here and there but can now do most events ie strongbox breach portal without too much lag.

Why does this work?

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