Fps drop when water is in the screen.

Exiles, i fix this issue deleting path of exile folder on documents

C:\Users\**username**\Documents\My Games\Path of Exile

just backup your screenshots and filters

hope this helps you

Same issue here. Brine Kign is impossible now. FPS drops to 2-3 with 500-600 ms lagg.
Tried deleting cache files and dokuments folder too... nothing worked.

Same problem here.

I run poe in a low-end PC, but never had a similar problem before 3.7.

Since I play HC, it is impossible to kill The Brine King and, therefore, I can't play this league until problem is fixed.

It is a shame.

So, i tried something new and it help at the entrance of underground passage. Still have to get to brine king to try it there.

But gonna leave it here, it might help you all.

Went do mygames/pathofexile/production_config.ini

>[display]
>> water_detail= changed from 0 to 5

I think that the highest number means that lowest setting, just as texture_quality.

I'll post when i get to brine king again. Might take a while though, since i am a casual.

Best regards.

I tried the method you mentioned. I tried all the numbers betwen 0 and 10.. started lagging even close to any kind of water. But when I changed the settings while watched the 3 FPS sideshow.. it was gone. Strange bug...
But sadly Brine King is still impossible. None of the methodes we metioned in this tread can erase this bug in my game...

I tried the method you mentioned. I tried all the numbers betwen 0 and 10.. started lagging even close to any kind of water. But when I changed the settings while watched the 3 FPS sideshow.. it was gone. Strange bug...
But sadly Brine King is still impossible. None of the methodes we metioned in this tread can erase this bug in my game...

I'm running into the same issue of 1 fps in areas with water - ie. Brine King Fight, and also near the waterfalls in various acts throughout the story line.

If there is anything helpful for support, just let me know and I will post that info. I've tried all recommended settings across may posts. The only thing that "fixes it" is to run the game in Full Screen with Low settings for water detail and textures (instead of windowed full screen) @ 4K resolution. I play on a 4k monitor, so prefer to run the game in Windowed Full Screen due to two monitor setup.

Disable Post Processing- it should do the trick.

I can even use GI/Occlusion with that off near water features et al.

Post processing had no effect for me. Even more strangely with water detail set to low, I had no issues with the Brine King. Random ass waterfalls still sometimes cause FPS drops, and the end boss of act 9 (trio) was a slideshow that I had to just totem, cyclone and pray my way through.

I'm still noticing random bushes and some MTX not rendering correctly, which I believe is related. I saw someone in town with a pair of wings that were just a solid untextured blue-grey colour.



There is no FPS hit with this, it's just a similar rendering fuckup to what's going on with water.

Same here, i can't do Reef map because of that :'( i was fine in my league starter and the bug destroyed my zana quest line to get the shaper's memory fragment