HOW TO: Increase FPS/Lag Less

Has anyone ever encountered this weird situation?

With all else being equal, an increase in texture quality gave me higher FPS according to the ingame FPS monitor.

With texture quality at 4, or runescape standard, my FPS sitting in Highgate and my HO is roughly 50-60.

With texture quality at 1, my FPS sitting in the same places are above 100.

What's going on?

I have a potato PC, 8gb ram and intel onboard graphics.
Just for reference on mac production_Config.ini is located at ~/Documents/My\ Games/Path\ of\ Exile/
One interesting observation from mac is that putting app in background temp increases FPS ... looks like some weird bug in game.
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mercur1al wrote:
Has anyone ever encountered this weird situation?

With all else being equal, an increase in texture quality gave me higher FPS according to the ingame FPS monitor.

With texture quality at 4, or runescape standard, my FPS sitting in Highgate and my HO is roughly 50-60.

With texture quality at 1, my FPS sitting in the same places are above 100.

What's going on?

I have a potato PC, 8gb ram and intel onboard graphics.


Quality 4 Graphics is lowest and 1 is highest from what i'm seeing.

what's even more strange is that I can swear that setting 1 & 4 just reversed on me.
Last edited by m0nsterbeats#6864 on Mar 30, 2017, 8:09:13 PM
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DuyPham wrote:

"I found this out yesterday, and it actually helps an insane amount. Before, in 6-man groups, I was dropping to <5 FPS fairly regularly. Now, I generally don't drop any less than 25.
Keep in mind that doing this will make the game look absolutely awful.
Step 1: Find "production_Config.ini". It should be in your C:\Users\YourName\Documents\My Games\Path of Exile folder, otherwise just search for it.
Step 2: Open the INI and look for "texture_quality=1"
Step 3: Change the number to your desired texture quality.
1=high
2=medium
3=low
4=very low
Restart your game and enjoy your terrible looking lag-free experience.
EDIT: Screenshots:
"Low" settings (3): http://i.imgur.com/CClTby9.jpg
"Very Low" settings (4): http://i.imgur.com/JpWx4U2.jpg"

WARNING; GRAPHICS WILL LOOK SOMEWHAT LIKE RUNESCAPE

CREDITS TO REDDIT USER: AngryAmuse


or u could I don't know stop using a outdated video card that is older than you are and go buy a big boi card. that works too







EDIT: The numbers can exceed 4. And lowest is 0.







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As I put in a quote to this other guy, its a simple answer, you just go buy a better video card. I mena yea its gonna cost you a bit but you cant expct to play current or future games on a pc without a GOOD video card. no tweaks, no fixes, no ghetto rigs will fix that fact which is if your on a trash video card you will get trash graphics. that's the truth of the matter
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its a simple answer, you just go buy a better video card.


Sure you'll buy it for us i guess rich dude ?
Didn't know i could still read this point in 2017...
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Un jeu avec autant de qualités que de défauts, malheureusement ignorés et soutenus par une marée de supporters nolifes sans aucune objectivité.
doesn't work for me i set the texture quality to 4 and my quality stays the same
File doesn't exist in my poe folder, or anywhere on my harddrive.
and for those that have played on the same rig for more than 3 years too? kinda senseless i understand your point but its easy for you to say it when u have a nice rig to play on. but for the rest of us that are having a rougher time your telling us were screwed and what does GGG have to say for this because i remember this game was made for people who were tired of paying to play games heck they who developed this game were those same gamers tired of playing to play so they made PoE and thats why the rest of us are here too we do count wether we contribute or not we are a number in that total of players and we should get to play still the game has been working for years for us and so why not now it was working just fine before the update and now its in the toilet lol frustrating not being able to play so if you or anyone feels the need to say get a new pc or upgrade or whatever your voice doesn't really count thats not a solution its negativity and discouraging
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