Severe performance dip with new Delirium update

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dushoci wrote:

I just did some testing on my system:

CPU: i5-4460
Mainboard: Gigabyte H97-HD3
(Realtek onboard sound)
RAM: 8GB DDR3 800MHz
Graphics: Nvidia GTX 960 (Palit)
Windows 10 x64
SSD

Metamorph League worked fine, just some decent lag spikes, especially when fighting Sirus as Zombiemancer, but in the end it was doable.

Before patch 3.10.0e I could not really play any Delirium Encounter at all. Freezing to death almost every time. I thought it was Audio, but as I changed Audio, they patched the game. So my "Audio-solution" was not really the clue.

Now I am still struggling with FPS drops when engaging more complex packs/encounters like Legion one. Combined with delirium and/or conqueror I drop to 0-3 FPS and die/freeze/crash. I can map slowly and everything is almost fine, but to be honest, who wants to kill 1 minion after another...

What I tried:
(I was running only a few maps, 2-3 per change, for reasonable results more testing needs to be done. But I am not looking for exact percentage of improvement, rather playable/unplayable)
- sound to lowest: does not change much, if any at all
- sound to medium: does not change much, if any at all
- "-ns": does not change much, if any at all
- "PoE_x64": does not change much, if any at all
- "PoE": does not change much, if any at all
- "client.exe": does not change much, if any at all
(Why are there even 3 different .exe? wtf?)
- "--noasync --nologo --nodx9ex -gc 2": does not change much, if any at all (I get random crashes when changing zones, e.g. town -> hideout)
- "waiting 10-15 seconds when joining new map zone": does not change much, if any at all
- Fullscreen: does not change much, if any at all

What I noticed:

RAM:
- solid at 5GB-6GB all the time

GPU:
- very rarely at maximum usage (100%)
- in town idle 45%-49% (maybe little changes with different setting from above, but not really noticable, more testing needs to be done)
- map average 85%
- spikes 95% (really very rarely 100%)
I capped FPS Foreground 60 and Background 30. I don't see any sense having more than 60 FPS.
FPS are rarely stable at 60 when mapping. Even when there is not much going on.

CPU:
- town idle ~50%
- almost always at maximum (100%) usage when trying to do fast mapping
(does not change much using different setting from above)
- always getting FPS drops when on 100% usage
- temperature at beginning 30°C
- temperature after doing some maps 55°C (since I have a great cooler and almost never get above 45°C this is really weird. Increased its RPM to having max 45°C --> Not changing anything at all, just my CPU does not crash because of this game)

My conclusion:
This game wants to eat my CPU. GPU seems fine even not being the best. CPU is old. But an i5 should do the job. I am not having issues with any other game at all. Seeing other people here having same problem with much better hardware just really seems to be some very wrong coding.

--> Check your CPU temperature. This game wants to eat your CPU and make you buy new hardware having no changing effect at all.

Everything I tried has no significant effect on my system.

Corona still makes me playing this game and even made me do some testing instead of just going out and enjoying the sun. /sad