A tips that completely fixed texture glitching during mapping and stuttering for me!

I found something that seems to have completely fixed my issue with texture glitches and white squares appearing for a split second when flame dashing in maps (mostly happened in maps a LOT of the time but did not seem to happen for example when delving in the mine etc)


and also, this change made gameplay 100x smoother for me in terms of stutters, most importantly the texture glitches are fixed now for me!

there is a thread on the PoE reddit right now with a commandline option thing here:


https://dd.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/mwesn4/if_you_dont_mind_slightly_longer_load_times_start/


basically you add "--waitforpreload" to the PoE shortcut like this:





after I did this and tested the same map a couple of times with and without the commandline option, I can 100% confirm this has not only fixed the texture issue for me, but also massively improved stuttering and smoothness of gameplay, it feels basically better than it ever has before for me now!
there was maybe 5-10 seconds in beginning of map where there still was some glitches but that went away PERMANENTLY afterwards (did lots of testing back and forth)


BUT I had to change to directx11, on vulkan the texture issues were still present, even with or without the --waitforpreload commandline option, just so you know!


so directx11 + --waitforpreload commandline option = no texture glitches and super smooth gameplay for me now!


lets just hope a future update or patch from GGG does not mess this up, although they should fix so that users dont need commandline options for a good gameplay experience!


and also obviously this may or may not work for everyone, depending on combination of hardware/software/drivers/OS version and updates installed etc...


but just wanted to share, worth trying if you have issues !


PS there is a separate problem from this that probably many users are affected by right now, and that is the Windows 10 Update from April with the name "kb5001330" , this windows update is the cause of MASSIVE performance drop and graphical artifacts/issues for many users it seems, more info on it here for example:

https://old.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/mvx8vc/windows_update_kb5001330_is_the_issue_with/


I did not install this update as I have forced windows to only let me manually update, but many users dont know how to do this or just want to let windows update automatically, so if you have massive performance/texture issues, and you have this particular kb5001330 update installed, try to rollback/uninstall that specific update from your windows update settings,


and you could also try to use that commandline option I mentioned in start of post, the --waitforpreload thing, together with directx11 its literally perfect for me now!



My Specs: i7-9700k CPU, RTX 2060 gfx card, 2x8 gb 3600mhz ram, SSD disk and windows 10 with updates from march 2021.


peace!