constant GPU, CPU and shader spikes, frequent latency spikes

Since league launch ive had MASSIVE issues with performance, all settings are at the lowest possible.

Ive tried both renderers, ive tried with and without vsync, no difference. Ive tried fullscreen and nothing changed, ive tried having poe be the only running program and still nothing changes.

In the task manager i see my cpu spike to 100% simoultaneouslywith what the poe f1 graphs display.

Upon entering an area i get instant stutters and short game freezes,
when i engage packs i almost 100% of the time:
-freeze for a short amount of time,
-Intense stutter
-the game reaches single-digit fps
OR all of the above, which is also very frequent.

Before this league, connectivity was the only issue, that was fixed just in time for launch, and now the other issuesa re so massive that i cannot even tell if connectivity is part of it anymore.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, as i canot engage in ANY content with any kind of risk. Risk being high mob density, which is kind of the design of this league

Perhaps i should include PC specs.

Processor:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7600K CPU @ 3.80GHz, 3801 Mhz, 4 cores, 4 logic processors

GPU:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

24gb RAM

I'd like a bit more attention on this because I've been dealing with pretty much the exact same issue and same specs.

Same issue was coming to make a post and ask if my computer just isn't up for POE on the lowest settings, which seemed unlikely.

Mines not as good as the posters but its handles other games without alot of issues.

same problem here , I have been playing this game for years and never any major problems , I have tried packcheck and it fixed bizarre text on some divine cards but crashing still happens every few minutes . Not everyone is comfortable with trying all kinds of advanced fixes , I'm afraid I will mess even more. If it's happening to so many people why POE can't come up with a patch that would fix it for everyone ????

Have any of you tried the sound effects test? Some people with Nvidia cards have found that disabling sound effects results in a great improvement in performance. You can't disable the sound effects in game though, turning the volume slider all the way down doesn't actually stop your PC from processing them. This post in another thread here tells you how to do that: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3198034/page/1#p24421257

You might try it and just see if that makes any discernible difference for you.

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EvaShogouki01 wrote:

Have any of you tried the sound effects test? Some people with Nvidia cards have found that disabling sound effects results in a great improvement in performance. You can't disable the sound effects in game though, turning the volume slider all the way down doesn't actually stop your PC from processing them. This post in another thread here tells you how to do that: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3198034/page/1#p24421257

You might try it and just see if that makes any discernible difference for you.

Sadly it did not work for me!

Though weird to play with no sound effects lot.

Of course ATI card here not Nvidia.

see the health of your storage device
if the part where part of the game is installed becomes corrupted, then it may lead to that
also i hope you are using a good SSD or a NVMe for the game

a topic from 2021 and the issue still has not been fixed lol.