Giant CPU spikes in loading screens and any time large amounts of monsters appear

I've always been "that guy" when it comes to this sort of thing, as PoE has run fairly flawlessly on my computer the whole time I've played since Nemesis. This league started off alright, but I've died four or five times in the past day to giant lag spikes from mobs spawning. Doesn't matter if it's Harvest, Archnemesis, Essences, Harbinger, Strongboxes, even some Blights and all of a sudden my CPU goes from a cool 10-12 rating to upwards of 600 with a graph to match. In Task Manager, PoE tends to sit around 70~% CPU and 40-60% GPU while using around 6.8gb of my 32GB.

Specs are : Windows 10 Pro 64-bit | i7 7700k @ 4.4gHz | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER | 32GB RAM @ 3200 | 970 EVO Plus NVMe ® M.2 SSD 2TB | 1 gigabit hardlined Internet connection

I have tried :

Running the PackCheck.exe

Clearing my cache (multiple times even)

Running the GGPK Defrag tool

Switching between Vulkan and DirectX11 | Changed my Texture quality to Medium

Disabling Hyperthreading (saw this recommended)

Going into Task Manager and taking one of my cores away from PoE

Going into my power settings and reducing the Maximum Performance Output of my CPU to 90%

Disabling Pagefile on my SSD (apparently having 32gb makes this fine but I've also seen people say it's not good but I'm trying everything I can)

Uninstalling the game completely and re-installing

Removing my client config files

Messing around with my NVidia settings

After ALL of this, nothing seems to work. I am open to any and all suggestions, and if I need to provide any diagnostic notes just let me know.

Edit : Just in case - my temperatures are fine throughout all of this. This is for sure not a case of thermal throttling.

Because of that :

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3238318


They are just preventing you from farming.

There is no way that your computer wouldn't be able to handle PoE.

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Same issue for me, very difficult and not enjoyable to play, i'm tilted rn not gonna lie. I just hope its only a bug and not a new statement of the game for a long time to come, 25-30 fps in a pack of mobs is not what a want to see.
Shortly my config: i7-8700k, rtx 2060, 16gb ram 2666, SSD 1TB (new)

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the same issue i have. but on mac m1, also huge cpu latency only in this league. two previous league everything was ok

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SilviteRamirez wrote:

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no reason to bump because GGG doesn't offer any TECH support "for the moment" (been like this for several years now).....

i get the same problem every start of league (this one also) and 2 weeks later a patch fixes it mostly

and my pc is shit compared to yours

Getting very similar behavior. Massive CPU and Shader spikes during certain pack-spawning events. It is weirdly random. Strongboxes? No problem. Beyond spawns/Legions? <chug>. Opening a Delve event is iffy most of the time.

i7-10700k, RTX 3070, 32 GB RAM, WD Black SSD, Win 10 Home.

same issue :( GGG didn't care