Long loading Screen again!

I played the last entire league with excessively long loading screens, sometimes lasting up to a minute. That made me give up on the league within just 20 days. This league has already started with the same problem, which is making me consider quitting Path of Exile, a game I've been playing for over a decade.

During the last few months, I scoured game forums, Reddit, YouTube, and tried most of the potential "FIXES" for the issue. Nothing has made any difference whatsoever. My game doesn't crash, doesn't lag, and I have absolutely no other issues with the game apart from the long loading screens.


I am aware that this issue doesn't affect the majority of players, and I don't expect it to be resolved here. However, if any professional from GGG could pay attention to what I've observed, perhaps it might make it easier to resolve the problem for everyone.

On the last Sunday, December 19, 2023, the Path of Exile trade site servers (https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Affliction) underwent maintenance. During this period, my loading screens returned to normal, taking no more than 5 seconds, both for cities and hideouts. As soon as the trade site resumed functioning, the loading screens became long again, just like in the entire last league. I would be very grateful if this information could be forwarded and investigated. Thank you.

i struggle also with huge loading times since one of the latest ancestor patches.

the good part (for me) is; the lagspikes are gone.

while game stuck in loadingscreen i can hear sound from background - this bug is old and known from one of the leagues around ~delirium.

interesting with the maintainance thing - i hope i i can try it too while next one.

It’s sad to see that no one from GGG has looked into THIS post. I’ve been scrolling down for that problem and found a topic with two tech support staff commenting and asking for details. It was 2012 and nothing was resolved on this topic. How can they ignore it until today, when we are in 2024?

There are lots of ‘long loading screen’ posts around the tech support forum. Not even a single person has said that they did some fix and it worked.

I’m just posting here to make someone from tech support aware that the only time since the last league that I haven’t had long screen loading was a few days ago when (and only when) the trade website was down for maintenance.

It could be a random event, but I think it may have something to do with it because as soon as the trade server goes down, my loading time returns to the old days of 5-10 seconds. And when the site comes back up, the long loading starts again.

I honestly expected at least someone from GGG to tell me that it has nothing to do with it, or that they would at least investigate this event

As the solution will not come from GGG, if any1 is interested on a possible fix i might have solved the problem for my PC. Here is what i`ve done on my last try and seems to be better loading now:

1- Uninstall game
2- Uninstall steam (i just used to play poe)
3- Clear all temp files related (%data% %appdata%)
4- Download/install file from ggg website with out the steam
5- I followed this video for graphic config
6- Disable some sounds as said on this forum post(can`t remember the link but it`s ease to find).
7- Change from vulkan to dx12


Hope this work for you.