I upgraded my PC from 2014 to 2025 !!! POE2 is the same crap FPS ..Trash.....

Bruh... the optimization of a game is the last step before full release, with all the different hardware and before the product is finalized - some systems struggle when they shouldn't. That's nothing new.

That's why you find enough ppl with a smooth - high fps performance on even older systems than yours.

I would never upgrade my PC because a EA game wasn't running 100%. Especially if all my other games run fine. It's EA and optimization will come. I am really losing faith in modern day gamers.

Any time you upgrade your system make sure to clean it up / optimize it. Running a simple program that optimizes your system/setting/drivers/etc usually fixes some head scratchers.

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mikeab79#3627 wrote:

I would never upgrade my PC because a EA game wasn't running 100%. Especially if all my other games run fine. It's EA and optimization will come. I am really losing faith in modern day gamers.

I did buy a better CPU, because it was simply necessary nto only for POE2, it was the main reason, but i had a 5600X with a 7800XT and the CPU was bottlenecking the GPU

For all the people who say "I don't have any issues" (and list their hardware):

It's not helpful to write that.

Path of Exile 2 lacks optimization, which happens randomly.
It's like you're saying: "I don't have any problems, the problem is only yours."

Please stop it, they need to fix it.

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Babonzo#0016 wrote:

For all the people who say "I don't have any issues" (and list their hardware):

It's not helpful to write that.

Path of Exile 2 lacks optimization, which happens randomly.
It's like you're saying: "I don't have any problems, the problem is only yours."

Please stop it, they need to fix it.

For all ppl who say "Path of Exile 2 lacks optimization" it's the last step of development before full release to optimize a game. Just post your system, settings, and you are done, but don't make outrage posts pretending it had to be optimized by now.

Please stop it, they will fix it.

It's not that the game lacks optimization. It's that the game doesn't dial back on visuals/particles/enemies on screen at once. Good luck throwing money on hardware at a game that is not intended to be running at a high framerate in certain circumstances. I'm not sure what type of hardware you would need to get 100fps on two or three breaches open at the same time, with heralds and everything else popping off. But it's not the type of hardware I'd recommend opening your wallet for (just for this game).

They should get a prize for the worst-optimized game ever created.Plays like a potato on a 4090-78003xd.

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tuccos#0181 wrote:

and the best is !!!!

Path of Exile 2 runs like shit !!

Old Intel XEON1230v3 + 32gb + Radeon 7600 >> POE2 runs like shit but playable

NOW !!

a new Ryzen 7900- 12/24 core CPU , Radeon RX7900, Patriot 96GB 6000mhz DIMMs,Aorus 870E Motherboard. Samsung EVO 990 2TB 7000read/6000write.

PATH OF EXILE 2 RUNS LIKE SHIT ON 12 Cores - Great VGA Card too !!!



This games Code is horrible !!!

a new Computer from 2025 still has FPS Drops from 90fps to 20fps !!!


Never mind how much money you invest, Path of Exile 2 will run like bullcrap because this game has the worst code ever.


P.S >> Diablo 4 160 FPS > Guild Wars 2 270FPS > Grim Dawn 211 FPS
>> Last Epoch ~200FPS >> Warframe almost 400 FPS!!!!!!


POE2 >>> if lucky you get stable 50 FPS.... meeehh

This is an old post, but after installing new hardware you should delete your shader cache and let it recompile. For whatever reasons poe doesn't do it automatically, and running old shaders built for other videocard is the main reason why you have bad performance.

Edit: that being said, poe is ceratinly not optimised well for the graphics it presents, no argument here. But such extreme cases as 20 fps on UFO pc are likely shader issue.

I don't think I ever dropped to 20fps ever even on my old 1070ti, something tells me AMD cards aren't too great in PoE2.