Performance Issues on RTX 4060 and Ryzen 5 5600X

Hello Grinding Gear Games Team,

I’m playing Path of Exile 2 on a system with the following specs:
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
• RAM: 16 GB DDR4
• Storage: SSD (Game installed on SSD)
• Graphics Settings: DLSS enabled, lowest graphics preset

While playing solo or in low-intensity areas, performance is stable. However, in crowded party maps or zones with heavy spell effects and many monsters, my FPS drops dramatically to 20-30, making the game frustrating and often unplayable.

I have tried updating GPU drivers, clean installs with DDU, switching between DirectX 11/12 and Vulkan, minimizing background apps, lowering all graphics settings, and ensuring the game runs on an SSD. None of these resolved the FPS drops during intense scenes.

Others with similar hardware have reported comparable issues on official forums and Reddit, indicating this may be an optimization issue in early access rather than a hardware problem.

Could you please prioritize optimization for mid-range systems like RTX 4060 and Ryzen 5600X to improve performance stability in effect-heavy situations?

Thank you for your hard work and attention.

Best regards,

Are you running maps with constant delirium fog? My GPU gets extremely hot when running a distilled map. I wish there was a way to disable it, it would greatly reduce the strain on my computer, my eyes, and probably reduce my electricity bill to be honest.

What a goofy setup.

I have zero issues on max settings, the only fps drops I get are from the 1/10 second loads that used to be render crashes. 60 fps consistently.

I run a i9-13700kf, 3080 and 32 gb ddr5.

Why you would have a 4060 with so little ram seems very strange.

And at those settings it doesnt even make my pc do any real work.

I dont think half the fans have ever been running at once during poe2.

I have a rtx 4070 graphics card and had the same problems ... until I activated the G-sync system. Now everything works.

Same here using a Ryzen 5 5600x and rtx 4060

Cpu seems to be the issue from my monitoring, even with all setting on low etc fps is still poor.

Hopefully optimization gets better because i enjoy playing the game but i cant play at 30 fps and it looks awful with all low settings. Id upgrade if i could afford to.

Make sure poe 2 is installed in the same drive as your OS, this made a huge difference to me at least

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Vyend#2601 wrote:

Make sure poe 2 is installed in the same drive as your OS, this made a huge difference to me at least

Mine isnt so im gonna try this out thanks

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AngryOldGamerr#4793 wrote:

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Vyend#2601 wrote:

Make sure poe 2 is installed in the same drive as your OS, this made a huge difference to me at least

Mine isnt so im gonna try this out thanks

You should definitely try it, with the tool ggg provides inside the game (forgot what is called) you can see that poe 2 uses a LOT of shaders all the time

You'd normally think that this won't make any difference because the game stores what it needs in the ram but that's apparently not the case all the time, my drive usage was also really high and had a lot of spikes in usage before

But ever since i installed the client in the same drive as my OS it improved stability considerably, my average fps is way more consistent and i have way less stutters too, the difference was pretty noticeable in my case

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Vyend#2601 wrote:

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AngryOldGamerr#4793 wrote:

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Vyend#2601 wrote:

Make sure poe 2 is installed in the same drive as your OS, this made a huge difference to me at least

Mine isnt so im gonna try this out thanks

You should definitely try it, with the tool ggg provides inside the game (forgot what is called) you can see that poe 2 uses a LOT of shaders all the time

You'd normally think that this won't make any difference because the game stores what it needs in the ram but that's apparently not the case all the time, my drive usage was also really high and had a lot of spikes in usage before

But ever since i installed the client in the same drive as my OS it improved stability considerably, my average fps is way more consistent and i have way less stutters too, it's pretty noticeable

Yeah that makes sense i always see the shaders going crazy, its my cpu thats constantly struggling tho, as soon as i start the game its pushing 100% useage.

Do you have same Cpu?