True Culprit for low FPS?
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Core 2 Duo E7500 @ 3.0GHz
3GB RAM (1GB + 2GB) AMD 4870 500Watt PSU I'd get mad lag spikes everytime I summon spork totems, zombies, skeletons. I also get it when I'm in a party(2-3) where others would spam lightning arrow, and fire storm. I usually just suck it up and lag through Normal, and Cruel Act 1+2, but after I entered Act 3 Crematorium, I basically die every 10 seconds, so whenever a champion mob appears, I lag to the point where I can't move at all, because lag spikes occurs one after another. I can't level up even if I suck it up because everytime I gain some EXP, I lose them again because of dying. Can anyone tell me why I am lagging this way? I am looking to upgrade, but I'd rather not spend too much to buy an entirely new computer. If it's possible, I don't mind upgrading my GPU or RAM, but I'd rather not mess with the CPU, because changing my CPU will require a new MOBO, and CPU+MOBO will probably cost me way too much. FYI, I can play BF3, Crysis 2, Far Cry 3 on Low-Medium setting with solid 30-40FPS, and those games look freakin amazing compared to this (60+FPS, but drops to 5FPS everytime an attack spell is cast), yet I can't even play POE on the LOWEST possible (texture quality 3-4 in the config ini) graphical setting. Thanks in advance. |
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Forgot to mention, I am currently on Windows 7 32-bit.
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Those are ancient specs, so it's obvious you won't have great performance in the first place. But the spikes are more than likely just caused by bad optimizations. But your CPU temps may get too high and it throttles itself, you might run out of VRAM, there may be minor issues with the RAM causing hiccups, etc, there is a bunch of other hardware related issues that it could be.
Last edited by oBLACKIECHANo#6895 on Jun 20, 2013, 4:11:05 PM
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the cpu is fine,change the gpu for a 100 $ card,get 4gb of ram and switch to win 64 b
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There are a few things you could try, that might help performance.
You could try running the game with texture quality set to medium (or lower) as this usually fixes this issue, although having less than 4gb of ram will cause problems after changing areas a number of times. We will improve the memory recovery system in future. You can also reduce the rate of these crashes slightly by adding -gc 2 to the end of your Path of Exile shortcut target, as shown here:  You can also turn your Texture Quality down even further by manually editing the production_Config.ini file. You can find this file in your Documents/My Games/Path of Exile folder. If you find the line texture_quality=1 and change the number to 2, you'll reduce the texture quality even further. Note that this may make it much harder to see some enemy spell effects. - Mike | |
" This, except get 8 gb RAM. RAM is cheap. "Minions of your minions are your minion's minions, not your minions." - Mark
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so what does '-gc 2' mean and what does it do?
Last edited by nitetime#2455 on Jun 20, 2013, 4:31:58 PM
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" he says he doesn't want to change the mobo,if it's old,it doesn't support 8gb |
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" You're running in single-channel memory mode. You can double your RAM speed by pairing two identical sticks of RAM. In your case use 2 identical 2GB sticks since you can't go higher than 4GB with a 32 bit OS. |
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" He mentions memory recovery in the explanation, guesses probably wont do you any good, but I'm betting its a flag for more aggressive garbage collection. If thats the case it just means that the process by which the client.exe is returning memory back to the operating system for later use is being tweaked to ensure that more memory gets back to windows faster. Net result would be that client.exe may run with a slightly smaller memory footprint on average, but your operating system would have more memory to give to client.exe on demand... at the cost of whatever processing overhead the more aggressive gc requires. Last edited by Aegon#0814 on Jun 20, 2013, 4:46:40 PM
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