PC Lag

Just a question, is there gonna be more options in the 'Graphics' menu to let's say turn off(or at least to change it to less laggy) stuff like burning ground, tar from the 'fetid shambler' zombies, or the crazy green smoke from poison arrows? And the fog/smoke in most of the maps?

All of those things make my pc lag really bad.

Another example would be 'Ground Slam' skill after you use it, some smoke comes out and that's like -2~5fps spam it some more and i get like -10~20fps.
Would be nice if there was an option to change all those things to more 'simple' graphics.


tl;dr
burning ground+tar+poison arrows = 1fps

I'm not going to say anything about your PC being really crappy...


but most of the things you've mentioned are kind of skill effect that are part of the gameplay and the game mechanics, burning ground or tar aren't cosmetic effects, they actually damage/slow you and turning these effects off would just result in a major disadvantage/confusion.

I understand that, i don't care about graphics.. it's probably all the smoke that makes it laggy, anyway, there should be a way to make them more simple and less laggy.

Just curious: what are your system specs?

Processor: Intel Core i5-2500, 3.3GHz
Memory: 4GB 1,333MHz DDR3 RAM
Graphics: 1GB ATI Radeon HD 5450
Windows 7

The problem is that hd 5450 is not a very good card, and (cant remember the name) some thingie doesn't give enough power for this card to work on full speed

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lamafao wrote:

Processor: Intel Core i5-2500, 3.3GHz
Memory: 4GB 1,333MHz DDR3 RAM
Graphics: 1GB ATI Radeon HD 5450
Windows 7

The problem is that hd 5450 is not a very good card, and (cant remember the name) some thingie doesn't give enough power for this card to work on full speed

Without sounding condescending, man why dont you change cards. i've been running gigabyte gtx 550ti cards in 2 machines i've built with good results. They cost only Aus$ 117.

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lamafao wrote:

Processor: Intel Core i5-2500, 3.3GHz
Memory: 4GB 1,333MHz DDR3 RAM
Graphics: 1GB ATI Radeon HD 5450
Windows 7

The problem is that hd 5450 is not a very good card, and (cant remember the name) some thingie doesn't give enough power for this card to work on full speed

What the... I'm regulary playing PoE on my old laptop with about half of your specs and got no problems at all

If his power supply can't give his video card enough juice, that would explain the terrible experience. I had a video card that complained of not getting enough voltage (was a known issue with that specific model, as my power supply had way more than necessary) and the performance was easily halved because of it.

...always play games with your laptop plugged in, if you're playing on a laptop.

Also, turn off any silly programs you might have in the background.

Your computer has more than enough power to play this game flawlessly.

Try running the game with Gamebooster and update your Drivers if you haven't already.