PC Lag

It's not a laptop, and i've tried running other games with gamebooster, it didn't help.

I remember playing 'Medal of Honor' on this pc, that was created in 1999, and there was this forest map with lots of snow falling from the sky, it lagged like crazy.
Another example would be 'Vindictus' mmo it has really good graphics, and i could play it without lag, because it had almost no smoke/fog in skills/maps.
It's just weird i know..

Anyway, i don't know if iam gonna buy a new card soon or the thingie that helps my card to perform better, so it would be nice if one of the devs answered to my first question.

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Mr_Smith wrote:

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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

same, i play on an older processor c2duo t6500@2.1ghz), ddr2 ram (4gig) and a 512 meg 3650HD mobility card in my laptop and i play on "medium" settings and dont really have many issues, especially with fog/smoke/auras/etc..

while the vid card lamafao is using could really be upgraded, you got other problems somewhere with some drivers that are not playing nice, or not using full functionality.

i doubt it the PSU not giving enough power to the vid card, because that vid card is so old, even a generic, 300w PSU would power that card fine. its not like those cards have extra molex plugs for power or anything.

as anubite said, turn off crap in the background, to free up system resources, imo, that includes stuff like gamebooster, i dont know why people feel it helps, but all it does is take away resources from the game you're playing. sure it might kill a process or program for you, but gamebooster itself still uses resources and you can kill the processes gamebooster kills on your own.

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Chris wrote:

We have a technique coming in the future that will make this faster. It's due to your graphics card being bottlenecked on fill-rate. I expect this change will come once we're in Open Beta.

So nice, I'm waiting for this. Vaal Oversoul fight drops my fps to 2-5

Thanks for replying Chris, and for the great news.

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Di77 wrote:

So nice, I'm waiting for this. Vaal Oversoul fight drops my fps to 2-5

Haha, kinda the same for me too, it's not laggy at all when iam fighting him, but when he throws his 'Ice' skill then it's like omg slo-mo mode..

Yeah, my system is pretty similar to yours (HD 5450 on a laptop) and my experience sounds really similar in terms of graphic lag, maybe I need to look into a new card.

Make sure to check the adapter box in the video settings. Make sure you see your HD 5450 listed.

Intel I7/5/3 processors can have Intel HD Graphics chipsets built into the processor. Perhaps Path of Exile is defaulting to use the Intel HD Graphics and not the HD 5450.

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gamebooster

Urghhhhhh not this again.

Get that off your computer. It's junk.

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jujuman wrote:

Make sure to check the adapter box in the video settings. Make sure you see your HD 5450 listed.

Intel I7/5/3 processors can have Intel HD Graphics chipsets built into the processor. Perhaps Path of Exile is defaulting to use the Intel HD Graphics and not the HD 5450.

Yea, it's 'white' for me, i guess its auto selected

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anubite wrote:

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gamebooster

Urghhhhhh not this again.

Get that off your computer. It's junk.

Not really, you just don't know how to make the most of it.