Limiting Path of Exiles Framerate - Fix planned?

Hi there,

before you say it: I know there are several topics about limiting PoE's Framerate. None really helped me and I thought it would be good to bring it back to peoples awareness.

I really really love Path of Exile. But since the release update the game tends to kill my GPU. My Laptop can run PoE fine, with capped 60 FPS (I enabled vsync) nearly all the time.

I had the same problem a few months back, but it was easily fixed by enabling vsync. Turned out that my GPU was killing itself in some games where I didn't cap the FPS (via vsync or other options) by going crazy with the FPS and overheating.

So I enabled vsync in all games and the problem was solved. But now PoE overheats even with vsync. I monitored the GPU temperature of several games today over different stress levels. (Raiding in WoW, Ranked in League of Legends, Farming in Diablo 3, Starcraft 2 4 v 4) the temperature rarely climbed over the 85°C mark. But with PoE, even just standing still in areas where no one was and only really few things moved, the temperature was constantly over 85°C, rarely dropping somewhere between 85°C and 80°C. When I started to move, fight etc, the temperature would climb as far as 90°C and in the Imperial Gardens it would reach 100°C where the system shuts off.

So as I see it, I have two options: 1. Limit the FPS from 60 to 30. Everything above 24 will be seen as a fluid motion so I would be happy with 30. (I know that you can see the difference between 30, 60 and 120 FPS, but playing a game at 30 FPS is fine with me.) Or the second option: Stop playing PoE until I buy a better PC, which could (is going to) take a while.

Obviously I would love to find a way to limit the FPS. But as found out while I researched the topic there is currently no way to limit the FPS in POE. So I wanted to ask, if someone clever from the community has a trick up his sleeve or someone from GGG knows, if there is going to be an option (or even a line in a config file that we can change) which allows us to limit the FPS of the game.

Thanks to everyone who took the time to read all this. I'm looking forward to hear your thoughts and ideas on this!

Sincerely

xeredar

TL;DR: PoE overheats my system. I need a way to limit my FPS. Ideas? Or is a fix in the making?

If you have nvidia video card you can use application called nvidia inspector to limit your frame rates to whatever suits you. Example: http://i.imgur.com/gQ2iag9.jpg

Ah good that you mention the brand of the GPU. I totally forgot to tell you mine ^^

I'm using an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5800 Series model.

So I'm not using any nVidia software etc. Only the AMD Catalyst Control Center, which I guess is the ATI/AMD equivalent?

Oh, great, you've mentioned this. I experience similiar problems in PoE, Borderlands 2 and some MMO titles. A recipe to freeze my system is to involve in a fight with huge amount of particles on screen, like a rare monster that plants spark traps...
In my case temperature does not seem to be a problem (the GPU hung at 68 degrees last time), but the GPU frequency rose up to 1138 MHz.

The GPU is Palit's board based on GTX 660 Ti, factory overclocked.

I'll definitelly try Nvidia inspector. Hope it allows to limit the maximum GPU frequency.

Would appreciate if GGG adds some frame-rate limiter into options menu... along with an option to emit less particles.

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Drakier wrote:

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coyl wrote:

Would appreciate if GGG adds some frame-rate limiter into options menu...

They did, it's called vsync.

It caps FPS at 60, that is not sufficient.

In this case it is too high ^^ My idea would be to have an option in a config file with a line like "Limit_FPS = 30" or something, where you can change the maximum amount of FPS.

I will definetly look in my CCC for such an option. Will report back soon.