*UPDATED (Potential fix discovered)* Bad FPS with AMD cards.

I'll leave this here as a possible helper for other people experiencing bad times with Path of Exile on an AMD card... I run the game on an HD 7970, and have had occasional problems with blue screens after extended play sessions returning a 0XA0000004 driver fault caused by one of the ATI driver modules. What I found was that it seems to be coming from something in either the way path of exile or the AMD drivers handle textures in video memory in the 7970 - when I set anisotropic filtering and antialiasing both to off and texture preference to high quality, I no longer get any bluescreens during extended sessions. Path of Exile is the only game that has ever caused this problem on my computer, which is about 3 years old now. It has never blue screened in any other game.

Those who think ATI drivers are crap...

I've run ATI for the past 6 years...on a decent motherboard with ATI chips...never had an issue.

I also clean my comp & parts at least once a year. When I do this, I ALSO test my power supply to see how it's doing...and RAM.

Things which may cause an issue:

- bad power/worn out power supply
- overheating...dust on heat sinks over time reduce their effectiveness
- worn CPU...overclocking causes a mental breakdown faster
- worn motherboard chips...RAM...see about CPU and overclocking statement above
- hard drive dying...the game has to read from it
- just a plain ol' crappy mobo/power supply/RAM/...even cables
- farting too loudly at 5am

Any of the above can also be applied to Nvidia. I build computers and can tell you that sometimes Nvidia has problems as well (not pertaining to this game).

This is the only game I've ever had any issues with FPS, and most are since the last few updates...though not huge issues.

i have frame drop whit the previous patch i think they touch or improve some fire-poison effect and fps drop from 60 to 15

ah for the ati users try fun windowed full screen instead of fullscreen i get less blue screen this way and sometime nothingh at all ...

I hope they are, ATI/AMD sucks big time

I've never seen/used/heard of an ATI/AMD card that works flawlessly and that I would actually want to buy.

I custom build all my own computers, and made the mistake of building and AMD/ATI based computer ONCE... that was all it took, biggest waste of money in my life.

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demivion wrote:

I hope they are, ATI/AMD sucks big time

I've never seen/used/heard of an ATI/AMD card that works flawlessly and that I would actually want to buy.

I custom build all my own computers, and made the mistake of building and AMD/ATI based computer ONCE... that was all it took, biggest waste of money in my life.

Well that's just wrong. Both companies are shitty. It just comes to what kind of turd repulses you less.
Personally I've had only bad experience (which I took as norm in that time) with nvidia while my first AMD card is yet to disappoint.
But back to OP, PoE indeed runs shitty on my card. It was mentioned that GGG sent a request for advice to AMD and as they say were ignored. From what I gather they stopped there and gave up on half the community like wusses.

i heard you havin fps drop problems with your amd card and i feel bad for you son but i got an nvidia card so my shit runs smooth.

I use an AMD radeon 6800 and I have no problem here.

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Nubatron wrote:

Very broad statement that is quite wrong. I can run 2 clients on my Nvidia card without even a slight drop in frames.

Not even GGG denies the performance and optimization issues that are independent of the platform, so why do you? Perhaps you should read the Deveoloper Manifesto posts so that your messages aren't so obviously disregard-able as whiteknighting?

First time I've been accused of whiteknighting -- not even sure how to respond to that particularly since you seem to only pull this out because I disagreed with your false blanket statement that would have included me if I had not stated otherwise.

No where in my statement do I say the code is poorly or perfectly optimized. Every game has room for improvement, this one is no different.

I'm simply letting you know that your statement about nvidia cards not working either was quite simply wrong because my graphics card which would fall into your blanket statement barely even breaks a sweat while the game runs relatively flawlessly with multiple clients open on the highest settings.

My older PC upstairs runs an older nvidia 570 and still ran smoothly with one client open. Two clients made it sound like it was really working though...

Side note: I don't really have issues with desync either like others seem to experience so I suspect my system setup and the character builds I prefer are well optimized for how the game is built on current pc. Older PC I experienced desync more often but still nothing to scream about.

For reference:

Windows 7 Ultimate (x64) Service Pack 1
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770
Gigabyte G1.Sniper M5
3.50 gigahertz Intel Core i7-4770K
16274 Megabytes RAM
SSD

Internet: 95.29 Mbps Download/9.24 Mbps Upload (Just Tested)

Nothing seriously groundbreaking in my setup.

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Suggested post that would be accurate on your part: MY Nvidia Card in conjunction with my current system and network setup does not perform well with my settings on the POE client. I can't speak for others on this topic since I have not been given such a proxy.

 Ok, so you have bad frame rates. Sorry for that but if you have a decent AMD video card with 1 GB of ram and have one with a 256-bit bus you should be ok. So, do you have a frame rate constrained 128-bit (or worse) video card? Are you trying to play PoE with an AMD APU with built in graphics? That won't work at all for any serious game playing. Do you run Windows 7 64-bit OS and have at least 4 GB of ram? Do you have a crappy free anti-virus such as Avast or AVG that suck and have way too much cpu overhead? Are you running too many other background utilities such as instant messaging that also steal cpu cycles away from PoE? Do you have an underpowered and/or single core cpu? Are your and friends you party play with ping times to the PoE servers high (over 150 ms)?

 Any and all of the above are potential frame rate stealer so unless you have access to a 256-bit or 384 bit nVidia graphics card and can swap it out for testing you can't just blame GGG directly for the poor frame rates you are getting in group playing. Granted, PoE is not great on video performance but GGG and all of us are suffering over the the founders early decision to not do a fund raising through crowdfunding or other means to be able to license a commercial game engine (Unreal, Frostbite, Cry Engine. etc). We're all paying for the founders early mistakes with poor frame rates and large amounts of desync. Unfortunately it's way too late for GGG to turn back and switch to a different game engine with much better performance so they must move forward or die.

 I run PoE on an AMD 6870 in a system with an older Intel core-i5 (3.2 GHz dual core cpu with HT oc'ed to 3.725 GHz), 8 GB of DDR3 -1600 ram, and Windows 7 64-bit and in 3 party play I can't complain that my frame rate tanks (goes down some in party play but nothing that kills playability). I'm on a 10 Mbit down / 8 Mbit up Internet connection with my 2 best friends and we do enjoy 45ms to 55ms average ping times to the Dallas USA PoE servers so that definitely helps. Not enough video ram to cache everything is also a frame rate killer so I see 1 GB of graphics memory as a must for any serious gamer, not just for PoE.

 Post back your specs and then we can help you figure out where your performance tanks.