Are the system requirements really that low? Is the game well optimized?

[Newgel]

I have a rx 7600 but from what I've seen of the gameplay I do not believe the 2060 and 5600xt they're asking for will run this game smoothly specially on late game. There is a lot of visual effects. Was PoE1 well optimized for the gpus that were around with its release?

[Ersatz]

PoE isn’t particularly hard on GPUs at all, it’s the CPU it hammers, for a variety of reasons. If they’ve fixed those problems, I think the specs are realistic, likely for 60fps/1080p.

[Husker]

Originally posted by Ersatz:

PoE isn’t particularly hard on GPUs at all, it’s the CPU it hammers, for a variety of reasons. If they’ve fixed those problems, I think the specs are realistic, likely for 60fps/1080p.

What FPS do you think the recommended specs will get? Is 60 fps enough for this game to look and play well? I run Diablo 4 at 90 fps on high. Wondering if I can run this game like that.

[SK]

I'm on a 5700xt and 3700x for PoE1. Running it on an NVME SSD.

I expect PoE2 to be fine. We're not getting anything like 5 Way carries where people are killing 10k+ mobs in 5 minutes.
That's the only time I've had performance issues.

[Lord Dralisz]

Its the same POE 1 game. They just changed some stuffs here and there.

[Arugin]

They have custom engine and genious Lead Graphcs Engineer Alexandr Sannikov. He has an youtube channel with a pretty cool stuff. Anyway, when you have good programmers, artists and custom engine you can create very perfomant and beautiful things.

[TyresTyco]

Endgame or not doesn't really matter in terms of performance unless you play discoball builds on fully juiced maps.

What matters however is if you are in town with players disguised as Sylvester rockets and other lightshows or not.

Also Blight. PoE 2 won't have Blight in the ea but if it will come at some point. It will melt.

There are also some kinda poorly optimized hideouts where your pc has to work harder than usual.

[KillJoy]

I would never go by minimum and recommended specs, as a lot of what is required in terms of equipment is dictated by your resolution, refresh rate and in game graphical settings.

I would say see what reviewers are using, and see the graphical fluidity of the streams, to determine what you should be using in terms of hardware.

[😎Astran😾]

First time I heard about PoE2 release it was scheduled for 2019 or 2020 iirc. We are looking at the five years old graphics basically, no wonder requirements are relatively low for them today

But don't get fooled by the low requirements: PoE1 may fry your video card if FPS isn't capped. It can be quite intensive on hardware if you allow it.

[Mr blue]

if the game didn't have anything server side i think we would need higher requirements

[Steel]

The game has DLSS and FSR this time, should make it scale well to older GPUs, and as far as CPUs goes, probably it will only matter in high end mapping.

[Fluff]

On top of everything - you can always enable FSR - it will make image kinda blurry but only in heaviest end-game scenes with tons and tons of mobs, but you already can't see anything there so it doesn't really make any difference.

Most likely will work same way in PoE2 when need if not better.

[Steel]

In my experience FSR has the opposite problem of blur, it makes everything oversharpened and artifact-y on movement, it kinda deep fries the smaller details, definitely wouldn't describe it as blurry myself.

Even in PoE1 endgame could get insane, I played at 1080p despite having a 1440p monitor, and THAT was definitely blurry thanks to no real upscaling. Upscaling will help a ton this time.

[Orb of Me]

It will be better optimized than PoE 1.

[[Falando Português]]

I am going to play with an 1060 6gb and i7 4x cpu. lol

[Thunder]

I have 4070 super and i5 14400, even this had (although very rarely) fps drops in poe 1. I do not trust the req: epecs a bit.