What do I need to upgrade for better performance for PoE2?

[dacoli93]

Hi everyone,
I have the following specs:
- AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor 3.70 GHz
- 16,0 GB RAM
- AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
I can run the game okay in mid settings, but when a lot of stuff is happening (ritual, ground effects, etc), I get stutter or with the dynamic resolution the resolution goes waaaay down.
Currently running 1 screen with my PC, would like to upgrade so the game runs smoothly AND I am able to use chrome or something on the other screen without an issue / lagg / stuttering.

I wanna spend on upgrades, please help if you can, thank you!

[EmperorVolo]

CPU mostly but you could try this https://www.nexusmods.com/pathofexile2/mods/1?tab=description

[Ray64]

16 GB of ram? That amount of ram was considered low 10+ years ago at least. Double up your ram would certainly help so that your computer is not relegated to using virtual disk memory (which is slow).

[Vickers]

Originally posted by Ray64:

16 GB of ram? That amount of ram was considered low 10+ years ago at least. Double up your ram would certainly help so that your computer is not relegated to using virtual disk memory (which is slow).

35% of steam users have 8gb, 4% have 16gb
go to the help tab in the very top of the steam page and click on system information, then click on compare hardware to see the data

[JohnMiller92]

best solution here is to uninstall and fire up legacy d2. only utilizes around 25-40mb of ram, and runs in a 800x600 window. it's also superior than 99% of the arpgs on the market rn. they don't make them like they used to.

hope that helps!

[MangoRocket]

interesting i have the settings maxed out getting 65fps with a 6700k, 1080Ti and 32 GB of mem on Win 10 so you don't need a powerful rig to run this game

[Wendrig]

i woud go for an extra 16 Ram,

[EliminatorVeT0]

After some Patches the game runs smooth with RX6650XT. You can try AFMF2 Feature if it Helps.
Im playing it in 1440p upscaled to 4K with 120FPS sometimes it goes down to 100 but it runs smooth for now.

Sometimes i also stream the game with Moonlight and it runs perfectly on my other Devices too.

[DM]

Originally posted by Ray64:

16 GB of ram? That amount of ram was considered low 10+ years ago at least. Double up your ram would certainly help so that your computer is not relegated to using virtual disk memory (which is slow).

16GB RAM is 100% absolutely completely and perfectly fine for current gaming, and has been forever.

Having 32GB RAM will do ♥♥♥♥ all for gaming performance, and in fact might be worse as having more RAM tends to mean more modules or denser modules, which means more latency in the system.

Anyone with gaming problems caused by RAM will be getting bluescreens and random crashes, not framerate issues.

I'm constantly amazed by the lack of technical knowledge in these comments from people who will make someone go out and spend money on something that's nothing to do with the actual issue.

With heavy framerate drops either the CPU is having issues, which would show in something like MSI Afterburner that the GPU is being throttled and running way below 99% utilisation, or the GPU is running at 99% utilisation all the time and the GPU is holding the game back.

Use Windows Performance Manager to see if your CPU is hitting near 100% usage when the FPS drops are happening and that will give you an idea whether this is an issue with the CPU, GPU, or both.

Generally for gaming, the GPU is the first thing to look at for performance improvements, unless the entire system is quite old. This is assuming there are no other issues with the OS install or having out of date drivers and/or badly configured settings, or temperature throttling if the cooling on the CPU or GPU is failing.

[ffrotty]

POE2 is CPU capped. you also didn't mention hard drive setup.

you can hit f1 in game to toggle the performance graphs and maybe that will give you a clue. I run the game on a potato so am used to the lag/slowdown in various scenarios.

[dacoli93]

Thank you everyone. I ended up buying 64 gb ram and it is running a lot better now! Thanks again for the helpful answers and suggestions!