how you people play with this bad fps?

[PainKiller]

fps getting from 15-120.... unplayble. cousing me to die to many times. playing on DX11... heard vulkan is even worse. playing on medium DLSS on balance but even on ultra pref the fps drops to 15 when mosnters are attacking. rtx 2070 here latest i7.

[SkaldedDawg]

Originally posted by PainKiller:

fps getting from 15-120.... unplayble. cousing me to die to many times. playing on DX11... heard vulkan is even worse. playing on medium DLSS on balance but even on ultra pref the fps drops to 15 when mosnters are attacking. rtx 2070 here latest i7.

It isn't a huge percentage of the players dealing with this problem. It is a lot, though. Anyway, that's how people play.

[TyresTyco]

Tooltip on dx11: Not recommended, due to worse performance and longer loading times. However, might be more stable ob gpus with small amounts of vram.

So what about trying the other renderer ? And dont forget once you change you have to let the game build up the shaders which can result in some fps drops.

[Pervy]

As long as its above 60, its fine.

[/dev/random]

skill issue

[SkaldedDawg]

Originally posted by Automaton 32:

As long as its above 60, its fine.

I think OP said it was a range. Sometimes it's above 60 fps.

[Knavenformed]

Going to 15 is quite odd.
I'm playing on a CPU supporting DDR3 RAM and even I don't go below 30 at worst.

[DontEatSmurfs]

Originally posted by SkaldedDawg:

Originally posted by Automaton 32:

As long as its above 60, its fine.

I think OP said it was a range. Sometimes it's above 60 fps.

lost of people are playing with the wrong upscalling settings, its on them to try to run everything on ultra when its clearly not possible, im playing on a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 1070 and its stuck at 60 fps, as op described 15 fps is really something on his end, the game should be running better than this

[DarkStreets56]

Ok so another thing that helps a lot is the game likes to max out your CPU cores hard. A lot of peoples CPU's have burned out so far cause of this. Go into task manager while your game is up and do this. Task manager>Details>find POE2>right click set affinity> turn off cores 0 and 1. This helps a lot and stops combat stutters also. You will have to do this every time you launch the game again but it helps a lot. Also run it on DX12 its the best option and set your frame limit to max

[Astral Projection]

What resolution is your monitor? Anything over 1080p is probably a downgrade for a 2070 card. It just cannot push that many pixels.

[Neithan]

Older/Mid-tier machine (5800X, RTX 2070 Super, 32GB RAM), and I can play on high settings/1440p at ~100 fps.

Either it is some specific Intel problem, or you gotta "fix" your machine.

[Edith says:]
DLSS is actually "Quality" (thought I had it on Balance or even Performance, but well.. ^^)

VSync set to "Adaptive", Dynamic Resolution checked.

NVIDIA Reflex "On" (no boost), cap at 144/15, Multithreading, no Dynamic Culling, target framerate 72.

Other settings are all "High".
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Again, above 100fps whereever I run around, and cast some skills, granted, never bothered/had the time actually to check on frames when big action is going on, but I don't experience any noticeable framedrops while playing.

[DontEatSmurfs]

Originally posted by Neithan:

Older/Mid-tier machine (5800X, RTX 2070 Super, 32GB RAM), and I can play on high settings/1440p at ~100 fps.

Either it is some specific Intel problem, or you gotta "fix" your machine.

i truly believe its his upscalling settings

[RancidRon]

Originally posted by PainKiller:

fps getting from 15-120.... unplayble. cousing me to die to many times. playing on DX11... heard vulkan is even worse. playing on medium DLSS on balance but even on ultra pref the fps drops to 15 when mosnters are attacking. rtx 2070 here latest i7.

Because we are not. Either you are super unlucky and the engine doesn't like your setup or you are bad at optimizing your gaming machine. Try google

[Geo]

porbably has global illumination enabled and shadows set to high or ultra, these 2 settings are the big killers in this game, also not using dx12, DLSS on balanced even on my 3080 at 1440p is pretty brutal in this game on the fps when you start igniting the screen with 10+ minions running around :P a 2070 is kinda old and if your trying to play this at 1440p on that graphics card ummm I am surprised it hasn't burst into flames yet, should be fine for 1080p though as stated above, but yeh not the most optimised games for older hardware sadly.

[Platasaurus Rex]

5800x. 3060ti 16gb of ram and getting consistent 100-110 fps while in combat. using dlss performance, settings High, 1440, windows 11. game has been running good for me other than the hard crashes, which was the 24h2 windows update. i was lucky and could revert back.

[Ginebro]

Some combination of maps and dense breaches drop my fps like flies as well.

I noticed a couple things, all of this is tested on dx12 without dynamic res to see the real impact:
- Particle culling isn't removing enough particles, if you really remove all particles some maps (without mobs) gain about 20fps.
- Big frozen ground, like the one left after shattering a big mob pack, can make you lose 20-25 fps, funny enough the actual hundred or so ice shards dropped by shattering has no performance impact.
- Maps have different CPU and GPU requirements depending on the zone, sometimes the CPU is bottlenecking and sometimes GPU, this ofc depends on your rig as well but CPU req is not constant, even without mobs.
- There's a small spawn effect during certain trial rooms that tanked my fps by 50 frames.

I think it's important to solve this, else we will repeat what happened in PoE1 with blight, the moment it launched everyone played at 10fps, then computers got better but performance pretty much never got addressed.

Since the min req. mention a gtx 960 i think they should work on this or change it, can't imagine how people would play on that in map breaches.