Game is unplayable - Multiple WinMTR files added

As soon as you're approaching a breach encounter, the game starts going crazy, 20k ms climbing until you disconnect.

I tried different Servers, won't change anything, i tried changing network adapter settings, reset dns/cleaned up caches and a bunch of other CMD commands.

Went into the %AppData% Path Of Exile Folder and deleted the Minimap & Cache Folders, which helped for one map, but thaaaaan if you open the next map, you have to do it again, and again, and again. Streamers have no issues, how convenient for them.

This is the first PoE 1 League i have this issue btw, i had those issues in PoE 2 on every release, but never in PoE 1, so it has to be something to do with the recent overhaul of servers, graphics, textures or idk what it is that is causing these issues.

Please fix that.

I add my WinMTR files and will also continue to add more as time goes on.

These links are in order of now/newest and past days:

https://pastebin.com/iwSnuZ63
https://pastebin.com/H7ZV9ajU
https://pastebin.com/4KqTMgX9
https://pastebin.com/8JAyGsSp
https://pastebin.com/nhipcrtZ
https://pastebin.com/1P5gnNcx
https://pastebin.com/yAYp7Yjf






I will add my PC Specs, i don't think it's on my end, but if it helps:

Motherboard:
ROG STRIX X570-E GAMING

Processor:
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor 3.80 GHz

Graphics Card:
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

RAM:
G.SKILL Aegis 32 GB

SSD:
Samsung SSD 980 PRO 1TB

Monitor:
1 - Asus TUF Gaming VG259 240 Fps
2 - BenQ Senseye 3 LED 60 Fps

Mouse:
Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum

Keyboard:
Razer BlackWidow Chroma V2

Yep, shader loading is screwed and loading screens are insanely long. I'm just not playing until this game gets properly optimized.

im about to quit too, all i get is crash crash crash crash everytime. every map. every loading.

I used to be able to play this game just fine without issues on my gtx1050
But after the supposed "optimization" patch in 3.25 the game runs like a turd and this league is even worse than before
The guys working on this probably have no idea how the engine works since it's a 2013 game, so they can't optimize it properly for old hardware
They rely on their players having high-end PCs like the streamers, but this game used to run on that old hardware just fine.

I was encountering this issue as well on my end. Mercs were totally fine, although everything was on low settings on my potato. Intel Integrated graphics with an old gen 4 i7 and an SSD. Network issues shows no sign of droppage during disconnects from other devices or even the old ping command.

What I found works for me is to wait around 30-50 seconds at the start of each map not doing anything.

According to some other players who have powerful graphics cards, changing the cache on their GPU to 100gb seems to have worked for a lot of people leading me to believe that it may be the same thing with me.

When the crash/disconnection to character creation happens, it is almost always takes place when the game freezes because a bunch of enemies showed up or are using their effects. I noticed for smaller mobs that I don't always crash to char selection. The breaches unfortunately are a big culprit. What I think is happening is that the game is probably overloading something trying to load all those shaders in.

What waiting those seconds does is I think it lets the game load in those shaders in a stable manner instead of doing all that once on demand when the mobs shows up.

I don't know the exact mechanism for why the character is booted to char select, but I speculate that it may be the client and server side having a differing opinion on what's going on with the character, possibly the location of said character. Not moving the character when those freezes happens sometimes doesn't result in a crash for me.

Best of luck diagnosing this, it can't be easy.

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Essaere#0898 wrote:

I used to be able to play this game just fine without issues on my gtx1050
But after the supposed "optimization" patch in 3.25 the game runs like a turd and this league is even worse than before
The guys working on this probably have no idea how the engine works since it's a 2013 game, so they can't optimize it properly for old hardware
They rely on their players having high-end PCs like the streamers, but this game used to run on that old hardware just fine.

Yep, also on a gtx 1050ti here. Was able to play the game just fine at 60 fps before this patch, and especially in the older leagues but its only been getting worse and this one is especially bad lol

I'm in the same boat.
At this point i'm thinking my video card is just dying (GTX 1650 + Ryzen 5600g) or this league has something that makes it almost unplayable at maps. I'm really sad.

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Ralkimon#2257 wrote:

I'm in the same boat.
At this point i'm thinking my video card is just dying (GTX 1650 + Ryzen 5600g) or this league has something that makes it almost unplayable at maps. I'm really sad.

It ain't your gpu, I have an even older one and I run other games just fine locked at 60 fps with low settings. This game is just horribly optimized and there's 100% some serious problems with how the Shader stuff is programmed.

If I can run games that came out from 2019 onwards perfectly fine, yet this game is a stuttery mess with shaders constantly re-loading and long loading screens while on an SSD then the problem is with the game.

Those are my speccs:

Motherboard:
ROG STRIX X570-E GAMING

Prozessor:
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 8-Core Processor 3.80 GHz

Graphics Card:
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

RAM:
G.SKILL Aegis 32 GB

SSD:
Samsung SSD 980 PRO 1TB

Monitor:
1 - Asus TUF Gaming VG259 240 Fps
2 - BenQ Senseye 3 LED 60 Fps

Its 100% their Server!
They get DDoSed or they can't handle the amount of players. Or idk what else is causing this. I never had problems until this league. I had some issues in PoE2, but never in PoE1, at least not to this extent.

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Essaere#0898 wrote:

I used to be able to play this game just fine without issues on my gtx1050
But after the supposed "optimization" patch in 3.25 the game runs like a turd and this league is even worse than before
The guys working on this probably have no idea how the engine works since it's a 2013 game, so they can't optimize it properly for old hardware
They rely on their players having high-end PCs like the streamers, but this game used to run on that old hardware just fine.

Not hardware specific...I've got a pretty new mid-spec PC, able to run every game at ultra settings and decent fps. The internet fails somewhere near the end of the line on GGG side. Last 3 hops in my case.

And it has something to do with certain areas and events in the game weirdly enough.