FPS drops over time. No obvious cause.

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"

I'm using RTX 3050Ti (laptop). I had issues with FPS degrading over time while playing PoE1 and PoE2 (from 144/100 FPS to 60/40 while in hideout after doing few maps/instances).

For me it was caused by NVIDIA Driver 577.00, 580.88, 580.97 and 581.15 (clean install through DDU)


I did not test 581.08 since I'm not interested in re-installing drivers another time).

Currently I'm using 576.88 (clean install through DDU) and both PoE1 and PoE2 no longer have problems with FPS degrading.


"Detected out-of-date GPU driver. Please update to latest version" message while launching PoE2 - ignore it, it works fine.

I suggest removing all PoE1 / PoE2 shader cache after clean installing new driver. Nvidia shader cache are automatically deleted upon using DDU. First maps/instances always will be laggy, since shaders are rebuilding.