Terrible CPU performance/underutilization this league

Ryzen 5800X3D/32GB RAM/RTX3080 on latest studio driver (581.57)

I'm noticing much worse performance this league caused by the game not fully utilizing the CPU.

It was not uncommon to get 60-70fps on juiced content, but most of the time it was GPU bound.

This league the game constantly drops to 20-30fps on heavy combat like harbingers, and the performance graph shows it's being limited by the CPU. However the game is using the CPU a lot less than before: my temps used to be pretty high on PoE (70-75°) and now they rarely go over 60°.

There was no change on my hardware or config, and the week prior to the league I ran some maps to test stuff and was working as always. Something changed with keepers.

I've tried all the regular tricks of shader deletion, forcing high performance mode, driver update, lowering settings (was using older one before trying to solve).

I have no idea whether GGG officially supports studio drivers.

What is the CPU utilisation? Temperature readings are poor proxies that reveal little.

Studio drivers are just a long term stable release... There is no difference in capabilities, if the game works on a similar game ready driver. Latest GRD was causing me blue screens, so I went to that version. Prior to that was using the 572.83, that was rock solid stable for me.

All three versions have the exact same behaviour.


Temperature is a poor measure when the other variables are inconsistent. If person A said my temps are 60° and person B said 75° it won't meant anything. But on the same system under the same conditions is 100% correlated with CPU utilization.

If in the exact same computer the game runs fine and temps are 75°, and the next day runs like shit and they're 60°... The game is now under utilizing the CPU.

I know that recording a hwinfo report while mapping would be better, but I didn't do it back when it was working fine, so I wouldn't have anything to compare it to.

Does the software that people uses even matter? everyone that I've seen has this exact same issue, the game has the worst performance I've remember since the first week back in delirium league.

Things not rendering properly and you sometimes see their 3d skeletons on most things. It's a joke for a game now owned by tencent this type of quality I would expect from a really really indie/new company than this one.