Performance is getting worse with every patch

I don't know what is happening, but it seems like my FPS is just getting worse with every patch. Maybe it's because of the newer assets and effects that were ported from poe2, but the game runs significantly worse than before, especially in juiced maps.

I started noticing this in Affliction, then it got even worse in Mercenaries league, memory influenced maps just having the worst performance, alongside T17s.

Yeah, every ritual (even in act 2!) I dread the lag that is somehow caused by a pack of merely half a dozen cultists (and their pets).

Funny thing is that somehow these very similar cultists, in much higher numbers, don't seem to lag my PC nearly as much when playing in the PoE2 campaign map that is full of them ??

I think its just because all these PoE 2 assets are horribly ported so they make the game run worse, and their shaders take longer to load too. Its just a lack of optimization because of not enough time or devs to work on both games.

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Toforto#2372 wrote:

Its just a lack of optimization because of not enough time or devs to work on both games.

They just upgrade the engine from time to time, which results in weaker hardware being bottlenecked and unable to keep up with the higher demand.