3.13.2 Patch Notes

i can't play the game properly.this is bad patches.it takes about 20-30 seconds to get from one map to the next.before 3 seconds.

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thiendaoxuan wrote:

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madose wrote:

GGG OUR PCs should be responsible for holding textures, models, assets, FXs, etc. not your servers. That is your biggest issue.
It seems that in 8 years you still have not figured that out. I do understand your moving forward principle, HOWEVER in 1 month 1 single game dev could do that. You have 4 months between leagues, and more then one dev. Easy fix, stop streaming textures, make game 200GB large, keep randomizer only on server side. Once zone is loaded, server will draw from PC everything that it will need. Spikes will get fixed, FPS will be stable

Wow I didn't notice we download everything even static contents.

Totally agree : STATIC content should be on the computer
Not an easy fix though, but can start by moving some frequently accessed data first.

To add on : not only randomizer but general game control like combat calculation, crafting, trading,... need to be on server to prevent cheating.

Guys, this is NOT what "texture streaming" means. Go look it up.

Textures are streamed OFF OF YOUR DISK (SSD or HD).

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QQPQ wrote:

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thiendaoxuan wrote:

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madose wrote:

GGG OUR PCs should be responsible for holding textures, models, assets, FXs, etc. not your servers. That is your biggest issue.
It seems that in 8 years you still have not figured that out. I do understand your moving forward principle, HOWEVER in 1 month 1 single game dev could do that. You have 4 months between leagues, and more then one dev. Easy fix, stop streaming textures, make game 200GB large, keep randomizer only on server side. Once zone is loaded, server will draw from PC everything that it will need. Spikes will get fixed, FPS will be stable

Wow I didn't notice we download everything even static contents.

Totally agree : STATIC content should be on the computer
Not an easy fix though, but can start by moving some frequently accessed data first.

To add on : not only randomizer but general game control like combat calculation, crafting, trading,... need to be on server to prevent cheating.

Guys, this is NOT what "texture streaming" means. Go look it up.

Textures are streamed OFF OF YOUR DISK (SSD or HD).

Just ignore these people like GGG is doing... they don't even want to google what "texture streaming" means so it doesn't warrant a reply. However... real problems like this> need an actual response.

GGG, you have screwed over people with harddrives and secondary SSD's.

Revert the shader folder location to within the games install location again, or give people an option to specify where the shaders go.

This is beyond stupid, and nonsensical, why didn't you mention this anywhere?


Shaders for me, now go to "C:\Users\accountname\Documents\My Games\Path of Exile\ShaderCacheVulkan"

Where before it was "P:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Path of Exile\ShaderCacheVulkan"

My C drive is a much slower SSD than the P drive, and this is just dumb in every way.

Tbh, it's nice that you try to increase performance, or at least smooth the textures out a bit. But when I played after this patch has been issued and updated to my game, I've had several huge lag spikes where my game freezes and then jumps forward to a point, where I have close to 0 chance to do anything but just hope to not die by spamming my attack abilities and flasks.

So this was about performance, okay. I came here to check, if you made oshabi appear more frequently. Saw her in the league 2 times but today 3 times and I really really really just want to finish my crafting projects and not fight that glorified sunflower.

I'm still crashing ;O After this patch, I enter the game and after a few seconds I got "an error has occurred" message and the game closes. It started after the patch, but later yesterday I was able to log in and play; thought it was fixed. But today it is happening again, same issue: I enter any character, and as the textures are loading it crashes, 5-10 seconds later. I tried cleaning caches and using PackCheck, but no success. I hope the situation normalizes for me before league launch :(

just a little feedback: texture loading is significantly WORSE after the patch

Nice

Revert the shader folder location to within the games install location again, or give people an option to specify where the shaders go.



Shaders for me, now go to "C:\Users\accountname\Documents\My Games\Path of Exile\ShaderCacheVulkan"

Where before it was "P:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Path of Exile\ShaderCacheVulkan"

My C drive is a much slower SSD than the P drive, and this is just dumb in every way. - Imagine people with harddrives as their C: drive.


GGG, patch this asap.

I assume this is well in play on the Devs end, now, but I wanted to add my voice to the choir; the update on 10th seems to have made the game unplayable for me. I have every setting turned to minimum, and I'll still get locked down to 0fps with a latency spike every time a new ability, monster, or area tries to load. Running through my abilities - and thus animations - before I move from the starting block improves this a touch [my own animations don't cause a lag spike, but other creatures will].

I'll admit, this is totally because I'm playing the game on a non-gaming machine from five years ago - but I've been playing on the same dross machine the last few months. While I got the occasional lag-spikes that often dropped me, today it's every time I move. Don't even get me started on when I accidentally walk into a Delirium encounter <shudder>.

I adore this perfect little Skinner Box, so would love to see a minor tweak, if possible.