Fps drops+Shader bar spikes

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kcolor wrote:

I'm having similar issues on my GTX 960
Anytime mobs start spawning the frame MS skyrockets, regardless of content. Here is an example of expedition (i played in expedition with no issues): https://youtu.be/MEMgB5_aRgE

intel i5-8600k 6-core
32 gb RAM
SSD
Nvidia GTX 960

Solutions tried thus far - driver updates, computer restart, swapping from dx11 <-> vulkan, turning engine multithreading off/on

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Can you tell, what is your windows version?

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AuroraLightning wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPhQFsPgvA8

specifications:
CPU - Intel Core i5 4400
GPU - Nvidia Geforce gtx 970
16gb RAM
Game installed on new SSD
Have this problem since 3.14, tried to clean all poe cache, reinstalling game, tried steam and standalone versions.

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Tortorion wrote:

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AuroraLightning wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPhQFsPgvA8

specifications:
CPU - Intel Core i5 4400
GPU - Nvidia Geforce gtx 970
16gb RAM
Game installed on new SSD
Have this problem since 3.14, tried to clean all poe cache, reinstalling game, tried steam and standalone versions.

Always try stuff 1 by 1, run few maps, if doesn't help then try another solution.

1) If your main disk was always slow HDD and you installed PoE on faster SSD, you want to move PoE's shader cache location to SSD too.

Go to: C:\Users\Your.Username\Documents\My Games\Path of Exile

Open: production_config.ini with Notepad.

Edit line: cache_directory=C:/Users/YourUsername/AppData/Roaming/Path of Exile/

Set that directory to where you want it to be, on your SSD.

2) Clearing cache over and over is a bad idea, it will clear by itself every new league, that means every league start the shaders will be rebuilding.

3) (I fixed my game few hours ago with this, I have main HDD 1TB and 256GB SSD) NVidia Shader Cache may cause the same problems. A bit more complicated since users cannot manually change the shader folder location, so I had to make a junction link with "mklink" command to for a DXCache and GLCache folders (these 2 seems enough for me). I found new NVidia Shader Cache location and the idea to make a juction link from this reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/q6m3lj/comment/hggwbdn/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

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I don't have line cache_directory, should i put it in?

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Tortorion wrote:

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I don't have line cache_directory, should i put it in?

Yes. Add it under [GENERAL]. Example:

Restart the game, run a few quick maps, shaders will rebuild in new location. You might want to try enabling/disablin engine multithreading again.

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Tortorion wrote:

Question. How many disks your have? Is your System located on slower HDD and the 2nd disk is SSD, just as you said in the 1st post.

Example: I have 1TB HDD (C:\ - my system is located there) and 256GB SSD (H:\) for games like Path of Exile. C:\ is my slow HDD, H:\ is my fast SSD.

By default in production_config.ini file, the line was like:
cache_directory=C:/Users/Your.Username/AppData/Roaming/Path of Exile/

I made a new folder in H:/Path of Exile and called it "Cache". Then I edit the production_config.ini line to:
cache_directory=H:\Path of Exile\Cache

From that point the Shader Cache for PoE are created in that new folder on my fast SSD.