3.21.2b Patch Notes

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sham_pain wrote:

unfortunately my monitor only supports 1080p but I do find it sufficient for now, but yeah I believe you that once you go 1440p, you will see the difference clearly, kinda like going from 60Hz to 120 or 144. A better monitor is definitely next on my upgrade list.

1080p with a great refresh rate (and actually fps ingame) is still 100 times better than sitting on 1440p and just 60-30 like the other guy tbh who tries to run 1440p on a 1080p gpu.

If anything even 720p 144 or more fps would feel much better than 1440p with lousy 60fps

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AintCare wrote:

Edit: the display is actually 144Hz ready, but after testing 60fps vs 140+ i see absolutely no diff.... even in games where screen tear is somewhat of an issue like War thunder... I just don't get it, don't see the diff

Something's wrong with your eyes than cause you can see a clear difference in animations between 60 fps and more since 60fps skips a lot more animation frames than 140 for example.

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try 1080p on 27" and report back lel

That works actually more than just fine with the modern technology, just google and you find a tons of 27" 1080p with great refresh rate. Larger surface doesn't mean that it's a higher res right away

Unfortunately now I can't play on my pc. Fortunately they broke the game on my pc before I bought the core supporter pack.

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AintCare wrote:

well considering in poe I hardly see the animations of monsters due to clutter, the minute diff in smoothness are somewhat lost, and by minute I mean it, liek the video you posted needed to be in slo-mo to even see it.... In more active games like War-thunder/Chivalry etc I get too much of tunnel vision to see those things, there is way too much action, I honestly thought it was just about screen tear...

Well in both cases you have still much smoother and less laggy gameplay.
Even if you don't look at animations directly you feel a difference in screen transactions, camera movement. That's also one of the reasons why most esport players play their game on a extra high refresh rate (240 or even higher) cause you feel the difference and get to react to something much faster.

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and I don't know how can you even compare 1080p vs 2k on 27"

Cause there's barely any big difference between a 1080p and a 1440p on 27" as both cover the pixel density just fine without any quality lose. Going above 27" for a 1080p is going to turn most graphics pretty ugly as all the pixel simply get stretched out. a 1440p 27" is not bad but you would feel a much higher difference with a 32" cause 1440p on a 27" gives you just a few more pixel per inch compared to 1080p

ok... i think i found something... not sure if it's already known or not since i didn't read all the comments here... lol...

here's what i found... if you're using a laptop with both integrated and nvidia gpu then you can try this... i've highlighted the 3 most important options that can affect the game...

i don't know how to add picture in this post so i've posted the picture on reddit... :-/

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/15jjmc1/poe_nvidia_settings_for_laptop_that_have_both/

First of all set the rendering gpu to nvidia... don't use auto...

The second one is the most important one... turn the compute performance OFF or the game will just crash after you select your char when loading....

The third one is for the shader cache... set it to unlimited... the game will have a problem if it doesn't have enough space for the shader cache... and if you only see the option for On/Off in the drop down then you have to update your nvidia driver to the latest version...

that's all... hope this will fix the problems for you...

nice

Game is unplayable for my 6 year old machine atm, I was looking forward to next league, can we get a playable version of PoE for older machines again?

Edit: okay found the problem, one of my ram sticks was dusty and I had 4GB/8GB useable... it probably got dusty when I blew the dust off the case last weekend... I guess the CPU had to compensate for the low RAM.

i deleted the shader cache folder in appdata/roaming/path of exile and it solved 90% of my perfomance issues that were introduced in this patch. maybe this will help someone

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hlaalulonesurvivor wrote:

i deleted the shader cache folder in appdata/roaming/path of exile and it solved 90% of my perfomance issues that were introduced in this patch. maybe this will help someone

big help but i go more i delete all shope image and minimap and shaders i just didnt take engine file help alot atlest with loading and cpu usage

I don't know what's going on but since the patch on day 4 I have a lot of fps lag