PS5 Game Performance is just awful and unplayable

Only character I've had noticeable fps drops on is Witch with minions, arsonist minions + firewall raging spirits can turn into a slideshow and I'm still only in acts.

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I second this. Im hugely disapointed with the performance. It is especialy bad when playing sorceress. Spark, firewall and frostbolt just tank the fps, even when playing on Performance mode.

Ive been crashing consistently since Thursday can’t go thirty seconds without crashing specially boss fights even though i can easily take all mobs and bosses so been stuck in cruel mode.. hoping its fixed.


Crazy part is i had zero issues since day 1 until the most recent patch

Hey there, I needed to edit my post completely:

About performance: Normally on the PS5, you have downloads in the background which don't affect the performance of the games as far as I have experienced. BUT, stupid me didn't realize that when my performance was down for POE2. When my update was done, everything went smoothly again. But maybe it helps to have that on your radar.

About the other bugs I saw, I will look up the right sections.

It really is a great game and it will be the new reference in that genre. I appreciate GGG's work a lot.

There is still a lot to do for the console, but hey... it's early access.

I don't believe anyone playing on base PS5 has smooth 60 fps.

Here's footage of a boss fight in ACT 3 with a terrible performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klJwl8LaiW0

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gummibergh#9959 wrote:

I second this. Im hugely disapointed with the performance. It is especialy bad when playing sorceress. Spark, firewall and frostbolt just tank the fps, even when playing on Performance mode.

Spark + Firewall + Elemental storm is literally slideshow, even in ultra performance. It's unplayable, i really enjoyed game for first 2 acts, but as my character is getting stronger, performance is tremendously weaker which is really disappointing. Of course i understand it's early access, but other bugs mentioned in known bugs on this forum are not even close to level of frustration caused by performance.

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surreal_regency_#9727 wrote:

I had the save problem at day 1.
Than I've changed graphic setting:
- upscaling mode: NIS (standard) -> FSR
- balanced -> ultra performance

after that almost always 60fps and game works absolutely fine
there is fps problem only in hub with a lot of other player

Stumbled upon this and this actually worked for me!
Big thanks. Actually doesnt even look that bad on my TV!

PS 5 Pro here and I still get shithouse performance from time to time. 2 crashes today within 15 minutes of each other, along with crippling stuttering directly after a game restart. Just tried restarting the PS5 to see how it goes. Showing 12ms and 86 FPs at the character select screen.

Dynamic Resolution : enabled
Upscale mode : FSSR
Max Image Quality : Performance
Lighting : shadows + global illumination
Bloom : 66%
Refresh rate : 120Hz
Dynamic culling : enabled

I made another post about this but I just second everything people wrote here - PS5 performance is so bad, it's unplayable. It is a great game but needs to be optimized - Diablo 4 has amazing performance on consoles with dozens of people doing loads of attacks and magics on world bosses, and FPS is stable 60.

Here, you drop few grenades and whole screen slows down.

I wonder if developers have tested this before releasing it - or they just played the beginning with 2-3 mobs and without any spells and judged the performance based on that.