Massive FPS Drops in POE2

Yes! Game now is uplayable with any hardware on some maps with this stupid fog from delirium. Better to add graphic options to turn off this fog. It's not funny to play at 5-20fps where you can barely see anything. Delirium fog is WORST part of game(

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Timothy_GGG wrote:

This thread is being used to dump various issues regarding performance. We have had quite a number engine and VFX related updates since launch which address various performance issues and crashes, including those in the initial post of this thread.

If you come across an effect or scenario where your performance is degraded, please make a thread for that specifically otherwise it may be hard for us to identify individual problems.

Thanks for all the reports so far.

Hello GGG,

thank you for your first response after 4 months. Unfortunately, I cannot confirm the following statement in no way

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Timothy_GGG wrote:

We have had quite a number engine and VFX related updates since launch which address various performance issues and crashes, including those in the initial post of this thread.

The statement that individual problems are described in this thread surprises me. Despite the size of this thread, we are describing the absolute same denominator here.
In short: Massive FPS problems throughout the game and especially in maps and endgame content.
Judging by the statement, you probably didn't even take the time to read our posts properly :(

Absolutely nothing of what I explained when I opened this thread has been improved in any way. I have also tested this again with the latest updates (today 2025-03-23).
There are still massive FPS drops throughout the game. I don't want to break it down to individual scenarios, because that would do nothing to improve the completely imperformant game.

But I am willing to give you a short scenario:
Make yourself an Archmage stand in Savannah or Blooming field, set a flamewall and spam spark. You'll quickly realize that your FPS drops faster than mobs loot.

If this is your policy to deal with this problem, you will lose a large player base, which is a real waste considering all the visible work you have put into this game.

highly recommend Lossless Scaling and Capping FPS in-game to 30 or 60 and using 2X Mode.

so just logged back in to check out new patch.
start brand new char, walking thru 1st area.
as soon as an enemy appears on edge of screen, huge fps spike.
enemy uses attack? huge fps spike.
game basically goes from silky smooth (200+ fps) to complete standstill, then rubber-bands to catch up. drives me mad.

running a 7800X3D & 4080 Super. NVMe PCIe 4.0 Internal SSD.

graphics settings set to default. (tried fiddling with them a bit but nothing fixed it).

whenever the fps spikes occur, i notice "shader" bar spikes as well.

if i can't even run thru first area in the game without insane fps stutter, not much point playing any further :-\

I experience exactly the same as u. On release i played for arround 90 hours without any problems.

Now i have massive framedrops on any kind of animation, be it some aoe or even just another character moving in town.

Im running a 4800X with 6800XT. I tried fiddling with the graphics settings but since i can not seem to get any improvement I will wait until there is a fix.

Also i notice some textures have very sharp edges and these edges are wiggeling arround. Some of these textures are even on my Huntress armor.

I didnt experience any of these problems when i played back on release.

Edit: Nvidia Reflex is disabled.

Edit 2: Disableing Upscaling doesnt help. Bilinear Upscaling doesnt improve the performance. Vulcan crashes the game.

After 2hours of trying stuff i will stop and wait if there might be a fix by GGG.

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ShakeNBakeUK#4138 wrote:

so just logged back in to check out new patch.
start brand new char, walking thru 1st area.
as soon as an enemy appears on edge of screen, huge fps spike.
enemy uses attack? huge fps spike.
game basically goes from silky smooth (200+ fps) to complete standstill, then rubber-bands to catch up. drives me mad.

running a 7800X3D & 4080 Super. NVMe PCIe 4.0 Internal SSD.

graphics settings set to default. (tried fiddling with them a bit but nothing fixed it).

whenever the fps spikes occur, i notice "shader" bar spikes as well.

if i can't even run thru first area in the game without insane fps stutter, not much point playing any further :-\

I had the same issue, so I turned off upscaling and the problem has gone. Obviously still a bug, but worth trying if you have the issue.

Uninstall the steam version and use the launcher from the poe2 website.

Steam version was unplayable and terrible FPS.

Native launcher is allowing me to activate Vulkan/FSR/HDR and get steady 120 FPS on maxed out 4K using a 7900XTX.

For comparison, Steam launcher being stuck on DX11, I was getting 40fps using low settings at 2K.

Steam version is the problem.

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Raeyzej#1705 wrote:

Uninstall the steam version and use the launcher from the poe2 website.

Steam version was unplayable and terrible FPS.

Native launcher is allowing me to activate Vulkan/FSR/HDR and get steady 120 FPS on maxed out 4K using a 7900XTX.

For comparison, Steam launcher being stuck on DX11, I was getting 40fps using low settings at 2K.

Steam version is the problem.

I have tried it, unfortunately without any improvement.

A reminder that even with patch 0.2 there is no improvement in performance. 150 FPS in hideout ~30 FPS in combat, absolutely unplayable.

-there has still been no announcement of this issue from GGG
-by far the game with the worst performance in 2025

hideout


in combat


Once again my specs, which far exceed the recommended requirements from GGG.

specs:
CPU: i7-8700K @ 3.7GHz (12CPUs), ~3.7GHz
RAM: 32GB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
Storage: SSD NVMe m.2
OS: Windows 11
Client: Standalone

I have the same issues as described in the initial post.

Hideout FPS is 140, if i goto town its drops to 60, if people are in down can get as bad as 30. Especially bad on the caravan.

Any type of combat drops framerate 70+ fps.


Co op is unplayable, my friends bleed build tanks the game to seconds per frame in outdoor maps.

Seemed to get much worse after 0.2, I joined lage in 0.1 and didnt have this problem.

Settings are all on defaults, my nvidia rtx should easily handle this game, few years old but was high spec then.

Lowering graphics makes it worse not better. Tried all combos of in game settings.

Cpu running at 35%, gpu at 80% on high settings in hideout. Going near portals also drops framerate.

Unplayable on high end maps in coop. Shader spikes as others describe. Triggering essences or boxes can risk instant death due to lag. Certain outdoor maps unplayable and Just my friend joing my hideout tanks my fps 20-30.

Sadly we are looking at the launch of last epoch as long term poe fans. The constant server crashes in london + this since 0.2 has driven us away.