PoE 2 performance Issue during Breach/Rituals/Loading into Maps

Some things to start :

- I've already turned all settings to low and disabled lots (including reverb in sound)
- Video Card : Geforce 1080 GTX ti
- Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz 3.41 GHz
- 16g ram
- 64 bit

What can I do to be able to minimize/remove the issue i'm experiencing?

Regardless of the combination of settings (been trying since early access launch to fix this) the issue has remained and I keep getting k/o everytime I click those map-mechanics when the mobs spawn in.
They attack/do damage, etc the entire time my computer is trying to load their avatar in.

When I zone into a map, it takes about 2 minutes before I can move without stutter/delay and can actually see the mobs and not just their weapons or helmets.

Any advice is appreciated, this game is great and i'd like to keep playing it but if I can't do these maps without having to wait 2-5 minutes per zone-in even after portaling to town to sell...well, it gets tedious.

Thank you.

You're hard bottlenecking on CPU side, the only advice here is to upgrade your CPU.
Most of the settings in PoE are for GPU, so you're not gonna squeeze any fps by lowering settings

Ignore the above, I have a really good computer and I still massievly lag on loading in, any monsters spawning (corruption / strongbox) etc and cant play multiplayer because it's a slide show.

What you can do is see if its the shaders causing the issue by going options / settings and staying on first tab with graphs in top right. If shaders are taking forever to load you can enable / disable steam caching, change AMD / Nvidia control panels to increase shader caches and try a few other things.

I got load times down lots and shaders only take 5-10 seconds to load on a new map now and then fine - until something starts spawning and it stutters. Cant play with more than 2-3 people multiplayer otherwise unplayable high level as get stuck in place alot.

Goodluck! Just search "Path of Exile Shader fixes" google and work through them.

Thank you Insanity, i'll try.