Terrible FPS, stuttering, very long loading times

Guys, maybe someone has similar problem or and idea to fix this...

My spec:

HP Pavilion Gaming 15-ec0010nw

AMD Ryzen 7 3750H with Radeon Vega Mobile GFX

NVidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti with Max-Q Design

32 gb RAM

M2 drive, stable and fast internet connection


I have tried multiple solutions from here, from reddit, nothing really helps to remove stuttering and enormous loading times. I have pretty much everything set on low and I am struggling with getting stable 30 FPS...

Now I know that my spec is not top-end but for fcks sake anything can be done here?

The issue here seems to be CPU being a chokepoint, i have high, approx. 30 frame constantly running on red when checking with F1, it's also heating really hard, comparing to other games.

What laptop spec will be suffient enought for POE2? Changing this would help obviously but I havent got this issues before the infamous 0.2 patch.

Any help guys?

Thanks!

My Acer Nitro is the GTX1660Ti one, from many years back. I play at upscaled with lowest possible settings. Still lags and stutters. Similar to yours.

Few months back, I reapply thermal grease/paste with Cooler Master CryoFuze. But I mistakenly thought it can replace the thermal pads for the GPU VRAMs. lolz.

Last night, I acquired Gelid-Extreme thermal pads, cleaned up and reapply CryoFuze on my Nitro's CPU and GPU, and cut to size the new pads to cover all the 6 GPU's VRAMs. The heatsink plate is in full contact with the VRAMs.

The stutters due to GPU spikes are gone now. If there's any micro-lag stutters, it's due to network and CPU. The blue line on the graph is stable now. The red (CPU) and green (Network) have spike-intervals...

But at least, my gameplay is not so frustrating now.

CPU spikes could come from Windows Indexer, or Google Drive, or some other background apps which I haven't test it out yet.

Thanks for the feedback!

The thing is, my GPU stays pretty much idle all the time, maybe 20-25% of power. All of bad things happen on the CPU side :( no idea why PoE2 cant just drop workload to my graphic card instead of pushing it all to CPU.

Forgot to mention that I have clean windows installation just for PoE2, also reapplied thermal pastes and even bought mid-end cooling pad.

Today I'm flirting with PoE2 standalone client to exclude Steam to check if this does anything, good or bad.

And what's most interesting is, like month before dropping 0.2 patch the game was running perfectly fine, even on juiced maps with 2 friends (there is a BIG difference when you play alone vs. with buddies on one map in terms of performance). So I doubt that is fault of my rig...

Hi, unfortunately I'm experiencing the same or very similar issues.
I can't pinpoint the exact date, but as you mentioned, up until around 2–3 weeks ago — or maybe a month — the game was running quite smoothly on my hardware. Now, I have to pause before every pack encounter to give the game time to load, otherwise I can't even see the mobs, especially on juiced maps.

According to the performance metrics, the CPU is under heavy load.
I’ve already set all graphics settings to the lowest possible, but it hasn’t made much of a difference.

Also If I open the atlas. It takes recognizably longer to load and shows same graph in the performance metrics until the the atlas it loaded.

Here, the game is running on

Nvidia Geforce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU
13th Gen Intel Core i7-13620H
64GB RAM
SSD/NVMe

I know laptop hardware.. however, POE2 was running perfectly fine couple of weeks ago.

Would be nice to enjoy grinding again.

Update:
You could try to delete your Nvidia Cache and extend it to 100GB. Worked for me somehow. Game is running better now. There are already a couple of tutorials online.