I bought new pc to play poe, but can only play using dynamic resolution?
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I just bought a Ryzen 5 5600g and a Sahhphire Radeon 6500 XT 8GB OC gpu and 32gb g-skill 3600mhz ram and i cant play the game on even lowest settings without getting severe hosting and micro stuttersd that are really giving me a headache as everything is smeary when moving..
I have to run culling and dynamic resolution to get a steady fps and a similance of the graphics i get on xbox, but as soon as i do blight or delve or anything heavy the shole screen becomes a blurry mess except the text and healthbars and such. Can anyone please tell me why such an old game apparently require a 2000$ pc to run somewhat smooth? I have another pc that is older with a Intel core i5 and an nvidia 1660 super which seemed to run the game much better and no use of the dynamic and culling setting, but i only played on this for the duration of the campaign as i bought new pc to only play poe in my theater. Both pcs are windows 10 22h2 and i play in 1080p at 60hz.. I have tried a combination of all settings but nothing really seems to work without the dynamic and culling setting.. Can anyone please help me understand what is happening? And please refrain from "buy better pc" as it seemed to play fine on my older pc.. Is the 1660 Super better than the much newer 6500 XT 8GB OC? Thank you for your help Last bumped on Jun 28, 2025, 12:59:53 PM
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" Both parts of this question are highly disingenuous. To tackle the second one first, it most certainly doesn’t require spending anything of the sort to get reliably smooth performance in Path of Exile (excluding e.g. Blighted Maps). As for the first one… okay, so Path of Exile might have entered open beta in 2011 - but I suspect you know perfectly well that you’re playing a profoundly different version of the game than what was available back then. The game engine & art assets of today have functionally zero overlap with those from back then. The release date is not pertinent to the current game version at all.
Here’s a couple of Path of Exile screenshots from 2010.
  That's hardly the same game you're playing today in 2025... " To be candid, it's somewhat of a bizarre purchase. First of all, ARPGs tend to often be CPU-bound and you... bought a four-year-old CPU. Secondly, whatever budget was available for the CPU was further spent inefficiently by choosing a 'G' model when a discrete video card was also being purchased - and that money could therefore have been better spent on newer, faster, or more processor cores (and cache!). As for the video card; " The GTX 1660 Super was released on the 22nd of October, 2019, with an MSRP of $229. It released to rave reviews, with TechRadar making comments in their review such as "The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Super lives up to its name", and "The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Super is a superstar in the entry-level graphics card market." The RX 6500 XT was released on the 19th of January, 2022, with an MSRP of $200. It also notably got slated at launch, such as in TechSpot's review - which was titled "AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Review: A Bad, Really Bad Graphics Card". Certainly, it would be nobody's idea of an upgrade... I don't know about calling one GPU "much newer" than the other with a release delta of only two years. We're in mid-2025; both cards are at the same stage of their respective product lifecycles. The GTX 1660 Super does generally beat the RX 6500 XT in most benchmarks. Indeed - the RX 6500 XT somewhat ignominiously often manages to lose to the prior generation's RX 5500 XT - the card it was supposed to supersede. I'd loosely describe the cards as being equivalent, though. " Is your monitor plugged into the motherboard (bad) or the RX 5600 XT (good) ? What's the version number of the RX 5600 XT driver you downloaded & installed from AMD's site? We'd have more insight into any potential issues if you'd create a DxDiag and give us a link to it over on Pastebin (they're too long to fit in a forum post). EA has a step-by-step guide here. I find it difficult to justify optional purchases to support a Tencent-owned development studio that declines to provide customers Technical Support, regardless of how many thousands of euros that customer has spent...
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" First, thank you for taking the time to help me without being condecending, i don't follow tech news and the hardware model numbers confuse me to no end. I actually thought this was newer hardware i bought, i guess i wasted a lot of money then.. Typical.. That said, doesnt the specs pass the recomened specs for the game? This is what i mostly went by. I have seen some youtubers stating that even 2000$ pcs can have trouble playing something like Kinetic bolt, but i am not super juicing or playing a million projectile builds. As for your questions: My pc is plugged into my AVR as i play in my theater on a 123" projection in 4k, i have tried both 1080p and 4k and it doesnt matter for the performance of the game as i still need both dynamic and culling for it to run smoothly. Second i downloaded the latest WHQL drivers NOT adrenaline,as i hate bloat programs, just the driver alone.. It was actually on purpose i bought the cpu with onboard graphics as i would then be able to retire it to some of my servers if need be.. I have been playing poe on my 1660 super pc until i got the new parts assembled, and at no point did the game look like what i am seing now, so maybe i should just switch the 2 pc's out, problem is, my new is an ITX small form factor as i didnt need a lot of hardrive space.. Here is a pastebin link. https://pastebin.com/Hyy790i9 Thank you again |
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" Unfortunately, GGG hasn't meaningfully updated the game's required & recommended specs in longer than I can recall. They also don't bother providing technical support themselves - so they're not always a particularly reliable or helpful company in that regard. " Whereas competing games (e.g. Diablo IV; Last Epoch) will aim to limit what happens within the game to ensure performance remains acceptable, Path of Exile doesn't. An example I often cite is that of Blighted Maps - which will think nothing of having literally hundreds of enemies on the screen at once; all actively being rendered, making AI decisions, potentially doing or taking damage, etc. Now - this kind of content can be fun as all hell - but it's a total Powerpoint fiesta, FPS-wise. " Sounds awesome! I am more than a little jealous. :) " Can you please ensure the display cables are connected to the discrete video card? If they're connected to your motherboard, your computer could be """intelligently""" deciding to save power by using the onboard graphics instead of the actual video card. Stuff like that is awesome for laptops. In desktops, we tend to see it cause more problems than it solves. " It's up to you. As a former Linux main, I can certainly appreciate the motivation. Usually what wins out for me is choosing to prioritise getting the latest & greatest driver I can for the hardware I've paid for. (Except for this year - as I've an Nvidia GPU atm, and their drivers are a cluster.) " Thanks! I'd a very quick look at the file, and I can see (as you've now said above) the system isn't relying on a Microsoft Basic Display driver or anything - so some of the most obvious potential problems can be safely ruled-out. Which is kind of a shame; as it means fewer solutions to recommend. I find it difficult to justify optional purchases to support a Tencent-owned development studio that declines to provide customers Technical Support, regardless of how many thousands of euros that customer has spent...
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" I forgot to mention, yes the hdmi is plugged directly into the GPU and NOT the MB.. I usually play on xbox in my theater, but got tired of the market sucking so bad i decided to go PC, but having health problems that preclude me from sitting up extended periods of time, i thought why not just move a pc into the theater and use an xbox controller, and it works flawlesly, well, somewhat, the onboard BT chip suck ass but as i had a Asus BT400 in the pc i used to play on before,i just used that one and it works perfectly,no input lag or anything.. And yes, playing on 123" is awesome, except for the blurryness i experience with this new pc.. I have exchanged the 2 GPU's and will try with the 1660 Super on the new ITX Ryzen 5, my old is a core I5-11400 16GB ram on an ATX board, so hopefully the 1660 will perform better, i did notice immediatly the 6500 was much lighter than the beefier 1660 which i was a bit surprised by as i had read some pretty good reviews on the 6500, and i though this being a 8GB ram OC version it would outperform the "normal" 6500, i was duped it seems.. Exchanging the GPUs has made a world of difference. It works perfectly now, although heavy blight is a strain and can only be completed with culling on, but there is nothing of the blurryness the radeon card did, it looked like a jackson pollock painting, with the 1660 super it now looks like the xbox experience.. If i were to upgrade the gpu into the real midrange of 400-500$ cards, would that give me the performance i am looking for? If so,which cards should i be looking at? Thank you Last edited by Badebillet#1863 on Jun 28, 2025, 2:52:19 PM
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