Loading Times

the loading times are terrible.
i have one of the fastest nvme ssd drives you could get at the time and yeah, loading times are abysmal

i can nearly type up this post before i load back into town through portal


edit:
guess i can mention here the cog wheel texture loading that is still going on. just had it happen for first time this patch in Valley of the Titans act2. wonderful can't wait to suffer this once every other waystone

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This is indeed a problem.

I have a very powerful computer and loading screens are insanely long.

I'm not sure if there's a setup we can change in game to improve that but, honestly, it's getting so bad to a point the game is getting much less enjoyable.

Buying something from someone on the market is tedious as hell, especially if the price is good and was listed a few seconds ago.

It can take like 30 second, for the char to join the instance and you can no longer buy the item because someone else bought it and there are like 15 people in the same instance.

This is seriously a problem and need to be adressed.

Loading times make me want to switch to do something else than play POE2.

And it's not even loading times of other people hideouts (with or without a lot of MTX). It's literally every zone: my own hideout, atlas map, waystones map.

Sometimes the loading time are relatively snappy, but sometimes it is half a minute. That inconsistency, "not knowing how long to wait" is what it makes feel especially bad.

EDIT: Loading into own hideout should be fast. It's so common place (should be in cache), I don't understand why it takes time.

games junk not shocked

///EDIT AFTER A DAY: Problem is still here, text bellow is irrelevant. Long loading times came back on Vulkan after few hours. My search for source of the problem continues. I suspect one of the latest security updates for Windows, which came after september 2025.

I suffered from long loading times this league as well. Tried clearing cache and moved game from one m2 ssd to another but no success.

Only one thing helped me - switching from DX12 to Vulkan (btw i played from december 2024 to 0.4 patch on DX12 without problems). Game fps feels weird after that, but i solved this by setting fps limit to 60 in game settings.
I think something really wrong with DX12 this league - CPU used heavily while loading and my shader graph is crazy all the time. Even in locations i visited dozens of times.

PC specs: i5-13600kf, 5080, 32gb DDR5, ssd adata legend 960 max/samsung 980.

P.S. Copy pasting this message to several threads across the forum so more people can see it.

Yes, I experienced much shorter load times with Vulkan than DX12 but had some stuttering problems going into the Temple. Changed back to DX12 and loading times increased again.

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