CPU Performance is atrocious this league

This is especially the case in areas with huge mob density, such as breach or delirium. If you combo those with mirage, influence packs or wisps, the game becomes literally unplayable and the CPU graph goes crazy.
Last edited by Foozenberg#2833 on Mar 23, 2026, 3:13:09 PM
Last bumped on Apr 17, 2026, 8:49:07 PM
Performance is fucked since 3.23.7 (Crucible patch that was a preparation to poe 2 merge that was NEVER rolled back even if poe 1 would not merge anymore with poe 2)
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This is especially the case in areas with huge mob density, such as breach or delirium. If you combo those with mirage, influence packs or wisps, the game becomes literally unplayable and the CPU graph goes crazy.


the issue is layers. you can see that with maven interfering in maps. in the mirage you see the portal from the boss in normal map even so the mirage does not reach it. that makes me assume, that the mirage is already there when you enter the map and this causes the intense loads on the systems. Two worlds at the same time, only one is visible but they both are there. pretty much like wow layers, just worse.
if you nerf 10 gems out of 30, you automatically buff the other 20!
agreeded very bad.

Doesnt help that the best strats are usually the most graphics intensive.

Originator + Mirage + Breach + Deli + Wisp.... I literally just have to hold down attack while attempting to blink/move every few seconds and pray that when the graphics catch up im still alive.
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Henry_GGG wrote:
If you're experiencing problems with performance we'll need details so it can help us investigate. In either your response to a thread specific to your situation, or in a new thread if you could please provide:

- Details on problems you're experiencing, and if it's occurring when certain skills are being used, or in certain areas/situations.
- Computer specs: CPU, GPU, RAM.
- Game Settings: Renderer, Triple Buffering, Multithreading, etc. And if changing any of these helps.
- Videos or screenshots of your client when it's happening, with performance graphs on (F1 in-game).


These details help immensely with us tracking down and figuring out the root causes of performance problems, and allows us compare results with other players. Thanks.


I believe technical problems would be better addressed here, along with providing more insight into what GGG is asking for to help them investigate issues. Most of the time, it comes down to hardware limitations.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-forum/support
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Pashid#4643 wrote:
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Henry_GGG wrote:
If you're experiencing problems with performance we'll need details so it can help us investigate. In either your response to a thread specific to your situation, or in a new thread if you could please provide:

- Details on problems you're experiencing, and if it's occurring when certain skills are being used, or in certain areas/situations.
- Computer specs: CPU, GPU, RAM.
- Game Settings: Renderer, Triple Buffering, Multithreading, etc. And if changing any of these helps.
- Videos or screenshots of your client when it's happening, with performance graphs on (F1 in-game).


These details help immensely with us tracking down and figuring out the root causes of performance problems, and allows us compare results with other players. Thanks.


I believe technical problems would be better addressed here, along with providing more insight into what GGG is asking for to help them investigate issues. Most of the time, it comes down to hardware limitations.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-forum/support


This isnt a new compliant, or specific to individuals. GGG knows the details.
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Piousqd#0073 wrote:
This isnt a new compliant, or specific to individuals. GGG knows the details.


If GGG already had the details, they wouldn’t be asking for more information or direct people to use the proper format for performance issues. A simple "game runs bad" isn’t helpful feedback, especially if it only comes from a few players who don’t even provide any specific details. If it were a widespread problem and they had all the information, they likely would’ve addressed it already, assuming it’s actually on their end and not something on the player’s side.
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Last edited by Pashid#4643 on Apr 15, 2026, 3:32:43 PM
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Piousqd#0073 wrote:
This isnt a new compliant, or specific to individuals. GGG knows the details.

A couple of days ago you were claiming that you having bad FPS is somehow the servers' fault because they struggle due to art assets that literally don't even exist in their build.

Bro the game runs fine - at least, it does on my PC & I would infer from Pashid's post that they are also not having any performance problems. If the game isn't running well on your computer, then that's unlikely to be something GGG addresses remotely as part of a future game update.

I think it's vey interesting that you comment specifically on it not being a new issue. If the last update broke something and you suddenly had an FPS issue where you hadn't before, then sure - I could understand assigning fault to that particular game version. But if this has been going on for a long time, well, that would appear to suggest that the fault for this lies with your hardware.

People have been playing since mid-2010, with general availability from 2013. It's 2026. Nobody wants to play the game as it used to be; the graphics back then looked bad even for their time, to say nothing of how well they would age over more than a decade. The game's going to keep gradually improving, and that means the necessary hardware is going to change over time, too.
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Complaining about performance and not posting hardware specs isn't helping.
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Complaining about performance and not posting hardware specs isn't helping.

LMAO why? so you get people telling others "just upgrade br0000000" "just spend 2-5k usd br0000000000" "oh it's a PoTaTOh pc no wonder"

Every single thread where the performance is mentioned it's the same names defending the bad performance and it's not just the same names having issues with it either check both support and tech forums with different type of pcs

It's absolute pointless to say that you're having performance issues in this forums

They doesnt have support on tech so you're exposed to the usual ragebaiters and the same names telling you the same things over and over rather than actually being helpful in any meaningful way other than "just upgrade bro" "it's just 2k usd bro"

Makes no sense in the grand scheme of things to say that there's performance issues.. it's been like that since the patch after crucible ended but it's the same people defending jank.
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