Performance is getting worse with every patch

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Upgrade your hardware and the problems will go away. Poe might be an older game but you need somewhat up to date hardware, especially the processor.
I went from unplayable with 1500x ryzen 5 to no problems at all atm(prayge rngesus) with ryzen 5 7600(AM5!). I can even play Blight again now :)


If you put enough "juice" in a map/build to turn it into a mess of delirium fog and various effects, nothing will save you even with the top-tier hardware, mmkay.

The engine itself became more demanding over the last couple years too, of course - i remember the times when i could run it at work on a "potato pc" with ye olde gtx780 and ye olde 2011-3 xeon with more or less stable 30/60 fps, but now any kind of "special encounter" like delirium blight ritual etc turns it into a slideshow even on lowest settings with no sound and dx11.
"Path of Exile's engine is currently modern, lean and fast." - Chris Wilson, September 19th, 2019
Yeah its ridiculous, ive never had longer loading screens, every map my ping is through the stratosphere, im turning into a hideout warrior because id rather make currency without chain feeding and dying in maps due to servers (not even my own systems fault)

Itd be one thing if it was a skill issue on my part (being a bad player), or bad build, or bad pc but its none of the above.

Classic deadlock detected into random rip, or rollback on the map completely.
Last edited by SaulSantiago#5695 on Mar 28, 2026, 2:22:53 PM
There's some limit to how much shader cashe AMD cards have by default and it takes a regex tweak to change. Also there's a pack checker exe in the PoE folder people can run to look for corrupted assets. My system is nowhere near impressive but I guess between playing in standard league where towns have near zero people occupying it means I'm not loading everyone's MTX. Game runs fine? I'm not complaining...

Ryzen 5 5500 (six core am4)
16GB RAM @ 3200 (enable xmp in bios)
SATA 3 SSD
RX 580 card
1gig fiber internet

My game chugs for a brief moment when I encounter bigger packs while rampage procs but I'm also seeing people say that this happens on their fancier x3d systems.

Please note: I don't think I run what Exiles call "super juiced content" Dunno what that might actually be other than stacking as many delirium orbs onto a corrupted 8-mod map that has reflect.
Last edited by jack_aubrey#0655 on Mar 29, 2026, 4:44:26 AM
The game is developing. If, at the same, your PC is not, then I don't know what you want. Get yourself a better hardware AND continue upgrading every 3 years, otherwise you will be whining on forums about how bad the game performance is.

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