Dear GGG, I found a solution to a performance problem and I want to tell you!

As the title says, when playing a new game, most players usually turn up the graphics quality options to give full play to the performance of their computers. I did the same, but after I turned it up, there was a problem. Sometimes the picture in the map would be stuck like a PPT frame by frame. So after I tried to adjust the graphics quality options, I found a way, which was to turn off triple buffering. Since yesterday, it has not been stuck like a PPT (not sure if it will happen again in the future). So I went to test two maps that are more performance-intensive, one is the prairie（this is translated from chinese by google translate,english words may be different with in game） and the other is the dry grassland(this is translated from chinese by google translate,english words may be different with in game). The test results are: it has not been stuck like a PPT, but the FPS drop caused by many monsters is still inevitable. This should be related to the performance of the graphics card. I hope I can help you!

A loyal PoE player>.< May 24, 2025

Well, I just encountered a slight PPT phenomenon in the Steam Fountain, about 1-2 seconds, when I just entered the Steam Fountain and started to fight monsters. At this time, I don’t know why, the shader usage rate is full, and the lag is relatively mild. I found a pattern. When the shader usage rate in F1 is fully loaded, this PPT phenomenon is particularly obvious. When the shader is slightly idle, the PPT phenomenon disappears. I think this is related to the performance of the graphics card. However, I use NVIDIA RTX 3070. Poe2 should still have room for optimization in terms of graphics performance! Turning off triple buffering can indeed reduce the degree of lag! Unlike before, when I just entered the map and started to fight monsters, it was stuck for 6 seconds!

PoE2 is very CPU bound, what's your CPU and how much RAM do you have?

For me Steaming Springs is the most laggy atm,
sometimes I can’t even get in the map lol

my pc:AMD 5800x,32G DDR4 3200Mhz(16G*2),Nvidia RTX3070,Samsung 970 EVO 500G

I have a similar setup and don't have these problems, you might want to update your display driver and then stress test your gpu to see if it's working without fine. If you're on Windows 11, it could be another source of issues.