Optimization and Stability

Hello, I just wanted to write to help mention that Optimization and Stability really need to be major focuses. Stability has been way WAY down since the Dawn of the Hunt released. The game ran really well, and I had no issues that I can recall before the launch of DotH. That being said, since the update, my framerate dropped by nearly 100, and made me have to change the setting's I was running the game on; my CPU is averaging around 70-90% just on PoE2; and I'm having serious lag spikes that according to the in-game benchmarking are coming from huge network spikes.

I'm going to post my PC Specs in the comment as well, but I've got an 11th gen I9, and the game says it's supposed to run comfortably on a 10th gen I5. If I'm running at almost 100% CPU capacity just on the one game, with an I9 a whole generation more than the I5 suggested in the store page, I can't even imagine that someone with the recommended specs can open the game without their compute catching fire.

I don't know what happened that could have caused such a significant drop in performance, where I was nearly 240 FPS before DotH, and Averaged just above 60 afterwards. I changed my settings off of DLAA, and I'm sitting back at about 100

and Lastly, I run many, many online games in my average day, hopping between them all, and while I was having the bulk of the connection issues, I ran about every trouble shooting thing I could on my end to ensure that it wasn't me. I then logged into several of my other games, and confirmed no connection issues at all. In PoE2, it's showing me randomly spiking to 500-600 MS, which given all the trouble shooting and checking I've done, means it has to be server end. Perhaps it was just particularly high traffic, but it made the game unplayable.

PC Specs (I couldn't seem to upload the images for some reason)

Processor 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11900K @ 3.50GHz 3.50 GHz
Installed RAM 64.0 GB (63.8 GB usable)
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Edition Windows 11 Pro
Version 24H2
OS build 26100.4061

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Good luck. The PoE2 universe has begged and plead for this,

I'm running that i5 10th gen... I'll tell you from experience it doesn't play well. I just made a post about it

It's Windows 11 mate, 24H2 is one of the least stable, least optimised updates Microsoft have ever shat out. I ended up downgrading back to Windows 10 after I got the 24H2 update, I had games crashing left and right, performance hitches, slowdowns, etc that all disappeared when I went back to Windows 10.

Windows 11 22H2 was pretty stable and ran about the same as Windows 10, 23H2 was slightly less stable but again it was pretty performant, 24H2 was barely tested, broke a lot of software and still has stability and performance issues.

You can't download 22H2 from the media creation tool anymore, it's only 24H2. If you reinstall Windows 10 though it will offer you a Windows 11 22H2 upgrade which is the one you want if you're worried about Windows 10's end of life.

Just fyi my specs are:

i9 9900k
32gb RAM
Geforce RTX 4070 Super

I'm getting 100 - 144 fps (1440p, highest settings, DLAA and v-sync enabled) most of the time with it dipping down into the 80s when the screen gets filled with effects and lots of enemies.

If you are playing a class that spams spells with a lot of sound effects consider turning down your sound channels to low, we all use sound cards built into our motherboards that actually uses up CPU resources. If I put my sound channels to high and I play with my friends grenade mercenary he can tank my fps down to sub 20 with a full salvo of grenades.

but i mean the game was $30

also, new game = new servers, will take awhile to iron out all the routing issues that lead to those massive ping spikes

for optimization, they just need to make more efficient/light animations for "on-death" and it will fix the bulk of the performance issues

I've been playing this game since launch and I have to say in the past 2 weeks the performance has been the worst it's ever been to the point of today like endgame mapping is just so terrible I can't even do it.

The whole thing is ridiculous!

With 32 gb ram, a 7900 XT and a 7800 x3d I can't get performance above 25 fps. I have watched 15 videos, descriptions, anything, nothing works! What should be done to finally make it playable on a high end machine?

The issue is definitely the servers for the most part if you have a capable PC to run the game on. Try different servers if possible. Nothing less enjoyable than getting into a session with lag spikes that give you a nice rubber band effect.

I don't have many issues currently. They did implement some weird pause function when the server is having issues, then the game resumes and your map progress resets (areas you've been to).