Syndicate Freezes, Stutters/Drops Frames Severely

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kolyaboo escribió:

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L1ghtn1ng1987 wrote:
Hey Guys,

had the same problem since Leaque launch and tried multiple things to fix the Syndicate lags and freezes, but nothing helped.
Today i read through reddit and found this :

reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/bb8uwl/possible_solution_to_many_problems_regarding_fps/

And what can i say? It helped me and fixed it.

Try on ur own risk.

Hope could help some people

Greetings

I'm not saying this won't help some folks (I haven't tried it yet) but what I do KNOW is that we got people with Win 7, 8 and even Linux with this issue so ...

I know. I'm on Win8 myself. Give it a shot.

I was wondering if Linux has same issues? So same shit, different toilet?

https://pastebin.com/i46qC2iM Hello, since the start of this league I've been plagued with game freezes and crashed when i encounter intervention members mostly, i feel like its the green portals that are doing it. been looking for a fix can find a fix help plz. i play poe through steam

Well I have this problems and some others.

So in my case is not helping the case that my videocard or cpu or motherboard or something or all is dying its actually dying cause sometimes I do get some screen flickering, like I see some vertical lines in a single coloured background (various colors) and after that I have to manually shut down my pc and start again so yeah my problems are maybe due to this but lets see the stuff that I have been doing so far and helped to my experience and also what I'm actually trying at this very moment.

So first some knowledge about the issue, aparently this issue and others that I have, like first log-in take 4-5 mins and get dc, log-in again 1 min and it get it, strange kinda fix is to log-in into a low crowded city, like if I log-in in Oriath it always take a long time, it freezes and dc, but if I start in act6 its better, I wish GGG could give us the option to log-in directly to hideout that would be nice because one of the reasons it takes a long time its because it load not only the place but also the characters inside, I noted to every time a new person log-in or get into the same instance that I'm in it freezes for 1-5 seconds, it also happens when I'm in my ho and I invite somebody for a trade.

Other problems that I have is when I enter a map, it takes 1 min most of the time, seems not too much but if you are someone that wants to be time-effective and want to play a 100 maps a day, then it would take 1 hour and 40 minutes in loading screens at this rate... not very good I guess.

So what is causing this... mainly HDDs, using SSD could potentially solve the issue in the weakest cases and highly improve the experience in the worst cases like mine.

But there are some stuff that we can do to try and improve things.

1.- superfetch, if you're using Windows 10 or even in Windows 7, superfetch may be causing some issues with the HDD, it is supposed to be a Windows Service that improve reading and writting times but with a HDD it make it worst in some cases, I disabled this services in services.msc and improved my experience a bit.

2.- Knowing that the HDD is one of the main problems, always try to have your hdd defragmented, just go to start and type defrag, it may take a long time to finish in most cases maybe better to leave that working in the night.

3.- If you have an old video card, againts all logic, you may need to use an older driver, I do not really understand why without thinking in conspiracy theories where the manufacturer wants you to buy their new cards, but for me it kinda worked, I have a Sapphire R9 270x tri-x and I'm using the Crimson ReLive 17.9.1 and at least I dont have random crashes when I'm going fast killing and shattering large packs of mobs, with the most up-to-date driver I was having those issues, crashes with and without error-logs.

On top of all that and knowing that I cannot but either an SSD nor a brand new computer for now and I cannot even buy a better cpu cooling solution than stock fan, I put a normal fan directly to all the pc without the side-panel, this GREATLY lowered the heat everywhere, so I tweeked a little bit the CPU speed, not really overclocking it but just a bit more.

After all this I'm able to put EVERYTHING in High to Ultra settings and it is actually able to handle that pretty well at 60 fps BUT, still long times when I enter a map, still huge frame drops at the start of a map, and 3-6 seconds freezings mainly in Syndicate Intervention, so with my new lowbie WR build I totally die, with my DI Trickster I just channel the DI and stuff just die arround me but still bad..

So what I'm doing now?, if the problem really is the HDD... so the best thing is to try and get the most of the HDD, how? well, in my knowledge the because its mechanical the outer part of the hard drive spin faster than the inside part, and because its larger there is a sweet point where the stuff storaged in the outer part of the plate is readed at a higher speed than stuff in the inner part of the plate, so if you have a 1024 Gb HDD (1Tb HDD) then maybe arround the first 256 Gbs are the ones that get the best speed.

So one technique its whats called Short Stroking, wich its bassically to partition the harddrive in that sweet spot and use that part for the OS and Games.

I currently uninstalled all but POE so I made like 400 Gb free space and I'm only at 266 Gb used, I'm running Defraggler and it could take up to 24 hours of defragmenting, the idea is to have this totally defragmented at this point because, if you have a lot of stuff installed and using a lot of the space in the PC your POE may be sparced all around the harddrive and when the game needs to access a particular file it struggles to find it, so having all files written in the fastest part of the harddisk will make a substantial difference. Then after this the idea is to resize the partition to like 300 Gb and another partition of 700 Gb and the 700 I will use it for downloads etc, but the first 300 Gb will be used for OS and main-games.

I actually dont know if I can shrink the partition in Windows, I'm thinking that I cant but I'm not up-to-date in that regards, I have in mind that you cant do it with WinXP and maybe Win7, but maybe with Win10 you actually can, will see after this finishes the defrag.

I hope some of the huge stuff that I have said help a bit to somebody and if I end up shrinking the partition and actually short strocking the HDD and make a difference I will post the results here.

Best regards.

Dear gods, I should have to be the possessor of an engineering degree to play this freaking game. This is insane. You gotta buy a new computer then you need to buy an SSD then you gotta get into the code and dink around!

No no no I'm not going to do this. What I am going to do is play a different game until GGG gets it's shit together if ever.

Frankly I think they are about to close down but what do I know.

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MFairfax escribió:

Dear gods, I should have to be the possessor of an engineering degree to play this freaking game. This is insane. You gotta buy a new computer then you need to buy an SSD then you gotta get into the code and dink around!

No no no I'm not going to do this. What I am going to do is play a different game until GGG gets it's shit together if ever.

Frankly I think they are about to close down but what do I know.

Well its ok, if your thought is "play another game UNTIL they fix X and/or Y" it means you are doing exactly what they intend you to do.

I mean making a game for so long and keeping up everything good for thousands of players from around the world its frankly impossible, the only good thing they can do is planting the "I will keep an eye into this if its fixed I'm going back" seed in you and thats totally fine. Did you watch the GDC conference?.

Anyway, this stuff is normal that happens, we're not possessors of an engineering degree to came up with those ideas and troubleshootings, those are pretty much basics and we're just trying to improve our experience right now instead of waiting, and in the meantime maybe even learning new stuff, try to take it with a grain of salt (hope to be using that phrase properly) and if its too much its ok you can play some AAA or Fortnite and then come back.

Best regards.

Get a load of the post they made on this topic in news today. Still spreading the lies about SSD. They must be pathological liars, I swear.

Still the same shit... well, I died fronzen, same as always but the game didn't crash.

It's an improvement OMG.

submit lag remove pls

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2486715

reading this i doubt things will change.

im not sure but in my case the loading of the betrayalmods isnt an issue and i think its not for many others.

The Problem is the permanently Calculation of anything Useless (not sure what)
unless the Interventionencoutner hasnt spawned, but this has NOTHING to do with the loading unless ggg isnt loading every encounter in every pixel of the game and i doubt that.

While Transportation or Research is active theres not the slightest lag and while Intervention is at 100% (cant spawn) there are no lags.

so in all i have to say i dont think theyll ever fix it but lets see what they are planing to do.

It's a shame that the Syntesisleague will ever be remembered for his Betrayallags and not his content.

EDIT: Good to know that the Consoleversions are far more advanced than the Pc ones.