Low FPS in Path of Exile 2

[maD_Ghoul]

I recently installed a new game to play and found that I have super low FPS (around 10). Fiddling with the settings of the game and it's only made a slight difference even though the game now looks as if it was made in the late 90s.

This experience led me to explore a lot of options in order to fix the issue but nothing has really helped. My laptop isn't anything amazing but it should be able to handle the game according to the official recommended hardware specs.

I stumbled upon GPU-Z in a forum post that explained that additional M.2 SSD drives might be interfering with the GPU in some way limiting its 'lanes'. After running GPU-Z though I find that my Bus Interface is "N/A". I tried the render test and even started games as stated to see an actual result but to no avial. The Bus Interface still says "N/A".

I have a Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 2 laptop and as mentioned above I recently added a 80mm M.2 1TB SSD to it. That's the only hardware change done to the laptop. As far as I am aware all drivers are up to date.

Needless to say - I am very new to any of this so any and all help will be much appreciated!

Thanks,
Filip

 

[Feyd]

You need to use driver for Path of Exile 2 which is version 32.0.101.6319. According to the GPU-Z screen you have driver version 32.0.101.5972 installed. Not sure if it will be playable but it will run much better than it is running now. Bus Interface is N/A because it's iGPU of your CPU (it's part of it and it isn't some device on PCI-E bus) so that's normal. I have no idea what resolution you are trying but on 2560 x 1440 with the lowest settings possible without upscaling or dynamic resolution it's unplayable on Arc based iGPU of 285K with 28FPS just standing still and dropping to single digits in action. So I expect that you will need to use these tricks to get to at least barely playable level.

 

[TSiAhmat]

I heard in another thread on this site that multi-threading is disabled as a default setting (not sure why that's an option). Maybe it helps with your performance

 

[GerKNG]

My laptop isn't anything amazing but it should be able to handle the game according to the official recommended hardware specs.

" NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 960 or ATI Radeon™ RX 470"
your iGPU is not even in the same universe compared to a 960. it's maybe 15% of a GTX 960 in the absolute best, cherrypicked case.

 

[maD_Ghoul]

You need to use driver for Path of Exile 2 which is version 32.0.101.6319. According to the GPU-Z screen you have driver version 32.0.101.5972 installed. Not sure if it will be playable but it will run much better than it is running now. Bus Interface is N/A because it's iGPU of your CPU (it's part of it and it isn't some device on PCI-E bus) so that's normal. I have no idea what resolution you are trying but on 2560 x 1440 with lowest settings possible without upscaling or dynamic resolution it's unplayable on Arc based iGPU of 285K with 28FPS just standing still and dropping to single digits in action. So I expect that you will need to use these tricks to get to at least playable level.

Thanks a lot for the detailed info! Super useful!

" NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 960 or ATI Radeon™ RX 470"
your iGPU is not even in the same universe compared to a 960. it's maybe 15% of a GTX 960 in the absolute best, cherrypicked case.

Told ya I know nothing! =]] I've been missled by basically all other games I've ever wanted running OK on the laptop. Guess I don't play GPU intensive games

 

[QuietBob]

GPU-Z is showing inaccurate specification for your graphics solution, but you have the Intel Xe Graphics with either 80 or 96 Execution Units (EUs).

Unfortunately, your integrated graphics is well below the minimum requirements to play the game. The listed minimums of AMD Radeon RX470 or Intel ARC A380 are about 3x more powerful. Also, this game needs at least 8 GB of RAM and 3 GB of dedicated VRAM. Using integrated graphics, you'll need at least 12 GB of system RAM installed.

Your Xe Graphics is technically able to run PoE2, but its rendering power is too low for a playable experience.