I just started playing Path of Exile 2 and I have noticed I'm getting a lot of freezing when exploring and fighting I have really messed with my settings cause I don't know what I would need to adjust to stop the freezing.
Could be shaders compiling, if you literally just started.
Hit F1 and look at "shaders" indicator. If it often lights up then you just need to wait it out. It gets better after some time.
Experiment with DX12 and Vulkan renderers. One usually works better than another.
And you can always go low on all settings and start from there. If all good, then raise settings one by one to see which ones affect performance the most.
Also list your PC specs.
I dont know what your PC specs are but I will share my settings, I used to have FPS issues, but none since this setup:
The most important thing for me was Dynamic Resolution. For months I didnt use that as I didnt want to have lower resolution than my screen or it changing all the time, but if you set it up correctly is wont.
First of all, make sure your window resolution is the same as your screen. Then enable upscale mode, select Nvidia DLSS if possible, if not try another.
Secondly, tune the DETAIL SETTINGS, so you achieve the FPS you want(ideally same FPS as monitor refreshrate), also set the "Target Framerate" setting to this number. Tune this in a waystone, campaign or hideout, not in town!! Lowering these settings has the most performance impact: Lighting, Shadow + GI Quality, Number of Lights
Make sure to enable "Engine Multithreading", only enable vertical sync and triple buffering if you notice tearing on your screen.
This way the game renders at your highest resolution, until you start spamming 100 comets per seconds, then the game will lower it for a couple of frames, but that is barely noticable(I cant), because its in the middle of combat and its effects are majorly reduced by DLSS
My settings:
Display Settings Renderer: DirectX12 (Default) Display: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Mode: Windowed Fullscreen VSync: Off Dynamic Resolution: On Window Resolution: 4096 x 2160 Upscale Mode: NVIDIA DLSS Max Image Quality: Quality Sharpness: 10% HDR: Off Scene Brightness: -3.0 UI Brightness: -2.1
Detail Settings Texture Quality: High (Default) Texture Filtering: 16x Anisotropic Filtering Lighting: Shadows + Global Illuminati Shadow + GI Quality: High Sun Shadow Quality: High (Default) Number of Lights: High (Default) Bloom: 55% Water Detail Level: High (Default)
Advanced Settings NVIDIA Reflex: Off Foreground FPS Cap: On — 144 Background FPS Cap: Off — 30 Triple-Buffering: Off Dynamic Culling: Off Target Framerate: 120 Engine Multithreading: On
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