I've been having a lot of problems playing, because anytime there are significant mosters on screen, I experience a horrible amount of lag. This makes running maps, Vaal pyramid, heists, and lots of other content practically unplayable for me.

My two characters are a minion sorceress and a toxic rain deadeye - obviously, the minion sorc suffers from this a lot more, but I've experienced it on both characters.

I've done the things that the websites suggest:

My specs are ok, not great, but definitely within parameters
I've edited the lines in the .ini
texture_quality=1

texture_filtering=1

shadow_type=no_shadows

post_processing=false

fullscreen=true

borderless_windowed_fullscreen=false

I've turned off my firewall.

But I still have problems. Even running a T1 map, when I get to the boss area, the game lags for 4 seconds, adn then i'm dead, and I never get a chance to attack, react, use potions, or even see the thing that kills me.
Any suggestions?

Pretty sure u can make the textures even worse but prob wont save you..sounds like your comp is complete garbage and/or your internet

Edit: you can also go window mode and reduce ur screen size and that'll give you more fps

This post was edited by DaTz on Oct 14 2021 11:45am

Thanks - I already play in windowed mode. Buying a better machine to play path of exile isn't really an option. Thanks anyway

not according to the settings you just posted

huh - you're right; but it still plays in a window. let me look at the ini again

Here are my full display settings from ini
[DISPLAY]
adapter_name=Intel(R) UHD Graphics(#0)
background_framerate_limit=30
background_framerate_limit_enabled=false
bloom_strength=0.985
borderless_windowed_fullscreen=false
camera_zrotation=true
depth_of_field=false
directx_version=auto
dx11_antialias_mode=0
dx9_antialias_mode=0
dynamic_resolution_factor=0
dynamic_resolution_factor_enabled=false
dynamic_resolution_fps=30
framerate_limit=240
framerate_limit_enabled=false
fullscreen=false
global_illumination_detail=0
light_quality=0
max_PS_shader_model=ps_5_0
max_VS_shader_model=vs_5_0
maximize_window=true
post_processing=false
renderer_type=DirectX11
resolution_height=1001
resolution_width=1920
screen_shake=false
screen_shake_v2=true
screenspace_effects=1
screenspace_effects_resolution=0
shadow_type=hardware_3_samples
texture_filtering=1
texture_quality=1
time_manipulation_effects=true
use_dynamic_particle_culling=false
use_dynamic_resolution=true
vsync=true
water_detail=0


My fullscreen is still set to false; the websites i saw suggested setting full screen to true; but DaTz says running it full screen would slow it down. I can try it both ways, but my gut says it won't make much of a difference in performance.

It does not help to run full screen. actually, it may have made it worse

Going windowed and reducing screen size did not help.

PC specs?

Windows 10
Dell Laptop Machine
11th gen Intel Core i3 3.00 Ghz processor
16GB memory
Intel UHD Graphics card

Its a realtively cheap machine, all things considered, but its also relatively new (<6 months old), and I would have thought it would run a game just fine whose core programming is 8 years old?