Path of Exile 2: Unplayable Stuttering RTX 4090 / 14700KF (Workarounds)

The problem

I haven't played the game in a few weeks due to playing other titles and now that I'm back the game is stuttering really badly. It seams every few steps of smooth frame rate around 165 the game abruptly dips to 100-60 or even 40. Things I have tried. 1. Changing GPU power management to prefer maximum performance 2. Changed Nvidia Shader cache to unlimited 3. %appdata% I went to delete the shader…

What players suggest

I guess you followed the other guys advise from your other topic. He doesn't really know how the game works or where to find files. Anyway. the shaders are stored here. If you run Vulcan here c:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\NVIDIA\GLCache For DX12 they are here c:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\NVIDIA\DXCache

Game is coded by Claude and Spaghetti or something so its not surprising, good PC doesn't mean it will work well because its not even properly using the hardware. We gotta tweak stuff. Since it is crashing with no messages, can you try to run the game then check Event Viewer for Application logs? Maybe we get an indication of what is dying.

I've played with friends all over the globe with over 300ms, the game works like absolute crap and barely reacts, but it doesn't crash to desktop for that.