Good afternoon all, thank you in advance for any advice you may have and an apology for the wall of text. I have been scratching my head at this issue for a week now and I am just lost as to what could be the problem. It all started playing Path of Exile and has just been acting up in general otherwise. Let me start by saying I have not been having stability issues, crashing, shutdowns etc.
Back to the PoE issue. The game gets downright unplayable, it starts out... decent, and progressively get worse. To start here is my comp setup.
Computer:
Intel i5 9600-K
MSI Z-390A Pro
MSI RX-590 8Gig - GPU Clock 1545mhz
16 Gig DDR 3000
Muskin m.2 512mb SSD
Nothing super great, but decent enough to game. Currently my PoE settings, currently running in windowed mode at: 2399x1533 (Custom res on a 4k mon). Vsycn: disabled, Anti Aliasing Off: Lighting: Shadows (Default), Shadow Quality: (Low Default), Sun Shadow Quality: Low, Number of Lights: Low, Post Processing: Enabled (Default), Water Detailt: Low, Texture Quality: Medium, Texture Filtering:, 2x Anisotropic Filtering, Dynamic Resultion: Enabled (Default), Target Framerate: 60, Engine Multithreading: Enabled (Default).
With these settings, im sitting in town 140FPS, good enough, I can handle that. Then running around the map, decent density of mobs, some explosions, me cycloning its going ok, 90-100 FPS I can do that. But then all of a sudden 5 minutes in, that same situation and now im running 55FPS with 20 frame time then the game speeds up super fast and im back to the normal 90 to 100. It will bobble back and forth for a bit and then maybe after 30 seconds the game comes back to being more stable. Then you get into a real mess, huge grouping, delerium, explosions and its dropping to 40FPS with 20ms frame time.... and the game is moving so slow, but incredibly smooth it just floats along as if it was running in slow-mo.
When I set it to full screen 1920x1080, sitting in my hideout im running around 200FPS, ok great, more than I need or want, running around a map with decent density and its 100fps, when everythings going off, huge packs in a delerium with explosions and all that, 55FPS with 25ms Frame Time.
I am surprised with these game settings the game is not running completely smooth at all times. I cannot for the life of me understand or explain how it just gets to be running in slow mo, but reaction times are just terrible.
I have an almost identical computer I use at work, swap the RX590 for an RX570.... and PoE performs vastly better. It is the Frame Time spikes that cause me the most grief, I just get pockets where it freezes, half a second here and there.
Lastly, the card is also running HOT, only in PoE, not in Overwatch, or D3 which are the only other games I play. Constant 100%GPU usage, 2700RPM on the fans (loud.....) recording temps around 81c. From what I can tell that is not unusually hot for an MSI Armor RX590, but it has the noticeable, electrical fire smell to after 30 minutes of gaming so I end up quitting because that is not a normal smell.
The last thing I can note is, I bought a new monitor awhile back, a 4k IPS panel and every once in awhile when waking the monitor up it will sort of be artifacted, not the typical pink dot stuff, just the entire screen looks like its bright white and black (like an old CRT static tv but incredibly small pixel sizes). However all I have to do is unplug the HDMI cable and plug it back in and the screen comes on fine, computer hadn't shut off or reset or anything... so I just chalked that up to a weird monitor issue.
Back to the PoE issue. The game gets downright unplayable, it starts out... decent, and progressively get worse. To start here is my comp setup.
Computer:
Intel i5 9600-K
MSI Z-390A Pro
MSI RX-590 8Gig - GPU Clock 1545mhz
16 Gig DDR 3000
Muskin m.2 512mb SSD
Nothing super great, but decent enough to game. Currently my PoE settings, currently running in windowed mode at: 2399x1533 (Custom res on a 4k mon). Vsycn: disabled, Anti Aliasing Off: Lighting: Shadows (Default), Shadow Quality: (Low Default), Sun Shadow Quality: Low, Number of Lights: Low, Post Processing: Enabled (Default), Water Detailt: Low, Texture Quality: Medium, Texture Filtering:, 2x Anisotropic Filtering, Dynamic Resultion: Enabled (Default), Target Framerate: 60, Engine Multithreading: Enabled (Default).
With these settings, im sitting in town 140FPS, good enough, I can handle that. Then running around the map, decent density of mobs, some explosions, me cycloning its going ok, 90-100 FPS I can do that. But then all of a sudden 5 minutes in, that same situation and now im running 55FPS with 20 frame time then the game speeds up super fast and im back to the normal 90 to 100. It will bobble back and forth for a bit and then maybe after 30 seconds the game comes back to being more stable. Then you get into a real mess, huge grouping, delerium, explosions and its dropping to 40FPS with 20ms frame time.... and the game is moving so slow, but incredibly smooth it just floats along as if it was running in slow-mo.
When I set it to full screen 1920x1080, sitting in my hideout im running around 200FPS, ok great, more than I need or want, running around a map with decent density and its 100fps, when everythings going off, huge packs in a delerium with explosions and all that, 55FPS with 25ms Frame Time.
I am surprised with these game settings the game is not running completely smooth at all times. I cannot for the life of me understand or explain how it just gets to be running in slow mo, but reaction times are just terrible.
I have an almost identical computer I use at work, swap the RX590 for an RX570.... and PoE performs vastly better. It is the Frame Time spikes that cause me the most grief, I just get pockets where it freezes, half a second here and there.
Lastly, the card is also running HOT, only in PoE, not in Overwatch, or D3 which are the only other games I play. Constant 100%GPU usage, 2700RPM on the fans (loud.....) recording temps around 81c. From what I can tell that is not unusually hot for an MSI Armor RX590, but it has the noticeable, electrical fire smell to after 30 minutes of gaming so I end up quitting because that is not a normal smell.
The last thing I can note is, I bought a new monitor awhile back, a 4k IPS panel and every once in awhile when waking the monitor up it will sort of be artifacted, not the typical pink dot stuff, just the entire screen looks like its bright white and black (like an old CRT static tv but incredibly small pixel sizes). However all I have to do is unplug the HDMI cable and plug it back in and the screen comes on fine, computer hadn't shut off or reset or anything... so I just chalked that up to a weird monitor issue.
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