I’m on a mid-level gaming laptop from a few years ago and having some performance problems running LE; I’ve googled around and it seems this is a common problem. What I have noticed is that when I play certain skills, they seem to crush my performance, while others have less impact. Can anyone suggest build that would be great for computer performance?
My build that runs pretty well is a Meteor Sorceror build. I mostly just drop meteors which don’t seem to affect performance hardly at all.
Other builds I’ve tried that seem to have issues, including anything that continually rotates:
Maelstrom
Hammers
Insects
Glacier DoT
Storm totem seems to have some problems, but not as bad, although I would say still unplayable.
If anyone has any tips or build that would be great, thanks!
Warpath VK should be good. VK Erasing strike should be good as well because it’s a build up to big bonk kind of playstyle so there isn’t much happening. Golem Necro should be fine.
Thanks! I have a VK warpath I started and it feels pretty good to play. I like erasing strike too!
I haven’t tried Necro yet, I’ll have to give that a shot!
I guess I am kind of annoyed that I’m having performance issues. I don’t see how I can play endgame PoE on med graphics with HD resolution and not have performance issues, but I’m struggling to play LE on very low graphics and much lower resolution. crying face
I don’t think it’s because of that. I have a medium performance PC (it was ok 5 years ago) and I have no issues playing LE, even on higher settings.
It’s more because Unity requires a lot of work to iron out the performance kinks and can cause issues “randomly”. So that even high performance PCs can struggle when lower performance ones do just fine.
This can only be solved with them working on this over time and bug reports when you have performance issues help a lot, because it sends the game data and they can analyse what could be wrong.
So whenever you get performance issues, just hit that bug report button in-game. The more people do that, the faster it will improve.
No, not higher. Weirder would be a better word for it.
As I said, I have a mid-performance PC and I have no issues with LE, whereas people with high-performance ones have had issues.
It’s not really about the requirements, but the optimization, which is something EHG keeps improving over time.
Requirements means “you need to have at least 8GB ram, at least Intel Core i5 2500 or AMD FX-4350, etc”. If you don’t have at least these specs, you likely won’t be able to play the game at all.
Optimization means “as long as you have the minimum requirements, the game will run smoothly for you”. If you have a top of the line computer and you still have performance issues (as many people have complained), then the game is lacking optimization.
This means that if the OP follows your suggestion and invests in a top of the line PC, he might still have the same issues, or even worse.
No. Optimization means efficiency. It means to make your game use as little resources as possible while still delivering optimal performance. It is in no way a guarantee of smooth performance.
Using less resources also means that your minimum requirements to run the game get lower as your optimization improves. Which is why your talk about optimization is just a long-winded way of saying that Unity has higher requirements.
OP said his game runs bad, because his machine is an old laptop (of unspecified specs). I recommended to get a new computer, because in general games tend to run better and more smoothly on better hardware. Ergo, saying “a new computer build is good for performance” is relevant.
You on the other hand, told us how Unity requires “a lot of work” and that your old PC runs LE “with no issues” (at unspecified settings and results). But last time I checked, how well your PC runs a game has no relation to Unity games’ requirements or optimization. Ergo, your PC’s performance is irrelevant.
I’m afraid nothing you added to this topic is related to OP’s question.
When LE (maybe) gets better optimization, I’m sure many of us will be happy, but that isn’t really helpful if OP wants to play now.
What are your PC Specs and what settings are you running in game?
(GPU (and how much Vram), CPU, Memory, etc)
And can you describe your poor performance?
(Such as it jittery, large or small frame drops, freezing, etc?)
Performance shouldn’t be THAT bad on any build, even on an older PC assuming your settings aren’t a lot higher than they should be.
It is to be expected that if you’re playing a chaotic build with lots of minions, large spell effects, and so on that your performance will take a significant hit unless you’re playing on a very high end rig with perfectly optimized settings.
Intel(R) Core™ i5-9300H CPU @ 2.40GHz
Installed RAM 20.0 GB
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti with Max-Q Design
FACEPALM. The game is now running smoothly on HD with high settings. I haven’t gamed in a couple years and upon looking into these specs I remember last time setting up PoE I had to manually specify which graphics card to use, because the laptop comes with a default non-gaming one that is crap.
I went to System → Display → Graphics and added Last Epoch then set the GPU preference to my gaming graphics card and the game runs great now. I guess I assumed my computer would use my gaming graphics card for gaming… I guess we are still not quite there in 2025.
Thanks for the help everyone!
EDIT: WOW I can’t believe I played this long on a bad graphics card. Actually, now I’m really impressed with LE performance! Wooohoooo
If you still need more FPS the first settings to reduce would be Ambient Occlusion, Volumetric Lighting and both Reflection settings. In that order (I believe). The rest is pretty minimal impact unless you’re running low on Vram and stuttering then you could lower Terrain Quality but it sounds like you’re good to go now.
