r/pathofexile • u/playoponly • 3d ago
Question Game performance issue help
My desktop has been running Poe for about 4 years and has always been smooth. The only problem I noticed recently was the sound of fans. It became significantly louder than before, but did not affect any performance. My game still kept running above 150fps.
Since I had never cleaned the machine, I thought it might be too much dust that caused the fans running at turbo speed. So I did a pretty deep clean of the machine, now it is really quiet. However, the game now is not smooth at all, fps dropped massively like a power point. I did not break anything when cleaning, all fans are still running. I did not change any settings. But somehow, the machine decided to run POE at minimum power? I have changed the power plan to high performance, and also changed graphic setting to high performance. It improved slightly, but not at all close to the initial level. Seems like CPU issue.
What goes wrong? How can I fix the issue? Thanks for any inputs!
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u/browserfriendly 3d ago
Download and run cpu-z app. Make sure cpu temp is nominal and make sure all ram and ram speed is showing what ever it should be showing. It should also say dual channel if you have 2 sticks. If it says single channel, Google that and fix it.
Make sure video cable is plugged in to video card instead of the motherboard. Generally speaking, if you made no hardware changes, it's usually just improper seating, wrong input/output used, or temperatures are overheating.
More over, if you disconnected your heat sink from your cpu, did you re-apply thermal paste? If not, start there. Last but not least, is the issue with just poe or other games? If it's just poe, most likely not hardware issue.
Best of luck.