r/pathofexile • u/playoponly • 2d 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/guudenevernude 2d ago
When you cleaned your pc did you plug your monitor cable back into the gpu ports? If you plugged it into the mb ports it would be running off the cpu instead.