This guide will help you out changing your Path of
Exile(POE) settings to accomplish the best presentation and lift your fps, fix
fps drops, enhance your UI, and to wrap things up, upgrade your config document
and startup choices. On the off chance that you are new to POE, this guide will
help you out colossally, and on the off chance that you are a veteran player,
stay with me since you might learn not many things to upgrade your experience
while playing the game.
While Path of Exile isn't one of the most requesting games,
there are circumstances that you might encounter drops on your presentation
because of the great number of hordes accessible. That is ordinary particularly
assuming your settings are on default. You can definitely relax however,
underneath you'll track down the best settings for each setting tab accessible
on Path of Exile.
Best POE(Path of Exile) Graphics settings
This is a crucial part of the settings in terms of
performance and fps. Few of these settings really depend on your hardware, but
i will do my best to give you suggestions and tips on how to choose the optimal
graphics settings for POE.
- Display: Choose your main GPU.
- Mode: Fullscreen if you don’t need to alt-tab frequently.
- Resolution: Your monitor’s native resolution.
- Rendered: Test in a crowded area and see which one gives you better and more consistent fps.
- Vsync: Always off since it adds input lag to your game.
- Foreground FPS Cap: Don’t cap this.
- Background FPS Cap: 60
- Antialiasing Quality: Off
- Lighting: Shadows
- Shadow Quality: Low
- Sun Shadow Quality: Low-Medium
- Number of Lights: Low
- Bloom: Normal
- Incursion Effect: Disabled
- Water Detail Level: Low
- Texture Quality: Medium-High depending on your hardware.
- Texture Filtering: 2x Anisotropic Filtering
- This part really depends on your hardware. If you got a low-end pc, then try the settings below. If not, then you can disable the dynamic resolution and keep Multithreading enabled.
- Dynamic Culling: Enabled
- Dynamic Resolution: Enabled
- Target FrameRate: 60
- Engine Multithreading: Enabled
Best POE(Path of Exile) Sound settings
There have been many issues with the sound of POE,
especially when it comes to stuttering and fps drops. If you have good hardware
and are experiencing dramatic fps dops that make your game unplayable, it might
be because of the sounds. I know it doesn’t sound real but think about it. All
these monsters walking, hitting effects, sounds combined. I got two solutions
for that but first, let’s optimize our POE sound settings.
- Device: Choose your Speakers, Headphones, Monitor, or whatever you are using to output sound.
- Channel Count: Medium. If you are on a really low-end pc try setting it to Low.
- Master Volume: 100
- Sound Effects Volume: 0
- Music Volume: 0
- Ambient Sound Volume: 0
- Dialogue Volume: 50
- Chat Alerts Volume: 0
As I said above, if you experience crazy fps drops and
stuttering for no actual reason, it might be the in-game sounds. Below you can
find a quick fix for that:
- Go to your Sound settings -> Device Properties -> Additional Device Properties.
- Click on the Enhancements tab, Tick Disable all enhancements, and press apply.
- Then go to the Advanced tab and change the Default Format, and set it to 16 bit 32000hz or 16 bit 44000hz
- Now you should have the same sound quality, but the fps drops and stuttering should be gone.
Best POE(Path of Exile) User Interface(UI) settings
Below you’ll find a good setup for your User Interface on Path of Exile, which will provide you with a lot of useful information while playing and show you crucial stats of your character that will help you survive and get better at the game. These settings are based not only on my experience but also on players’ opinions with thousands of hours of gameplays on POE, who surely knew a lot more than me when it comes to playing the game.
- Language: Choose the language you prefer.
- Chat Language: Same as language.
- Networking Mode: Read below
- If you have a consistent low ping in Path of Exile, then set this to Lockstep. If your ping goes up and down, then set it to Auto.
- Screen Shake: Disabled
- Enable Quest Tracking: Enabled
- Show Corner Map: Enabled
- Auto-Center Map: Enabled
- Landscape Transparency: Personal preference
- Map Transparency: Personal preference
- Map Zoom: Personal preference
- Always Highlight: If you don’t like this option, then you can set a keybind to do the same thing.
- Always show sockets: Enabled
- Key pickup: Use highlight key.
- Show Full Descriptions: Enabled
- Show Life/Mana Levels: Enabled
- Show Flask Buffs: Disabled
- Show Aura Icons: Disabled
- Corpse Targeting: When Key Held
- Show Global Chat: Personal Preference
- Show Trade Chat: Personal Preference
- Show Guild Chat: Personal Preference
- Show Timestamps in Chat: Enabled
- Show Mini Life Bars on Allies: Depends
- Show Mini Life Bars on Enemies: Enable
- Show Mini Life Bars Above you: Enable
- Show Ally Names on Your Map: Enable
- Show Clock: Enable
- Output Dialogue to Chat: Enable
- Advanced Mod Descriptions: Enable
- Auto-Equip: Disable
- Mousewheel Zoom: Enable
- Confine Mouse To Window: Disable
- Support Gem Utility Popup: Disable
- Default Loot Allocation: Short Allocation
- Level DownScaling: Enabled
Best POE(Path of Exile) Config settings
Here you’ll find two suggestions to optimize your POE Config
file. One is about increasing your FPS and the other one is about the
stuttering because of the sound effects in-game that we spoke above previously.
Press CTRL + F on your keyboard, and type shadow in the
search box. Look for the value shadow_type= , once you find it change the value
to -> shadow_type=no_shadows. Keep in mind that this will boost your FPS,
but there will be no shadows in-game.
Now, look for the SOUND settings in the config file, and
replace the zeros with false on the settings you want to disable.
Once you’ve completed the edits, save the file, and make
sure to mark it as Read Only. (Watch the photo below)
Done! Enjoy Gaming! Peace.