'ello folks. Been around a bit but not much of one for posting on forums. To the point.
tldr; Set Exilebuddy to "realtime" cpu priority, and Path of exile to "High" priority. It might fix micro-freezing.
Lately I've been having a lot of problems with PoE process stuttering badly and having lots of micro-freezes. Especially during rapid event scenarios such as opening a breach rift. Mid way through it'd get so bad that I'd get a 2-3 second freeze and just be dead. I understand a lot of CPU is required for these but found it odd because my computer should be able to do OK at that.
After getting frustrated I set forth trying to figure out why this was happening, enabled tons of debug logging, fresh installed with no addons, so forth. It was certainly better with no addons, so this was some form of choke point. From there I watched the debug stream as these events occurred and there always was a hard call/pause in Exilebuddy as well. It seemed like the client would hang for a moment while waiting for exilebuddy to finish the call. Not sure why it does that but it certainly looks like it does.
So I did what most people probably would have tried first. I set exilebuddy's CPU priority to realtime, and path of exile to high. This way it'd process whatever Exilebuddy needs first before trying to work on Path of Exile (as much anyways, tech is crazy.)
This didn't fix the stutter completely. Afterall, those events are still CPU heavy as fuck. But it made it like 500% better for me. Hoping this helps others. Also curious if I am right. So if you have micro-freeze problems, give this a shot and let me know!
tldr; Set Exilebuddy to "realtime" cpu priority, and Path of exile to "High" priority. It might fix micro-freezing.
Lately I've been having a lot of problems with PoE process stuttering badly and having lots of micro-freezes. Especially during rapid event scenarios such as opening a breach rift. Mid way through it'd get so bad that I'd get a 2-3 second freeze and just be dead. I understand a lot of CPU is required for these but found it odd because my computer should be able to do OK at that.
After getting frustrated I set forth trying to figure out why this was happening, enabled tons of debug logging, fresh installed with no addons, so forth. It was certainly better with no addons, so this was some form of choke point. From there I watched the debug stream as these events occurred and there always was a hard call/pause in Exilebuddy as well. It seemed like the client would hang for a moment while waiting for exilebuddy to finish the call. Not sure why it does that but it certainly looks like it does.
So I did what most people probably would have tried first. I set exilebuddy's CPU priority to realtime, and path of exile to high. This way it'd process whatever Exilebuddy needs first before trying to work on Path of Exile (as much anyways, tech is crazy.)
This didn't fix the stutter completely. Afterall, those events are still CPU heavy as fuck. But it made it like 500% better for me. Hoping this helps others. Also curious if I am right. So if you have micro-freeze problems, give this a shot and let me know!
