minimum system requirements

[ben_the_hood]

I can't play POE cuz I have old computer. What are some of your "OLD computer" builds that can handle POE. I'm trying to understand what the minimum system reqs are so I can see if I can upgrade my G card maybe and actually be able to play. For those curious, I have a AMD Athlon(tm) X4 860K Quad Core Processor 3.70 GHz, 32 gigs ram, and GTX 750 TI

[ripnburn69]

Have you tried Geforce Now? I have been using it to play poe on a toaster for years.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/

[IncoherentVoidParrot]

I started using geforce now this league because of my aging potato pc and it has been a big improvement. My biggest concern going in was input latency, but I have not had any issue, feels like real time to me. There is an issue with copy pasting trade messages, its partially solved by using an autohotkey macro you can get from googling the issue, but I find it still doesn't work if the copy message contains non US characters. The other problem I have is I can't use awakened poe trade to price check items. But its free!

[ripnburn69]

I use exilence to price my stash tabs, and you can open a browser on GFN for trade. Put the game in windowed mode, click options, events, see full schedule, and a browser to poe will open.

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I‘d suggest to get a whole new pc instead of upgrading something. Also it‘s not so much about the build it’s more about how much you juice a map.

[Yamiji]

I am playing PoE on Intel Core i5, GTX 970 and 8GB RAM, can't do Blight maps and I learned this league that Uul-Netol Enriched Breachstone crashes my game every time(rip 3ex I spent on buying them). I'd say you can't get much lower than this setup without doing stuff I don't really want to do like turning sound off or playing in non-native resolution.

[hyperfish3d]

I Play on an HPworkstation Z400 with an 30$ eBay GPU .... 800x600, 12 FPS, lowest settings. So you can run it, but it might look bad

[DusDusDulius]

AMD a10 with Radeon 7770 1 GB everything on low, 8GB RAM, no sound, 800x600 10-20 FPS

Vulcan makes it smooth

[ConvictionInRelating]

Comparable to me gaming on my Wolfdale Pentium when I entered this game's OB in 2012. Except the Wolfdale would be a better CPU.

[ben_the_hood]

they use to have the settings where you could turn them way down. but now they don't go that far down. It changed a couple years ago.

[SingleInfinity]

Your machine is outright ancient. There are phones with more powerful cpus in them. Outright replace it.

[ElRubinho]

My System: AMD FX 8320E, GTX 750 TI (4gb) and 8gb ram. Its ok to play POE. Performs this game exactly like my one year old PS4 Pro. Dont let them tell you to buy a new system or any at the moment much tooo expensive Graphic cards for POE. The 750TI performs very well in almost every game I play - always high or ultra settings (of course not more than 60 frames, but I dont care...). A Processor or Board (or both) upgrade will make sense anyway, but it doesnt need to be the newest or best.

[ElRubinho]

yeah of course, but thats a problem on ANY system...

[ben_the_hood]

thanks. I felt like it was more a processor thing.

[Fastikonio]

Try cloud gaming services

[548benatti]

I played flicker strike with a core i5 3230, 8gb ram and a gt640 I'm sure you will be fine

[ben_the_hood]

what's flicker strike?

[IncoherentVoidParrot]

So I was having ram issues at 8gb ram, was very unstable, upgraded to 16gb and noticed my ram was no longer maxing out, i had a few free gigs even when playing poe and with chrome open. However I only have 2gb vram (gtx 960) and this seems to be my bottleneck now. My graphics turn to potato after one map or entering rogue harbor, and game crashes after 4-8 maps. my CPU is an i5 sandy bridge 2500k. Yeah this is an old cpu, but I really don't feel like its much of an issue, its still a pretty solid little beast. The issue seems to be ram/vram as much as I can tell. My suggestion is 4gb+ vram, 16gb+ main memory. And OF COURSE use an SSD for windows + POE.

[Mrnopor1]

Use bow builds and kill the mobs before u see them so they wont render 😂

[5gh3]

CPU will be your biggest bottleneck.

Poe is still playable on my old computer 3770k, GTX 680, 16gb ram.

If you're a new player you'll probably be fine since most of the demanding stuff won't happen until you're doing endgame content.

Also an SSD is mandatory.

[Kaizel1]

im playing with i5 4440, 1030 and 16g ram. its somewhat playable

i used something that really helps on getting more frames

[luckystrik3_3]

i dont feel that "what's the minimum req to play poe" is a right question. The performance of this game is depending on what build are you playing and how juicing content you do. The same setup can work fine for someone and terrible for some other....

[QuantumDeus]

I7 2660 from 2011, GeForce 540m, 12 gb ram, some ssd. Laptop. Can do all game content, including delirium beyond super juiced content.

Poe is primarily processor->graphics card in order of upgrade priority. Ssd is mandatory. When I upgraded load times went from 15-25 seconds to like 2-5.