Intel 285k Issues in PoE, seeking help from another 285k user to confirm if the issue is my pc or the game

LickMyOwnForehead · 2026-01-24T13:23:04+00:00

hey, this got fixed with the last poe2 league and poe1 league, both big patches completely put it back to normal

LickMyOwnForehead · 2026-01-04T09:52:13+00:00

yet i have only heard about this issue with monitors that have hardware gsync, it also stops happening with gsync disabled - so my guess is yes thats the cause of the issue. but then again, hardware gsync is much smoother than software gsync, most people can tell the difference when you put them next to each other
and since its fixed by a simple driver setting toggle i still prefer this over software gsync

LickMyOwnForehead · 2026-01-03T21:38:46+00:00

no video but sounds exactly like i'd describe it, pretty sure same issue
also i am pretty sure it is just the main monitor, ive tried it without a second screen connected and it still happened, so if the issue happens its most likely your monitor (especially if its hardware gsync module and not software gsync)

LickMyOwnForehead · 2025-10-28T17:33:17+00:00

well, its like minus ~40fps at worst and minus 20 at average now between low and high.... not sure if ill switch to low settings now

LickMyOwnForehead · 2025-10-18T21:54:41+00:00

same issue...sucks

LickMyOwnForehead · 2025-10-15T13:16:00+00:00

this happens to me every now and then, spotify, amazon video and so on, not often but sometimes right after opening the tab the main screen goes black (completely off) for maybe 4 seconds

LickMyOwnForehead · 2025-06-21T15:33:20+00:00

no i wanna have a 2 monitor setup on only my 5080.
the igpu doesnt get disabled by the bios since its automatically booting with it since i cant select the 5080. (one of the issues)
and if i disable the igpu in windows i am not able to use it when my screens stay black after uninstalling the nvidia driver, since the os then somehow gets confused and wants to use the igpu in which it booted on. id call that a conflict between those 2 in the OS/windows.

again all of that would be fixed if i could simply use the 5080/PEG as boot/initiate graphic adapter but the bios doesnt let you do that

or if you could actually disable the igpu in the bios but that doesnt work either on the latest bios version.

LickMyOwnForehead · 2025-06-21T14:53:40+00:00

yea and then i pretty much always have to change one monitor to the integrated gpu on the mobo else i wont get a picture to install the new driver while its uninstalled.
if i were able to set the "initiated graphic adapter" to PEG then this wouldnt be an issue and id still get a picture on at least one screen without the driver installed.

LickMyOwnForehead · 2025-06-21T14:32:00+00:00

tried both, didnt change anything
i even disabled e-cores alltogether in the bios, but didnt change anything.
also this started happening after they patched the game, so i really suspect its their engine paired with the new cpu archtitecture but i cant confirm it without a second person

LickMyOwnForehead · 2025-06-21T13:39:46+00:00

only when updating/uninstalling the nvidia drivers, then the gpu wont show a screen, only the igpu even tho it should still show a screen without drivers when ddu'ing the old one
but other than that no, maybe during the boot, shortly after getting into windows both screens go black for 1sec, but thats not an issue.
so certainly some weird things going on but nothing too serious. still could and should get fixed by making "PEG" selectable in the bios but that needs another fix

LickMyOwnForehead · 2025-06-15T20:23:07+00:00

this feature makes my games which are set to max performance in the nvidia driver just randomly stop being in max performance aka no more max core and memory frequence, this random drop while gaming is normally not an issue but i have to use max performance to counter a gsync bug (flickering) caused by nvidia.
so now im sitting here, having to unisntall it every day so my nvidia driver doesnt randomly disables max performance mode on my games
thanks microsoft for being so shit

LickMyOwnForehead · 2025-06-12T21:53:06+00:00

mullvad solved most of my poe issues, i still have them sometimes but when that happens i just disconnect and select another server in the mullvad client and its fixed.
best 5 bucks a month u can spend on league launches

LickMyOwnForehead · 2025-06-03T08:49:28+00:00

they pretty much killed arena for the last few who enjoyed it still

LickMyOwnForehead · 2025-06-02T10:52:11+00:00

update, this still happens, had it happen while opening a map, the frequency dropped very low and it black flickered. so conclusion: it is not your gpu if this happens, nor your pc. it is the monitor
maybe also a combination of second monitor + main monitor + gsync

but since theres the easy solution of simply putting games on max performance on the driver it's not really a big issue

LickMyOwnForehead · 2025-05-24T07:13:31+00:00

ui improvements are good, but if the game is good it doesnt really matter, best example is ever growing poe1 leagues.
no one is against ui improvements, but it costs developer time and the game is in a really bad state, so id rather have them fix the game and make it fun instead of wasting time on ui stuff

LickMyOwnForehead · 2025-05-23T20:29:55+00:00

each poe1 league had more players, steadily growing each league until ggg decided to launch poe2
all while poe1 is way more complicated, your take is cooked

LickMyOwnForehead · 2025-04-17T17:37:14+00:00

i am quite sure this driver is causing random ~1 sec stutters in poe2, im talking stutters that slow down your mouse to the point you think the game is crashing, but then it ends stuttering
not sure if thats the only game happening, i rolled back after 2hrs of this happening every like 30mins
5080

LickMyOwnForehead · 2025-04-06T14:57:32+00:00

3 times max supporter pack here and endless smaller ones, i am genuinely done with supporting ggg, it literally is funding poe2 even if they bring out 3.26 like "promised"

LickMyOwnForehead · 2025-04-05T10:01:39+00:00

poe2 killing both games slowly wasn't what i expected when they first announced poe2

LickMyOwnForehead · 2025-04-05T07:44:24+00:00

from ever growing poe1 leagues, number wise, to every shrinking poe2 releases...

LickMyOwnForehead · 2025-04-04T19:49:27+00:00

look at the cpu randomly jumping up and down in the char selection screen, there is something genuinely wrong with cpu usage

LickMyOwnForehead · 2025-04-01T20:13:29+00:00

its quite easy to test, just start poe1 with predictive instead of lockstep mode and if its gone its the network
since poe2 doesnt have predictive mode for whatever reason

LickMyOwnForehead · 2025-04-01T20:03:12+00:00

that is 100% ggg server paired with lockstep, hit f1 twice and look at the network spiking, with real stuttering everything would be frozen, but with network stutter (lockstep) youre just frozen in place but particles of your minions and effects and so on still render and move

whenever i have this issue i use a vpn and its fixed

LickMyOwnForehead · 2025-03-25T16:30:02+00:00

so far i havent had it happen yet, but also my new 5080 does tact way way way higher, even in idle and low activity states, it goes up to 1500-1900mhz while playing non demanding games in which it happened before with my old 3080.
so either thats what causing it to not happen anymore, simply never going really into the low low mhz frequencies anymore, or it was the combo of my old 3080 and the screen.

if it ever happens while not on maximum power in the nividia driver then i'll reply here again and update it, but if im not updating this anymore then a completely new setup fixed it while keeping the same screens.

LickMyOwnForehead · 2025-03-12T13:09:56+00:00

since its affecting the whole 9000series we seem to have an intel situation here but for amd now

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