Path of Exile optimizes the crap out of its new beta build

Lag spikes and stuttering framerates may be a thing of the past in Path of Exile. The devs announced that with its next beta build for The Fall of Oriath, they are implementing changes that will keep FPS at a playable pace even when players are spamming the heck out of flashy skills.

“In Wave 3 of the Beta, we have significantly improved the speed of creating and destroying objects. This was the primary cause of spikes when using a lot of skills. We can now create thousands of skill effects per second without significantly slowing down the frame rate,” the studio reported. “We have also added a new feature called Dynamic Resolution. This is a feature that allows us to maintain high frame rates even as the amount of particles increase by decreasing the resolution of the 3-D scene temporarily.”

The team also devoted some screen space to sharing behind-the-scenes insights into the expansion’s soundtrack. You can listen to a little of that after the break!