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Path of Exile behebt sein gr?tes Problem mit Vulkan-Update

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Submitted by tonghuan on Sun, 05/31/2020 - 18:49

Two weeks before the start of the new league, "Grinding Gear Games" provided a huge update to the path of exile.

"In recent years, we have increased the number of multi-threads used by the Exile Path Engine, which allows us to better utilize modern CPUs with multiple threads (logical cores). The reason for generating shaders is that the dynamic shader system we use is Frequent uploads throughout the game, if it occurs, it will put the entire game in a pause, including the POE Currency system.

In our DirectX11 backend, shader uploads are done in background threads, but the graphics driver processes them before the GPU uses them. This happens in its own thread, which may cause high CPU usage. In this case, the driver processing seems to be in the main thread, which causes a delay. Ironically, the other multithreading we have added over the years has made this problem worse because it increases overall CPU usage.

Fortunately, Vulkan played a role here. In addition to many other improvements, the rendering API also gives you full control over all operations in function calls, so we can completely avoid these uncontrollable blocking of the DirectX11 graphics driver. "

Under DirectX 11, stuttering always occurs, the frame rate drops and brief moments, once many opponents or graphic effects have to be displayed, the game will freeze completely. Vulkan solves these problems. The average refresh rate of the streamer will not increase significantly, but the problems mentioned no longer occur-this is more important than a few frames per second to avoid sudden death in the game.

Although the annoying league mechanism is usually adjusted by the developer shortly after the start of the new season, Grinding Gear Games has so far not been able to cope with the freeze and fps drop especially in the endgame map.

Because they often kill characters, so far, players have had to solve these problems themselves. In particular, hardcore mode players can now expect it, because the number of people who die under the volcano should be greatly reduced. I believe that later expansion will change these shortcomings, but now when you feel difficult in the game, POE Items Buy can help you out of the predicament.