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Path of Exile 2 finally has a fix for two of its longest-lasting and most frustrating technical problems, with director Jonathan Rogers celebrating the occasion by popping open a bottle of champagne.<\/p>\n
In a new video released by PoE2 developer Grinding Gear Games, Rogers explained that the new Nvidia Game Ready driver (version 680.88) alongside the latest Path of Exile 2 patch will significantly improve problems with both shaders and device removed issues, which have proven painful thorns in the side of players for months.<\/p>\n
Here’s the Ranger trailer for Path of Exile 2.Watch on YouTube<\/p>\n
The device removed problems stemming from a crash with the player’s graphics driver which resulted in a temporary game freeze, a black screen, and poor performance for some players. This issue was frequent for some players in the end game, and especially in later patches. After a year-and-a-half of work, it turned out this was impacted by those using Nvidia drivers.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n According to Rogers, Nvidia didn’t “believe it was as common as we said it was” despite it being a bug with Nvidia drivers affecting end-game players, forcing Grinding Gear Games to hunker down and prove the bug validity. Rogers goes on to explain that, after some tinkering, the company sent a whole PC setup with a version of the game where the bug would happen every few minutes to Nvidia.<\/p>\n As for the shaders issue, it used to take a long time for Path of Exile 2 to compile shaders. Rogers describes it as “complex”, and in super basic layperson’s terms, visual effects for assets in Path of Exile 2 weren’t being cached properly thanks to another Nvidia driver problem leading the shader cache folders being full, resulting in visual bugs and longer load screens.<\/p>\n Grinding Gear Games can’t fix this problem outright, but it has made its shaders a smaller file size, meaning the shader cache folder shouldn’t fill up as fast.<\/p>\n With this, the engine optimisation team are back to doing their regular day-to-day work, and Rogers ends the video popping open a bottle of champagne. Specifically it looks to be a bottle of Veuve Clicquot Vintage Champagne. According to Fortnum & Mason this champagne is “nutty and beautifully balanced”, which is about as apt a descriptor of Path of Exile 2 as I can think of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Path of Exile 2 finally has a fix for two of its longest-lasting and most frustrating technical problems, with director Jonathan Rogers celebrating the occasion by popping open a bottle of champagne. In a new video released by PoE2 developer Grinding Gear Games, Rogers explained that the new Nvidia Game Ready driver (version 680.88) alongside<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[9669,540,5142,9671,9670,4921,6076,9672],"class_list":{"0":"post-10717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upcoming-games","8":"tag-exile","9":"tag-finally","10":"tag-fix","11":"tag-frustrating","12":"tag-longestlasting","13":"tag-path","14":"tag-problems","15":"tag-technical"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}