Grinding Gear Games has revealed that a performance boost for Path of Exile 2 will be released on December 12, 2025 as part of a quarterly update for the game, which will be especially noteworthy for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S versions.
Speaking in a presentation for Path of Exile 2 this week, Mark Roberts, co-game director, revealed that the performance boost is a result of changes to the game’s code, allowing it to utilise multiple CPU cores more efficiently.
The primary issue is CPU load, and to address that a lot of things have been optimised, and we have done a lot of work to take advantage of more of your CPU cores. You should see frame-rates at least 25 percent higher, and a lot less bad frame spikes during gameplay. It does make quite a big difference, especially on consoles.
Speaking during an interview with Eurogamer following the presentation, co-game director Jonathan Rogers added:
The reason why we mentioned consoles specifically is that they tend to have slower CPUs generally, which means that on console, you are more likely to run into performance problems at endgame compared to players with PCs. And of course on a console, the hardware is the hardware: you can’t upgrade it. You can’t do anything about it. It is what it is. So we obviously have to make sure that it’s good enough in any situation. That’s why there was that call-out specifically.
I would say, if anything, it’s understated. I was willing to commit to 25 percent because I know that we’re definitely hitting that, but honestly, in a lot of situations, it’s straight up double.
Path of Exile 2 is currently in Early Access for PS5, PC, and Xbox Series X/S and a full release has yet to be given a concrete launch date.
[Source – Eurogamer]