Path of Exile

What works

Everything tested.

What does not

Everything tested worked as it would normally.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Windowed fullscreen mode and the twitch.tv broadcasting functionality.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

This game suffers several serious performance hits running in wine which make the game very difficult to get through and make normal use hard to do. The installer issue is already well known. That is easily worked around by preloading libeatmydata to get around msync (ab)use causing the space allocation phase to take a long time. The more significant issue is the lag spikes the game suffers when loading effects, textures and the like on demand. They occur most often as mobs appear (i.e. critical moments of the game), and will become less frequent as you get around a map. But if you should change maps (as will likely happen due to above causing deaths) the lag spikes pick up again. I was able to help this a little by loading the 'Content.ggpk' blob from the PoE install directory to a ramdisk. That only helped a little bit. My specs: AMD Phenom II x4 965 @ 4.0 Ghz AMD Radeon HD 7870 Ghz Edition 2GB GDDR5 PCI-e (8GB) 2 x 4GB DDR3 1600 RAM 2 x 500GB WD Blue hard drives (one SATA, one PATA with PATA-to-SATA converter)