Path of Exile 2 — Playing on a schedule versus playing whenever

Adding my findings in case they help someone. Two settings appear to interact in a way the menu does not hint at.

If someone has a link to a proper explanation, I will take it.

Quick correction to the above: check whether an overlay is running before blaming the game itself.

Let us know which part worked.

Only partly related, but the difference is real but small enough that you may not notice it while playing.

Speaking as someone who got it wrong initially, it depends heavily on your specific setup, so take any single number with a grain of salt.

Report back once you have tried it.

This is the bit people miss — measure before and after, otherwise you are just guessing whether it helped.

Let us know which part worked.

Adding to the above: it depends heavily on your specific setup, so take any single number with a grain of salt.

For what it is worth, ignore the loudest advice; the boring answer is usually the correct one here.

Report back once you have tried it.

Depends on your setup, but broadly it is almost always a setting rather than hardware, so try the free fixes before spending anything.

Same boat here. keep a note of what you changed, otherwise you cannot undo it cleanly later.

Same boat here. it depends heavily on your specific setup, so take any single number with a grain of salt.

Worth a shot before anything drastic.