Path of Exile System Requirements

Path of Exile system requirements state that you will need at least 4 GB of RAM. However, the developers recommend 8 GB of RAM for the best experience. An Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 CPU is required at a minimum to run Path of Exile. Whereas, an Intel Core i7-960 is recommended in order to run it. In terms of game file size, you will need at least 20 GB of free disk space available. Provided that you have at least an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 graphics card you can play the game. Furthermore, an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 is recommended in order to run Path of Exile with the highest settings.

Path of Exile Performance Guide

Need a Path of Exile FPS boost? Here are some tips.

• Disable background applications such as GeForce Experience or Windows Game DVR

• Run the game in fullscreen as opposed to windowed.

• Disable hardware acceleration in applications such as Discord to free up GPU bandwidth for running Path of Exile.

Latest Path of Exile experience

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Path of Exile will run on PC system with Windows XP SP3/Windows 7 SP1/Windows 8 and upwards. Additionally it has a Mac version.

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Path of Exile FPS - what frame rate can you expect?

How many FPS will I get on Path of Exile? We reference thousands of reports from PCGameBenchmark users running our FPS tracking app to tell you exactly how Path of Exile performs across a range of different settings and resolutions on the most popular PC gaming setups.

What frame rate does Path of Exile run at?

Here are the typical frame rate samples

Avg FPS	CPU	GPU	RAM
122	Intel Core i7-9700K	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti	16 GB
90	Intel Core i7-7700K	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080	16 GB
67	Intel Core i7-6700HQ	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070	16 GB
43	Intel Core i5-7400	AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT	16 GB
43	Intel Core i5-7400	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970	16 GB

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