Path of Exile 2 — Fan curves that keep things quiet under load

Low stakes question, but it has been bugging me for weeks. It seems to depend heavily on region, which nobody mentions anywhere.

The default settings are clearly tuned for a different setup than mine. Will update the post if I find a cleaner solution.

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

Worth a shot before anything drastic.

In my testing, that behaviour is intentional, even though it is poorly explained in-game.

I went through this last month. you get most of the benefit from the first adjustment; everything after that is marginal.

Worth a shot before anything drastic.

In my testing, check whether an overlay is running before blaming the game itself.

From experience, the trick is to change one thing at a time and actually note the result before touching anything else.