The pause FPS gain only happens in combat. When you're not in combat there's no FPS gain when pausing.

 

AI / Scripts? I doubt that. I guess particle effects are not optimized. I dont think PoE uses mesh colliders or something similar.

So are the animations literally 30fps or 29.x for 30hz?

Animations are 30 FPS, the frame rate and animation frame rate are not linked. I get 60-150 FPS in the press version (My **** CPU slows the game down when there's lots of characters on the screen)

Edited March 24, 201510 yr by Sensuki

Animations are 30 FPS, the frame rate and animation frame rate are not linked. I get 60-150 FPS in the press version (My **** CPU slows the game down when there's lots of characters on the screen)

 

So is the performance better in the press version compared with 480?

Yes it is, but the same core problem still exists - areas with lots of units in them have slowdowns.