Continuous Stuttering/Lag Despite Stable FPS and Internet in PoE 2 Early Access

Another night of lag, 30ms to 2000ms. Wonder if GGG is going to acknowledge this...

How is GGG not acknowledging this when its the most popular thread???
Are they just turning a blindeye to this issue?

Hi,

This all started for me as well 3 days ago or so.
This has nothing to do with your settings, sound settings, client txt files or resolutions.

They have some broken load balancers somewhere and either not aware of it or don't know how to find them.

It's very simply proof able by clicking CTRL+checkpoint few times. And getting new instance.

In few attempts usually 2-3 you will get stutter free one, and while you are ON THAT instance, you will be absolutely fine for whole map, till you leave, or you die.

So basically, game play for last few days finish map - > go to another -> stutter / lag (you can see how network spikes to the roof with F1) --> CTRL checkpoint till you get lag free instance. Profit. Also don't die. cause dying throws you to bad load balancer again:) and you can't CTRL new as all progress disappears.

Good luck :) BTW game itself rocks. this load balancer problem or whatever it is, pity they can't resolve.

Network spikes still happen. Was very excited to race with other players to the endgame. That train has left the station with me waving it goodbye. At least I'm not alone on this cold and dark platform... *CHOO* *choo* xD

As this has not gotten any attention or acknowledgement yet. Bump

I have tried resetting network, clearing and resetting all ip and dns settings. Attempted static DNS through multiple services and regions with no changes.

This is not hardware issue but networking and server. First 3 days were fine then started out of the bule late the third day. All other performance is fine and have no other network issues with applications, computer, or home network

GGG please see this thread and start looking into this.

fun times paying for a game and the devs wont even acknowledge at 50 page thread....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sG8MyhHP_E

It had been decent enough that I tried to go for 3rd ascendency, and it got worse over time. By the time I got to the 3rd boss, it was like this. Needless to say, I couldn't dodge the boss and quickly lost the trials.

I love this game despite the issues, but I genuinely cannot play it anymore until this is resolved.

I'm a software developer, I can give you guys any information you need about my PC, specs and network to get this fixed. Please let me know if there's literally anything I can help with to identify, acknowledge, and resolve these network stutters.

Keep F1: watch network spike.

Enter new area/zone -
* If network spikes- click CTRL on either checkpoint or door and click new instance
* Repeat until you find instance where network is good
* In all 3 days, since it started happening, for me usually takes 2-3 times, in absolute worst case 4 times till you get GOOD NETWORK and no lag whatsoever for entire map.

* Once found good instance,
-you CAN teleport out of it and back, lag will not return
-you CAN NOT die - if you die you moist likely will need new instance again losing all map progress and layout
-this trick does not work on encampments I am not sure how to get new instance for encampments - does give you a choice.


Since it started 3 days ago approx. and only happened in evenings. its most likely that there are some rotten servers/load balancers/data centers in the mix, and they are getting used only on heavy loads as last resort or something.

During day all works fine.

I am having the exact same issues... I cant even play right now. Hopefully this gets resolved soon.

Same problems for me