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

I've had the same problem since day 4. The first 3 days were surprisingly really smooth, given there was probably much more players playing the game on that first weekend too.

Network lag now happens throughout the day, but it's particularly bad in NA prime time. I've tried all the posted solutions, I think changing network=predictive was the only one that seemed to have an impact, but it still varies from day to day how bad the lag can be. Well switching instances sometimes helps too, but you can't really do that when you get to mapping.

Maybe there's an issue with server overload because of all the pets, maybe some skills are not optimized, maybe something with server hardware. Who knows, but unfortunately we're probably stuck like this until Jan at the earliest now if they bother to look into it anytime soon.

Same problem here. Game is actually unplayable for me too now. Happening since 4-5 days ago.

same here, it's been happening for me with any settings I tried since some patch from like 4-5 days ago, the first 5-6 days, it was super smooth but now it's basically unplayable

4-5 days ago, it started. 20-25ms ping then spikes to 200-500, sometimes 1500-2000ms and will get disconnected 2-3 times per hour at least. 4090 with i9, 64GB ram, nvme SSD, etc. No lag on other games. I don't know what to do.

It was fine when the game came out but now, it's unplayable.

What's going on?

The lag spike problems continue. It might seem that I have a bad connection or that I'm downloading a lot at the same time, but that's not the case. As I've described in previous comments, this only happens with Path of Exile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4FZDhoBwWA

Lag spikes are killin it :(

fix the network issues it is making it not fun at all to play

It is sad to see we still experience performance issues in a brand new client PoE2. Me and 2 of my friends have nearly same high end spec PCs and after the first few days (probably bcuz we were doing campaign, not maps) we have been getting bad performance overall.

In town or scenario, we get around 250 to 400fps but when we go to maps, fps drops to 90-100s in combat and sometimes lower, creating mini stutters which are annoying.

We all have Ryzen 7800x3d branded as best cpu for gaming, 4070/7900xtx gpu, 32/64gb ram and the rest of the parts are also high tier.

I also have to say that I'm super disappointed, this just feels like a poe1 client copy paste with a better engine but still includes the bad poe1 foundation. The performance graph is the worst one I've ever seen in a game

yeah this is driving me crazy, kinda hard to play

I'm at my 12th disconnect in the last 30 minutes.

Fix your game GGG.