Frequent and consistent lag spikes

having the same issue. i only lag when i enter certain maps leading me to believe its an instance issue. kept resetting my modem thinking its on my end. interestingly enough i would connect through my phone tether while my modem rebooted and the lag would seem to MOSTLY dissipate(still had spikes, but my game wouldn't lock up.) could be coincidence or something else more complicated. no idea, but very frustrating.

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Kotrr wrote:

having the same issue. i only lag when i enter certain maps leading me to believe its an instance issue. kept resetting my modem thinking its on my end. interestingly enough i would connect through my phone tether while my modem rebooted and the lag would seem to MOSTLY dissipate(still had spikes, but my game wouldn't lock up.) could be coincidence or something else more complicated. no idea, but very frustrating.

You could help find out. Run This Test and post the results in your own thread. It will show if you're getting any packet loss and where said loss originates. If it's a server issue, it will show it.

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Shovelcut wrote:

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Kotrr wrote:

having the same issue. i only lag when i enter certain maps leading me to believe its an instance issue. kept resetting my modem thinking its on my end. interestingly enough i would connect through my phone tether while my modem rebooted and the lag would seem to MOSTLY dissipate(still had spikes, but my game wouldn't lock up.) could be coincidence or something else more complicated. no idea, but very frustrating.

You could help find out. Run This Test and post the results in your own thread. It will show if you're getting any packet loss and where said loss originates. If it's a server issue, it will show it.

i assume i would have to run the test while im connected to an instance where im experiencing the lag?

If you follow the link it provides instructions. Good luck!

Just to confirm it was my end.

MY ISP is Talk Talk and they, unfortunately, have occasional intermittent glitches.

This happened to be one of them.

It is the first time I ran into it while running POE though so that's why I ran the test to find out.

I ran WinMTR while playing and having these issues and the worst ping it showed was 59, while in game I sometimes had 0.5 second long freezes. For me this only started happening since around the 3.0.1 patch.

For me, since 3.0 the lag issues make the game unplayable at later levels (without many deaths). I didn't even try a HC character this go round because of these issues. At lower levels I can play around the lag issues somewhat, but at later levels it just means death. There are enough posts in this thread to indicate that somewhere around 3.0 there was a bug/glitch introduced causing constant lag issues. Would be nice if GGG would comment on this..........until then I'll be playing something else I guess because freeze-> unfreeze -> corpse = no fun

See also:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/6vyked/about_70_of_instances_i_create_have_very_frequent/

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VeryMelon wrote:

I ran WinMTR while playing and having these issues and the worst ping it showed was 59, while in game I sometimes had 0.5 second long freezes. For me this only started happening since around the 3.0.1 patch.

Please post the results WinMTR here so the GGG team can analyse what is happening.

:)

Well I've come to the conclusion that ALL my lag spikes have emanated from DX11, while running PoE in DX11 the lag spikes are horrendous, but as soon as I go back to using DX9 I've been getting the normal 25-30ms latency range instead of anything up to 1200-1500ms. So until GGG sort out DX11 looks like it's only DX9 for me.

I have been lagging out every 3-5mins once I am in an instance (never in town) which was very strange. I never had this problem and I have no such connectivity problems with other games.

I did the WINMTR test and results are below:

https://pastebin.com/C0h2anuB

Anyone has pointers for me to start troubleshooting?