Game periodically stops responding to input for seconds or minutes

for some reason this just started today for me, I played on league start just fine but when I woke up today the lag spikes started nothing to bad at first but then around 7/8 pm est things got unplayable 30/40 seconds in-game and i get DCed, I've played this game since beta and I hope this doesn't end it for me.


Edit: I've done a little testing and this is what I found I enter a new zone/instance the first lag spike hits then 1 minute 15 seconds later the second lag spike hits and DCs me I've tested moving and not moving nothing changes but a funny thing happens when I move to a new zone in that 1 minute and 15 seconds everything resets I get the first lag spike then 1 minute 15 seconds later I get the DC spike so I tested it more and I found if I keep changing zones before the second spike I don't get DCed, Then i tested what happened if I sat in town the same lag spike every 1 minute 15 seconds but I never got DCed in the 10 minutes I sat there. for the record this has never happened to me before so this is completely new.

same

Same nearly unplayable

Have the same issue, sometimes it happens multiple times for one location and then may not happens for half and hour, game is literally unplayable. My internet connection is not the best one but it is definitely not so bad, other online games work fine.
I start collecting WinMTR logs from instance to instance (I used the following guide https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1377789) and was able to capture the problem.
In town after login: https://pastebin.com/Xaheb5cQ
In random location after some time of normal playing: https://pastebin.com/ttagV6WK

Not sure if it really needed but just for reference I also capture a trace were I was able to finish location without freezes: https://pastebin.com/WKL8nc4U

Same here, random 2k spikes out of nowhere and game freezes for 2-3 seconds every minutes or so, literally unplayable. This happens after every league start and continues for around 1 month until people stops playing, FIX YOUR EU SERVERS GGG!

Same for me. I've had this happen before and connecting through a VPN helped. Now it does either way.

Incredible how there is absolutely no GGG reply on this.
GGG more like John Thompson's GGG. They bukkake us all.

True, that our ISP's also fail, but the tracing to the EU servers is obnociously bad.

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Malafet wrote:

Incredible how there is absolutely no GGG reply on this.
True, that our ISP's also fail, but the tracing to the EU servers is obnociously bad.

So you are saying, non-EU servers might work better?
If this is true, I might just give it a try. I'd rather have 100ms lag consistently than 10ms lag with 120000ms lag in between

This happens to me in EU as well, I have two internet connections at my disposal. One gets the odd 4k ms lag spikes every minute or so, like clock work.

The other one gets DCs all the time (like 5 times within a single zone while leveling), but no 4k lag spikes. i don't know what to do really. The game is unplayable.

still cant play