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

As usual, after 9PM EST today the game is unplayable for several hours. I've collected all my fragments to fight the pinnacle boss and as soon as I go to the Burning Monolith it starts doing the network spiking. I'm just glad I didn't waste my fragments. If I go back to town, it's fine, no more lag. This is instance-related because I've noticed it is 100% consistent with only one area of the game. It's like if there are a lot of people doing maps, you can't do maps, but you can do campaign stuff with 0 lag since there's fewer people there.

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Capefear#1530 wrote:

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What you need to do, is to launch the game, then open the Task Manager (Alt+Ctrl+Delete -> Task Manager), select "Details" tab (as shown on screenshot below) and find PathOfExileSteam.exe process. Right click it, select "Set Affinity". And then disable the first core (CPU 0). Then switch back to the game and check if stuttering is gone.

This did not work for me in the slightest, afaik this is entirely on their side and any form of solution people have posted are likely just a placebo. Hopefully it works for others :(

as i said, won't help everyone. Definitely helped me. Your particular issue might not be cpu related at all

This also happens to me sometimes, 30 ms to 25k ms latency.

I have found a temporary solution but you have to do this before logging into the game.

My ISP is having a dispute with Cloudflare so I thought that was the main source of the network problem, but as it's so widespread it might not be, anyway the fix is working.

I had another problem with one of my streaming sites and this app solved that as well.
One downside is that the extra 30-40ms but the 25k spikes are completely gone.

I'm now using Cloudflare's DNS application (WARP enabled): https://one.one.one.one/

Hope this helps at least some of you.

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eVILgRANDpA#5765 wrote:

Alright guys, might have a temporary solution for Windows users.

NOTE: I won't go into details, but it most certainly will NOT work for everyone, since there seems to be a few different issues related to the stuttering (one involving the networking, by the looks of it).
But this one worked for me.

What you need to do, is to launch the game, then open the Task Manager (Alt+Ctrl+Delete -> Task Manager), select "Details" tab (as shown on screenshot below) and find PathOfExileSteam.exe process. Right click it, select "Set Affinity". And then disable the first core (CPU 0). Then switch back to the game and check if stuttering is gone.
The inconvenient part is that you have to do it every time you start the game. But I hope GGG engineers will figure it out in the next patch.




p.s. sorry for poor image quality.

Thanks worked for me. Hope GGG fix this

there is nothing we can do. it is a server problem. I had no issues, everything was smooth, no lag spikes, nothing till yesterday. since yesterday I have spikes every 30 seconds and I can't play the game normally.


NOTE:
I switched from hard-line to wifi and selected IEEE 802.11b in the settings and everything is smooth again, no lag spikes.

Yeah, I switched back to Diablo 4. You know why? Because at least their game works. Probably not touching PoE2 anytime soon because that performance mess is just embarrassing.

I don’t do workarounds for games I buy—ever. That’s the bare minimum: if I pay for a game, it should at least be functional and playable, especially when the problem is already well-known.

This is the biggest L for GGG, hands down. It’s clear they don’t care about their community if they let stuff like this slide. Why should we have to jump through hoops to enjoy their game? Get it together, GGG.

Its definitely server issue I only have this issue in this game, non other game have any ping spike or stuttering.

101 pages... I'm relieved it's not just me.

95% of maps work fine but the ones that don't are pretty much unplayable.

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S0ulkeeper001#9135 wrote:

Yeah, I switched back to Diablo 4. You know why? Because at least their game works. Probably not touching PoE2 anytime soon because that performance mess is just embarrassing.

I don’t do workarounds for games I buy—ever. That’s the bare minimum: if I pay for a game, it should at least be functional and playable, especially when the problem is already well-known.

This is the biggest L for GGG, hands down. It’s clear they don’t care about their community if they let stuff like this slide. Why should we have to jump through hoops to enjoy their game? Get it together, GGG.

So true. Blizzard might be scubmags but god damn did they deliver a working product that was optimized on day 1. I'm currently using the POEUncrasher cause I get hard crashes that require a full reset. Knock on wood it's helped so far but this game is a disaster and the devs, among the worst. If the game wasn't so good I would never look back.

Update 2: I previously shared that switching away from Wi-Fi to wired ethernet solved the stuttering issues permanently. For context, I was using a mesh Wi-Fi router with speeds of 300Mbps up/down yet still got horrible stutters (huge random lag spikes seen on the in-game ping graph). My wired ethernet speed is 900Mbps up/down and no stutter issues faced there.

While wired ethernet is great and all- I still wanted to game over Wi-Fi because it meant I didn't need to stay tethered at one spot in the house. Today, out of curiosity, I dug out an old Wi-Fi router (Netgear R6220 802.11ac) and tried running POE2 off that. Despite having slower speeds than my mesh router (200Mbps up/100 Mbps down), to my surprise- POE2 ran flawlessly with no stutters, as though I was running the game via wired ethernet.

I wanted to share this experience for those who may have the option of swapping over to wired ethernet or even try switching do a different router; it might just help solve it for you.