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

The game is unplayable most of the time. I live a few zip codes away from their Cali servers and it still lag spikes every minute. In a game where one stutter could be hours wasted fixing their servers should be priority. Its been months and still garbage netcode. I literally cant go into any boss encounter because there is no pause. WTF Please at least address this

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PrimeReturn#0545 wrote:

Yep, after patch 0.1.1b, the game's latency keeps oscillating between 20ms and 500ms. Occasionally, it spikes dramatically, causing disconnections. The game was running smoothly before the patch. I’m experiencing the same issue on PoE1.

having the same issues. Had some crashes and disconnects before, but since a couple of days the game is near unplayable. I just checked and on 24th Jan my OS (Win11) did update to version 24H2.

same issue currently.... didnt have any issues until tonight. oscillating 30-400ms latency non stop ... my connection is fine and nothing else changed.

same same
stable FPS on high end machine, PC is not breaking a sweat. wired connection with sub 10ping.

game hangs and then "fast forwards" for 1-3 second constantly. It is extremely annoying.

Please fix it.... :(

Made few tests now and at my hide out Canal Hideout Im getting up to 5k ms, i teleported to Lost city cruel and the ms was 32 and never moved above..........

125 pages of people complaining of the same thing... Yet GGG has yet to come out and address this problem. Only way I can play is with low settings. Somedays its not terrible and other days I die because the game can't handle what is happening.

Same here, for me it started only a few days ago... thought my computer got roasted after all the hard shut downs i had to do while loading screen freezes..

ssame issue... i thought its because of my location (country) but its happens with a lot of friends especialy with maps that have cold/fire/shock on them. the lag seems less during the day, but night time its unplayable.
Also have the same crash of PC when loading... no alt f4 no alt+ctrl+del, noting works, oonly hard restart. Someting is realy wrong with the game to crash the PC and yesterday i had it few ties in a row, i even wrote a post but... GGG dont care apperantly.

Hallo guys, i had the same problems as yours, i'm on high end pc with Nvidia card and the game was unplayable, high FPS but a lot of lag spikes. I found a solution posted on reddit from someone, i've downgraded my Nvidia drivers to 560.94 and my problem disappeared. It's really annoying but now i can play the game without lag spikes. Hope it helps.
Link to Nvidia drivers i'm using now: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/230853/

I don't know if this has been brought up here already, but something to try that solved the network lag for me was to disable chat and type /clear.

I haven't had any stuttering and lag after I did that.

Edit: To be clear the game can still stutter due to fps drops, but as far as network lag goes this solved it.