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

Same problem on Series X in the US. Makes the game unplayable sometimes. Lots of deaths due to 1-2 second freeze. It’s the only game that does this to me. I have Google Fiber 2Gig and my internet is stable.
Same issue - been fine for the last 24 hours and suddenly deteriated again.

I have a 7900X3d, 7900XTX and a 1GB fibre line.

My ping is fine on every other game I play. For some reason in PoE I get lag spikes constantly, jumping from 16ms all the way into the thousands, completely freezing my game.

The more inputs I perform the worse it seems to become.

The game is completely unplayable when this is happening.

It doesn't seem to matter which server I am on, it's happens on all of them.

The friends that I play with do not experience the same issue.

Same issue with Canada East, 20-40ms and then randomly every 15-30 seconds I shoot up to 10,000ms for a second then the game has to catch up. Same problem I had in PoE1 until I switched to Predictive Network Mode.
Actually unplayable and the only game series that gives me these issues.
Last edited by Syvaris#1402 on Apr 10, 2025, 5:45:57 PM
I am having the same issue with POE 2 0.2.

Game was running just fine in 0.1 for 3 months, and even during 0.2 campaign.

When I reached end game, there was a patch, then after that there's constantly frame drops and spikes and freezes and this game becomes unplayable for me.

I have 4000 hours in POE1 and 360 hours in POE2, this has never happened before
Chiming in confirming that the same is happening to me. GGG staff please let us know if you are working on this!
Same issue since beginning as well. Usually, it's been a sign of overheating in the past, but I watch the temp pretty religiously now, and it's still happens.
Sad to see its not fixable, I will refund until they fix this issue. this game is a popping off so i dont know why they cant fix this.
Same issue here... I am at 14ms Ping...Nework Ping is around 30 ms, but I am getting Network ping spikes up from 10000 to 30000 ms every 10 seconds.
logging off it is unplayable in its current state.
it happend to me too.
I was in Freythorn and then the lag was unbelivable (>400).
No issues on pc or connection or whatever.
Then i went back to town through portal and the lag here was at 11.
Back to freythorn, lag at over 400.
Back to town again with waypoint, lag at 11.
Back to freythorn and stable lag at 30-40 ms (not so good but at least playable).

Don't know what's happening but never experienced anything like this on previous versions.

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