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

What helped me:

Report: Everything was fine during the first days after launch until I updated the Nvidia drivers to the latest version for PoE 2. After some time, the game started to stutter, and I had to adjust the graphics settings depending on the map.
The CPU MS would randomly spike to 200, 500, or even 1000, possibly because of the shaders? Even when allocating more power to the GPU.

What I tried:

Clearing shader cache
Changing ini to networking_type=predictive
Updating drivers
What worked FOR ME:
Switching from DirectX12 to Vulkan

My PC specs:

RTX 3060
AMD Ryzen 5600G
16GB RAM
On the first days after release the game runed smooth. After the last patch there are lags like hell and constantly crashes and freezes to the desktop. Actually it is unplayable. What i see is, that when a lot of stuff is starting to load the game kicks me out - like start of breaches, start of ritual or the second phase of the ascendancy honour endboss. Normally i have went for points number 7 and 8 but thats actually impossible cause the game kicks me out. I hope there is a new patch soon. By the way: great game actually with some things to improve in the future.
Last edited by Schwieger#5464 on Dec 21, 2024, 9:57:02 AM
Love the game but this is a horrible gameplay experience currently. Like most others, everything was as smooth as silk for the first 2-3 days. Then all hell broke loose... <15 fps, >80-150ms. Lag, lag, stutter, lag.

Having played in these conditions I will be unkillable when I actually have control of my character.

i9-12900HX
3080ti
32RAM
SSD

Tried:
All of what people have previously mentioned
Windows reinstall
Bios Updated
GPU Drivers updated
Overclocking

GGG --> acknowledge --> Give.us.some.feedback.
it seems that I found a way to completely "FIX" the latency issue, at least for me..

I had the Frankfurt server auto-selected, which seems to have these network and latency issues - after switching to Milan (probably others could work as well?), and making sure that the map/instance is indeed in the Milan server, everything seems to work great

make sure that you refresh the instance, since if you just switch a server and log right back in, any open instance, like a map, can still be on the old server, thus it will seem like nothing has changed.. (you can see the instance's server on the right side after clicking tab)
Last edited by VeithPoE2#8910 on Dec 21, 2024, 1:02:37 PM
Ryzen 7800x3d@AMD RX 6800xt@128GB Ram (tested 64GB,32GB kits, no impact) and have same issue which start after first patch. Two clean WIn10@11 installs, bios updating, reseting, driver fiesta, trying literary all possibilities and NOTHING help.
Game is unplayable, have no chance to do deliriums/rituals or anything hardloading stuffs on map. Died plenty of times because off screen rares killing or so.
Please fix this crap
Adding my "same here!" post so maybe GGG will pay attention from just the sheer numbers. had silky smooth performance for first 3 days of launch at some point something changed and it got progressively worse. which feels backwards AF. I Stuttering mess ever since.

My System: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X CPU, 32gb RAM GDDR5, 7900xt GPU, windows 11 Home

sometimes i'll get like 15mins without a stutter, and then bang, one every 15-60seconds. every boss battle specifically stutters. No matter what. I've tried a ton of things and none if its worked, specifically:

-Lowering all settings to low
-changing servers
-purposefully dying to "resync" the server or some crap i read that sounds like it was a troll
-changing from directx to vulkan
-deleting shader cache
-making sure windows and drivers are all updated

I know there are more things to try, but the consensus seems to be its all a waste of time.

The game is infuriating to play rn. with a game designed around needing to pay attention and mastering boss mechanics, stuttering in a boss fight makes you want to smash your keyboard. sometimes i'll go 15mins and think im free from it. but i never am.
Same issue as shown on other people screen recordings. Have mostly stable ping of 60ms but every few seconds get a spike even a small one like 250ms for just a moment instantly freezes the game. I am not getting same problems in other online games. They really need to add some kind of server side prediction, 100ms desync should not produce freezes with modern server tech.
Weekends are just unplayable with the network lag. My friend has same issues on same ISP, other ones have different ISPs and having no lag.
My ISP is - OJSC "Vimpelcom"
Tried VPNs, Other realms on log-in, problem persists with an occasional stable realm once in a blue moon.
Almost no lag at night or work days. So clearly a bandwith problem.
It seems any "fix" presented by other users having this issue is just a coincidence and it's only temporary. It's only a matter of time before it pops up again. Please look into this GGG.
the problem for spiked lag with fireball solve for me just remove the raging spirit gem is the problem

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