Ping problem and "game hiccup"

Hello

I've read some post concerning ping and mostly it's fault of ISP and/or signal carriers like Telia. That's my problem - TELIA. I did some tests and here the're:



|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| WinMTR statistics |
| Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
| 192.168.0.1 - 0 | 1787 | 1787 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 0 |
| war-bg3.neo.tpnet.pl - 1 | 1783 | 1782 | 16 | 53 | 386 | 119 |
| war-r2.tpnet.pl - 1 | 1782 | 1781 | 15 | 51 | 303 | 112 |
| hbg-b1-link.telia.net - 16 | 1113 | 944 | 32 | 61 | 319 | 145 |
| hbg-bb1-link.telia.net - 1 | 1783 | 1782 | 32 | 69 | 413 | 143 |
| ash-bb4-link.telia.net - 1 | 1779 | 1777 | 120 | 156 | 408 | 210 |
| ash-b1-link.telia.net - 1 | 1775 | 1772 | 120 | 168 | 413 | 234 |
|xe-3-0-1.bbr01.eq01.wdc02.networklayer.com - 1 | 1779 | 1777 | 120 | 155 | 415 | 231 |
| ae0.bbr01.tl01.atl01.networklayer.com - 15 | 1124 | 958 | 148 | 182 | 421 | 258 |
| ae13.bbr02.eq01.dal03.networklayer.com - 1 | 1767 | 1762 | 153 | 187 | 467 | 271 |
| ae1.dar02.sr01.dal01.networklayer.com - 0 | 1786 | 1786 | 153 | 185 | 442 | 249 |
| po2.fcr05.sr06.dal01.networklayer.com - 0 | 1786 | 1786 | 153 | 187 | 440 | 258 |
|173.192.44.22-static.reverse.softlayer.com - 1 | 1782 | 1781 | 152 | 184 | 440 | 254 |
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WinMTR v0.92 GPL V2 by Appnor MSP - Fully Managed Hosting & Cloud Provider

Game is almost unplayable under those conditions. min ping is 150 max (spikes) 1s. Mobs are teleporting, I'm dying. IS there something I can do with it? Force some other route?

It does affect some other games, I think everything west from my country, but eg diablo I don't feel it that much, game is perfectly playable at 150ms. In Poe though everything is crazy at this ping.

my IP is atm 79.185.112.194 and hostname is adpe194.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl


The other issue I have with the game is this "hiccup". Every time I minimize the game, even for one second and come back to play my fps is all over the place, from 0 to 60. It takes some moving and 10-15s, maybe more to stabilize this. No idea why it's like that.
I'm running an SSD samsung 830, C2D E8400@4GHz and radeon HD4870.

I'd really appreciate some help.

Well I don't think there's anything GGG can do about Europe's lag. I might be able to explain the hiccups you see though.

When the game loses focus, the graphics driver detects that the computer doesn't need full-speed GPU clock, and to save power will underclock the card. You can eliminate this power saving feature in the settings, but I wouldn't recommend it unless you always shut your computer off when you aren't playing 3D intensive games, and you alt-tab frequently.

It only happens in PoE. I played games for many years and haven't seen anything that intensive after minimizing. Few seconds, maybe, but 15? that's crazy. It's something more than what you've said about the GPU.

Ah, that is a very long time. I guess I'm mistaken.

Is it a slow CPU or something? Let's see your hardware specs. You can use https://www.piriform.com/speccy to grab that information quickly. A dxdiag report would be great in spoiler tags.

I wrote already key hardware:
- C2D E8400 @ 4Ghz- it's old, but not too slow for this game.
- radeon HD4870
- SSD samsung 830

I can minimize every other game just fine.