Lag Spikes? Read this carefully

[Hadley333]

I've done some extensive efforts to minimize lag spikes. Quick summary: I'm routinely getting spikes 300+ when my ping overall is 20ms. This results in lagging every 30 seconds to a minute. I know I'm not the only one.

Ultimately I have discovered it's my ISP. Try it yourself type CMD (or terminal in windows 11), then type in "ping google.com -t". Keep watching and eventually you may see a time when you can't get a response. This is your spike in ping. I used my 4g as a hotspot and even though ping sucked with 160+, it was still much better than that dreaded lag spike.


HOWEVER: When I fire up the original POE1, it's nowhere near as bad. It's still there some, but ESPECIALLY when I put "predictive," on in the game options, it's almost nonexistent. WHEN I PUT PREDICTIVE IN THE NETWORK OPTIONS OF POE2, IT CHANGES NOTHING, UNLIKE SETTING PREDICTIVE MODE IN POE1.

I've played countless other games online and poe2 has been the worst experience. I've contacted my isp but I'm not sure there's much I can do.

So if you're in this same category, please reach out to GGG and hopefully they will make this game more forgiving like POE1 is.

P.S. yes some have suggested it was my ISP but I've been in disbelief when other games work so well.

[BuckWidIt]

I have also had a very bad ping issue in poe2 that I don't have in any other game. I have posted on the forums on the website and I hope they can fix this issue once they get back from holiday because it makes the game unplayable for me.

[Pervy]

Those devs better rest up, they got ALOT of work ahead of them.

[Nightskies]

Them 'fixing' this by making them more forgiving will cost something. I would think that it would mean more lag for users without problems, or more vulnerability to cheating... but I don't know.

I would like to know what that cost would be. We don't need to know though, its their business and they already know users with bad connections may find it unplayable. But whatever the case is, its clear that the spikes are on the user or their ISP and not the PoE2 servers.

And they have posted how to find and solve that problem. Its not their fault that Google swarms people with results from people who don't know what they're talking about.

[Klabster]

OMG fix lags. Every fkn day same ♥♥♥♥. they released online Arpg with broken servers or netcode. idk wtf is even that

[Anderson]

I am having the same issue. I wont try gain the ascendance quest untill its fixed.

[Ilya]

Devs aren't even acknowledging this. I have lost countless of maps to lag and its ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ unplayable right now. I dont understand how i can play Dota 2 and Apex with stable connection but when it comes to PoE2 its literally unplayable with no fixes in sight. I regret putting in the hours and buying tabs for this when i cant even walk a few meters without my character teleporting everywhere. This shouldn't be an issue in 2025.

[Hadley333]

Originally posted by Ilya:

Devs aren't even acknowledging this. I have lost countless of maps to lag and its ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ unplayable right now. I dont understand how i can play Dota 2 and Apex with stable connection but when it comes to PoE2 its literally unplayable with no fixes in sight. I regret putting in the hours and buying tabs for this when i cant even walk a few meters without my character teleporting everywhere. This shouldn't be an issue in 2025.

Someone else mentioned that in their Q&A yesterday it was mentioned they will be adding a predictive mode like poe1 has. It will be a little while though since the team that works on this are still on break. (how long are their breaks its mid january lol)

[Marilketh]

Chat was causing me and my friend to lag.
It doesn't matter if you have it "turned off".

Do /global # and /trade # and pick a high number so you aren't there with other people talking. Fixed it for both of us. Massive difference.

[Bob Gnarly]

Feels like server issues to me.

Hong Kong which is my closest server has crazy lag spikes, especially during peak times. Switching to Singapore which has a higher ping is more stable and actually playable.

[Amphion91]

Lag deaths are best deaths. Nothing like running 7 maps, not dying once, then getting lag spike out of existence and losing 10% xp.

[Caramel_Clown]

Why are you pinging google for this. There's absolutely no guarantee that you get to GGG's servers through the same nodes. This is utterly pointless as a test of any kind.

[Arkan]

Originally posted by Amphion91:

Lag deaths are best deaths. Nothing like running 7 maps, not dying once, then getting lag spike out of existence and losing 10% xp.

I've lost 2 divs already this way. Nothing like watching it just out of reach of your dead character's hands because you've got 10000ms ping all of a sudden. Yeah, and also getting disconnected right after you open boss portal is also very fun.

[Necropants]

What ... I dont even have predicitive in the menu for poe2 , they said they have it currently disabled as they work some bugs out with it.