Game periodically stops responding to input for seconds or minutes

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Yup, having the same issue, my game freezes and latency can go up to 200k MS latency... It's insanely bad and nothing I've tried to fix it worked... I have 0 packet loss either

It's a server slot machine. Sometimes you RNG lose your map.

I'll start by saying I am not staff nor a regular poster, and apologizing for the gigawall of text.

(Yes this happens to me too, I get random spikes of fake-ping anywhere from 3k-700k ms when up until that point the game ran fine. TL;DR quasi-answer, the route the game took to whatever instance/map included a jank-as-hell cardboard box hop point, probably run out of the back of one of many abandoned 7-11/KFC/video rental combo stores, and GGG has shown no capacity to fix that, nor interest in investing in optimizing/controlling that. The deal-with-it solution I settled on, keep zoning in and out or changing instances until the spikes stop showing up. Which yes, sucks for maps and anything with limited portals. And people with better things to do.)

Below is the observed flowchart for any semblance of support for this specific issue for...like...years, almost every time a "lag/latency spikes after last patch/over the past couple of weeks/just yesterday after I had my morning tea" or "this doesn't happen in my other games" thread pops up.

1) If no WinMTR screenshot is provided, the usual responders will likely not respond until a screenshot is, or just respond to request one, or point to the sticky.
1a) People piggybacking on the post, MTR screenshot or no, usually doesn't get received well.
2) Usually they'll point at some random hop in the log and go, "Well there's your problem right there, it's on your ISP's end, not on GGG's end, go call your ISP and send them the log. It's their job to fix it." Any response to that is usually met with a mix of jargon like packet prioritization, or some mix of letters that boils down to "not relevant, not the problem." Maybe a "check your router, the hop to your box on the street is showing issues."
3) The ISP usually doesn't care, it's not like you typically have the choice to threaten to cancel/switch. Neither do the responders; the reason for the lag/freezes was found, and that's the end of the discussion, do with their observations what you will.
4) The thread usually dies with no indication as to whether or not the ISP actually did something about it, or so much as a "thanks, that (or something else) worked/helped," to give others hope that it'll work for them.
5) The problem persists.
6) You look in all the other posts and YouTube videos and Reddit posts for whatever people say worked for them. Disable audio, change renderer, shading, registry editing, nail polish you use on the hand you mash flasks with.
7) It won't work for you. You eventually take a break from the game in hopes it gets fixed later.
8) It doesn't. At most you hit a lucky streak where you won't encounter those terrible hop points for awhile.

OR, in the extremely unlikely event the MTR log SHOWS something significant on GGG's end of things, "contact GGG so they can contact THEIR ISP." Which, APPARENTLY if other threads are any indication, will direct you to post here.

The end.

try disabling multi threading in options

Disabling engine threading seems to cure it for me.

Edit: Scratch that, it seems to help some but not eliminated.

I have the same issue and I know 2 more people who have this problem.

Is there really no solution?

/edit: disable multithread does not help.

Sometimes I start to lag/stutter badly as though experiencing some glitch and usually to fix this I have to switch map.

This never happened before and just started pretty recently in this league after some patch....

I'm literally speechless since first, engine multi-threading was broken and there is 0 response or fixes to it, now THIS, some completely new issue.

Hey guys, I made a super thread for High Latency and Lag Spike issues. If you are having these issues, please post in the following thead.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3306914

Having same issue BUMP.... Latency will continuously spike all the way up to 60k ms causing me to be unable to move until it speeds up really fast catching me up. Cant even play the game and it happens as soon as I load in.

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