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

Anyone figure this out without having to reinstall all my drivers and the game? I shouldn't have to if every other game I own doesn't have this issue.

I loved this game but it is unplayable with this lag issue.

Same problem here, only workaround I found is to quit the game and restart it. Happens every few hours, anywhere really, maps, cities, etc, kind of randomly, stutters like hell despite steady 15ms ping and steady 120 fps. Playing on Steam. Windows 11 is up to date, every driver is up do date from the storage drivers to the network card driver, everything I even flashed the latest bios last chrismtas... Idk what to do.

Same here. All servers, internet is fine with all other apps, ethernet connections, etc.

Can the devs please help with this issue? Or at the very least please let the player base know it’s being noticed and acknowledged/worked on…

I bought early access and was so happy to find a game that got me into grinding again and was fun, but now because of the stuttering on my ps5 the game has become unplayable. It even stutters when just standing around in town. Please let us know this is being looked at because I’m starting to wonder if I’m even going to be able to play again anytime soon if at all.

I fixed my stuttering, freezing, and crashing by turning off core 0 while I play.

Run Path of Exile
Task Manager
Details
right-click "pathofexile.exe"
Set Affinity
uncheck "Core 0"
select "OK"

Have to do this every time you start the game, but it runs well for me, now. Oddly, the performance meter was showing "Network" as my bottleneck, so not really sure why this worked. I mean I understand why it might boost processing performance, but I would have though "network" signalled an issue between me and the GGG server.

This lag spike issue is stranger than you think. One of my characters has no problem, all other characters and new characters have the problem. So it is very difficult to say that the problem is a network or PC problem. I recorded it, it starts at 40 seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTYFbDwu8z0

Funny enough here is something that worked for me:

Go to nvidia control panel > manage 3d settings > program settings > look for or add pathofexilesteam.exe > virtual reality pre-rendered frames > set to 1.


I had it on 'Use the application 3D setting' and the moment and changed this it stopped doing latency lag.

Hope this will help someone.

Previously I was using GeForce Experience and now updated to NVIDIA app.

Updated my driver to suit POE2 and this happened. everything seems fine, only the mouse pointer getting lag spikes every 3-5seconds for 1-3seconds. extremely annoying and unplayable.

something happened. pls fix ASAP.

if youve been in the game for a long session every single line in the chat will cause cpu/frame ms spikes. eventually it'll cause literal stutters with every line of text.

closing chats doesnt help, but typing /cls does... until it starts doing it again. weird stuff.