Whats ur "secret hack" for good performance?

Constant ping spikes. If you let your ISP manage the route your packets take they will screw you every 2-5 seconds.

I would be walking around my hideout, random maps, every 2-5 seconds i was seeing a latency spike from 30~ ms to 800+ ms. The game would hang for that time and then start running faster to catch up, resulting in me suddenly dying without being able to react because the game server refused to pause the instance for the time or whatever.

I see how it would make the experience smoother for people with ping ranging from 30-50ms but 30-3000 is no bueno.

Anyways, I pay for a specific mole themed VPN on a dedicated computer for downloading legally purchased media files that happen to be stored on other peoples computers. I downloaded their desktop client for my gaming PC, launched it, set my out point closest to the poe2 gateway server (DC to DC or Texas to Texas, you know the deal) and the lag spikes straight up disappeared. 35-38 ms ping the entire time. FPS is another problem i havent dealt with but low fps is still better than high ping, low fps and good ping still allows me to react.

We are 5-15 friend lobby and almost 80% of players who has AMD has some issues with the game. Rest incuding me using intel. Some specs win11 and 3070 and 16gb ram has no issues EVER with the game. Rarely crashing ive experienced worse in other games. Fps is rarely going below 60 and it happens when there is a lot i mean a lot happening on screen. Even thou my rig is not that great. On otherhand friends having AMD have a lot of issues but maybe that is just coincidence. Of course game need to be optimized since i could run game not 60-100 but on 100+ fps but oh well. I dont think that should be primary target before launch. It is important that game works well enough to test other things. When other things is ok we can fix issues related to performance. Network servers were actually really at the start, but now internet often spikes very bad. Maybe related to my own provider. Just the timing. If things worked before and is not working now in specified timeframe somewhat feels relatable. Everyone is still playing and complaining about everything in the game like it is finished and launched. We are somewhat developers at this point we are here to report bugs and help game to become playable. Unfortunately we are many and doing great contibution but they are like 3 people working on this project so it will take time. How much good game developers you can find in one country (based on job application requirements). But thats topic for another day. Hrrr. Waiting for next season. Their priority is and will be for some time PoE1 afterall thats consistent moneypool. Anyways i really enjoyed this 3rd EA league amazing time. Over 800 hours squeezed out of it. Just hope they will not rush it and make trashbag at the end.

Dont play....Best hack ever