EU servers unplayable with Holy Strike

Constant Network and Shader spikes that completely freeze the game, then accellerate everything at 5000% speed to catch up. Lockstep is enabled

Happens nearly every map, changing instance does not help. Has been the same for several leagues now, where it's better to play at 150 ping and US servers

example bugreport 2 012 727 879
Last bumped on Mar 18, 2026, 4:32:59 PM
Its not the build, i have the same issue on cyclone.

I get "power point presentation" on my screen, while latency shows its jumping between 20-50ms, framerate is 100+, but im doing slow motion gameplay, once i get out of the "bugged area" it goes super speed, and when i get near the area where it happened, it does it again, checked with ritual, where rerolling favours spikes the MS to 2000, even though after it loaded or outside the ritual windows it was showing 20-50ms lagging like crazy.

Specs:
Ryzen 7 5800x3D.
32Gb DDR4 3600Mhz.
Rtx 4060 Ti 8Gb.
1000Mbps/100Mbps (1Gbps) Download/Upload connection (optical), connected through LAN.
Running on WD Black SN770 NVMe SSD (Gen 4).

Its getting pretty annoying as its making the game unplayable.
not only HS. I am playing frost blade (Xbox X) and I have to hard reset the game every other map. Never had a problem with a more intense build 2 weeks ago with 3.27
Last edited by Galarfr#7981 on Mar 16, 2026, 3:17:38 PM
It's not really your builds, the EU servers are just beyond shit currently (and for a while now). Regardless of which exact server I play on or what build i'm using (although the ones with many projectiles + high attack/cast speed are definitely worse in that regard), it's regular "slideshow" mode during peak EU hours.

At the same time, GGG will just point fingers at our ISPs and then cross their hands (even when you have no problems with any other online game/service or your connection speed/stability in general). I can literally stream 4k content with 0 interruptions (while also running a continuous ping test to various websites hosted outside of my own country with no packet loss), but somehow my ISP "has problems" only with the servers GGG use.

Having said that, I will personally not spend another cent on this game until GGG take some meaningful actions to improve their EU servers (such as you know, maybe paying a bit more to move to a different provider) - if you want your customers to respect and support you, I would highly recommend doing the same in return.

Stay sane exiles!
Last edited by VAD_e#7455 on Mar 18, 2026, 4:34:31 PM

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