Lag spikes (WinMTR results included)

I am having serious probelms with lag spikes, making the game completely unplayable. We're talking complete freezes for 5 seconds or longer. Here are my WinMTR results for the servers I use most frequently. As you see I don't have any problems with packet losses.

Amsterdam: http://pastebin.com/pb25Sq68

Frankfurt: http://pastebin.com/qbrxpUCD

Milan: http://pastebin.com/14Nd6G1F

On 2 of the traces you show 1% loss. Even that tiny bit can muck up this game a bit. In this case it doesn't look to be doing any harm, but it is worth keeping an eye on.

That being said, your latency is way through the roof starting with your third hop....that's just..sheesh. Whoever your ISP is, is either getting flooded with traffic, or something on their end is off. Instantly jumping up to 2k-4k spikes is just evil. And it even impacts your averages as well, which is making it worse.

Give your ISP a call. Make sure they see that MTR, or at the very least, ask about that third hop (give them the IP address) and why you are getting such severe latency from it. See if they can do something about it for you. If they waffle, then make sure they see that MTR.

Forgot to say I'm on a wireless 4G connection. The funny thing i sI can play other online games without any lag or latency at all, like Diablo 3, Hearthstone, Quake Live and EVE: Online. It's only Path of Exile that causes me problems from time to time.

Well this is weird. I switched my modem to another USB port and tried playing on Frankfurt and Amsterdam - no lag at all. My latency halved until I had played for about five minutes, then it spiked at over 4000, but now I think it was just a single packet, or maybe a few, because I had the briefest of glitches, otherwise the game runs beautifully.

I really wish WinMTR would display a list of all packets, so you could see if it's only a few or a whole bunch that are affected. My average latency is 143, and my worst is over 4700, but like I said I think it's just a handful of packets.

Anyway, the game works fine now, so I guess it doesn't really matter.

I've been having some SEVERE problems over the last week or so. I get this insane amount of stuttering and my FPS goes from 60 to 5 and then back to 60 again. I do have a wifi-connection, but I'm getting exactly the same number that I've always had when it comes to latency, and I've played PoE for years, here's my WinMTR:

http://pastebin.com/Zn885xbH

As you can see my worst is over 3k, BUT my average is almost the same as my best, so it's just a single spike or a few over almost 20k packets (I let it run for hours just to be sure). So my latency isn't the problem, because it's been over 100 on average and the game ran beautifully. Now my game stutters ALL the time. It's practically unplayable.

- It doesn't matter if I run 15 programs in the background or none.
- It doesn't affect any other online game (Elite: Dangerous, GTA V, Black Desert, Tera, Eve Online, Diablo 3 all run perfectly). Same story with offline games, no problem getting stable framerates in Shadow of Mordor, GTA V, Skyrim Special Edition, Fallout 4, DOOM etc.
- Lockstep or Predictive makes no difference whatsoever.
- Graphic settings don't matter; I've tried it with everything maxed and with everything turned off/turned down to the lowest setting.
- The only hardware change I've done lately is I bought an SSD and installed PoE in it, but I have other games on the same SSD, and they run beautifully. PoE also ran beautifully until last week.
- I know people have had problems with AMD hardware, but I've run it without problem on an FX 8350 that I've had for three years. I've had my graphics card (R9 390 8GB) for a year, no problems at all until now.

I'm hoping the DX11 client will somehow magically fix this, but in the meantime, does anyone have any idea what my problem could be?