Game constantly 'soft-freezes'
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Example of exactly what I'm talking about + video explanation, i posted this a couple leagues back, and its never stopped: https://youtu.be/peBeD2BksWM
I've asked a few people about this and haven't gotten anywhere with that. so far I've had people tell me my internet isn't working, or to try restarting my router, but no amount of troubleshooting that I've done has helped thus far and I still don't even know what's Actually happening. I encounter this issue EVERY league and I've never found a fix, it happens completely at random and will magically 'fix' itself and stop happening for large lapses of time. (happens one day, wont happen again for weeks, will come back completely at random) as for the issue, when I'm playing my game will 'soft-freeze' (animations still play, I can move, I can cast abilities, but all mobs stop moving and everything is standing still, this lasts indefinitely usually but occasionally after about 5+ minutes, everything tries to catch up all at once playing back at like 10x speed.) (also if I'm on lockstep the only difference is I cant move, but animations still play IE flames, blood, ground effects etc. still play, and i can still zoom in and out on my character) the only 'solution' I've found is to completely exit and restart poe, but obviously this can make running through the acts or even completing a single map nigh impossible. tonight I've been trying to run heist, and have managed to actually complete about 3 in the past 4 hours off an on of playing and troubleshooting. I've posted about this before but no answers as to what might be happening, I've seen other posts of similar issues with no answers, I've tried posting to reddit to no avail, I've tried messaging support even but they aren't willing to help with technical issues also as per the connectivity troubleshooting thread here is a pastebin to a winMTR i took WHILE my client was frozen for the entire ~550 pings before i finally closed out. Pastebin : https://pastebin.com/WGuAqQz6 Last edited by Au5tinz on Oct 28, 2021, 11:21:59 PM Last bumped on Oct 2, 2023, 1:03:43 AM
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So glad I finally found this! I'm having this exact same issue, but the few places I've found other people experiencing the same problem, I've never seen any solutions/suggestions posted for them, so I'm at a loss. Would be amazing if GGG would acknowledge this issue, since it seems to be an ongoing thing. Some of my searches lead me to a 6 year old forum post with this issue, with no response from staff. Hopefully we can get some help here.
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Same problem here, almost impossible to play on hardcore having to force dc every time it happens
No problems with my internet aside from this Poe " soft dc " never had anything like that before with any game and playing on NA server solves the problem with just a slighty 200ms bump hah seems worth it ~jk If any GGG could gives us a light to follow up to like ^ask your provider about routes^ or send us a x file about anything...but i got this for more than a year with differents connections | |
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What you're describing is what happens when you have "predictive mode" on and your game client stops getting updates about the state of the game instance on the server.
What's weird is that normally the client can tell right away that it lost connection with the server and says that it disconnected. But in cases like this, it almost looks like the server is just overwhelmed and isn't managing to send updates to all the clients. That would explain why the client seems to think that the server is fine and online, and that there simply isn't anything happening, since normally it's "told" by the server what changed. |
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Necro-ing this post since no solution was ever posted and a friend of mine is still experiencing the issue.
Has anyone found a solution for this? Changing the networking mode to lockstep didn't seem to help that much. |
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" Looks like an ISP issue. Look how the latency spikes starts --> | RAC2V2S - 0 | 544 | 544 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 0 | | cpe-24-163-44-1.nc.res.rr.com - 0 | 544 | 544 | 8 | 19 | 60 | 24 | | cpe-174-111-106-000.triad.res.rr.com - 0 | 544 | 544 | 9 | 21 | 128 | 25 | | |
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Incorrect. This is not an ISP. I have been having this issue since I started playing POE in 2013... Difference providers, 3 system differences over the years etc... and it still happens. It is random and I could go days without the issue and then boom receive it and die in HC because the game still runs in the backgrouynd but the screen freezes.
It is not screen tearing. I have tried capping my FPS, vsync and gsync etc... nothing works. Full reinstallations did nothing, DDU clean driver reinstalls did nothing and so on. This has been an issue for years and is one reason I'm considering stopping playing POE. I only play in HC and this has killed me multiple times. In fact. My friend playing the same build as me just died at 90 while doing a yellow map because he was fighting 3 bosses and it screen freezed on him also. A simple google search will reveal this is not an ISP problem, has been a problem for years and the devs simply dont know how to fix it. In fact. I have 1GB Fiber line to my home using custom PFSense firewall with way over previsioned hardware to ensure my router/firewall can handle the up and down of my ISP and I also do bandwidth monitor on the firewall it self. I see zero relations to ISP and this issue from the log files. Last edited by androbourne on Oct 2, 2023, 1:06:24 AM
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