Help! FPS Drops Every 60 Seconds-ish - CPU MS, SHADER Spikes

Please watch the video linked below of me running a map just for an example of what I'm experiencing. The beginning shows my graphics settings, which was recommended to me to use via Nvidia GeForce Experience.

Server: California (US) (Also have the same issue on Texas server)

Here are my PC specs:

MB - MSI Z370 Pro
CPU - Intel Core i7-8700K
GPU - Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080
PSU - Corsair RM1000X Gold
RAM - 48gb DDR4 2400
Storage - Samsung NVMe 980 2TB

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYa834TIW8Q

I have gone through many different troubleshooting methods on my own from various other posters which include the following:

Changed Renderer to Vulcan
Changed Renderer to DX12
Lowered all of my graphic settings to minimums
Changed networking mode to Lockstep
Changed networking mode to Predictive
Disable Engine Multithreading
Disable Threaded optimization in Nvidia Control Panel

None of the above options have fixed my FPS drops. If you watch the video you'll notice as my FPS drops, Shader is spiking, my CPU MS rises and the MS above the FPS rises as FPS drops. It's also very interesting that it is happening almost exactly 1 minute apart from the last FPS drop.

Please help, I would love to play this game smoothly but sometimes these FPS drops are brutal, and sometimes they feel far worse than the ones that occurred in the video example. I have also experienced leaping around a map, only to have my character back where he was 3 seconds ago as if I didn't have internet for those 3 seconds. This does not happen as often as the FPS drops but I don't know if it might be related in some way in determining what the issue is with my system / POE configuration. Doesn't really seem to matter if I'm in a map or in town, it may not actually spike down if I'm not moving and afk in town, but as soon as I move from being afk for a while sometimes that activates the FPS drop as well.

This is how California server has been for me most of the league. To me that looks like packet loss and not another hardware problem on your side.

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sevens67 wrote:

This is how California server has been for me most of the league. To me that looks like packet loss and not another hardware problem on your side.

After reading this I figured I would try and switch off of the California server but I experience the same drops on the Texas server as well.

What does the MS above the FPS represent? It's not my Latency because when I swapped to the Texas server, I am still showing 19 MS at 60 FPS while having my Latency raised to about 43ms. So I'm kind of curious what the 19 MS represents. Even while my CPU MS spikes up, the 19 MS does not go up. Maybe it has something to do with my monitor?

That is a good question I do not know what the ms above fps represents. If you hit F1 twice you will get just the network latency, and if that is spiking when you have these events then it is network packet loss. Sorry I am not much help but I hate to see another person pull their hair out chasing an invisible gremlin.

Nah it's all good, I'm not stressing about it too much it's just annoying. Does anyone know if GGG employees with tech support knowledge browse these forums and assist or is this forum just community feedback? Wish someone at GGG could assist, I've read a lot of people are having this type of issue. Would be nice to know it's acknowledged and being looked into at least.

I saw a reddit post talking about this sort of thing possibly being an audio issue. They recommended running a software 'LatencyMon' to test if your computer has issues handling real-time audio. I fail this test with my PC set up. It says it could be a power management problem, or my drivers need to be upgraded or my BIOS needs to be updated... however I am not sure because all my drivers are up to date and I double checked my BIOS is up to date as well. My PSU is brand new as well...

Any thoughts? Frame MS spikes while FPS drops and it's happening every 60 seconds. Something in the background must be triggering this maybe? Unrelated to POE? However I don't see to get FPS drops in other games every 60 seconds so its really hard to tell what the issue is form my point of view.

I was able to fix this by uninstalling NVIDIA GeForce Experience. Hope this can save some headaches for people experiencing this same issue. I used to use GeForce Experience to keep my GPU driver updated but apparently for some people this has been causing FPS drops every 60 seconds for 8 years now. Here's a link to a post on NVIDIA's site 8 years ago. Sad it hasn't been fixed after all this time.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/geforce-experience/14/215272/nvidia-geforce-experience-causes-framerate-stutter/