Latency Spikes

I have been getting really bad Latency spikes for the past hour. They have been hitting 10k plus then I get disconnected.
I have tried restarting me Router and PC to see if that was the problem, but its still there.

Anyone else having this issue?

Sometimes it catches up but most times I just get disconnected to the login screen.

Speeds up and I usually die lol

It only happens when I play during the most popular hours. I noticed yesterday and today that I can play without any latency issues during the early hours of the morning. But as soon as everyone wakes up it becomes a frequent issue. I'm on Amsterdam (EU) server.

Started having latency spike today, and has been persistently so throughout the day, making the game unplayable.

When latency spikes happen, whatever is on the screen goes into super slow motion, then fast-forwards to catch up to "real time".

Even right now, just idling on the Caravan in Act 2, I can see that I have a stable 30ms latency normally, but whenever a player comes into the instance, the latency spikes to 200ms for a split second then return to 30ms.

In the campaign, this spike happens whenever I move close to a mob pack. This has killed or almost killed me a couple of times today. The game is completely unplayable in this condition.

Never had any of these latency spikes before today. :(

Anyone else suddenly having thsese latency spikes as well?

Same here for me unfortunately.

Spikes and bounces about for a few seconds and I rubber band all over the place, then it just climbs constantly til it hits 8000ms+ and disconnects me.

Doesn't make any difference what time I play, it's consistently done it since 2 days ago now :(.

Running a 2gb direct fibre line to the property and ethernet for the pc, not seeing any packet loss, drops or latency issues when testing/pinging, and never had this issue with other games or PoE2 til 2 days ago.

Tried port forwarding, router reboot, had my ISP double check my line just to be 100% sure, and still the same :(

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AintCare#6513 wrote:

i know its not perfect but if you feel you might die and get a longer spike hit PUASE/ESC and the game should pause very shortly after and stay paused till you get the connection back after which you can unpause and continue

The dying feels bad but what really makes it unplayable is the micro-rubber-banding when I'm just walking forward. I would get almost within visual range (i.e. screen display range) of mobs and the game would give me a 200ms latency spike, and that would make my character do a quick 0.2s pause in-place, then suddenly fast-forward to catch up that 0.2s pause.

It feels horrible. Imagine you are just moving forward, and every 2-3 second you'd get that 0.2 seconds of pause-then-fast-foward. It really feels bad.

The problem is I can't be sure if it's the server doing it to me, or the node, or any other network hop on my routing, or maybe even my PC.

I've already rolled back my Windows to 23H2 from 24H2 and the issue still persists. :(

It's also unlikely to be tied to a local rush hour since it presists throughout the work day and still persists now at 1:30 am, when most people in my time zone are already asleep.

I'm just hoping it's something they did on the server, maybe a config change, or new capacity added not being tuned properly, etc. But from the lack of interest in this thread, I fear it might not be a server-related issue, more likely a routing issue that is only affecting a very limited number of players. :(

Same here

I heard about this problem from people past days, but it has never happened to me before. But not today.
I tried reboot pc, reboot router , change dns, vpn... nothing helped

GGG how to fix it? I played for 3 days in a row and everything was fine..

Create trace route and e-mail to support@grindinggear.com

Okay I think I found my issue.

Apparently I started getting only around 12Mbps download bandwidth on my 300Mbps connection. After restarting my router (TP-Link Deco M5), I got my bandwidth back and the game has been performing smoothly with no latency spikes, at least for the past half hour or so.

I don't think it's my ISP throttling me, since restarting the router fixed it. Activity log on the router shows nothing suspicious.

So I'm just gonna chalk it off to some IT magic bugging out on me.