How To Fix LAG In PoE 2 (troubleshooting network spikes)

How to troubleshoot network lag performance issues in PoE 2 to prevent stuttering caused by random network lag spikes.

Even if you have boosted your fps to the highest possible numbers, network issues can still cause poor performance if your connection to the GG servers is not stable and starts lagging. I start by giving an overview of how to troubleshoot network issues, followed by ideas for specific settings that can help fix and boost your performance when it comes to network spikes that cause lag to impact your performance.

I also teach how to use the network performance graph inside PoE 2 itself as well as the command prompt and ping to analyze what your actual issue is, so you will know exactly which steps to take next. I also discuss things like PoE 2 gateway server selection, creating new instances, and even ISP bottleneck and throttling considerations.

[taiidaniblues]

Funfact: Command prompt is now called Terminal in Windows 11 as well. In 11, Microsoft wrapped up CMD, Powershell, and cloudshell in a single app called Terminal.

[SargeSwamp]

The lag is caused by POE 2 server not my internet connection

[saromaswien]

bro my Ping goes from 30 too 230 down to 70 up to 130 down to 30 up to 170... only in POE 2

[Mannet]

Fixes for People who are playing since 1-2 Years...
1. The first Thing you have to ask is: Is the Problem just in PoE2 or in other Games too?
In my Case it is just in PoE2...
2. What every half experienced Player is checking next is: Do i have something running in the back? Twitch, Steam, many Browser Tasks and so on...
In my Case...no...
3. Should i lay a Cable 10m trough the whole House to my Router?
Definitely not... Above all, when it's only PoE2 causing the Trouble and other Games just have perhaps 20-30m
No Check of Router Channels used by other W-Lans? Wrong Settings in the Game causing a Bottle Neck?

[cyberexile]

bro my modem is on the other side of the house, i dont have lag spike issues in any other game

[dreammfyre]

The servers are just fucked. Always worse around 8 pm in Europe

[wigglepeeks]

Its server side, i gave 2gb internet and it pings to like 2000ms kicking me over and over

[Easelm]

Since the video is only directed to WIFI connection only (not sure how people aren't on direct connection lol), the servers in POE2 do have a server stutter desync issue and only way to fix it is to re-enter the zone to find a stable server. I've had this since launch and it's quite annoying.

[jonathanparry]

mine is flatout broke, i dont have lag i have spikes from 12ms to 30000ms, all other games run fine with my internet

[salsinatorsalsa]

guys, i saw some reddit comment:
"Hey guys just in case it helps anyone I ended up rolling back my drivers to version 560.94 nvidia and it fixed all the stuttering completely I tried literally everything else and this did it for me. I hope it helps!"

Apparently this is the fix

[All_hail_staten]

I know its not my internet... Its literally only this game.

[DeathShadow]

I have a 900mb/s fiber optic connection, I don't know why, but in poe2 my ping jumps from 20ms to even 5000ms.. in other games it is the same, although the internet is stable and in other games it shows 20 ms, still the game hangs... I'm fed up, I don't know how to fix it, my drivers are up to date, I even uninstalled the antivirus and nothing helped. I even did speed tests and it turns out that the download speed is 580mb/s, the upload speed is 470mb/s and the ping speed is 3ms.

[Karma-xvee]

Are there any chances these devs will fix these issues soon? It's my first time playing one of their games and the experience has not been the best so far

[kisu]

I'm not 100% sure it's lag. I failed two 3rd level Skemas. VRAM maxed and GPU maxed, similar to yours. I changed the renderer to Vulkan and turned lighting to Shadows in POE2 settings. For some reason, some graphics settings is effecting the MS and FPS. Since i changed these, i'm getting 17MS and over 60 FPS easily. VRAM and GPU dropped by about 40% went from 4gb VRAM to 1.3gb.

[Kilhets]

changing the network fixed it for me. not sure why but it just was so laggy tired resetting network and pc nothing worked.

[gtsimos]

Their servers in eu get really congested and can't handle the load many times too, this is due to the lack of servers in eastern and northern europe.

[merfall]

I suspect the answer will be "no", but will pluging an ethernet cable to a wifi signal amplifier fix it if I can't get a cable through to my PC from the router?

[abdullahalsalat]

The best server rn is 200 ms lol and the one I usually use is marked ?

[Gaston-]

Was wondering if anyone else had the "?" on the Texas server. Was wondering why i'm logging into DC when I live in Central TX

[reikoh]

Thanks for the video - didnt know about the command window to find out about the ms. Could figure out that I dont have the spikes, when my Netflix/Disney/... streaming TV is turned off.