Continuous Stuttering/Lag Despite Stable FPS and Internet in PoE 2 Early Access

I just got a complete disconnect mang

Lag ever other map. Everyone you go to town. Anytime you change scenes. Completely unplayable. This and the dumb community prices will kill the game. How are you supposed to get 8 points when it’s way to hard and unplayabe

The graphs say Im getting 5ms to my server, but its still lagging like hell in SINGLE PLAYER!

Fighting the jungle monkey boss was horrible when my rolls came 2 seconds late.

I love how they put this on the troubleshooting steps. 1-4 is YOUR issue. 5 is theirs. No its actually their issue completely with the servers.

I am writing this out of pure frustration after spending nearly half of my 67 hours of "playtime" troubleshooting what I thought was a local hardware issue.

The Journey of "Fixing" my Connection:

The WiFi Phase: I assumed the massive spikes (3000ms+) were due to interference.

The Cheap Cable: I bought a 30m Ethernet cable to hardwire the connection. No change.

The "High-End" Cable: I invested in a premium, shielded cable thinking it was an EMI issue. Still unplayable.

The ISP Battle: I spent hours arguing with Deutsche Telekom support, only to realize the issue isn't my line—it's their peering.

The Technical Reality: I finally ran an MTR (My Traceroute) on CachyOS and confirmed that the connection is perfect until it hits the handover between Telekom (DTAG) and the game's Frankfurt data center (Link11/Velia). At that specific hop, the latency jumps from 18ms to over 2300ms.

I have spent more time in the terminal and on the phone with my ISP than actually playing the game. Even though I have 67 hours "played," at least 30 of those were spent standing in town or at the login screen running network diagnostics.

The Demand: Because this is an online-only "single player" experience that is fundamentally broken due to ISP routing that I cannot control, I am requesting a refund. You cannot expect players to invest in professional-grade networking hardware only to find out the "gate" to your servers is effectively closed for Germany's largest ISP.

I've resorted to paying for ExitLag https://www.exitlag.com/ which is fixing this issue for me.

Not always but most of the time it brings the lag to tolerable levels for myself.

Rodickys, do you happen to have a guide that can help me also do a trace that lets me identify where the latency jump is happening? I'm curious if i will reproduce the same issue.

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Sinvoid#7740 a écrit :

Rodickys, do you happen to have a guide that can help me also do a trace that lets me identify where the latency jump is happening? I'm curious if i will reproduce the same issue.

Yo, for sure. I used a tool called MTR, it's way better than a normal traceroute because it updates live so u can actually see the spikes happen in real time.

If ur on Linux (I'm on CachyOS) just do sudo pacman -S mtr in the terminal. If ur on Windows just google WinMTR, its basically the same thing but with a window.

Heres how I did it:

1. Open terminal and type: sudo mtr -rw 146.0.224.110 (thats the Frankfurt server IP for PoE2). 2. Let it run for like a minute or two until the 'Snt' column gets to 100. 3. Look at the very last hop (usually number 10). If the 'Last' or 'Wrst' columns are showing crazy numbers like 2000ms or 3000ms while the hops before it are only 20ms, then u got the same problem as me.

Check the 'StDev' column too at the bottom. If its over 100 then ur connection is basically toast. Honestly hope u dont have the same results as me because Telekom support is a nightmare to deal with lol. Let me know what u find!
Or if someone has other idea or If I did something wrong in steps, I am open minded.

This is my results, not super high worst and last ratings but several points that have no response from host and each option excluding my modem is having some level of loss.

https://pastebin.com/JDEeRvpM

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Sinvoid#7740 a écrit :

This is my results, not super high worst and last ratings but several points that have no response from host and each option excluding my modem is having some level of loss.

https://pastebin.com/JDEeRvpM

Packet loss all the way down the run - first hop from your router.

In other words... your ISP is the issue here.