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

Yeah, my wife and I have been experiencing this same issue since the latest update as well. Latency/lag spikes, video driver crashes due to memory leak, a couple of black screen and hard crash incidents as well. Game is pretty well unplayable in current state, so we're going to have to give it a rest and come back, I think.

Funny thing is, our systems are WILDLY different in peformance; I'm on the tower PC with a massively over-specced rig and she's on an old laptop with a 2060 - and yet the "performance" behaviour is exactly the same between the two of us. We both experience the same issue, at the same time (more or less). Pretty sucky.

I found possible solution for lagg spikes:
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3786931

The lag spikes, screen stutter/freezing, and extreme drag on CPU usage the last week(ish) has been insanely terrible. I (and my guildmates) have to restart the game at least once every hour we play (if not more) due to these issues.

I SERIOUSLY hope there is a fix for this in tonight's patch.