I love POE2, but i have to quit. (cause=lag)

Hi,
I would like to say, I love POE2 and enjoy it alot. Therefore I am sad to say due to performance issues I am forced to stop playing. Since launch I had crashes thinking NVIDIA caused it. I swapped game settings to Vulkan instead of DirectX and that stopped crashes but now its just laggy or pauzy. I play on EU servers with an NVIDIA, both possibly causing issues. I dont know what causes it but it I have reached my limit.

I just cant cope with the constant lag/stutter stepping any more. In a map if I try to town portal, it often says this action is not possible while the game is paused. Forcing me to spam click town portal till it works. In town moving stash items also lags causing me to reclick items to move them. Town just lags in general but its ok because its a safe place i cant die.

Clearing maps I have decided is no longer bearable and is why I quit. I enjoy playing my character in maps, but the lag is breaking my immersion/enjoyment. Pushing my build to do harder content is suicide. So character progression is stunted. Doing easy content is just annoying with lag/stutterstep and still deadly. So I am forced to quit for now.

Possible cause of problem: I play on European servers. I have seen on media that EU servers are known to have issues and it is being looked into. My internet is very good and shouldnt be the issue.(friends I game with envy my download speed for downloading new games or updates).

I think I have done all I can to try to fix it on my end. I have tweeked game settings and tried different servers. Amsterdam is default, lag. So tried London, same thing. Tried a US server, lag maybe due to distance ping.

Just a heads-up as to why i am quitting. Maybe it is causing more Europeans to quit playing. When its fixed i'll come back for sure.

With kind regards,
Ken

Yeah I dont know why Predictive network isnt in the game yet. Lockstep SUX for playing outside your own country.

But what Im thinking your refering to is the actual frame loss and game freezing that has been added to the game since the last patch. The only way to fix that is to relog or use /clear in chat to clear the chat messages, as I think that its a problem with chat logging.

"But what Im thinking your refering to is the actual frame loss and game freezing that has been added to the game since the last patch. The only way to fix that is to relog or use /clear in chat to clear the chat messages, as I think that its a problem with chat logging."

I didnt know about the /clear in chat.. i did suspect when i relog i am free of lag for a minute or couple minutes. But i have lost map content logging out so gave up on trying that. Plus i dont wanna relog every 30sec durring a map to fix lag.

I guess i could log in tomorrow and try disabling all chat windows. Then typing /clear. Hopefully that fixes lag. If that doesnt help im giving up.

I had blackscreen/freezes since launch while using NVIDIA+DirectX so i swapped settings to Vulkan and that fixed that(or was it due to the pauze patch?), but now im just lag/stutterstepping instead of crashing. It's just too much hassle for me at this point to keep trying stuff while i cant enjoy playing the game cus of lag.

But tomorrow i might log in and try the chat thing thanx.

Thanx KingDaMuncha#6025 for the /clear tip,

Hopefully this fixed it.
I logged on and went to my default server(amsterdam) and disabled all chats except local. Did /clear and have run 2maps with 0 lag..
Normally lag gets unbearable during 1st map.
Further testing required but looking good so far.

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KingDaMuncha#6025 เขียน:

Yeah I dont know why Predictive network isnt in the game yet. Lockstep SUX for playing outside your own country.

But what Im thinking your refering to is the actual frame loss and game freezing that has been added to the game since the last patch. The only way to fix that is to relog or use /clear in chat to clear the chat messages, as I think that its a problem with chat logging.

+1

This game is fkng busted right now.

It was not nearly as bad on early access launch, was able to play with no stutters, no lag spikes, just default settings and consistently getting 120fps.

Now after returning I barely can get the game to run. Today is the 5th day I am trying to get the game to run smooth and without issues, but now it keeps soft crashing before crashing with a DX11 error, while I'm exclusively using DX12.

Like... What in the absolute shtfknfk is going on with the optimization of the game? I can't be the only one that wants to play the game, but at this moment cant because of weird shit GGG did to it. Im baffled. Disgusted. Just fucking why.

SOFT CRASHES FIX:
Soft crashes i had that issue before.What fixed it for me is..
In game esc/options/game.. there switch from directx to Vulkan.. hope thats correct path to change to Vulkan. Im away for work so cant verify, but its 100% switchable to Vulkan somewhere.

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Dyotic#6597 เขียน:

This game is fkng busted right now.

It was not nearly as bad on early access launch, was able to play with no stutters, no lag spikes, just default settings and consistently getting 120fps.

Now after returning I barely can get the game to run. Today is the 5th day I am trying to get the game to run smooth and without issues, but now it keeps soft crashing before crashing with a DX11 error, while I'm exclusively using DX12.

Like... What in the absolute shtfknfk is going on with the optimization of the game? I can't be the only one that wants to play the game, but at this moment cant because of weird shit GGG did to it. Im baffled. Disgusted. Just fucking why.

Not EU but i had to change from AU to NZ because lag spikes and roll backs, since changing only 1 rollback in a week, compared to every day.