Hi guys,
Don't know if you remember me, I'm reaching out again regarding an issue that you actually solved ages ago. It was regarding Path of Exile and latency spikes in this post. Unfortunately, the dream didn't last long and just recently I've started experiencing similar issues as before. This time, YouTube or Twitch is irreverent and a post in this thread pretty much sums up what I've been experiencing -
I'm also getting intermittent latency issues with Path of Exile. Game runs fine 80% of the time but can lag (stutter) or freeze for a few seconds then recover (your character speeds up like crazy to perform the keyboard inputs from when the screen froze
I can also confirm that the reason for the character speeding up after a lag spike is due to a networking mode hes running in PoE. There's 'Predictive' and 'Lockstep', Lockstep is what I used to run before the initial issues started sometime in June. Although now, I pretty much have to run Predictive which can cause really nasty desync (teleports the character back) during those spikes.
I am quite familiar with WinMTR I used this as my standard testing method back in June. I always used to play on the London server although same results occur throughout all servers. There really wasn't any packet loss ever, only those few percentages that didn't come through which is normal for all games/servers.
Again, just to get that info out, the normal ping which i used to get sometime before June was constant 10-15 and nothing above. In fact i used get to excited of how good my ping in PoE was because it was literally, a constant dead-straight line. Obviously there were those inevitable spikes but they were really rare.
Now however, it's really random. It will stay at 16 ping for a tick (second) and then spike to 45, go back down to 16 and repeat, and that's if I'm 'away' and sitting in my hideout. When I'm playing it'll pretty much be the same but the spikes instead could go to 80, 150, 400, even 700. There are even moments where my ping constantly doesn't drop below 100 and just goes on a seizure of some sort. This usually lasts for anywhere between 10-30 seconds. Something else to mention is that it happens throughout the whole day. Doesn't matter if I'm up at 5 am during a business day or later in the evening on a weekend.
Here are the WinMTR results for the London server which I play on - I let it run for a bit whilst simultaneously playing the game. I experienced one major seizure which lasted around 12 seconds.
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| WinMTR statistics |
| Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
| dsldevice.lan - 0 | 656 | 656 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 0 |
| No response from host - 100 | 131 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| No response from host - 100 | 131 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 128.hiper04.sheff.dial.plus.net.uk - 0 | 656 | 656 | 13 | 14 | 27 | 13 |
| core1-BE1.colindale.ukcore.bt.net - 0 | 656 | 656 | 14 | 15 | 33 | 15 |
| peer2-et-7-0-1.slough.ukcore.bt.net - 0 | 656 | 656 | 13 | 16 | 56 | 13 |
| 109.159.253.107 - 0 | 656 | 656 | 14 | 16 | 45 | 15 |
| po96.net2.north.dc5.as20860.net - 0 | 656 | 656 | 15 | 20 | 275 | 22 |
| 1255.e.south.dc5.as20860.net - 0 | 656 | 656 | 15 | 19 | 227 | 17 |
| 78.129.153.13 - 1 | 648 | 646 | 13 | 15 | 28 | 15 |
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WinMTR v0.92 GPL V2 by Appnor MSP - Fully Managed Hosting & Cloud Provider
Lastly, I've actually never considered running through a VPN. Although, the more i think about it the more i want to try it. Tomorrow, after work I'll see if i can purchase or possibly get a trial VPN and have it tested.
