Latency Spikes

As of late, I've been experiencing latency spikes to the point I can't play. Never had this issue until I made a HC character. Not sure if HC is the reason why, or maybe this is a new issue. But I honestly can't play until it's fixed.

18k ms network spikes making game unplayable…all of a sudden. Never had issues before last night around 8pm EST.

Win 11 24H2
i9 Ultra
32gb RAM
1tb SSD
RTX 4070

…is it too late for a refund because this is ridiculous, on top of the frequent random crashes smh

Since it’s texture related, try using your other character to see if the latency spikes improve. From what I can tell, the game is encountering a problem when attempting to render particular textures. I haven’t logged enough live data to tell you what the trigger point for a crash actually is, but I can tell that it does in fact seem to be texture file access related. Before you try your old character make sure you clear all your steam, poe2, and Nvidia shader cache, verify game files, restart your system, and log back in. You should also be swapping armor and weapon pieces to see if you have an improvement. Good luck. Hope they fix it soon.

Forgot to mention that the only system setting change I made which changed the game behavior (didn’t actually fix the problem just added some additional freaky visuals before the game crashed) was increasing my Nvidia cache file size in the Nvidia controller panel. It didn’t stop directx12 texture crashes, but it didn’t stutter at all before the crash lol. I’d rather have a warning so I can reset before it happens so I reverted to default file size.