Hi all, if you are having issues in MYM, could you note where you are playing from and add any footage you may have? We escalated this internally, but our graphs are not showing any issue with server health. It is all within margin. So any additional data you can provide, would be helpful. We can send that over to the team to assist in investigating this issue.

Versalium wrote: »

I've played IC for the first time today because of Whitestrake's mayhem. I can call my experience in one word — anxiety.

I'm a solo player, I'm on a base game, I'm here for the story, quests, loot, exploration, etc.

The moment I got killed by another player was very frustrating. Just...why? Why would anyone want to kill me for no reason? I don't get it. I don't want to kill other players, I just want to mind my own business. I want to explore ruined Imperial City, I want to experience this great city under Molag Bal's occupation.

The second part of frustration that quckly transformed into stress and anxiety was losing a bunch of tel var stones. Maybe I missed something but no one told me I will lose them. I had around 7k on me that I've earned on battlegrounds and I've lost around 3k in a single death. Now I'm always anxious about losing tel vars and putting them into the bank before going outside. Who thought this would be fun? It's not.

I'm glad there is a no-CP mode, it's a bit less stressful, but I want solo/PvE mode. I just want to enjoy my game without this PvP stress and nonsense.

Honestly, first time I went into IC I was in PvE gear, clueless and obliterated in seconds. It absolutely wasn't fun, but being new in PvP places is generally a harsh and unfriendly experience. Some players leave and never return, others like myself are crazy and will lick our wounds and try to learn how to survive in IC.

Firstly, it's a battle area where players are fighting for control of all the areas on the map. So regardless of what you're doing, if an enemy player sees you, it's fair to presume they'll attack/kill you if possible. They aren't killing you for no reason, they have a reason If you can, join a random group because often they'll be running round the different areas doing the quests and killing bosses. Not just looking for PvP. Or you can follow a group of your alliance if you see them.

I go up and down the ladders taking all the quests then try and complete them as I go from area to area depending on how safe it is or where my group goes. Then just hand in one quest each day so you get the event tickets etc without having to do a lot of PvP each day.

Try and have gear/skills that are good for surviving and keep yourself buffed and with HOTs active. If you have skills like echoing vigor or group heals, you'll be a bit harder to kill and often welcome in teams. CP in hiding/sneaky things and potions also help. If you really want to just solo it, I'd suggest strong heal and sneaking. If you do get chased, try to head towards your fellow alliance players rather than somewhere isolated like behind a building. It's funny having someone attack and introducing them to four of your team mates

Also, be aware of all the buildings and terrain in IC, and remember players have to see you to hit you. So if you just get a glance of an enemy approaching, try and get into a building/behind a wall. I have played some truly hilarious games of hide and seek with enemies. Stood with my heart racing on one side of a wall as a whole group of 12 runs past the other side. Going up into weird bits of buildings and hiding is a totally legit tactic if you see an enemy raid approach. IC parkour is so much fun when you're sidling along narrow ledges and the like.

You've learned the hard way about losing tel var, but honestly I don't know anyone who hasn't done the same thing! Always bank your tel var before you enter IC and try to keep an eye so you don't carry more than you're comfortable losing. But we all lose tel var routinely even when we know. Just getting carried away in the fight and then someone surprise kills you! Fortunately you only lose half, so that's a good time to bank what you have left. My mindset is that if I banked everything at the start, I'm always coming home with more than I began with. I don't consider the tel var to be "mine" until it's banked.

If you have just lost tel var and banked the rest, you have nothing to lose and it's worth following a group of your alliance and attacking enemies when they're clearly going to die. This is how you can quickly recoup any tel var losses, because PvPers can go from killing a lot of players and then die before they bank the tel var. I remember the first time I killed a PvPer who nuked me a few times earlier. I lost maybe 2k to him, he then lost 8k tel var when I got him. I truly suck at PvP, but that was funny and satisfying.

Isn't "talking to shareholders first and everyone else second not at all" something like... S.O.P.?

The_Meathead wrote: »

Yeah, performance has been notably worse this time around while MYM has typically been the best periods we experience.

I don't know that it's purely Cyrodiil, though. My Guildies have mentioned things being ''sticky'' in overland content of late, too.

I do know that a single Ball Group or especially two+ at a time are just chewing things up like crazy in Cyrodiil this week, way more than normal. I typically have really good framerate but this week it's been an occasional unplayable slide show when they're doing their Ball-y things during primetime.

For what it is worth - I typically can have stable frames and minimal (almost no) lag when 3 or more ball groups are near me.

Just saying that because the second a ball group gets mentioned everyone gets fixated on that being the "cause" when.. ball groups just show the inefficiences of systems.. they aren't the true "cause".. if that makes sense.

Yeah, performance has been notably worse this time around while MYM has typically been the best periods we experience.

I don't know that it's purely Cyrodiil, though. My Guildies have mentioned things being ''sticky'' in overland content of late, too.

I do know that a single Ball Group or especially two+ at a time are just chewing things up like crazy in Cyrodiil this week, way more than normal. I typically have really good framerate but this week it's been an occasional unplayable slide show when they're doing their Ball-y things during primetime.

dcrush wrote: »

Performance is atrocious. On several occasions now I’ve had the server freeze where I’m running around (invisible) but the entire world is frozen for about a minute or so before I crash.

On top of that, random 999+ lag spikes and fps dropping from 100 to single digits suddenly.

I actually experienced this today.

I don't usually PvP because I don't really like to be biting the dust over and over in <= 2 GCDs, it really is no good for my self-esteem, alas this evening there was another group of equally (under)skilled players around and we had time to kill while low pop popped somewhere else so we decided to do 'the PvP thing' for a bit.

It would have been fun if it wasn't for the (repeated) 999+ spikes that froze everything for 10s+

And it wasn't just a 'me thing' because I didn't 'resync' to a grey screen, I was 'alive' and so was everyone else around me.

Shame really...

EDIT: Sadly I don't have footage but this was in Ashpit, sieging BRK around 6PM BST, in PC/EU.

No 'ball groups' or 'zergs' involved, this was like maybe 20 players total engaging in an 'uncoordinated brawl'.

dk_dunkirk wrote: »

spartaxoxo wrote: »

As one tech CEO put it, to paraphrase, AI is always available, it never needs to eat or sleep, and it doesn't need benefits.

And that's frankly an alarming mindset for all people because the scale of job loss that this can create if left unregulated and unchecked is unprecedented.

As a 30-year full-stack developer who uses "AI" every day, I don't know what these people are smoking. I have to fight with it to get it to do even simple things most of the time, and half the time it looks right, it's still wrong in subtle ways. I'm good at what I do because I understand the problem domain intimately, and can ask the right questions. Coding the answer is a relatively small part of the solving the problem. And yet I'm worried that I, too, will be made redundant because some middle manager thinks I am replaceable with a Copilot subscription.

This really seems like the way of things: unbridled 'progress' for progress' sake without the safety rails of logic keeping it in check. I know there have already been lawsuits because some HR AI bot has hallucinated some refund or other thing to a disgruntled customer, and then the courts ruled that if the company's putting all their trust in AI to fix things that they are then beholden to promises that the AI makes.

Things will keep going like this until something big happens. I'm talking that some company has their wonderful AI solution make one tiny little hallucination that ends up costing the company billions. Once a company is seeing that cheaping out on labor by trusting a machine bites them in the backside to the extent that no human ever could, then we'll see people come around to AI as a tool instead of AI as a replacement.

Jurassic Park still said it best: "You were so concerned with whether or not you could that you didn't stop to think whether you should."

Jestertoo wrote: »

Masteroshi430 wrote: »

Jestertoo wrote: »

sshogrin wrote: »

From @Masteroshi430

Try this:
If you have lag problems in ESO since a specific windows 11 update (24h2) (especially during loading screens and occasionaly in game), find you processor specs, it's number of cores and number of threads, open your ESO UserSettings.txt file and find these 3 settings:

SET MaxCoresToUse.4
-> here enter the number of cores for your processor multiplied by 3/4 (n*3/4) (round to the higher integer if the result is not an integer)
SET RequestedNumJobThreads
-> here enter the number of threads for your processor multiplied by 2/3 (n*2/3) (round to the higher integer if the result is not an integer)
SET RequestedNumWorkerThreads
-> here enter the number of threads for your processor multiplied by 2/3 (n*2/3) (round to the higher integer if the result is not an integer)

It solved the lag problems for me, don't modify if you have no lag.

What cpu was this?

It's maths to do with YOUR CPU specs.

I understand it's situational.

What I'm curious about is which CPU's need this adjustment. Is it AMD or Intel? P vs E core, HT?

I've got an old i9-8th gen on windows 10 not having any problems. Would I have issues with win11h24?
I haven't upgraded yet because 1) have to move to GPT partition and 2) not a win11 fan..

Any CPU can potentially benefit from this. You can even try this with Win 10 and see if you see any "performance" gains.
When Update 46 dropped, I couldn't watch a Twitch stream or YT video without having the stream or video pause or have audio issues. With this adjustment, I have zero issues. My gaming performance, and PC performance is back to what it was before Update 46.