Major Lag in gameplay recently

thedocbwarren

I'm really struggling with major lag with combat and overall play in PVE recently. I believe this was after the recent patch to change PVP caps. I have checked to see if it's a network issue but no change in performance for me. I've tried multiple times of the day. Am I the only one experiencing this?

I'm on NA servers on PC/Mac (no difference for me.)

vsrs_au

Me too. I've had such big lag on a few occasions (including today) that when I finally got into the game, I found that my keybinds hadn't even loaded properly, and my character was using the defaults, so I had to quit the game and restart. It's definitely more than my geographical location accounts for.

Anifaas

My combat performance has been awful lately with the typical symptoms (sluggish controls, abilities not firing, etc...) people keep bringing up year after year on these forums. It is frustrating.

ank777

So? Enjoy ESO servers in all it's beauty. In PVP it's been worse than you can even imagine, FOR YEARS!

Calastir

Frame freeze every 5 minutes, indeed it's like watching a slideshow since last patch.
Lag so bad it caused my death a couple of times.

Pixiepumpkin

My wife and I had some issues yesterday. We were spiking around 900ms (we have 500 up/down fiber). It was taking me about 5 to 10 seconds to harvest a node (I saw the spike while farming). She commented to me that NPC's were walking super fast everywhere.
Hard to say if this was an issue on zos end though, although net performance has seemed to decline in game Vs other games or activities (no issues streaming on our end).

finehair

Major Lag: Increases your insanity level by %20, causing you to take delayed damage from all incoming attacks.

Aurielle

I was experiencing some stuttering and general performance issues after the PVP caps reverted. Realized that somehow, FPS had been uncapped with the last update (was previously capped at 100 FPS for me), and the stuttering was happening when my FPS was in the 150-200 range in major cities. I manually edited the User Settings text file to reintroduce an FPS cap, and all the stuttering went away, back to smooth and silky. Still have some occasional ping spikes, but nothing major.

Those of you experiencing micro freezing and stutters may want to try capping FPS again on your end. Alcast has a guide here on how to adjust your FPS caps: https://alcasthq.com/eso-unlock-fps-cap-guide/

Twig_Garlicshine

Eso lag for years used to be something I ignored or worked around because I liked the game.
Keybind and mouse inputs not firing.
20 opponent skills firing in a catchup freeze frame.
etc

Lag while I pvp'ed became intolerable, so I stopped bothering,
I reduced my ESO time down to doing craft dailies, and surveys.
Lag now equals:
Lag while farming surveys? RUkiddingme
Lag while doing craft dailies? RUkiddingme
Lag while in housing? Seriously??

My FPS capped at 60, same as always.
Ping 100-130 same as always.

I almost went and bought a new mouse and keyboard to try to get better performance.
Fortunately I tested in a different game and other software beforehand.

Other net based softwares equals no lag (as expected).

Log into a different game with servers further away (more hops) on internets routes.
Ping 30, FPS 100+ (set cap back to 60)
and guess what

NO LAG
No screen stutters, no catch up freeze framing.
Keybind and mouse inputs all work properly.
They all fire when pressed, the FIRST FREAKING TIME.

Now it's hard to even get myself to login to Eso for craft dailies and hellos to guildies.
Every time I click login, a voice says:
"What;s the point when I can go play without lag elsewhere."

jtm1018

Is the new server testing still on?
I thought that was pc only?
Why is my ps eso lagging horrobly?
As in effing freaking bad!
I'll come back when their done testing.
Its just frustrating playing right now.

Tandor

Out of interest, are you guys with lagging and misfiring skills using wired connections for internet, mouse and keyboard, or wireless?

AzuraFan

I'm on the NA/PC server and I haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary.

virtus753

Tandor wrote: »

Out of interest, are you guys with lagging and misfiring skills using wired connections for internet, mouse and keyboard, or wireless?

All wired here. PC-NA

Performance varies very drastically and unintelligibly (to me). The same HM prog one week apart can have decent performance or performance so terrible that 3-5 people routinely suffer from ping spikes and disconnect the whole two hours. Last week I got spikes between 3.4-8.7s in latency for an hour on Ansuul (my typical ping is 58-69ms), and Mystic Orb took six presses without going off at all; this week, I didn’t see anything above 160 or so, and skills worked as well as they can. Same trial, same fights, same day and time, and no event either week.

This was also my experience in Cyrodiil. One day a faction stack will lag but is doable (40-60 fps on 5600x 7900XT 32GB 3600mHz RAM); another day it will be a <10fps slideshow for the whole group and skills require those 5-6 presses. This was all well after the main server replacements but before the recent testing.

The fact it happens to multiple people in group (whether PvE or PvP) also suggests to me that much of this isn’t a client-side issue.

Tandor

virtus753 wrote: »

Tandor wrote: »

Out of interest, are you guys with lagging and misfiring skills using wired connections for internet, mouse and keyboard, or wireless?

All wired here. PC-NA

Performance varies very drastically and unintelligibly (to me). The same HM prog one week apart can have decent performance or performance so terrible that 3-5 people routinely suffer from ping spikes and disconnect the whole two hours. Last week I got spikes between 3.4-8.7s in latency for an hour on Ansuul (my typical ping is 58-69ms), and Mystic Orb took six presses without going off at all; this week, I didn’t see anything above 160 or so, and skills worked as well as they can. Same trial, same fights, same day and time, and no event either week.

This was also my experience in Cyrodiil. One day a faction stack will lag but is doable (40-60 fps on 5600x 7900XT 32GB 3600mHz RAM); another day it will be a <10fps slideshow for the whole group and skills require those 5-6 presses. This was all well after the main server replacements but before the recent testing.

The fact it happens to multiple people in group (whether PvE or PvP) also suggests to me that much of this isn’t a client-side issue.

I think that's a fair conclusion, although it could of course point to a network issue rather than a server one, especially where the group or guild experience is the same for players from the same part of the country or world. Either way, the unpredictability of it makes it difficult to track down or replicate.

virtus753

Tandor wrote: »

virtus753 wrote: »

Tandor wrote: »

Out of interest, are you guys with lagging and misfiring skills using wired connections for internet, mouse and keyboard, or wireless?

All wired here. PC-NA

Performance varies very drastically and unintelligibly (to me). The same HM prog one week apart can have decent performance or performance so terrible that 3-5 people routinely suffer from ping spikes and disconnect the whole two hours. Last week I got spikes between 3.4-8.7s in latency for an hour on Ansuul (my typical ping is 58-69ms), and Mystic Orb took six presses without going off at all; this week, I didn’t see anything above 160 or so, and skills worked as well as they can. Same trial, same fights, same day and time, and no event either week.

This was also my experience in Cyrodiil. One day a faction stack will lag but is doable (40-60 fps on 5600x 7900XT 32GB 3600mHz RAM); another day it will be a <10fps slideshow for the whole group and skills require those 5-6 presses. This was all well after the main server replacements but before the recent testing.

The fact it happens to multiple people in group (whether PvE or PvP) also suggests to me that much of this isn’t a client-side issue.

I think that's a fair conclusion, although it could of course point to a network issue rather than a server one, especially where the group or guild experience is the same for players from the same part of the country or world. Either way, the unpredictability of it makes it difficult to track down or replicate.

Yes, in the past there have been localized disruptions for sure. (There was once an issue in much of the northwestern US, iirc, that was out of ZOS' control.) In the cases I mentioned above, however, we have players from NA, Europe, Africa, and various parts of Asia all experiencing similar issues at the same time. I should have mentioned that initially.

ETA: corrected locations

Also forgot to mention that some days there are instances when the whole group (or at least most) gets a freeze at the same time. I know sometimes the client freezes on an individual basis, but the group freezes are curious to me. I figure it must be the server at those moments.

thedocbwarren

Been very bad for me today. Borderline unplayable. Not sure what it is.

vsrs_au

Tandor wrote: »

Out of interest, are you guys with lagging and misfiring skills using wired connections for internet, mouse and keyboard, or wireless?

I use wireless internet (with fairly reliable downstream of 100Mbps or more, and upstream of 30Mbps or more), and wired keyboard and mouse.

vsrs_au

Didn't someone hypothesise in an earlier iteration of these network lag threads that the lag might be due to some specific routers used between the player's location and the EU/NA server? (I think someone mentioned Akamai or something?)

TaSheen

Akamai is the DDOS prevention service that ZOS uses. If it's possible for you to talk to your ISP, explain the issues, and ask them to route to the servers in a different pattern, you can try that. I don't know how "normal" ISPs react, but it's always a good thing to ask - if they say no, you're no worse off than before, and if they can help you may be much better off!

Since I have only satellite through Hughes Net, I can't really ask them to re-route. But I don't have much lag (outside of the time to the sat and back) so for me it doesn't really matter.

I hope your ISP can help you out!

ZOS_Hadeostry

Greetings,

After further review we have decided to move this thread to a category we think is more appropriate for this topic, as it's about PC troubleshooting.

Thank you for your understanding

Rishikesa108

I'm experiencing lag too, and so is my husband. When we play together, both of us at the same time are no longer able to interact with the environment, then we are taken back in time and space. Other times the character freezes and within a few seconds disconnects, with the message "an error has occurred".
This is very frequent, about twice in a hour.

Rohamad_Ali

crash crash crash happy holidayz zos

ZOS_Bill

Our help article linked below offers different troubleshooting you can try for latency issues while playing ESO.

Latency / Lag - Technical Support - The Elder Scrolls Online

fizl101

On Ps5 eu I get random levels that lag in infinite archive

ZOS_Bill

@fizl101

You'll want to share this information in the PLAYSTATION® TECHNICAL SUPPORT section.