Server lag in trials

TheForseti

I am in a raid team that is working on the Unstoppable trifecta in Lucent Citadel. Every raid day for the past month or more we experience very large lag spikes (lasting 3-10 seconds) as well as hard crashes. These lag spikes and hard crashes almost always occur to 3+ people simultaneously. We have gotten to Xoryn room (final boss) twice with no deaths only to lose the run to 3+ people hard crashing. It is really hurting our morale as a team to attempt this very hard achievement only to be bottlenecked by server lag. We are playing on PC-NA server from 7pm to 9pm on Monday and Tuesday. We have talked to multiple other raid teams who run at the same time as we do in different trials (Sanity's Edge, Rockgrove) who are experiencing the same issue, so it is not unique to Lucent Citadel. We have tried running with no add ons enabled which did not make a difference. We have tried playing with VPN connected to multiple different VPN servers which did not make a difference. Are there any other possible fixes? Is there any investigation into this issue?

HauteclereM

Cancelled raid because of this. 2k+ ping, 5s~ lag spikes, d/c's to supports. Already robbed 36/36.

Also certain accounts would get plagued with d/c's regardless.

This is 12 people's raiding experience being ruined for several weeks on end. Raiding requires scheduling beforehand and for all of us to set aside our time, this is making users lose the will to play. Please make this a high priority fix.

dukeofdarkness11

We have been having the same issue in Sanity's Edge trifecta prog. Teammates kept getting lag spikes and crashes in the last 30% of ansuul hm with 36 vit.

mdjessup4906

Last week I've crashed out of vhof, vlc and vrg multiple times that took restarting my whole PC to get back in. The game has never been particularly stable for me, but lately it's been noticeably worse.

I also know it's not my PC because I never have this problem with any other game, only eso.

Soarora

Kynes Aegis keeps having problems too, where multiple people will freeze for seconds simultaneously. MGF makes me lag a lot as well.

Soriana

Add Sunspire to the list; we are working on a Godslayer prog and had to cancel last night due to the same issues, huge lag spikes, multiple dc's, skills not firing, several folks not able to barswap. It was in the 'bad' category all of last month; this month it is getting to the 'unplayable' stage.

CrazyKitty

I feel like the AI chat monitor is causing a ton of lag. That would also explain why most of my disconnects come when I'm using chat.

rootkitronin

Been trying to grind out my Bastion Nymic achievements over the last week or so... both there and in dungeons, horrible lag for everyone involved (sometimes just myself and one other).

Huge lag spikes and terrible performance lately.

Just loading into zones, I usually end up getting two loading screens (one to port to the zone, and then one 10 seconds or so after being in the zone to finally populate it).

And though small... my customized recall actions hardly ever play anymore. Just frustrating, especially considering those items are being sold and aren't reliable in their function.

offbymyself

Our MM group started seeing this first and now our Unstoppable group is seeing the same issues. Can't make progress when you're playing DC roulette or freezing for 5 seconds or so at a time throughout the runs.

ZOS, you want us to spend money on your game yet you can't even make the servers stable enough to port zones, let alone enough to do trials or any other group content. It's time to really consider your priorities. Your Crown Store showcase won't matter when you lose more and more of your player base because of the server instability.

SolarRune

I was in a vRG HM prog last week, and we cancelled after about an hour due to the amount of disconnects and freezes people were having that were impacting the overall group - much worse since the last patch - just at the point that we were regularly getting to execute on Bahsei too - the lead is very frustrated.

Blackyack

We had to cancel LCHM work last night, definitely had some real struggles in Swash core as well. game was unplayable. the 2-8 second lag spikes make it impossible to react to mechanics. Tanks falling over, dds getting KOed, its not ok. please please put some resources into fixing this. Completely unfun trial environment right now.

G0K4R

Games unplayble in raids for me atm.

In regular content like 4-man dungeons or infinite archive it works as usual but in 12-man content my FPS drop to sub 30, sub 20 and even worse.

Been in HoF, sometimes I had sub 10 FPS. At the endboss is was even worse, couldn't even play any mechanics.

Or LC in the knot phase, I could barely keep up with the group. At the endboss I couldn't play at all. I had 2 casts in the entire fight (zero FPS with Ping 999+)... After the endboss was dead, FPS went back up to normal...

Edit:

Need to correct myself. 4-man content is mostly fine. But first time I noticed big performance issues was on monday, 9th of september in Frostvault. All good until endboss. Skeevaton phase was just a huge lag show, game was not playable down there...

VampiricByNature

I thought this was console specific but I guess not. Ps5 NA, we raid tue/wed/thur in vdsrhm at 8pm est . We have had terrible performance to the point where we have called it early some night. It does seem to choose 3 or so people that experience it. Some people dc now who never really had issues with it in the past.

Sparkrip

The issues are starting to appear in 4 man as well was doing Graven Deep yesterday and got several massive lag spikes on the last boss.

Soarora

Its getting worse. Last night, a substantial amount of my trial group was getting lag spikes of everything freezing for seconds at a time over and over again in quick succession. It’s a miracle only a few people died during these spikes, but if it keeps up then the game will soon be unplayable.

Aggrovious

Lag spikes in LC on a Thursday yesterday. One minute I was taunting, the next adds showed up out of no where. Lucky I was blocking because I would have been dead.

Soarora

Soarora wrote: »

Its getting worse. Last night, a substantial amount of my trial group was getting lag spikes of everything freezing for seconds at a time over and over again in quick succession. It’s a miracle only a few people died during these spikes, but if it keeps up then the game will soon be unplayable.

I am now experiencing these lag spikes back-to-back. About 1/3 to 1/2 the group gets them at a time. People are now also occasionally disconnecting.