What changed with June 25 maintenance that cause worse performance?

RaygunGoth

RaygunGoth wrote: »

+1 to much of the above, and likewise: I thought it was just me for a while, so thanks for the reassuring thread if nothing else!

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Well, with fingers crossed and some nervousness as I appear to buck a trend here: without making any changes to my system or being aware of installing any updates; the game now just works fine for me, and has done all week. Ever since the EU megaserver login issues emerged and were resolved last weekend, I've had completely smooth logins and play sessions, with nary a flutter even after my PC's been running other applications intensively all day. I've even been able to reinstate some addons recently, with no noticeable impact on performance.

Whatever's going on, something seems to have been fixed for an apparent minority of players here. One head lopped off the hydra, perhaps? Baffling.

madman65

This helped me, I went from 100FPS to 120FPS with these settings in your usersetting.txt:

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/584759/frame-rate-cap-adjustment-how-to-limit-your-fps-from-being-too-high-updated

My monitor can run at 144Mhz but I have the settings set at 120Mhx. If you have a monitor/TV that is 60Mhz then I don`t think this will help.

YandereGirlfriend

Have folk in here noticed any changes to their usersettings file settings? ZOS does odd things with that file during updates. Could be that some values were reverted to vanilla or some such. And some of those settings make huge differences to performance.

I know a few folk whose settings were completely nuked after the maintenance and had to re-accept the EULA and re-do all of their settings like they were a brand-new player.

reazea

YandereGirlfriend wrote: »

Have folk in here noticed any changes to their usersettings file settings? ZOS does odd things with that file during updates. Could be that some values were reverted to vanilla or some such. And some of those settings make huge differences to performance.

I know a few folk whose settings were completely nuked after the maintenance and had to re-accept the EULA and re-do all of their settings like they were a brand-new player.

I checked my user settings against the suggested edits on this forum. I did one edit for my min frame rate so it matched my 240Hz monitor. It didn't help. All my other settings were as posters said they should be.

I've also gone through this with customer service and did all the things they told me to try. No joy. The FPS drop outs remain.

LPapirius

How is it that we are now getting high lag AND super low FPS server side now?

ZOS, please, please, fix this issue with the FPS drops. It's happening server side. It began on June 25th when ZOS made changes to their servers.

CatoUnchained

I've tried everything. Everything ZOS CS has told me to try, everything I've seen on these forums I've tried. Everything.

How can it be that we are in the single digits FPS during big fights now?

I did run benchmark tests on my GPU. I'm getting outstanding performance and test results. Only performance issues are with ESO.

This makes me think that there might be a server meltdown coming sometime soon. Something is seriously wrong server side with ESO.

nb_rich

Everyone is just beamin now with fatecarver so everything moving buggy. First time I ever froze in a trial cause we had like 10 dps beamin lol

YandereGirlfriend

nb_rich wrote: »

Everyone is just beamin now with fatecarver so everything moving buggy. First time I ever froze in a trial cause we had like 10 dps beamin lol

Over the years, ZOS has nerfed the tick rate of basically every skill in the game except the Golden Child of Beam, which still gets that gaudy 0.3s rate.

Still unclear it gets to be the outlier while abilities that are even more difficult to hit with, such as Necro Tether, obey the nerfed rates.

JustLovely

I'm also still trying to recover my performance since June 25th. Getting massive fps drops to single digits during big fights. Lag is slightly worse than before June 25th, but the fps issue is, apparently, not something we're able to fix on the client end.

AngryPenguin

Someone keeps posting that they made some change to our client on June 25th, but they're not posting what they think was done or what, if anything, we can do about it.

No question this is a major problem a lot of us our dealing with now days and we'd really like some input from ZOS about it.

LadyGP

YandereGirlfriend wrote: »

nb_rich wrote: »

Everyone is just beamin now with fatecarver so everything moving buggy. First time I ever froze in a trial cause we had like 10 dps beamin lol

Over the years, ZOS has nerfed the tick rate of basically every skill in the game except the Golden Child of Beam, which still gets that gaudy 0.3s rate.

Still unclear it gets to be the outlier while abilities that are even more difficult to hit with, such as Necro Tether, obey the nerfed rates.

Which is funny because beam is one of the worst when it comes to calculations on the server.

reazea

Anyone ever figure out what, if anything, we can do about these massive fps drops?

Waldar

For anyone experiencing issues with huge FPS losses in PVE and PVP, this is what fixed it for me.

My particular issue was with CPU use.

You can confirm if you are having the same issue by opening the task manager (<Ctrl><Alt><Delete> Task Manager) then clicking on the header for the CPU column so that the highest usage app is at the top, then run eso.

My particular issue resulted in ESO running at 95%+ CPU usage which resulted in frame rate drops causing FPS in game of single figures.

The fix for this is to edit the UserSettings.txt file located in \Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\live, double clicking this should open it in notepad.

Run a search (<CTRL>F) for "CORE" this should highlight the line

SET MaxCoresToUse.4 "-1"

The "-1" value represents 'automatically set the number of cores', which in my case buggered fps up.

Change the "-1" to "4" to force ESO to use that number of cores, i chose 4 as its two thirds the number of cores for my processor.

Save the file, close notepad, then launch the game as normal.

This was an instant fix for me running an I7 8700K.

AngryPenguin

Waldar wrote: »

For anyone experiencing issues with huge FPS losses in PVE and PVP, this is what fixed it for me.

My particular issue was with CPU use.

You can confirm if you are having the same issue by opening the task manager (<Ctrl><Alt><Delete> Task Manager) then clicking on the header for the CPU column so that the highest usage app is at the top, then run eso.

My particular issue resulted in ESO running at 95%+ CPU usage which resulted in frame rate drops causing FPS in game of single figures.

The fix for this is to edit the UserSettings.txt file located in \Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\live, double clicking this should open it in notepad.

Run a search (<CTRL>F) for "CORE" this should highlight the line

SET MaxCoresToUse.4 "-1"

The "-1" value represents 'automatically set the number of cores', which in my case buggered fps up.

Change the "-1" to "4" to force ESO to use that number of cores, i chose 4 as its two thirds the number of cores for my processor.

Save the file, close notepad, then launch the game as normal.

This was an instant fix for me running an I7 8700K.

this made no difference for me what so ever. I9 9900k cpu.

It does appear ZOS has made some changes on their eng though. The FPS drop outs seem to be a little less frequent and a little less severe the last 2-3 days.

virtus753

Waldar wrote: »

For anyone experiencing issues with huge FPS losses in PVE and PVP, this is what fixed it for me.

My particular issue was with CPU use.

You can confirm if you are having the same issue by opening the task manager (<Ctrl><Alt><Delete> Task Manager) then clicking on the header for the CPU column so that the highest usage app is at the top, then run eso.

My particular issue resulted in ESO running at 95%+ CPU usage which resulted in frame rate drops causing FPS in game of single figures.

The fix for this is to edit the UserSettings.txt file located in \Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\live, double clicking this should open it in notepad.

Run a search (<CTRL>F) for "CORE" this should highlight the line

SET MaxCoresToUse.4 "-1"

The "-1" value represents 'automatically set the number of cores', which in my case buggered fps up.

Change the "-1" to "4" to force ESO to use that number of cores, i chose 4 as its two thirds the number of cores for my processor.

Save the file, close notepad, then launch the game as normal.

This was an instant fix for me running an I7 8700K.

It looks like they may have addressed some of this with today’s PTS patch. It specifies fixes for CPUs up to 6 cores.

exiars10

Waldar wrote: »

For anyone experiencing issues with huge FPS losses in PVE and PVP, this is what fixed it for me.

My particular issue was with CPU use.

You can confirm if you are having the same issue by opening the task manager (<Ctrl><Alt><Delete> Task Manager) then clicking on the header for the CPU column so that the highest usage app is at the top, then run eso.

My particular issue resulted in ESO running at 95%+ CPU usage which resulted in frame rate drops causing FPS in game of single figures.

The fix for this is to edit the UserSettings.txt file located in \Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\live, double clicking this should open it in notepad.

Run a search (<CTRL>F) for "CORE" this should highlight the line

SET MaxCoresToUse.4 "-1"

The "-1" value represents 'automatically set the number of cores', which in my case buggered fps up.

Change the "-1" to "4" to force ESO to use that number of cores, i chose 4 as its two thirds the number of cores for my processor.

Save the file, close notepad, then launch the game as normal.

This was an instant fix for me running an I7 8700K.

Yea, no.
I have Ryzen R7 5700X3D, and those AMD 3D cache CPUs are famous for force bruting MMO games.
And yet before June 25, I had stable 120 fps in towns.
Normal trials are disaster, can't imagine vet versions...