1.6.3 all sound disappears after playing for 20-30 minutes, game crashes on exit

xylena · February 2015

latest game-breaking bug to show up on pts, which is barely playable right now... despite what this forum looks like there are bigger issues than sorc pve dps

random sudden loss of all game sound, restart required
random sudden loss of ulti gen, relog required
no alliance indicators or health bars, no fix and settings do nothing
rubber banding when looking at your map with auto-run active
huge disparities in base stats thanks to +10% mag/stam racial passives

Teargrants · February 2015

xylena wrote: »

random sudden loss of all game sound, restart required

ZOS thought you might miss the sound loss if they ever manage to improve Cyrodiil lag, so they took some preemptive measures to make sure that bug would never forsake us.

xylena wrote: »

rubber banding when looking at your map with auto-run active

I believe you have discovered how to make your horse bolt escape. I'm sure as a DK this is a foreign concept to you, but my sorc sense says it must be so.

daemonios · February 2015

I can confirm this. Submitted a bug report for the sound issue but not for the crash on exit.

Also, at least once a wayshrine in The Rift wouldn't appear on my compass.

Ageless · February 2015

Confirming as well. I encountered the all-of-a-sudden-completely-no-sound-or-music situation twice while entering Mistral in Khenarthi's Roost. On two systems no less, and always at the same time. It's as if the server drops a packet.

One system usually manages to log off and quit normally, but the other always sits on a black screen and totally crashed game. Needs an exit through Windows Task Manager -> End Process.

Rydik · February 2015

Yup, the same ... Time was random for me...

drathanne · February 2015

I will also jump on this bandwagon, I have encountered all of the above issues.

xylena · February 2015

please keep bumping this so zos acknowledges these issues and it doesn't get lost amongst the 900,000,000 sorc threads... these issues game-breaking

indigoblades · February 2015

Happens to me too every time i play. It is game breaking and no where near ready for release.

Dominoid · February 2015

ZOS acknowledged the rubberbanding here while the forums were down:

http://www.reddit.com/r/elderscrollsonline/comments/2wbb82/pts_teleport_bug/

ToRelax · February 2015

I get this often after "random" loading screens, i.e., when I am not switching between zones but arriving at some location where were ESO thinks I can't play with what I have loaded of it already. Ones the Screen is gone, sound with it. It only comes back with a whole game restart and if I try to exit game it crashes.

MotherChaos · February 2015

Having the same issue with the sound loss on PTS. Noticed it on very first login some time ago - had it happen again just now.

Reload UI does nothing
Disabled ALL add-ons, reloaded UI, does nothing
/camp with all add-ons disabled, upon reentry...still no sound
/quit => game hung trying to quit, had to hard-kill
reload after system ready to speak to me again, HEY, THERE'S THE SOUND AGAIN!

Jahosefat · February 2015

I submitted an in-game bug report for this. My game also crashes when trying to restart after the sound drops out; however I am able to re-open the game and the sound is fine after that. It seems random; I haven't figured out how to reproduce it but it seems to happen during/towards the end of fights (so maybe some ability/mechanic is causing it?).

ZOS_GinaBruno · February 2015

Thanks all, we are aware of this issue (it was actually in the most recent patch notes as a known issue); it will be fixed before Update 6 gets pushed live.

glak · February 2015

I get a crash when testing session timeout, consistently. One of these crashes may corrupt someone's game client files, but has not happened yet.

WebBull · February 2015

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Thanks all, we are aware of this issue (it was actually in the most recent patch notes as a known issue); it will be fixed before Update 6 gets pushed live.

"Pushed" is the right word. It doesn't deserve to make it on on it's own (in it's current bug riddle, unbalanced form).

Stickbow · February 2015

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Thanks all, we are aware of this issue (it was actually in the most recent patch notes as a known issue); it will be fixed before Update 6 gets pushed live.

Dredging up a known issue to ask -- if this is just me, or common. If I quit the game to reset the sound, the game will not exit, it goes blank screen and Task Manager tells me it is not responding, so I have to force quit.

If I quit the game BEFORE sound dies, it doesn't do it.

I assume this is part of the sound driver issue...hope so....

glak · February 2015

Stickbow wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Thanks all, we are aware of this issue (it was actually in the most recent patch notes as a known issue); it will be fixed before Update 6 gets pushed live.

Dredging up a known issue to ask -- if this is just me, or common. If I quit the game to reset the sound, the game will not exit, it goes blank screen and Task Manager tells me it is not responding, so I have to force quit.

If I quit the game BEFORE sound dies, it doesn't do it.

I assume this is part of the sound driver issue...hope so....

We find out when they deploy 1.6.5 to Live. They may just duct tape a fix such that this still occurs on quit but the sound is fine and fix the destructor part later.