Sub Par Performance After Last Maint.

Vapirko · January 2019

I tried giving it a few days before posting, but the general performance has absolutely tanked for me after the most recent maintainence. Very high ping spikes, but also severe lag when ping is normal. One second lag on skills. I’ve also had multiple fights, confirmed with opponents where neither of our skills would go off on the other person. Not grayed out or anything, just simply would not fire. Another thing is horrible FPS drops, not just in big battles but in small six person fights from around 60-80fps down to 30fps and not a smooth 30, chunky horrible stuttering play. This is NOT normal for me. Generally I just deal with a bit of normal lag associated with 270 ping, which is totally functional. Is this happening to anyone else?

Delsskia · January 2019

It's been horrendous. I've had all the same issues plus my skill bar is greyed out longer after I roll dodge, sometimes for 5 or 6 seconds where all I can do is run around. And break free is just broken period, good luck trying to get out of CC's. Last night I was tossing out Soothing Spores on people directly in front of me and the animation happened but no heals landed.

Also, last night Fantasia had several fights with Dracarys and they should have been great fights like normal, but they felt more like the guild with the fewest lag issues at critical times won. At times the only thing one or the other guild could do was just run away and hope the lag would clear up enough to fight as we maneuvered.

I really don't understand how ZOS can justify charging money for this *** show. Shame... Shame... Shame...

Vapirko · January 2019

Delsskia wrote: »

It's been horrendous. I've had all the same issues plus my skill bar is greyed out longer after I roll dodge, sometimes for 5 or 6 seconds where all I can do is run around. And break free is just broken period, good luck trying to get out of CC's. Last night I was tossing out Soothing Spores on people directly in front of me and the animation happened but no heals landed.

Also, last night Fantasia had several fights with Dracarys and they should have been great fights like normal, but they felt more like the guild with the fewest lag issues at critical times won. At times the only thing one or the other guild could do was just run away and hope the lag would clear up enough to fight as we maneuvered.

I really don't understand how ZOS can justify charging money for this *** show. Shame... Shame... Shame...

Is this recent for you? I’ve haven’t had any major issues until after last weeks maintainence. I’m wondering if they did something and didn’t post any notes.

Anrose · January 2019

Get your wallets out to preorder The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr to play your imbalanced and overpowered Necromancer!

Vapirko · January 2019

Anrose wrote: »

Get your wallets out to preorder The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr to play your imbalanced and overpowered Necromancer!

I know right? Based on the responses here thoug I guess this game is still tossing out horrible performance to only a few people at a time. Idk why it’s like that. Maybe it’s some kind of *** ZOS performance improvement. Give a random group of people really bad performance so others can have better performance and switch it up every so often.

zyk · January 2019

I played last night for the first time in about a month. When I played earlier during 4.2, I noticed client performance had improved and the 30-50% FPS drop bug was triggered less frequently. Last night, I thought it was worse. The FPS drop bug also introduces stutter worse than one would expect from the reported framerate.

pzschrek · January 2019

I’ve specifically noticed it’s gotten worse.

The more confusing thing is the thing you mentioned about ping, which I also noticed. I was having skill lag even when ping was still somewhat acceptable. THAT is the new thing.

Vapirko · January 2019

pzschrek wrote: »

I’ve specifically noticed it’s gotten worse.

The more confusing thing is the thing you mentioned about ping, which I also noticed. I was having skill lag even when ping was still somewhat acceptable. THAT is the new thing.

Yep, it’s very weird. I have noticed though that it’s simply a really large delay in that ping being registered. Normally it shoots up a few seconds after I lag but the last few days it will lag really hard for anywhere from several minutes to 30 minutes and then I’ll get a horrific latency spike. Sometimes it levels out again sometimes I have to quit.

zyk wrote: »

I played last night for the first time in about a month. When I played earlier during 4.2, I noticed client performance had improved and the 30-50% FPS drop bug was triggered less frequently. Last night, I thought it was worse. The FPS drop bug also introduces stutter worse than one would expect from the reported framerate.

That’s it exactly. 30 FPS should be okay from a viewing standpoint but it looked like it was closer to 5 FPS even though the indicator said 30-35. Again this is abnormal for me. I’ll see if it’s the same tonight.

ku5h · January 2019

Performance is so bad that i dont even notice anymore. On the other hand what i have noticed is that since last maintenance the game just crashed 3-4 times so far. Prior to this maintenance i haven't crashed for at least a year. So there is that.

Vapirko · January 2019

So I trahed/rebuilt my user settings file which seems to have stopped the horrid stuttering for the time being. I’ve customized a few settings but I’ve redone those and things still seem fine. So idk whether rebuilding that file actually helped or it’s just better tonight. Lag is still fairly pronounced, especially damage stacking up all at once.

zyk · January 2019

Vapirko wrote: »

So I trahed/rebuilt my user settings file which seems to have stopped the horrid stuttering for the time being. I’ve customized a few settings but I’ve redone those and things still seem fine. So idk whether rebuilding that file actually helped or it’s just better tonight. Lag is still fairly pronounced, especially damage stacking up all at once.

That's been known to fix weird bugs and improve performance, so it's definitely possible it helped.

antihero727 · January 2019

I am in the same boat with performance. I log out earlier, won’t group with anyone and avoid bigger fights. The game is somehow getting more worse than better. Where is rock bottom, because ZOS’s failure well must be deep.

Stridig · January 2019

Lately I have experienced the worst performance I can ever remember. Sure there have always been issues but right now it is terrible.

Vapirko · January 2019

Stridig wrote: »

Lately I have experienced the worst performance I can ever remember. Sure there have always been issues but right now it is terrible.

I cannot figure out what's going on. Though I managed to fix my stuttering FPS issues which is nice, there is a constant lag right now thats about half a second at best. Ive been checking with people Im fighting and they're getting it too and it seems to have worsened greatly very recently. I know we won't get a response from ZOS though.

Also if theres any AU/Asia players on here, have the forums also been slow for you? Or anyone else? I keep getting these Cloud Flare errors saying it can't establish a connection. Idk if this is all related somehow or not.

Soris · January 2019

Glad im not alone in this.
I had perfect performance a week ago or two. Perfect that i accidently started thinking that they finally overcome all the weird performance problems as it was running smooth af. Wish i had took a copy of my ini file. But after the last couple maintanences performance problems started to rise again especially the powerpoint style weird shuttering, fps jumping from 40 to 20 for no real reasons And as someone said, fps indicator says that i have above 30 fps in keep fights but it feels nothing more than 10-15. (Mind you i only use a handful of very lightweight addons and they are always up to date and i never keep any another program open while playing eso.)
Zos please rollback whatever you changed.