I don't know why you closed the other thread and linked it to this completely unrelated report from Australia (perplexed), but I'll repeat it here as requested even though it probably just confuses this thread.

Like a bunch of people I'm seeing occasional sudden lag spikes this update. They are probably not local ISP spikes because several times the desync, sudden hit with 9 things at once was experienced by multiple people in the dungeon run at the same time - ie it's more likely server side. This was also PvE so it's not Cyrodil scaling or people using cheats. Otherwise the game ping was steady at 100-133. They are also sharp edged - it's 100-133, lag bomb, 9 simultaenous hits, died and back to normal a couple of seconds later.

Otherwise the current update has noticably improved random loading screens, and seems to have fixed some of the problems in Rimmen where the floor doesn't load for ages near the crafting hand in and you get stuck running on the spot.

etchedpixels wrote: »

I don't know why you closed the other thread and linked it to this completely unrelated report from Australia (perplexed), but I'll repeat it here as requested even though it probably just confuses this thread.

Like a bunch of people I'm seeing occasional sudden lag spikes this update. They are probably not local ISP spikes because several times the desync, sudden hit with 9 things at once was experienced by multiple people in the dungeon run at the same time - ie it's more likely server side. This was also PvE so it's not Cyrodil scaling or people using cheats. Otherwise the game ping was steady at 100-133. They are also sharp edged - it's 100-133, lag bomb, 9 simultaenous hits, died and back to normal a couple of seconds later.

Otherwise the current update has noticably improved random loading screens, and seems to have fixed some of the problems in Rimmen where the floor doesn't load for ages near the crafting hand in and you get stuck running on the spot.

Second that. My thread regarding the issue was also closed. Lags also started following the patch although the ping was completely stable before. Now the lags are in Cyro and PvE both. Unlike the OP author I live in Japan where a typical ping towards Virginia US would be 200.

I contacted the support via opening ticked - but it is useless, you can skip this step as once they run out of 1) open ports 2) contact your ISP 3) do tracert and pathping - they become silent and do not reply. I have been waiting for the last reply from the support 3 days already although previously they were answering within hours. I suppose they have nothing more to suggest and do not want to investigate the matter further.

Try doing pathping and tracert as they suggest and share the results. My educated guess is that there is some packet loss at Akamai. There are multiple threads blaming the stuff since quite a while [1], [2], [3] going as far as comparing playing via VPN and without (VPN that circumvented Akamai actually gave better ping, which is ridiculous).

Still, this does not answer why the lag rekindled after the patch. But I hope Zenimax now under Microsoft would pay more attention to its networking performance and usage of Akamai.

Gardarik wrote: »

But I hope Zenimax now under Microsoft would pay more attention to its networking performance and usage of Akamai.

Just quickly pointing out that Zenimax Media will not be acquired by Microsoft until next year (2H FY2021, between April and September). Until then they are two separate companies and must act like it if they want to pass regulatory scrutiny. Microsoft has also explicitly said they do not have plans to change the way things are run after the deal closes, so hoping for a change from the top may unfortunately well be in vain.

Some updates.

I have contacted ZOS support twice to no avail. Not to dub the message I will simply leave a link to the post in other topic related to alleged reason of the lags.

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