Has xbox series S performance been nerfed?

drsalvation · July 2022

Since the release of high isle on consoles, I noticed most areas I used to be in without a problem have a hard time trying to keep up the framerate and drops around 30fps on performance mode. Pretty much the entire overland on high isle is at 30fps, and even Deshaan (at least mournhold - overland areas are nice with 60fps).
I used to do all crafting dailies in Leyawiin, and I've done event quests where the impresario gets crowded with lots of players, even cyrodiil zergs would run smoothly at 60fps...
Did something change? And is this getting looked into? Or is it just my console?

ZOS_Hadeostry · July 2022

Greetings,

After further review we have decided to move this thread to a category we think is more appropriate for this topic.

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Brrrofski · July 2022

It happens sometimes after a major patch.

There will probably be an incremental soon that smooths it out again.

Karivaa · July 2022

Make sure your Xbox eso video settings are set to performance. After the patch mine were set to the other one.

drsalvation · July 2022

Thanks guys, my settings were set to performance, but for some reason the game was behaving like it was fidelity, I switched to fidelity and applied changes, then switched back to performance, that did the trick. I was getting scared the series S wouldn't be able to handle graphics as good as a series X anymore lol.

ixmike · July 2022

I'm on Xbox Series X--looks and runs great on performance mode--and I'm so glad the new High Isle update got rid of the invisible 2-handed melee weapon bug and that other annoying bug where the game didn't save your brightness settings.

ZOS_Bill · July 2022

There are some standard troubleshooting steps in the link below that can help improve your performance while playing.

What do I do if ESO is having performance issues on Xbox One?

drsalvation · July 2022

Thanks @ZOS_Bill I found out the game is switching to fidelity mode by default even when the settings are set to performance every time I start the game. I switch to fidelity and then to performance mode to fix it, it looks to me like a bug in the game's starting configuration settings rather than the console itself.
It's easy to tell because when I switch to fidelity, there's no load screen or anything, the game just continues as normal, then I switch to performance and the load screen appears, if I switch to fidelity again, the load screen will appear this time, so this implies that the game was running in fidelity despite the settings showing it was in performance mode.