Come on, how is this cool? PC CTDs before the intro videos finish loading is actually a problem!

tuibitsi · November 2022

A large chunk of the playerbase on PC is getting CTD with zero addons, can't even get past the intro videos, and yet there seems to be this collective delusion that surely people with the issue are just not disabling NodeDetection by pressing esc after their client fails to load beyond the zenimax swoosh. We can't do crash reports, we can't esc into menus that never load. Just chill folks and admit this is an actual problem that's just pushed into "we'll fix it someday" zone that will probably be fixed by the community faster than zenimax can get to it.

This isn't great, it's not fun.

WrathOfInnos · November 2022

Can confirm, I've never had any node detection addon library and I'm still crashing along with half the trial group. Nobody is using ESOlogs (which is a sad fact in itself).

Jaraal · November 2022

Have you tried unplugging your modem for ten seconds?

baltic1284 · November 2022

Crashing isn't the only problem though game update issues are on again some players can't even sign in because they get a error 201 and so forth, some players have their character reset and items lost entirely due to moving maps, others players can't even use their characters now many click to use and doesn't load in so they create a new character just to have it disappear when they go to switch characters.
So yeah, this a mess and sad thing is nothing from the devs for the most on fixing these issues only the current we are crashing one. But I guarantee if the Crown store worked this bad, they shut the game down and have a fix in 10 minutes buut when it is us that have to suffer the fix is a week later till then suffer. Or be ignored like i am being ignored at the moment over my game that can't even update itself at the moment.

Sarannah · November 2022

There are more crash issues at the moment, ZOS has a thread pinned at the top:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/620800/current-pc-game-crashes-w-update-36-updated-nov-2-4-30pm-edt

In this thread some players updated their GPU drivers, and that stopped their crashings:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/7745262#Comment_7745262

There is also another thread which describes "process hacker" to cause ESO to crash, if you use that program:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/620772/eso-crashes-when-using-process-hacker

Hopefully some of this helps you!

ZOS_Bill · December 2022

We are currently tracking a number of game crashes on the PC megaservers since updating to patch v8.2.5. Please see our pinned thread which is linked below that contains updates and troubleshooting. As there are multiple threads on this topic, we are going to close this thread.

Current PC Game Crashes w/ Update 36