U39 Large Cyrodil Battles Lag More Than U38

godchucknzilla · August 2023

U39 Large Cyrodil Battles are Lagging More Than U38 on Greyhost PC NA

I'm definitely noticing a 20 - 30 percent decrease in performance after U39. This game is over for me if new patches degrades performance from the previous patch. I'm not sure what's changed yet, I haven't updated my 20 addons yet so I will try to see what's up on my end. I'm starting this thread to document the problem and see what is up.

Some changes:
Battle Messages Introduced
Azurblight Used More
Outdated Addons
Occlusion Culling Implemented

CameraBeardThePirate · August 2023

+1'ing this. There was a very noticeable decrease in PvP performance after the patch. Even IC was lagging pretty bad and that zone is usually fine.

PCNA

Kaysha · August 2023

+1 abilities fire with a noticeable delay
PC EU GH

GooGa592 · August 2023

This is to be expected after implementing the "PvP kill feed" notification system.

Dat · August 2023

GooGa592 wrote: »

This is to be expected after implementing the "PvP kill feed" notification system.

Yeah I immediately turned that one off

Belegnole · August 2023

I've been having additional lag outside of PvP as well.

Marcus684 · August 2023

Is it due to game changes or due to more activity? I've only popped into Cyrodiil a couple of times since the patch but things seem livelier now with fewer players afk at the bases and front line keeps.

Edit to add that yes, lag seems worse than before patch.

CameraBeardThePirate · August 2023

Marcus684 wrote: »

Is it due to game changes or due to more activity? I've only popped into Cyrodiil a couple of times since the patch but things seem livelier now with fewer players afk at the bases and front line keeps.

Edit to add that yes, lag seems worse than before patch.

It's definitely not more activity - Cyrodiil and IC have been rather dead when I've been playing since the patch, yet both places were still extremely laggy.

More activity also wouldn't explain why BGs have been so laggy since the patch - those are instanced and shouldn't be affected by the Cyrodiil population.

Vinterskald · August 2023

Definitely been experiencing this as well, also PC/NA Grey Host. I disconnect the second there's more than just a couple enemy players on my screen, and nothing on my end has changed.

And then it takes numerous tries to get back in, often with a new error code whenever I try, even when my faction isn't population locked. And when I actually manage to stay in game, I get bad ping spikes whenever there's larger numbers of enemy players around.

Disabling addons made no difference whatsoever. The last time that happened while I was in a group, however, I noticed that none of my teammates seemed to have the same issues. So it's somewhat reassuring to read here that others are dealing with performance issues as well.

I've kind of been blaming Azureblight a little bit, since I've seen crashes mentioned in relation to that, and even the patch notes mention that it's been known to cause server issues in the past. Definitely would be lovely if the devs could look into that somewhat soon.

godchucknzilla · August 2023

The performance seems to be better lately. Not sure what it was.

Bashev · August 2023

I can confirm. Even without high ping there is a delay on the skills. EU PvP

acastanza_ESO · August 2023

Yes, I have also noticed a significant degradation in PVP performance since the patch, with massive delays when casting abilities in even moderately populated fights, and sometimes even just standing at the gates!