My combat performance has been awful lately with the typical symptoms (sluggish controls, abilities not firing, etc...) people keep bringing up year after year on these forums. It is frustrating.

Frame freeze every 5 minutes, indeed it's like watching a slideshow since last patch.
Lag so bad it caused my death a couple of times.

Major Lag: Increases your insanity level by %20, causing you to take delayed damage from all incoming attacks.

Eso lag for years used to be something I ignored or worked around because I liked the game.
Keybind and mouse inputs not firing.
20 opponent skills firing in a catchup freeze frame.
etc

Lag while I pvp'ed became intolerable, so I stopped bothering,
I reduced my ESO time down to doing craft dailies, and surveys.
Lag now equals:
Lag while farming surveys? RUkiddingme
Lag while doing craft dailies? RUkiddingme
Lag while in housing? Seriously??

My FPS capped at 60, same as always.
Ping 100-130 same as always.

I almost went and bought a new mouse and keyboard to try to get better performance.
Fortunately I tested in a different game and other software beforehand.

Other net based softwares equals no lag (as expected).

Log into a different game with servers further away (more hops) on internets routes.
Ping 30, FPS 100+ (set cap back to 60)
and guess what

NO LAG
No screen stutters, no catch up freeze framing.
Keybind and mouse inputs all work properly.
They all fire when pressed, the FIRST FREAKING TIME.

Now it's hard to even get myself to login to Eso for craft dailies and hellos to guildies.
Every time I click login, a voice says:
"What;s the point when I can go play without lag elsewhere."

Out of interest, are you guys with lagging and misfiring skills using wired connections for internet, mouse and keyboard, or wireless?

Tandor wrote: »

Out of interest, are you guys with lagging and misfiring skills using wired connections for internet, mouse and keyboard, or wireless?

All wired here. PC-NA

Performance varies very drastically and unintelligibly (to me). The same HM prog one week apart can have decent performance or performance so terrible that 3-5 people routinely suffer from ping spikes and disconnect the whole two hours. Last week I got spikes between 3.4-8.7s in latency for an hour on Ansuul (my typical ping is 58-69ms), and Mystic Orb took six presses without going off at all; this week, I didn’t see anything above 160 or so, and skills worked as well as they can. Same trial, same fights, same day and time, and no event either week.

This was also my experience in Cyrodiil. One day a faction stack will lag but is doable (40-60 fps on 5600x 7900XT 32GB 3600mHz RAM); another day it will be a <10fps slideshow for the whole group and skills require those 5-6 presses. This was all well after the main server replacements but before the recent testing.

The fact it happens to multiple people in group (whether PvE or PvP) also suggests to me that much of this isn’t a client-side issue.

Tandor wrote: »

virtus753 wrote: »

Tandor wrote: »

Out of interest, are you guys with lagging and misfiring skills using wired connections for internet, mouse and keyboard, or wireless?

All wired here. PC-NA

Performance varies very drastically and unintelligibly (to me). The same HM prog one week apart can have decent performance or performance so terrible that 3-5 people routinely suffer from ping spikes and disconnect the whole two hours. Last week I got spikes between 3.4-8.7s in latency for an hour on Ansuul (my typical ping is 58-69ms), and Mystic Orb took six presses without going off at all; this week, I didn’t see anything above 160 or so, and skills worked as well as they can. Same trial, same fights, same day and time, and no event either week.

This was also my experience in Cyrodiil. One day a faction stack will lag but is doable (40-60 fps on 5600x 7900XT 32GB 3600mHz RAM); another day it will be a <10fps slideshow for the whole group and skills require those 5-6 presses. This was all well after the main server replacements but before the recent testing.

The fact it happens to multiple people in group (whether PvE or PvP) also suggests to me that much of this isn’t a client-side issue.

I think that's a fair conclusion, although it could of course point to a network issue rather than a server one, especially where the group or guild experience is the same for players from the same part of the country or world. Either way, the unpredictability of it makes it difficult to track down or replicate.

Yes, in the past there have been localized disruptions for sure. (There was once an issue in much of the northwestern US, iirc, that was out of ZOS' control.) In the cases I mentioned above, however, we have players from NA, Europe, Africa, and various parts of Asia all experiencing similar issues at the same time. I should have mentioned that initially.

ETA: corrected locations

Also forgot to mention that some days there are instances when the whole group (or at least most) gets a freeze at the same time. I know sometimes the client freezes on an individual basis, but the group freezes are curious to me. I figure it must be the server at those moments.

Tandor wrote: »

Out of interest, are you guys with lagging and misfiring skills using wired connections for internet, mouse and keyboard, or wireless?

I use wireless internet (with fairly reliable downstream of 100Mbps or more, and upstream of 30Mbps or more), and wired keyboard and mouse.

Akamai is the DDOS prevention service that ZOS uses. If it's possible for you to talk to your ISP, explain the issues, and ask them to route to the servers in a different pattern, you can try that. I don't know how "normal" ISPs react, but it's always a good thing to ask - if they say no, you're no worse off than before, and if they can help you may be much better off!

Since I have only satellite through Hughes Net, I can't really ask them to re-route. But I don't have much lag (outside of the time to the sat and back) so for me it doesn't really matter.

I hope your ISP can help you out!

I'm experiencing lag too, and so is my husband. When we play together, both of us at the same time are no longer able to interact with the environment, then we are taken back in time and space. Other times the character freezes and within a few seconds disconnects, with the message "an error has occurred".
This is very frequent, about twice in a hour.