Are you graphically dashing in towns?

DreamyLu · March 9

Since about one week, when I'm in towns, I graphically dash: I run and suddenly it freezes for some seconds, then I keep running, and so on... It's really specific to towns, I don't have it anywhere else in the game.

Do you have that too?

fizl101 · March 9

No I dont have that. I'm on ps5 and generally performance is pretty stable

karthrag_inak · March 9

Khajiit is quite dashing in towns and the wilds too, it is known.

SeaGtGruff · March 9

That happens to me rather often, especially in certain cities. It isn't new-- it used to happen to me a lot in Daggerfall years ago when that was my main's main hangout-- but for a while it had stopped happening, and lately (within the last year or so) it has started happening again, only this time mostly in Wayrest and Elden Root.

In my case, I think it's caused by cells (if that's the right word) taking a long time to load, because there will be a straight line on the ground-- presumably the border between two adjacent cells-- and the ground on one side looks normal but the ground on the other side is blurred. As I'm sprinting along or riding my mount and hit that boundary line going toward the blurred side, I freeze in place but my animation continues sprinting or riding even though I'm stuck in place-- stopped by an invisible wall-- and I can't do anything to stop or change direction. Eventually the cell on the blurred side of the boundary loads enough data for the game to let me continue.

That might not be what you're talking about, but it tends to happen to me at certain locations in certain cities.

the1andonlyskwex · March 9

fizl101 wrote: »

No I dont have that. I'm on ps5 and generally performance is pretty stable

Same here. I did occasionally have the described problem when I still played on a PS4 Pro, although it happened pretty much everywhere, not just in towns. I wonder if the OP has an old spinning magnetic hard drive.

DreamyLu · March 10

Dear All

As I couldn't understand why - after 2 years trouble free - I had this sudden dashing in towns, I decided to investigate a bit. I checked a few things in the settings, until I remember that one thing I use has had a change with potential consequences: the addon Master Merchant. So, as a test, I did remove it. After that, I had no dashing anymore.

Now, don't draw consequences out of my experience because:
1) It can be that out of the few things I tried, the problem got solved from a completely different action I had done nearly at same time than removing the addon. So I can't tell 100% that it was the addon removal.
2) Assumed that it was the removal of the MM addon: Since some days, the addon was putting a warning in chat upon logging on, telling that there is a change ongoing and that we need to take action. I did ignore it. So it can be that it's with the addon, but only because I didn't perform the required actions. It would be entirely my fault, not the addon.

All in all, am just happy that the dashing in towns is gone. In some days from now, I will maybe re-install MM and see how it goes.

DreamyLu · March 11

Dears, sorry for double posting, but just to confirm: yes, this is with the addon MM in my case. With it installed I dash, without it everything is perfect.

So I will for now keep going without the addon, and after update 41, when things will be "installed" and stable after a few days, I will retry to use it because I'm sure it's only due to the changes coming with update 41.

Necrotech_Master · March 15

this is why i switched to arkadius trade tools a few years ago, master merchant was becoming too bloated and resource intensive, while arkadius does basically the same thing but is much more light weight and doesnt cause me any issues with processing

DreamyLu · April 5

Thanks for the info @Necrotech_Master .

As a matter of fact, since I use only TTC without MM, I have the pleasant surprise that:
1) I have no more performance troubles
2) I don't miss MM at all.

So for now, I will stay with just TTC.