New Patcher Rollout

LalMirchi · August 19

Update today, took a couple of hours to load the data for the PTS and base game.

Oznog666 · August 19

I'm located in the middle of Europe, the launcher showed 35 GB but it was only at about 10 minutes for downloading and installing.

Cruxanero · August 19

Oznog666 wrote: »

I'm located in the middle of Europe, the launcher showed 35 GB but it was only at about 10 minutes for downloading and installing.

That was the case for me as well. It quickly skipped over whole GBs, so the shown value is clearly not correct.

Basbor · August 19

But it still needs a bit over 35GB of free hard drive space... which can be annoying.
(That was the case when I tried to update it and did not have the free space.)

AnduinTryggva · August 19

Mh. I fear they will extend it even beyond 1600 UTC

vgabor · August 19

Update prioritise PTS over LIVE servers at start and even pausing the pts update it won't start updating live.

Setting PTS off in updater config and restarting updater does not solve it either, the updater on start still try to update pts first just now invisibly in the background.
@ZOS_Kevin

laniakea_0 · August 21

Oznog666 wrote: »

I'm located in the middle of Europe, the launcher showed 35 GB but it was only at about 10 minutes for downloading and installing.

It downloaded only 2GB but those contained changes for 30GB+ worth of local files. at least that's how I understand it.

Twyst · September 1

@ZOS_Kevin Now that ZoS announced that ESO is playable on steam deck, how about addressing one niggling bug in the launcher on steam deck?

Whilst the on board controller can navigate to the play button and click it, any bluetooth connected controller can do one click and then all input is discarded. The same controller works fine in ESO itself. Happens with 8bitdo Ultimate, Pro2 and XBox Elite2. Please fix thanks!

thinkaboutit · October 5

Is the new downloader/patcher utilizing the gameserver play bandwidth or is it on its own connection?

Elsonso · October 5

thinkaboutit wrote: »

Is the new downloader/patcher utilizing the gameserver play bandwidth or is it on its own connection?

Separate. As I recall, the game client and all patches come from an Akamai CDN server somewhere.

Zastrix · October 7

Twyst wrote: »

@ZOS_Kevin Now that ZoS announced that ESO is playable on steam deck, how about addressing one niggling bug in the launcher on steam deck?

Whilst the on board controller can navigate to the play button and click it, any bluetooth connected controller can do one click and then all input is discarded. The same controller works fine in ESO itself. Happens with 8bitdo Ultimate, Pro2 and XBox Elite2. Please fix thanks!

Oh also because you're running the deck, you're probably having stutter issues. This is a bug with the new launcher generally on Linux (I'm not sure about X11, I use Wayland). I made a thread/comment with an automatic launcher-closer-script/steam launch arguments: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/8200857/#Comment_8200857.

Tyralbin · October 29

@ZOS_Kevin

Is there anyway to download just the launcher itself.

Mine has stopped working am at the moment running through ESO 64 but will have issues next time there's a patch.

I was sure you could download the launcher from ESO account page but just looked in mine and cannot find it.

Even the ESO support page send me to the account page. All that is there is a game download button. I only want to download launcher.

Dazzaw · November 15

Are there any plans to let Steam update the game without requiring the launcher to be open? Would be a massive boon for people like me who play on PC and on their Steam Deck, not having to download the update twice per patch. Once on Pc and once on Deck.

ZOS_Kevin · November 15

Dazzaw wrote: »

Are there any plans to let Steam update the game without requiring the launcher to be open? Would be a massive boon for people like me who play on PC and on their Steam Deck, not having to download the update twice per patch. Once on Pc and once on Deck.

We can pass this on to the team working on Steam Deck verification. Not sure if that is a requirement to be fully verified or not. But we'll pass this along and see what the team can share at the moment.