Is it me or is the lag real?

Mathius_Mordred · May 14

PCEU

The last couple of days the amount of audio de-synching is crazy. Bar swapping is also delayed, several people have commented on it. Is this generally the case or is it just a handful of us?

SundarahFr3akinrican · May 14

PC NA here and i have noticed this week has had the most noticeable hiccups of desync happening. Havent had this issue in a long time, atleast not this close in succession

johnjetau · May 15

This is what happens to the game when they don't do their weekly server maintenance.

Dojohoda · May 15

Yes, audio for skills delayed and sometimes doesn't play at all. Also, sometimes the animation doesn't play for the ultimate.

AlienSlof · May 15

It's not just you!

I came back to the game about 2 months ago after a year-long hiatus and it was fine. This seems to have started happening since the Night Market update. My hubby is having the same issues. We play on PCEU.

Since then I have had delayed audio and visual stuff not firing off - or it seems to cache it somehow and I get a cacophony of stacked visuals sounds very loud!

My attacks are clearly working even though I don't see or hear my heavy attacks or skills because the enemy falls down dead - then *BOOM!* every effect goes off at once after it's dead! Same applies to gathering sounds when I'm picking mats. When talking to NPCs, their voice kicks in a second or two late and doesn't match their mouth movements.

Updating my graphcs drivers helped a little, but it's still very obvious and quite disorenting sometimes.

Orbital78 · May 15

Part of the issue is that mobs seem to bug out if pulled too far out of their spawn area. Heavy attacks and dd skills won't target. Also this is probably the most active the game has been in years and they're making way more instances than usual I bet.

DarkStrifeYT · May 15

No lag here, 100 fps and ping at 4-6

peacenote · May 15

It's not you.

PCNA

My friends and I are being driven crazy by the sound bug/phenomenon, which was the one thing you used to be able to rely on when there was visual lag.

My personal theory is that it's because of all of the instances of the Night Market but I am not a coder and I could be wrong!

AzuraFan · May 15

The only weird thing that's happened to me this week is disappearing nodes and mobs in Betnikh. Like, I'm about to kill something, or harvest something, and it disappears. But that was only once. Otherwise I haven't experienced any lag or other weirdness.

MissNoir · May 15

I have one single character that constantly has had massive lag since a couple of weeks and I’m really hoping a maintenance will solve it.

Sounds super delayed or not playing at all. Animations not showing. For example the teleport animation. Mounting up gives mount up animation, but no mount and my character runs in mount speed for several seconds before the mount shows up.

Only with one and the same character. Tested with and without addons. All the same settings as all other 19 characters.

Orbital78 · May 15

AzuraFan wrote: »

The only weird thing that's happened to me this week is disappearing nodes and mobs in Betnikh. Like, I'm about to kill something, or harvest something, and it disappears. But that was only once. Otherwise I haven't experienced any lag or other weirdness.

Starter zone, I think newbies questing or that haven't done certain parts appear invisible to you if you've progressed already. At least certain parts of the zone, either that or hackers.

Overall I haven't noticed much issues with lag, but some of my guild mates have mentioned it. I suspect it is older systems and memory being mostly used up.

AzuraFan · May 15

Orbital78 wrote: »

AzuraFan wrote: »

The only weird thing that's happened to me this week is disappearing nodes and mobs in Betnikh. Like, I'm about to kill something, or harvest something, and it disappears. But that was only once. Otherwise I haven't experienced any lag or other weirdness.

Starter zone, I think newbies questing or that haven't done certain parts appear invisible to you if you've progressed already. At least certain parts of the zone, either that or hackers.

Overall I haven't noticed much issues with lag, but some of my guild mates have mentioned it. I suspect it is older systems and memory being mostly used up.

I'm in the starter zones a lot and that's never happened to me before. I wasn't in an area associated with quests (like when you see something different after completion). So I doubt that was it. It's the only time it's happened to me the entire time I've been playing the game.

Sluggy · May 15

A few others mentioned how things got noticeably worse when NM dropped. I have to agree with that. Desyncs, lag spikes, and disconnects are much more common for me since then. Desync is especially prevalent right now. About every minute or so I kinda just have press buttons and hope that everything works out in the end because I get absolutely zero feedback from the as to what is going on for several seconds at a time.

El_Borracho · May 15

See quite a bit of lag in NM when there are multiple groups fighting a skirmish. Especially the one in the Parch. Or when you are in a full group and run through add swarms.

shadyjane62 · May 15

The lag has been terrible. I don't usually experience it, and didn't even understand at first why my hits were not effective until I looked at fps.

htltrashb16_ESO · May 15

FPS and ping are as usual, no lag, but a lot of sound delay issues (skills, mount, mining), and sometimes animation missing (crafting, teleport). Started suddenly 4 or 5 days ago. PC EU.

Tallon_IV · May 15

Frequently while fighting a boss in the Night Market myself and some members of my group will experience the server freezing and then kicking us to the login screen, then getting put in a login queue.

htltrashb16_ESO · May 18

Maintenance now over, and... nothing fixed! All the issues mentioned in this thread are still there (PC EU).

ZOS_Icy · May 18

Greetings,

This thread has been moved to the PC Technical Support section, as it is better suited there.

The Elder Scrolls Online Team

htltrashb16_ESO · May 19

I have enough time to run a marathon before mount peeps out...

Dojohoda · May 19

Recently, there's a Tank, who does a whole lot of damage (; )), farming Z'en's Redress daggers and so my healer on another account is very often randomly queued into Lair of Maarselok. After going through some of the doors there, I have to pause now and then to wait for the floor to load. (I hope you finally get those daggers.)

Mounts: Most, I do mean all, of the time the mount doesn't load until after few seconds. Meanwhile my character could win a gold medal in track.

Sounds: The quietness of skills continues. Short blocks of absolute silence for a couple seconds is going on.

Animation: If the necro ultimate pops up and bangs the ground, I would like to both see it and hear it. However, I can see the ultimate was spent by glancing at the skills.