Weird Distorted World (for lack of a technical word!)

remijarvisrwb17_ESO

When I play ESO, no matter on what graphics setting (and believe me, I've adjusted them all) the world becomes exponentially distorted the longer I play. After a few minutes, strange lines appear in the sky and zoom down to the ground. Then, whole landscapes will appear randomly at angles to the ground, so it looks like I'm walking through terrain. I remember once a huge landmass that reminded me of a Minecraft superflat world stuck out at 90 degrees from the ground, and another time when I was one one side of a 2d mountain fighting a harpie on the other; not to mention the time I was fighting a bandit within a huge hill that literally spawned on top of us! I know this isn't just laggy world generation because it is fairly obvious that these things don't belong there - although it does occasionally seem as if they're parts of landmarks somewhere else. This theory doesn't work so well though when instead of looking like land these things are just static-looking. In case it helps, I play on the North American server, in Australia, for the Daggerfall Covenant as a Breton nightblade. Unfortunately I don't know much about my computer specs, other than that it has 16 gigs of RAM, around 2.4ghz or something of CPU (I've no idea if that made sense) and I think 1terrabyte of hard drive. Thanks for the help! :-)

Sihnfahl

This seems more of a graphics card issue than anything else. RAM, CPU speed, HD capacity and such are irrelevant.

What type of video card do you have and what driver version are you running?

Reason I ask is because what you're describing is a progressive error in the graphics engine that is incorrectly displaying textures...

remijarvisrwb17_ESO

Now I think of it, I think I recall that I have 1 gigabyte of graphics card, though I may be wrong. Is there a way to find out?

KalecStromhir

You have to find the specs of your system. It is good idea to know what you have.

Lifacs

Sounds like your GPU is overheating after extended game time, or you are running out of memory because of the numerous memory leaks. When it happens check your GPU temp and run resource monitor to see how much memory is being used.

remijarvisrwb17_ESO

Aha! According to a website my computer has an AMD Radeon HD 7450A GPU. I'll try to do what you've said, but how would I go about checking my graphics card's temperature?

Sihnfahl

There are a few monitoring utilities that you can download from download.com...

Elf_Boy

you either have a damaged driver -- try one of the driver cleaner type utilities and re-install. If that doesnt do it your having heat and/or voltage issues. On a laptop I would hope your under warranty. On a desktop you need to try baking the card (if your up for that) or getting a new GPU.


edit - fixed typo