Increase in Amounts of Crashes

DeathDealer19

Hello all,

Id like to make a post to touch on something I have been dealing with for months and it has gotten worse the past few weeks.
Game Crashes. Happens to me mostly in Sanctum Ophidia and occasionally in Veteran Dragonstar arena. Last night in my guilds Sanctum run, we had 3 players crash. Its usually 1-3 crashes on an average run. Which of course makes things like speed runs nearly impossible unless we get lucky. Heck just running outside to reset usually involves 2 people getting an endless loading screen, 2 people crashing and takes about 20 min to reset a group. For myself, I usually crash at least once per Sanctum Ophidia or Vet DSA run. I also get random occurrences where my game doesn't crash but suddenly im back at the login screen out of nowhere. No interruption in connection or anything. Which is so frustrating and I feel like im letting down my guild. I don't run a powerhouse of a computer. I play on a medium scaled laptop. I run repairs on my game regularly to make sure things are in order. I play on medium-low graphics. I have plenty of ram and its not a connection issue. If it were just me, id say okay its my computer or something wrong with my client. But its not just me. I know many people who have the same or similar issues. Surprising I don't crash as much as I used to in Cyrodil but SO and VDSA are still as bad as ever. Ive sent in a email to ZOS and they asked me to run that report thingy and they came up with a cookie cutter response blaming my video card because it doesn't have 9999999999 gigs of ram built into it. I mean come on the game doesn't work optimally with 99% of video cards out there? A lot of people like myself play on medium scaled or normal computers or laptops. Not everyone has a 10000$ gaming rig and I know for a fact, my video card IS NOT causing these crashes.

Let me know your thoughts and ZOS id love a response to about the recent increase in crashes

ThatNeonZebraAgain

My (and many others I've talked to) game stability has gotten terrible since 1.6. Prior to this, the game crashed only once since launch. Now, I crash on almost every loading screen during zoning/fast traveling, and also just get random crashes while standing, fighting, or doing anything. I get 4-5 crashes per hour of gameplay. Nothing about my system has changed (and it's a top of the line system, this is the only game/program I have an issue with). Addons on or off, doesn't matter.

DeathDealer19

ThatNeonZebraAgain wrote: »

My (and many others I've talked to) game stability has gotten terrible since 1.6. Prior to this, the game crashed only once since launch. Now, I crash on almost every loading screen during zoning/fast traveling, and also just get random crashes while standing, fighting, or doing anything. I get 4-5 crashes per hour of gameplay. Nothing about my system has changed (and it's a top of the line system, this is the only game/program I have an issue with). Addons on or off, doesn't matter.

ty for the reply

Mataata

I don't crash very often, but my laptop overheats like crazy when playing the game now. I can't play for more than an hour without having to put my laptop to sleep or else it auto shutdowns, and I can only have the character creator open for about 15 to 30 minutes at max before it gives in.

Previously I was able to play with fairly high graphics without too much of a problem and still get around 40 to 50 FPS, but now I have to play on all low to hardly muster 30 FPS and I still overheat.

Valymer

Yep people always bring up addons but then when you inform them that crashing still occurs with all addons off suddenly the room gets silent.

Rune_Relic

Is there any way you can do the content ungrouped ?
Sounds silly...but humour me.

michael_bimson

I crash maybe once every couple of hours. There's no rhyme or reason in what I am doing in game when it crashes, just goes and the ESO crash reporter comes up. After a couple of seconds the launcher realises that the game has stopped, play lights up and I'm back in. No idea why. Happens in PvP and PvE, in open world, and in instances. The only comment I can make is that it seems to happen most often when transiting somewhere, either into or out of an instance, or through a wayshrine, but it still happens elsewhere as well.

Weberda

Just wait until this coming weekend and all the "free trial" people. I rarely experience serious performance problems in PvE but the past 3 days conditions were terrible. Out in the middle of the desert and nobody around I got Cyrodiil-type lag constantly. Sorry ZOS but your hardware can not handle the player base brought on by B2P. And it's going to get worse.

milan.verploegenb16_ESO

I think I crash about once every 3 hours or so, unless running trials. In the 12-man trials its about once per hour, sometimes I get lucky and don't crash at all, other times every 45 minutes.

It's a real problem imo, if you are a bit unlucky with the timing of you and your teammates crashing you could be forced to wait 5 minutes for every 5 minutes you are actually doing the trial, waiting for one player after the other crashing for random reasons. If this takes too long, eventually someone will need to go to the bathroom, knock over a drink, get a call from somebody... etc etc which can transform the 'speedrun' starting at 1700 into a crashfest ending at 2000.

In dsa I never crash but will most definitly get stuck in loading screen 2-3x when relogging at final boss (relogging due to someone in the team being invisible or not having arrows above players heads). This usually requires an eso reboot everytime which is very time consuming when doing a fast run, considering it's difficult to tell when the loading ends and the endless loading begins...






Fix total dark

crowfl56

I would say ZOS does care, they just don't have the talent to fix the hard coding issue's, give'm a break.

"They know about the problem and are working on it."

Zhoyzu

Yea ive been getting those crash to logins a lot. Ive never had them before myself either. I get it like 2-3 times a day and in completely random locations. Couple times in cyrodiil (which lets be honest is something everyone is used to not working) and when questing. Been in deshaan, and im on the far right side of the map where little to no activity is taking place so i doubt its related to crowding or similar excuses.

Khan

Good luck getting an official response acknowledging the crash issue. Unlike months past, ZOS remains quiet about this chronic problem of theirs.

Same old memory issues back with a vengeance.