[Bug] Memory leak. Confirmed FPS issue for many players. (Updated with tips!)

Pomaikai

Mac users have been dealing with a persistent memory leak since the release of IC. It supposedly will be fixed with the release of the 64-bit client (Mac/PC concurrently). This is also when Mac users will get FaceFX (All NPC's in Orsinium have zero facial movement for us, and won't until the new client is released.), as well as gamepad support.

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Troneon

Been getting fps spikes and drops all the time tonight, making the game like a slideshow sometimes....I know its something wrong with the game, eso is the only time this happens....

It's making game unplayable because only way to fix it just so you can play for 30 mins without fps drop spikes is to quit game and restart client.

NeKryXe

i've been playing the game around 80-100 FPS in all places, but at Wrothgar it drops to 20-30 FPS and in the city of Orsinium to 1-10 FPS. usually when i enter Orsinium i can start at 30-50 FPS but in a few minutes it drops to 1-10 FPS. i tried to reduce all graphic settings to low but it makes no difference at Wrothgar and Orsinium.

today i even tried to play at 800x600 with the minimum settings and it makes no difference at all

NeKryXe

...on PC with Win7 64bit.

NeKryXe

btw... can anyone confirm me if the Imperial City DLC is playable at the same frame rate we get out of Wrothgar? since this is a confirmed bug, i'm going to abandon my Orsinium game progress and buy Imperial City, but i need to be sure that it's not another bugged map to abandon like Wrothgar.

zerosingularity

I don't know how Imp city is doing for the FPS issue right now, but I do know there are a carp ton of bugs with it still, like Molag Baal not spawning on several campaigns, bugged archways, etc...

The FPS issue is still around in cyrodiil though, if that helps.

Xarc

I have this problem in Cyrodiil, i dont know if it affects other zones (i play ~99% of my time in pvp).
Sometimes, my FPS rate goes from 40 to 8 or lower until 1, during 30sec. I really don't know why. Does not depend of other players, i'm sometimes alone, or not.
Sometimes nobody or maybe 1 or 2 guys around... Sometimes NO fight, no magical effect then...
And in Cyrodiil, there is nothing special about design, basic landcapes.

edu.journeymanub17_ESO

It seems very few players have this problem... I'm one of these "few" and all my guild-mates... only 3 pages, no response from any staff member, it must be just a few (no matter if everyone on the zone chat is complaining).

It started with IC for me and a couple of these "few" unlucky players, eso.exe go rampant on memory usage in the task manager, FPS drops to 0 (zero) in some zones, like Orsinium and Cyrodiil, after 2 or 3 patches the game started crashing more often but I really feel it's my fault:

1) Some folks said I have too many quests and I want to get rid of that loading screen, went to check it on a low level mule that did only the tutorial, well, it didn't work;

2) Some other folks said it could be because the addons I'm using, lemme get rid of them and see what happens... nope, didn't work also;

3) A "wise" friend said it could be some armor set that is causing the problem... I try go naked and see what comes, nope, nothing;

4) The pet? Maybe... lemme kill this thing, no pet anymore... nope, FPS still dropping to 0 (zero, nada);

5) Reload UI, hmmm, it worked for like 3 minutes then started again (BTW, does anyone know an addon that reload UI automatically after some minutes, I think I will need one of that)

6) Ohh, it could be some L2P problem, yeah, that could be the answer, I'm pretty sure is my fault.

Troneon

Still getting fps drops after 30 mins of playing, having to restart the game all the time....

StihlReign

Pomaikai wrote: »

Mac users have been dealing with a persistent memory leak since the release of IC. It supposedly will be fixed with the release of the 64-bit client (Mac/PC concurrently). This is also when Mac users will get FaceFX (All NPC's in Orsinium have zero facial movement for us, and won't until the new client is released.), as well as gamepad support.

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There's a 64Bit client set for release? When?

ekobmx

I believe the FPS drop has something to do the the CP system passives, I noticed the other day while running maelstrom arena, every time i used bash or interrupt the orange and red glow around your arms would eventually start to stack after doing it so many times and also does not expire after the effect has ended.

Stacking the glowing effects on your character must be using up memory.

uso245

Now we do know and issue however I posted asking in the technical forum for PC http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/230952/fps-issue#latest asking anyone else regarding possible fixes. I ended up running all dead and necro thread fixes and still would experience the issue. Now we know the server is part of the reason HOWEVER even though my GTX970 tested fine and worked for other games however after swapping out with my older Sapphire 7850 card I found out my fps did improve immensely which is odd. More or less it didn't have random drops in fps from doing nothing.

Reason a lower end card performs better then a higher end, no idea, assuming it does with how the card pulls and reads information for the game from the server.

NeKryXe

zerosingularity wrote: »

I don't know how Imp city is doing for the FPS issue right now, but I do know there are a carp ton of bugs with it still, like Molag Baal not spawning on several campaigns, bugged archways, etc...

The FPS issue is still around in cyrodiil though, if that helps.

oh yes, you are right, i forgot Cyrodiil, i have the same problem there but i abandoned playing in Cyrodiil so long ago because of the frame rate problem that i even forget that it exists.

anyway, the thing in Wrothgar is really insane. i just finished the quest "a king-sized problem" inside the Temple of Ire in Orsinium, i played it all at 90-100 FPS, and right after i finished the quest, in the exactly same place, with much less action, i return to 1-10 FPS.

i don't understand

zerosingularity

Yeah, this issue still remains. Had to re-log during a vMA run to get my frames under control. Would a dev please look and comment about this? I know we are expected to get a 64 bit version Q1 next year, but there is no guarantee that would fix the issue.

Mumyo

Yea i experience my fps going down after a while to around 20 fps in cyrodil.
I got to start the game again to fix it. This reminds me of the old 3 fps bug... good job again wtf...

running xeon e3 1231 v3 16gb ram and a hd 9850 windforce 3x. usually i run the same situations with 40 to 60 fps.

RoamingRiverElk

My FPS drops permanently to about half of what it should be around stage 7 of vet arena, and in PvP when there's a huge zergy fight that I've had to witness.

zerosingularity

PVP is still a mess because of this issue, REALLY. Always next to no FPS, needing to re-log often, rather unpleasant.

derek.bretherton1b16_ESO

I`ve also been having my fps dropping to single digits and only in Orsinium. I`ve been looking into it since Orsinium came out and have found that when the drops happen my Gpu goes down to 0% workload and my C: went to 100%.

To cut a long story short I found that the drops happened when the game was accessing the memory but the info wasn't there so it looked in the page file/Virtual memory which was on C:, because C: was running numerous background tasks. Eso couldn't get what it wanted fast enough so the game stops.

I have moved the page file to a totally different drive (SSD) and increased the page file to just above my system memory which is 8 gig.

I am not longer getting any fps drops, I hope this helps someone.

My rig:-

Windows 10
I7 4gig
Gtx 960
8 gig Kingston memory
gigabyte z97 gamer 3 motherboard

My game runs on a SSD of which I moved the page file and my C: runs on a Sata drive.

I suspect that adding more memory would also fix the problem to prevent windows from using the page file.

Malmai

StihlReign wrote: »

Pomaikai wrote: »

Mac users have been dealing with a persistent memory leak since the release of IC. It supposedly will be fixed with the release of the 64-bit client (Mac/PC concurrently). This is also when Mac users will get FaceFX (All NPC's in Orsinium have zero facial movement for us, and won't until the new client is released.), as well as gamepad support.

Welcome to our world...

There's a 64Bit client set for release? When?

HA-HA

zerosingularity

You know, REALLY starting to get bothered by this. It does make the content much harder than it needs to be. The silence on this issue only makes it worse.

My question, why is this being ignored?

Zhoyzu

Ive been having an issue lately actually. Its much quicker to notice in PvP (for obvious reasons) to the point where i cant log into a specific character if i crash near a keep until it looks like the action has moved elsewhere.

i cant remember the units displayed in task manager for my memory but the game sits between 1.85k and 2k once the game hits over 2.2k it crashes to log in.

i7 3770k ~4.0 GHz
14Gb RAM
GTX 660 SC 2Gb dedicated

Zhoyzu

Pomaikai wrote: »

Mac users have been dealing with a persistent memory leak since the release of IC. It supposedly will be fixed with the release of the 64-bit client (Mac/PC concurrently). This is also when Mac users will get FaceFX (All NPC's in Orsinium have zero facial movement for us, and won't until the new client is released.), as well as gamepad support.

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thats why no one enters that world willingly, lol.

Galalin

zerosingularity wrote: »

You know, REALLY starting to get bothered by this. It does make the content much harder than it needs to be. The silence on this issue only makes it worse.

My question, why is this being ignored?

Think of ZoS as an ostrich.... that should help you get it figured out.... they have been like this since launch

DK SCRUB OUT

Elsonso

StihlReign wrote: »

Pomaikai wrote: »

Mac users have been dealing with a persistent memory leak since the release of IC. It supposedly will be fixed with the release of the 64-bit client (Mac/PC concurrently). This is also when Mac users will get FaceFX (All NPC's in Orsinium have zero facial movement for us, and won't until the new client is released.), as well as gamepad support.

Welcome to our world...

There's a 64Bit client set for release? When?

I think the intent is 1Q 2016 (Thieves' Guild).

I don't know if it will fix any memory leaks, but I will lay even odds that it will introduce a whole community of new bugs for them to fix.

Prospering

Sorry guys you can't run this because your computers aren't powerful enough. To run this game the recommended is Titan Z Sli.

zerosingularity

Bump and updated the main post with some tips to help some of the frame drops people are having.

Still waiting for this to actually be addressed, half of the pvp lag complaints are FPS issues so fixing these would go a long way towards a happier player-base.