Load Times - Improved!

Preyfar

Got the patch, hopped on... and definitely noticed an improvement. It's not perfect, but it's definitely a LOT better than it was before (I'd say my load time was cut by almost half). This... this makes me happy. XD

CtrlAltDlt

Nice!! Cant wait to get home and see

Turelus

Nice to hear.

Tryxus

To allthose who listed this onthe "name 3 things thaat'll keep you plaaying"

You can scratch that off the list

Preyfar

Tryxus wrote: »

To allthose who listed this onthe "name 3 things thaat'll keep you plaaying"

You can scratch that off the list

Yeah, I'm really happy. It's not perfect, but it's definitely improved. I think I've done just about every quest in the game, so... I could load up, go downstairs, make coffee and come back up and it'd still be loading. Was about 30-ish seconds for me, which is a marked improvement.

ladyonthemoon

What about the lag and stuttering in places that are crowded with players? Has the patch "improved"/removed them too?

Preyfar

ladyonthemoon wrote: »

What about the lag and stuttering in places that are crowded with players? Has the patch "improved"/removed them too?

Too early to tell. Lag is always an issue, but I've never had stuttering.

UrQuan

Quick tests before I head off to work this morning show that I'm now seeing load screens of 12-20 seconds on my VR16, whereas before it was over a minute.

Komma

I logged in and just started porting everywhere. Longest was 15 seconds. and shortest, from crag to orsinium was 7 seconds. Nice job.

Oh_Skrivva

Well I guess we can say that ZOS finally took a "load off" good job ZOS

ZOS_GinaBruno

Excellent, glad to hear the fix was successful.

Sausage

Keep up the good work!

daemonios

Still waiting for it (I'm in EU) but

Xendyn

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Excellent, glad to hear the fix was successful.

Pass some high fives and fist bumps out to the crew for us!

Lorkhan

at last
better late than never

Divinius

Preyfar wrote: »

Got the patch, hopped on... and definitely noticed an improvement. It's not perfect, but it's definitely a LOT better than it was before (I'd say my load time was cut by almost half). This... this makes me happy. XD

Would you say it's as good as it was before the IC update?

b92303008rwb17_ESO

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Excellent, glad to hear the fix was successful.

Don't want to sound ungrateful but it still takes 50 seconds to load a V16 character in Wrothgar. I run ESO on a SSD and it never took over 30 seconds before IC patch. 50 seconds is an improvement, which I am more than willing to give you guys credits for but honestly it's not really good enough. I hope you still plan to look for other causes to this issue and work on more fixes. Really miss those 30 seconds old days.

And one more thing about performance issue in Wrothgar. The FPS is lower in Wrothgar than other zones, especially when I am done grouping with other people doing dailies and then it soon begins to drop significantly. Not sure if it is just me.

anitajoneb17_ESO

That.is.EXCELLENT.news. !!!

MrDerrikk

I dunno what was happening, but I was on EU for the last few hours and getting much better load screen times even before the patch. Was there a server fix for this as well?

Preyfar

b92303008rwb17_ESO wrote: »

Don't want to sound ungrateful but it still takes 50 seconds to load a V16 character in Wrothgar.

In ZOS' defense, they did state on the forums the update would improve a majority of load issues, but not a ll of them. So they are aware of other cases where load times are longer than intended.

Tors

Still a minute is way better than normal 10 minutes

Ilsabet

So the ridiculous load screen times were related to how many quests you'd completed? That explains why I haven't really had an issue with them.

Glad to see an effective fix for it though.

reften

wow, IC may be an option now. Couldn't stand the load times between zones.

Although chores will suffer. Usually would change a load of laundry when I was loading to another area. lol. I have done probably 90+% of quests in game, probably closer to 95%

Divinius

Honestly, in this day and age, provided my PC and internet connection are both fast enough to handle the game, a normal loading screen should never take more than 10 seconds.

Only exception being maybe 15-20 seconds if you are trying to load into an instance, to allow for instance creation.

Nifty2g

Ilsabet wrote: »

So the ridiculous load screen times were related to how many quests you'd completed? That explains why I haven't really had an issue with them.

Glad to see an effective fix for it though.

Same I guess it has something to do with processing all that information at once and all the achievements etc

Belidos

Ilsabet wrote: »

So the ridiculous load screen times were related to how many quests you'd completed? That explains why I haven't really had an issue with them.

Glad to see an effective fix for it though.

Yup, I've seen it happen in other games, whenever you load it does a quick scan of your quest log to check if you've completed any of the quests and achievements in the area you are loading into, they naused something up in that code by the looks of it, SWTOR had a similar issue a few weeks ago oddly enough.

Seravi

The load screens are MUCH better! Not as good as they were before the IC release but today's patch made a huge improvement in what I have been dealing with since the IC release. I literally spent 2 hours out of 6 hours gaming time sitting on loading screens. Now my load screens are averaging around 1 1/2 minutes per screen. Going to do more testing in a few hours when the server load is higher but right now the loading screens are better! Thank you!

MrGrimey

Looks like console is going to have to wait till mid December for this

magnusthorek

From minutes, my loading screens dropped to 20 seconds. However, at least in a first moment, the time to load the character selection screen took a lot of time.

It could be some sort of data caching, who knows, but if I can travel in and out that quickly, I'm happy.

Thank you ZOS

zornyan

Ilsabet wrote: »

So the ridiculous load screen times were related to how many quests you'd completed? That explains why I haven't really had an issue with them.

Glad to see an effective fix for it though.

Yeah sounds very odd, same for me though, a vr16 took ages to load anywhere, but a fresh character was much much faster.

Maybe something in the programming was storing all completed qursts, and trying to load them all up for some reason on every new zone ? Possibly for achievement tracking, or the fact it uses quests to determine what areas / instances are available to you and need to be generated.

The only thing I can think they did was change it so that instead of loading ALL information for every single quest, it now only loads the ones related to that zone.

So when loading to say, rivenspire it only tries to retrieve information to that zones quests /instances/completions. As opposed to loading every single completed quest to unrelated zones.

gen_reynard2050

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Excellent, glad to hear the fix was successful.

nice fix....