XB1 Tips to avoid crashing so often.

Bonzodog01

Whilst the current client is so broken on the XB1, I have put together a list of tips that help avoid loading the memory too heavily on the XB1.

The rest of this is a direct copy of my post here

1. Try to avoid high population areas such as Daggerfall Town, Wayrest, Mournhold, Elden root, Rawl'kha. If you need to do inventory clear/crafting and Banking be creative and use the starting island areas like Dhalmora/Bal Foyen, Stros M'Kai/Betnikh, Vulkhel Guard/Skywatch.

2. Remember - all undaunted pledge areas are outside the city centre of the capitals. If you need to go pick up the pledges, use an external wayshrine, and WALK (ie, unmounted) into the undaunted pledge area.

3. Sorry to say it, but avoid Cyrodiil and PvP. Its just a crash and lag fest of unbelievable proportions. Unless of course, you want to PvE, in which case, use Azura's Star. Yes, I know, No CP, but when you are top level, it makes doing the quests in Cyrodiil a little more challenging. However, the sewers are (in my experience) ok to go to. For that, after you get in at the gates, zone into a fort that isn't under attack, and make a beeline for the nearest sewer entrance, which you should be able to do mounted as there will be no other players around you (much!).

4. Wrothgar - Sorry to say it, but at this point in time, the writs are off the table. Just don't do them. Areas outside the city are ok, but just don't go into the city.

Using this method, I very rarely if ever crash out. Not to say it doesn't still happen on the odd occasion, but its a lot rarer.

As an additional tip, I would say use the silver/gold versions of the cities and towns where possible. The much lower populations more or less guarantee that you are safe to go into the capitals, and I rarely if ever get lag.

Cherryblossom

Its sad when a Console has a Game that crashes so often, anyone have any other console games crash like ESO???

hamburgerler76

its sad that this even has to be a thing

RebornV3x

1. Play another game and hope a patch fixes things easiest way to avoid crashes on Xbox One for the most part

RogueShade

I'll add that turning off subtitles, health bars, nameplates, and pets as well as anything else that puts extra stuff on screen also helps. Not being in chat too.

Love_Daggerfall

Bonzodog01 wrote: »

Whilst the current client is so broken on the XB1, I have put together a list of tips that help avoid loading the memory too heavily on the XB1.

The rest of this is a direct copy of my post here

1. Try to avoid high population areas such as Daggerfall Town, Wayrest, Mournhold, Elden root, Rawl'kha. If you need to do inventory clear/crafting and Banking be creative and use the starting island areas like Dhalmora/Bal Foyen, Stros M'Kai/Betnikh, Vulkhel Guard/Skywatch.

2. Remember - all undaunted pledge areas are outside the city centre of the capitals. If you need to go pick up the pledges, use an external wayshrine, and WALK (ie, unmounted) into the undaunted pledge area.

3. Sorry to say it, but avoid Cyrodiil and PvP. Its just a crash and lag fest of unbelievable proportions. Unless of course, you want to PvE, in which case, use Azura's Star. Yes, I know, No CP, but when you are top level, it makes doing the quests in Cyrodiil a little more challenging. However, the sewers are (in my experience) ok to go to. For that, after you get in at the gates, zone into a fort that isn't under attack, and make a beeline for the nearest sewer entrance, which you should be able to do mounted as there will be no other players around you (much!).

4. Wrothgar - Sorry to say it, but at this point in time, the writs are off the table. Just don't do them. Areas outside the city are ok, but just don't go into the city.

Using this method, I very rarely if ever crash out. Not to say it doesn't still happen on the odd occasion, but its a lot rarer.

As an additional tip, I would say use the silver/gold versions of the cities and towns where possible. The much lower populations more or less guarantee that you are safe to go into the capitals, and I rarely if ever get lag.

I can conferm that keeping out of wrothgar city has stoped a lot of game turning its self off compleaty.
As for anything else the game normaly just auto reloads and the game does not turn compleaty off for me. So playing PvE has problems but not impossible for me to play. As for PvP l would be extreamly happy if ESO left it broken.
I did visit the sewers and l never had any lag or game crashing. I just found most things impossible to kill.
I didn't experince any pvp in the sewers either.
Or it was there and l couldn't tell a npc from a human in demon form.

Love_Daggerfall

Cherryblossom wrote: »

Its sad when a Console has a Game that crashes so often, anyone have any other console games crash like ESO???

Yes Destiny tower.

Love_Daggerfall

hamburgerler76 wrote: »

its sad that this even has to be a thing

Microsoft has not given Xbox One a firmware update in months. I blame Microsoft.

Love_Daggerfall

RebornV3x wrote: »

1. Play another game and hope a patch fixes things easiest way to avoid crashes on Xbox One for the most part

I would never ask other people to play another game until a patch comes out.
We need to keep bringing problems to eso so they can address them.
If people don't play there is no current feedback and eso is kept in the dark.
Cleary not playing until a patch comes out is not a working answer.

Articulemort

You can still do writs and turn them into Orsinium. Wrothgar, the zone isn't too bad, its just Orsinium where the crashes happen. If you fast travel to Shatul wayshrine north of Orsinium and run south, the place to turn in writs is the first thing you see when you enter the city. If you run quickly to it, and quickly out of Orsinium, you shouldnt crash.

Atleast, I haven't crashed doing that everyday, except for that one time I got confused and ran the wrong way.

Love_Daggerfall

RogueShade wrote: »

I'll add that turning off subtitles, health bars, nameplates, and pets as well as anything else that puts extra stuff on screen also helps. Not being in chat too.

If what you say is true...
Xbox One does not have enough system resources to be able to play Elder Scrolls online.
So person with more brains then me.
Do we blam anyone or how do we go about getting/letting companys know about this and who should we contact?
There is cleary a lack of understanding between companys and compatability here.

Lumenn

Bonzodog01 wrote: »

Whilst the current client is so broken on the XB1, I have put together a list of tips that help avoid loading the memory too heavily on the XB1.

The rest of this is a direct copy of my post here

1. Try to avoid high population areas such as Daggerfall Town, Wayrest, Mournhold, Elden root, Rawl'kha. If you need to do inventory clear/crafting and Banking be creative and use the starting island areas like Dhalmora/Bal Foyen, Stros M'Kai/Betnikh, Vulkhel Guard/Skywatch.

2. Remember - all undaunted pledge areas are outside the city centre of the capitals. If you need to go pick up the pledges, use an external wayshrine, and WALK (ie, unmounted) into the undaunted pledge area.

3. Sorry to say it, but avoid Cyrodiil and PvP. Its just a crash and lag fest of unbelievable proportions. Unless of course, you want to PvE, in which case, use Azura's Star. Yes, I know, No CP, but when you are top level, it makes doing the quests in Cyrodiil a little more challenging. However, the sewers are (in my experience) ok to go to. For that, after you get in at the gates, zone into a fort that isn't under attack, and make a beeline for the nearest sewer entrance, which you should be able to do mounted as there will be no other players around you (much!).

4. Wrothgar - Sorry to say it, but at this point in time, the writs are off the table. Just don't do them. Areas outside the city are ok, but just don't go into the city.

Using this method, I very rarely if ever crash out. Not to say it doesn't still happen on the odd occasion, but its a lot rarer.

As an additional tip, I would say use the silver/gold versions of the cities and towns where possible. The much lower populations more or less guarantee that you are safe to go into the capitals, and I rarely if ever get lag.

Just wanted to add vulkhel guard has had me crash a bit when people are hanging around casting. In case you're one of the ones affected there Khenarthis roost would be better, or go to a waypoint close to vulkhel and come in the side of the town helps.

Tandor

One way those players affected by performance issues can help both ZOS and themselves is by posting about their issues on the appropriate technical support forum for their platform rather than on the general discussion board. That way their posts are more likely to be read by the appropriate technical staff who do post themselves from time to time and when they ask for any additional information that will help them replicate the problem and find a fix for it. Moreover, the technical issues then get exposure rather than being buried in pages of threads about costume prices, passive skill changes, crafting bags and all the other FOTM complaints.

One aspect of performance issues generally that I'd be interested in knowing more about is whether people lagging badly in e.g. Cyrodiil are using cabled or wireless internet connections.

Caff32

What a great game! I have to turn off sound, all visual displays, avoid DLC areas, avoid PVP areas, avoid dungeons, avoid chat, walk and not run, and if a character gets stuck in one of these areas, reroll. Got it!

RebornV3x

If people stop playing it shows how bad the game is they know how many people are playing if they suddenly lose lets say 1/4 of its current player base over a few weeks or even month that might set off some red flags and one of two things will happen either ZOS will get into gear and fix the problems or either the current dev team will be out of a job or ESO will be no more

Love_Daggerfall

Tandor wrote: »

One way those players affected by performance issues can help both ZOS and themselves is by posting about their issues on the appropriate technical support forum for their platform rather than on the general discussion board. That way their posts are more likely to be read by the appropriate technical staff who do post themselves from time to time and when they ask for any additional information that will help them replicate the problem and find a fix for it. Moreover, the technical issues then get exposure rather than being buried in pages of threads about costume prices, passive skill changes, crafting bags and all the other FOTM complaints.

One aspect of performance issues generally that I'd be interested in knowing more about is whether people lagging badly in e.g. Cyrodiil are using cabled or wireless internet connections.

Where is the Zos technical suport forum?
I will look now but l will probably read and think it was something else. I am uneducated sorry that means l get confused very quickly but hay l would love to help out.

Love_Daggerfall

RebornV3x wrote: »

If people stop playing it shows how bad the game is they know how many people are playing if they suddenly lose lets say 1/4 of its current player base over a few weeks or even month that might set off some red flags and one of two things will happen either ZOS will get into gear and fix the problems or either the current dev team will be out of a job or ESO will be no more

Please don't talk that way.
Currenty the game is flooded with people.
Everyone needs to work together to smooth out the bumps in the road.
As Tandor pointed out we need to use the correct channels to help technical programers out.

GrigorijMalahevich

I can add:

When your loading screen goes for too long in Cyrodiil - just press START a lot for some strange reason it helps.

I had 2 minute loading screens going away after pressing START a lot...

Do not thank me

Vercingetorix

I like how your post essentially says "avoid everything in the game". LOL

Love_Daggerfall

To help Zos programmers fix this problem.
This is where you need to post Xbox One Technical Support forum.
This current Thread is General Discussion forum only.
Here's the link:
Xbox One Technical Support
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/categories/xbox-one-technical-support

sadownik

RebornV3x wrote: »

If people stop playing it shows how bad the game is they know how many people are playing if they suddenly lose lets say 1/4 of its current player base over a few weeks or even month that might set off some red flags and one of two things will happen either ZOS will get into gear and fix the problems or either the current dev team will be out of a job or ESO will be no more

Haha no... Mr Firor will get another payed for interview in which he will tell us how smart he was, when he told that there are no "hardcore" gamers in ESO and people log in just for few days after DLC.

pod88kk

Don't be silly there's a new Dlc on the way 2 weeks after the old one so they're just working on the new Dlc so lag and crashes will have to wait.
The only way this game will work again is if they don't bring out a Dlc for 6 months and just put everyone on fixing the existing problems but unfortunately that won't happen because Zos are a business and money is the name of the game. They do try but I feel that more could be done, especially seeing as Elder Scrolls is such a big name in the gaming world.
I think Bethesda need to step in and do more to help.

mistermutiny89

Love_Daggerfall wrote: »

hamburgerler76 wrote: »

its sad that this even has to be a thing

Microsoft has not given Xbox One a firmware update in months. I blame Microsoft.

So Microsoft should create a firmware update to help Zenimax with their incompetence? Name one online based game on Xbox one that crashes as much as ESO. If all games on the console performed equally as bad as ESO your comment would be valid. Unfortunately, it isn't. I say unfortunately because if Microsoft was to blame, the issue would have been fixed yesterday.

Love_Daggerfall

mistermutiny89 wrote: »

Love_Daggerfall wrote: »

hamburgerler76 wrote: »

its sad that this even has to be a thing

Microsoft has not given Xbox One a firmware update in months. I blame Microsoft.

So Microsoft should create a firmware update to help Zenimax with their incompetence? Name one online based game on Xbox one that crashes as much as ESO. If all games on the console performed equally as bad as ESO your comment would be valid. Unfortunately, it isn't. I say unfortunately because if Microsoft was to blame, the issue would have been fixed yesterday.

Understood. Thanks for sharing.

jkolb2030

Buy an external hard drive (the X1 needs them anyway) and move the game file to the external drive. I drop out maybe once or twice a night ~5-7 hr of game time, and the drop outs only ever occur in Deshann (highly populated) or Hews Bane City..

Cyrodiil lags still and I get the occasional weird input delays, but no drop outs unless running near a zerg.

Love_Daggerfall

I just offered to help the technical team out for free any way they want.
Its all l could offer.
I am off to bed goodnight.

KaleidoscopeEyz

Microsoft has not given Xbox One a firmware update in months. I blame Microsoft.

Wrothgar has been crashing for months now, prior to Thieves Guild DLC dropping. It just got worse with the DB DLC. I blame ZOS. This thread from March was the same Xbox crashing issue for Wrothgar. ZOS hasn't even acknowledged the issue yet when this just recently happened on PC, admins commented right away.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/2810564/#Comment_2810564

Jazbay_Grape

If you are in one of the major towns .. try ... try not to be THAT *** who likes to stand around spamming abilities. That's an insta crash right there.

Burning_Talons

Writs arent off the table just use the shatul wayshrine

Archmage1

Blows my mind that ZOS isn't making this top priority. Instead, they unleash the next DLC. Sorry to say it, but they are going to lose a lot of players (and money). There are plenty of other games and MMOs out there without these game breaking issues.

Daishichi

Archmage1 wrote: »

Blows my mind that ZOS isn't making this top priority. Instead, they unleash the next DLC. Sorry to say it, but they are going to lose a lot of players (and money). There are plenty of other games and MMOs out there without these game breaking issues.

What blows my mind is threads like this: players telling other players to accept that half the game is broken.

Have you looked at that Technical Support forum, @Tandor ? It's the same complaints, every day, for months...plus complaints about the complaints not being heard. People have been screaming for help through the proper channels, and are being completely ignored.

I realize you're trying to be helpful, @Bonzodog01...but I wish I was your cell phone company. I'd tell you that you can't make outgoing calls, but I expect you to pay your bill in full and on time. If you'd like to subscribe to my Plus service, you can text your friends...but you can't use vowels.