Lag on European Servers

LeonSR

So it seems that at least to me the EU server has been lagging quite alot, i don't know if it is because i live in Portugal or because of my internet but whenever i go to a place with alot of population the ping increases by a ton, this is the only game wich i have more than 90 ping constantly on EU servers. If anyone knows why this happens plz let me know

Seraphayel

Has nothing to do with your ping but with ESO servers after the Homestead update. I am in Germany with good connection and everything else works good except ESO.

Titansteele

I am in the UK and have no issues at all.

Cherryblossom

I am in the UK and have the Lag, but I thought this was a feature of ESO!

Ojustaboo

Titansteele wrote: »

I am in the UK and have no issues at all.

Depends what you do in game, how you do it, how many people you do it with, how populated your PvP campaign is, how many players are on screen/nearby when you are PvPing etc.

Most of the time I get no lag. After a while I experience lag from a memory leak and have to log out and back in to fix, this can be 3 hrs after I start playing, or less if I port around a lot (i7 system with 32GB RAM and 8GB GPU)

PvP, if it's daytime, doesn't matter what server, I get little lag, sometimes in the evening it's almost unplayable, however sometimes in the evening, same sever, it appears fine.

Far far far far too many people with high end systems, fibre internet etc that have zero problems with other games whether online or not, are experiencing lag problems for it to be their end (although obviously a few will fall into this category|) , even ZoS admit it's a huge problem in PvP and here's a post from only last week on the issue

As you saw in Matt’s 2017 roadmap, we are making Cyrodiil performance evaluation and fixing a priority this year. We want to make sure that Cyrodiil is a great PvP experience for everyone. Over the last year, we’ve made some good strides towards refining server performance across all campaigns, and we will continue down that path.

When looking into Cyrodiil issues, we definitely see (both in-game and through monitoring) situations where client and server performance degrade significantly when under high load. The small incremental changes we’ve made over the last year have helped, but they alone are not enough. So, we’re going to change our strategy a bit – which is the point of this post.

Simply put, Azura’s Star (the non-Champion Point campaign) runs much better, more efficiently, and is overall a much better PvP experience than the standard campaigns such as Trueflame or Haderus. Now that we’ve had a significant population density in Azura’s Star, we strongly suspect what has been theorized for a long time: Champion Rank passives and abilities are causing too much server load, especially in situations like Keep battles where there are tons of players in one place.

Because of this, we are going to run a series of PvP performance tests, and because it is impossible to simulate PvP load on our internal test servers (or on PTS), we will do this on all live servers on the dates of February 27 – March 6. This is not something we take lightly, and it is important that we evaluate performance when the server is under real-world load situations.

Our first test will be set up as follows:
For a period of one week, all Champion Points will be disabled on all Campaigns on all platforms and megaservers
During this time, AP gains in all Campaigns will be doubled, both to compensate for lack of CP and also to incentivize players to PvP so we can record as much data as possible

Campaign durations and leaderboards will not be adjusted during this week
We encourage all players to continue their PvP activities in their respective Home, Guest, and Friends campaigns – we will be taking feedback and monitoring data on a daily basis during this test, and look forward to reading your constructive posts about server performance during the time of the test.

The results of this test will determine the next course of action for refining Cyrodiil server performance. Thank you for your perseverance and patience – we thoroughly appreciate your time, efforts, and feedback!

phairdon

The lag was terrible on NA too, after homestead dropped. Fortunately things got better after last weeks maintenance, for me at least.

Nahtal

Addons cause lag to!

Seraphayel

phairdon wrote: »

The lag was terrible on NA too, after homestead dropped. Fortunately things got better after last weeks maintenance, for me at least.

So that means after two weeks of Homestead it should get better... *g* I hope this will be true, so one more week on consoles to go.

Clarkieson

PS4 EU server has had long load screens as of homestead. and maelstrom lag has got worse. even on the ps4 pro it seems to be no better than the old ps4.

maybe my internet is the fault but i tried on my friends internet and it was the same, and he lives in a different town.

LeonSR

This is the only game in wich i get more than 100 ping on EU servers so i hope its realy because of the update and they fix it soon Q__Q

greylox

Last maintenance sorted it a little bit but still worse than anything I remember last year.

Turelus

I noticed a lot more issues last night over what I have in previous weeks.

I just assumed it was Cyridiil battles messing up the other areas again, as to my knowledge these still sometime share server use?

zaria

Had lag in an raid yesterday

Nahtal wrote: »

Addons cause lag to!

Think this is mostly client side, might give more traffic towards server.
Its not that its no lag on consoles after all.

On pc its far more an issue that people set their graphic settings so game looks good questing, then do zergs and complains about lags.

Tandor

I'm in the UK and have been on the PC EU server since launch with no lag or other performance issues at any time. I don't PvP, do competitive PvE or use addons.

drakhan2002_ESO

It's probably your massive amount of CPs causing the issue!

haute

Experienced severe lag in NA just moment ago.

Was moving furniture in my small house. Server did not register my last furniture move. And when I tried to move it again, server told me that someone else was moving the same furniture! Lastly I tried to put away the furniture via retrieve command, I got myself disconnected from the server though I could then reconnect to it. *sigh*

Voxicity

Tandor wrote: »

I'm in the UK and have been on the PC EU server since launch with no lag or other performance issues at any time. I don't PvP, do competitive PvE or use addons.

Well, that would be why you have never experienced lag

Tandor

KaiVox22 wrote: »

Tandor wrote: »

I'm in the UK and have been on the PC EU server since launch with no lag or other performance issues at any time. I don't PvP, do competitive PvE or use addons.

Well, that would be why you have never experienced lag

I think those are the main reasons, certainly, yet there are plenty of people who report lag in open world PvE areas. Even camping out and logging in regularly in Craglorn, for example, has never given me the problems some people complain about. I suspect addons are the biggest factor.

LeonSR

Is ZOS ever going to fix the servers, cuz i dont have any type of addons and i get 90-150 ping and on alot of game freezes.