[Performance Tweaks] Lite for PC

Anysra

Hi all,

Recently, I made a huge thread for increasing ESO performance on all PC/Laptop.

In this version we only edit some changes in the UserSettings.txt. So this is not a MEGA thread. But this is almost the TL;DR version.

Simply make those changes in your UserSettings.txt

SET MinFrameTime.2 "0.00694444
SET HIGH_RESOLUTION_SHADOWS "0"
SET GPUSmoothingFrames "0"
SET MULTI_GPU_CHECK "0" <- Only if you have 1 graphics card.
SET MIP_LOAD_SKIP_LEVELS "-1"
SET RequestedNumJobThreads "4" <- Try this first, if you have performance issues set this to 0.
SET RequestedNumWorkerThreads "4" <- Try this first, if you have performance issues set this to 0.

So what does it do?
It caps the FPS to 144. Stock = 100. Improves texture mapping. (Sharper textures). Job & Worker threads (CPU Optimalisation). If set to "4" will work better with calculating mass jobs.
ESO will not use 4 threads or cores. This is just to set the Threads how they react.

I have these settings and my ESO is smooth as butter. Yes, 144FPS in general. Rawl'Kha around 70-80. Cyrodiil around 60-80. Even with 50-60, the game will react faster and will be smoother (turning around, etc.)

Please, do let me know if this changed your overall performance by voting.

Please understand that those tweaks are not for LAG or Server related issues.

Please read:
Q: I have a i9 or a i12 with GTX 1090 TI (4x) and 160GB RAM with Windows 12 PRO. I cannot run this game properly.
A: It is not your gear/rig. It is the ENGINE. Please understand that those tweaks are for ALL gears and rigs. My specs i7-7700k and GTX 1080 and 16GB ram VS i3-xxxx with a GTX 670 and 8GB will be the same experience qua performance in ESO. Maybe some FPS increase with the i7 and 1080. But not much.

elfantasmo

Thanks for taking the time to share this info.

Can you give us a baseline to compare against? i.e. what rig are you running?

Cyrediath

My game performance is NOT increased.

I am using 6700k skylale 4.4ghz i7 4 cores 8 threads + gtx1080 nvidia + 32 gb ram windows10 pro. no heating issues. I have fps problems in cyrodiil sieging fps drops to 30. also in stormheaven even if i dont do anything fps is around 50 and its laggy. I dont know what kind of rig i need to run to play 4 years old game smoothly...

Anysra

My game performance is increased.

elfantasmo wrote: »

Thanks for taking the time to share this info.

Can you give us a baseline to compare against? i.e. what rig are you running?

Heya,

Well you don't need any OP gaming rig imo. I mean, I have the i7-7700k 5Ghz with the GTX 1080 2.2Ghz with 16GB RAM. And before the tweaks I had stutters and stuff. It was not smooth. But now, it is really smooth. Like other games. It's just some optimisation tweaks for all rigs.

Anysra

My game performance is increased.

Cyrediath wrote: »

I am using 6700k skylale 4.4ghz i7 4 cores 8 threads + gtx1080 nvidia + 32 gb ram windows10 pro. no heating issues. I have fps problems in cyrodiil sieging fps drops to 30. also in stormheaven even if i dont do anything fps is around 50 and its laggy. I dont know what kind of rig i need to run to play 4 years old game smoothly...

Also see: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/168715/upon-what-engine-is-eso-built/p2

Even if you have the most advanced technology. You always will have some issues with this engine. It's Heavily modified HeroEngine. But we "users" can also modify it (handlers etc.).

Did you tried the settings listed above?

ChildOfLight

Cyrediath wrote: »

I am using 6700k skylale 4.4ghz i7 4 cores 8 threads + gtx1080 nvidia + 32 gb ram windows10 pro. no heating issues. I have fps problems in cyrodiil sieging fps drops to 30. also in stormheaven even if i dont do anything fps is around 50 and its laggy. I dont know what kind of rig i need to run to play 4 years old game smoothly...

How do you know your performance is not increased? I mean, maintenance is still in progress.

EDIT. I made the changes to the file. Saved a backup copy of it, though. Will edit this post with any performance change

Anysra

My game performance is increased.

ChildOfLight wrote: »

Cyrediath wrote: »

I am using 6700k skylale 4.4ghz i7 4 cores 8 threads + gtx1080 nvidia + 32 gb ram windows10 pro. no heating issues. I have fps problems in cyrodiil sieging fps drops to 30. also in stormheaven even if i dont do anything fps is around 50 and its laggy. I dont know what kind of rig i need to run to play 4 years old game smoothly...

How do you know your performance is not increased? I mean, maintainance is still in progress.

xD.

The thing is, to test this and report back actually. But I do agree with you. Anyways, I have tested it and my game runs smoother and I am happy to share this with all of you. [After the Maintenance].

xenowarrior92eb17_ESO

well I changed my rig from the old pickaxe I was using...now im having x2 gtx 1080ti I7740X 4.30Ghz 32GB DDR4 and im having the same old issues on rawlkha grhatwood and basically full places...I mean common having 15-35 fps in raids full combat on this specs? on my old pc I thought it was bottlenecking cuz of the cpu... whats the excuse now ? I mailed zos a few times made a few tickets...no response yet
still cant wait for the game to go back on and see how this works...I already tweaked and I just need the game on...
Meanwhile at ZoS Headquarters...

Cyrediath

My game performance is NOT increased.

Ajintse wrote: »

ChildOfLight wrote: »

Cyrediath wrote: »

I am using 6700k skylale 4.4ghz i7 4 cores 8 threads + gtx1080 nvidia + 32 gb ram windows10 pro. no heating issues. I have fps problems in cyrodiil sieging fps drops to 30. also in stormheaven even if i dont do anything fps is around 50 and its laggy. I dont know what kind of rig i need to run to play 4 years old game smoothly...

How do you know your performance is not increased? I mean, maintainance is still in progress.

xD.

The thing is, to test this and report back actually. But I do agree with you. Anyways, I have tested it and my game runs smoother and I am happy to share this with all of you. [After the Maintenance].

I spent days trying to increase my fps and get rid of stuttering so i did these changes before *there are lots of topics like this* and didnt help. also tried many others. I will try when game is up again.

Alexandrious

Ajintse wrote: »

Hi all,

Recently, I made a huge thread for increasing ESO performance on all PC/Laptop.

In this version we only edit some changes in the UserSettings.txt. So this is not a MEGA thread. But this is almost the TL;DR version.

Simply make those changes in your UserSettings.txt

SET MinFrameTime.2 "0.00694444
SET HIGH_RESOLUTION_SHADOWS "0"
SET GPUSmoothingFrames "0"
SET MULTI_GPU_CHECK "0" <- Only if you have 1 graphics card.
SET MIP_LOAD_SKIP_LEVELS "-1"
SET RequestedNumJobThreads "4" <- Try this first, if you have performance issues set this to 0.
SET RequestedNumWorkerThreads "4" <- Try this first, if you have performance issues set this to 0.

So what does it do?
It caps the FPS to 144. Stock = 100. Improves texture mapping. (Sharper textures). Job & Worker threads (CPU Optimalisation). If set to "4" will work better with calculating mass jobs.
ESO will not use 4 threads or cores. This is just to set the Threads how they react.

I have these settings and my ESO is smooth as butter. Yes, 144FPS in general. Rawl'Kha around 70-80. Cyrodiil around 60-80. Even with 50-60, the game will react faster and will be smoother (turning around, etc.)

Please, do let me know if this changed your overall performance by voting.

Please understand that those tweaks are not for LAG or Server related issues.

I am building a PC using a Asus Maximus Apex IX Board, with 7700k 4.5GHZ OC processor I7, GTX 1080 TI Asus Strix GPU, 16GB of 4266mhz DDR4 Trident Z ram that is streamlined due to the Board configuration, 2 960 Evo m.2s, Asus 10G Shielded Network Card, and all in a Phantek Enthoo Primo Special Edition Black and White Case with a Be Quiet 360MM LC and 10+ 140MM Be Quiet PWM Fans. Utilizing this Monitor as well https://www.asus.com/us/Monitors/ROG-SWIFT-PG35VQ/

Will I be required to do any of these tweaks? Is the game badly optimized?

Doctordarkspawn

My game performance is increased.

From what I saw, these changes had a marked improvement on performance.

It isn't suprising as most of these changes reduce the ammount of work the CPU bottleneck has to do, which is the problem with the game as a whole. It bottlenecks on core zero, puting strain on the GPU and CPU to push everything through the single thread as quickly as possible.

Marto

My game performance is NOT increased.

Nothing. Game still stutters like hell whenever new players, particle effects, meshes or textures load in.

Anysra

My game performance is increased.

Alexandrious wrote: »

Ajintse wrote: »

Hi all,

Recently, I made a huge thread for increasing ESO performance on all PC/Laptop.

In this version we only edit some changes in the UserSettings.txt. So this is not a MEGA thread. But this is almost the TL;DR version.

Simply make those changes in your UserSettings.txt

SET MinFrameTime.2 "0.00694444
SET HIGH_RESOLUTION_SHADOWS "0"
SET GPUSmoothingFrames "0"
SET MULTI_GPU_CHECK "0" <- Only if you have 1 graphics card.
SET MIP_LOAD_SKIP_LEVELS "-1"
SET RequestedNumJobThreads "4" <- Try this first, if you have performance issues set this to 0.
SET RequestedNumWorkerThreads "4" <- Try this first, if you have performance issues set this to 0.

So what does it do?
It caps the FPS to 144. Stock = 100. Improves texture mapping. (Sharper textures). Job & Worker threads (CPU Optimalisation). If set to "4" will work better with calculating mass jobs.
ESO will not use 4 threads or cores. This is just to set the Threads how they react.

I have these settings and my ESO is smooth as butter. Yes, 144FPS in general. Rawl'Kha around 70-80. Cyrodiil around 60-80. Even with 50-60, the game will react faster and will be smoother (turning around, etc.)

Please, do let me know if this changed your overall performance by voting.

Please understand that those tweaks are not for LAG or Server related issues.

I am building a PC using a Asus Maximus Apex IX Board, with 7700k 4.5GHZ OC processor I7, GTX 1080 TI Asus Strix GPU, 16GB of 4266mhz DDR4 Trident Z ram that is streamlined due to the Board configuration, 2 960 Evo m.2s, Asus 10G Shielded Network Card, and all in a Phantek Enthoo Primo Special Edition Black and White Case with a Be Quiet 360MM LC and 10+ 140MM Be Quiet PWM Fans. Utilizing this Monitor as well https://www.asus.com/us/Monitors/ROG-SWIFT-PG35VQ/

Will I be required to do any of these tweaks? Is the game badly optimized?

Yes. See, it is not your RIG. It is not your hardware. It is the GAME itself. The Engine is just not optimised for our gear. By making some changes it will be a positive outcome.

Tandor

Alexandrious wrote: »

Ajintse wrote: »

Hi all,

Recently, I made a huge thread for increasing ESO performance on all PC/Laptop.

In this version we only edit some changes in the UserSettings.txt. So this is not a MEGA thread. But this is almost the TL;DR version.

Simply make those changes in your UserSettings.txt

SET MinFrameTime.2 "0.00694444
SET HIGH_RESOLUTION_SHADOWS "0"
SET GPUSmoothingFrames "0"
SET MULTI_GPU_CHECK "0" <- Only if you have 1 graphics card.
SET MIP_LOAD_SKIP_LEVELS "-1"
SET RequestedNumJobThreads "4" <- Try this first, if you have performance issues set this to 0.
SET RequestedNumWorkerThreads "4" <- Try this first, if you have performance issues set this to 0.

So what does it do?
It caps the FPS to 144. Stock = 100. Improves texture mapping. (Sharper textures). Job & Worker threads (CPU Optimalisation). If set to "4" will work better with calculating mass jobs.
ESO will not use 4 threads or cores. This is just to set the Threads how they react.

I have these settings and my ESO is smooth as butter. Yes, 144FPS in general. Rawl'Kha around 70-80. Cyrodiil around 60-80. Even with 50-60, the game will react faster and will be smoother (turning around, etc.)

Please, do let me know if this changed your overall performance by voting.

Please understand that those tweaks are not for LAG or Server related issues.

I am building a PC using a Asus Maximus Apex IX Board, with 7700k 4.5GHZ OC processor I7, GTX 1080 TI Asus Strix GPU, 16GB of 4266mhz DDR4 Trident Z ram that is streamlined due to the Board configuration, 2 960 Evo m.2s, Asus 10G Shielded Network Card, and all in a Phantek Enthoo Primo Special Edition Black and White Case with a Be Quiet 360MM LC and 10+ 140MM Be Quiet PWM Fans. Utilizing this Monitor as well https://www.asus.com/us/Monitors/ROG-SWIFT-PG35VQ/

Will I be required to do any of these tweaks? Is the game badly optimized?

Not necessarily, it depends entirely on whether the performance is smooth without them.

Anysra

My game performance is increased.

Tandor wrote: »

Alexandrious wrote: »

Ajintse wrote: »

Hi all,

Recently, I made a huge thread for increasing ESO performance on all PC/Laptop.

In this version we only edit some changes in the UserSettings.txt. So this is not a MEGA thread. But this is almost the TL;DR version.

Simply make those changes in your UserSettings.txt

SET MinFrameTime.2 "0.00694444
SET HIGH_RESOLUTION_SHADOWS "0"
SET GPUSmoothingFrames "0"
SET MULTI_GPU_CHECK "0" <- Only if you have 1 graphics card.
SET MIP_LOAD_SKIP_LEVELS "-1"
SET RequestedNumJobThreads "4" <- Try this first, if you have performance issues set this to 0.
SET RequestedNumWorkerThreads "4" <- Try this first, if you have performance issues set this to 0.

So what does it do?
It caps the FPS to 144. Stock = 100. Improves texture mapping. (Sharper textures). Job & Worker threads (CPU Optimalisation). If set to "4" will work better with calculating mass jobs.
ESO will not use 4 threads or cores. This is just to set the Threads how they react.

I have these settings and my ESO is smooth as butter. Yes, 144FPS in general. Rawl'Kha around 70-80. Cyrodiil around 60-80. Even with 50-60, the game will react faster and will be smoother (turning around, etc.)

Please, do let me know if this changed your overall performance by voting.

Please understand that those tweaks are not for LAG or Server related issues.

I am building a PC using a Asus Maximus Apex IX Board, with 7700k 4.5GHZ OC processor I7, GTX 1080 TI Asus Strix GPU, 16GB of 4266mhz DDR4 Trident Z ram that is streamlined due to the Board configuration, 2 960 Evo m.2s, Asus 10G Shielded Network Card, and all in a Phantek Enthoo Primo Special Edition Black and White Case with a Be Quiet 360MM LC and 10+ 140MM Be Quiet PWM Fans. Utilizing this Monitor as well https://www.asus.com/us/Monitors/ROG-SWIFT-PG35VQ/

Will I be required to do any of these tweaks? Is the game badly optimized?

Not necessarily, it depends entirely on whether the performance is smooth without them.

Or this indeed.

xenowarrior92eb17_ESO

hmm ok I just logged in and im in rawlkha...idk what to say...not sure if I notice any change a all...im gona keep using these a little more tough...im curious how it works on raids but so far I think it wont b any change at all...at least not for me...

Rohamad_Ali

My game performance is increased.

I have the new ASUS ROG . This increased my frame rate a little but did something even better by making the frame quality smoother and more steady . I can run between 45-55 FPS in PVP on ultra setting again with no strange pixilation as the camera turns . The look is much better and loading screen duration is lower . The FPS will go down in huge battles to around 37 but that's manageable .The weird thing now is I load in way before any of the pre rendered graphics in a area . They take a minute or two to fully load but I'd rather have that then be stuck in a loading screen in PVP . Thank you Ajintse .

Edit to add that the other thread had a link to a program to unparking cores . I believe all the steps helped .

tplink3r1

Other, please explain.

Never had any problems with performance, this game runs incredibly good for me at all times.

Zerok

I assume you have a 120 Hz monitor. Most people have 60 Hz monitors, increasing FPS cap to 144 FPS makes no sense.

Betheny

tplink3r1 wrote: »

Never had any problems with performance, this game runs incredibly good for me at all times.

Says the guy who clearly hasn't played since the lighting patch (still has VR level characters in his siggy)

tplink3r1

Other, please explain.

Betheny wrote: »

tplink3r1 wrote: »

Never had any problems with performance, this game runs incredibly good for me at all times.

Says the guy who clearly hasn't played since the lighting patch (still has VR level characters in his siggy)

hurrr durrr your sign is outdated, therefore you don't play the game for months.

Betheny

tplink3r1 wrote: »

Betheny wrote: »

tplink3r1 wrote: »

Never had any problems with performance, this game runs incredibly good for me at all times.

Says the guy who clearly hasn't played since the lighting patch (still has VR level characters in his siggy)

hurrr durrr your sign is outdated, therefore you don't play the game for months.

hurr durr your troll fu is out of date and somebody noticed.

danno8

Zerok wrote: »

I assume you have a 120 Hz monitor. Most people have 60 Hz monitors, increasing FPS cap to 144 FPS makes no sense.

Yah I mentioned that in the "heavy" thread.

Capping your FPS at just below the maximum for your monitor is good practice. It avoids screen tearing as well as overworking your card to produce frames that are simply thrown away.

Betheny

danno8 wrote: »

Capping your FPS at just below the maximum for your monitor is good practice...overworking your card to produce frames that are simply thrown away.

The GPU in this game is barely worked at all, this game uses the CPU more than anything and even gets that wrong...it's one core out of our eight i7 cores that gets jumped on at 100% (while total CPU is like 18%). Bit of a joke.

Rohamad_Ali

My game performance is increased.

Just want to note , after today's update I had to delete the old UserSettings.txt and shader file and repeat these steps to get amazing quality again . I care more about frame stability and smoothness then capping out fram rate now . It provides and much better performance and prevents a lot of frame freezing during graphic spikes on my laptop .

Thogard

My game performance is NOT increased.

I did these steps, but I had already followed the steps in your mega thread. There was no noticeable improvement in frame rate compared to what I had done before, but things looked much less "sharp" or "crisp". I need to play around with it and figure out what the difference is. Following the mega thread advice gave me noticeable improvement so this might have just caused some overlap.

Btw, for me, the biggest and most effective change was unparking the cores which you discussed in the mega thread.

EDIT; I think its the mip load levels. I'm going to set them back to -3, it just looks crisper that way.

PlagueSD

Betheny wrote: »

danno8 wrote: »

Capping your FPS at just below the maximum for your monitor is good practice...overworking your card to produce frames that are simply thrown away.

The GPU in this game is barely worked at all, this game uses the CPU more than anything and even gets that wrong...it's one core out of our eight i7 cores that gets jumped on at 100% (while total CPU is like 18%). Bit of a joke.

All 4 of my cpu cores are maxed out and BOTH of my GPU's are working..(SLI setup - one card handles graphics, other one handles physics). I play with default settings with no issues (well I do turn off that stupid intro video, but that's the ONLY modification I made to the usersettings.ini file). I also play in Full screen mode (not windowed or full-screen windowed mode)

Betheny

PlagueSD wrote: »

Betheny wrote: »

danno8 wrote: »

Capping your FPS at just below the maximum for your monitor is good practice...overworking your card to produce frames that are simply thrown away.

The GPU in this game is barely worked at all, this game uses the CPU more than anything and even gets that wrong...it's one core out of our eight i7 cores that gets jumped on at 100% (while total CPU is like 18%). Bit of a joke.

All 4 of my cpu cores are maxed out and BOTH of my GPU's are working..(SLI setup - one card handles graphics, other one handles physics). I play with default settings with no issues (well I do turn off that stupid intro video, but that's the ONLY modification I made to the usersettings.ini file). I also play in Full screen mode (not windowed or full-screen windowed mode)

Maxed out?

My guess is you have something else hogging your CPU, because ESO does not max out all processors on an i7.

Dexter411

My game performance is increased.

For sure those tweaks made game run smoother however, I just run normal trial and fps dropped costantly to ~20(in fights).
Any idea how to improve it?
According to Afterburn GPU and CPU were used to max 50%.

adeptusminor

This probably won't apply to many people, but I started having some severe performance issues about a week-week and a half ago that was driving me absolutely crazy. I tried everything and my 1080ti was only getting 40-70 and it was inconsistent at that.

I looked through the user.txt file and compared it to a backup I had made awhile ago and noticed the setting

"CachedRLREnabled" has somehow gotten set to 0 compared to my backup file which had it set to 1. After changing it back to 1 I'm getting a pretty solid 99 fps everywhere (still get drops in the normal places--trials, with a lot of people on screen etc etc). So if anyone has had a performance decrease, make sure to check out that setting.

Banana

My game performance is increased.

It does feel smoother. Thanks