U21 launch day load times and how you can help

BennyButton

I logged in with no serious lag time guys!

theyancey

Quick, easy, and all inventory in place. Thanks ZOS!

DaveMoeDee

Whaaat? 2 minutes? My inventory is sooooooo full on 15 characters and ESO+ large bank! Is it because I was first?

RANKK7

DaveMoeDee wrote: »

Whaaat? 2 minutes? My inventory is sooooooo full on 15 characters and ESO+ large bank! Is it because I was first?

It could be.

She wrote in the last post:

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Just to clarify a few things:

• Remember the load times aren't tied directly to your account/items, it's the total number. So if you have 5 items but someone that's still trying to log in has 40,000, you'll still need to wait a bit.

silvereyes

Loading screens weren't noticeably longer for me than normal. In fact, they were a bit zippier than they have been the last several days.

DaveMoeDee

RANKK7 wrote: »

DaveMoeDee wrote: »

Whaaat? 2 minutes? My inventory is sooooooo full on 15 characters and ESO+ large bank! Is it because I was first?

It could be.

She wrote in the last post:

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Just to clarify a few things:

• Remember the load times aren't tied directly to your account/items, it's the total number. So if you have 5 items but someone that's still trying to log in has 40,000, you'll still need to wait a bit.

It might me because almost no one had migrated yet so any shared tables are pretty empty. Inserting records into empty tables is always super fast.

But my account was a worst case scenario. Bank was at 480. All 8 chests in housing are full. 15 characters all 75% or higher.

My takeaway is start now if you can.

RANKK7

DaveMoeDee wrote: »

RANKK7 wrote: »

DaveMoeDee wrote: »

Whaaat? 2 minutes? My inventory is sooooooo full on 15 characters and ESO+ large bank! Is it because I was first?

It could be.

She wrote in the last post:

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Just to clarify a few things:

• Remember the load times aren't tied directly to your account/items, it's the total number. So if you have 5 items but someone that's still trying to log in has 40,000, you'll still need to wait a bit.

It might me because almost no one had migrated yet so any shared tables are pretty empty. Inserting records into empty tables is always super fast.

But my account was a worst case scenario. Bank was at 480. All 8 chests in housing are full. 15 characters all 75% or higher.

My takeaway is start now if you can.

Agreed.

Vinterskald

Loading screen was just one minute long that's great!

Gorak

I logged in np and have full bank, storage chests, and inventory on 11 toons. Loading screens may have been a little shorter even.

I think maybe Gina was trolling us

Iziquiel

I think my loading screen was 3-4 minutes max!

nordic_two

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Just to clarify a few things:

• Craft Bag and Guild Trader contents are not included - we're doing this part during downtime.
• This has nothing to do with collecting data.
• Remember the load times aren't tied directly to your account/items, it's the total number. So if you have 5 items but someone that's still trying to log in has 40,000, you'll still need to wait a bit.
• The load time may actually be minimal, but there's a chance they could be long. Hence this heads up

Login time for both my accounts was normal, no extended time etc. Did this change not go live today?

VaxtinTheWolf

Haha.. Okay then. 2-3 minute waiting upon hitting log in on the character. Was I lucky, or was this just an elaborate plan to get us to do some early spring cleaning?

Bam_Bam

Straight in as normal

majulook

Load time 2.3 minutes.

8 charterers, 1 has 54 items, 7 have 150 items, all storage chest full, 385 bank items..

PawadoTheFearless

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Just to clarify a few things:

• Craft Bag and Guild Trader contents are not included - we're doing this part during downtime.
• This has nothing to do with collecting data.
• Remember the load times aren't tied directly to your account/items, it's the total number. So if you have 5 items but someone that's still trying to log in has 40,000, you'll still need to wait a bit.
• The load time may actually be minimal, but there's a chance they could be long. Hence this heads up

SO..all items of every account have to accounted for before anyone loads into game....popcorn and a movie time

Elsonso

PawadoTheFearless wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Just to clarify a few things:

• Craft Bag and Guild Trader contents are not included - we're doing this part during downtime.
• This has nothing to do with collecting data.
• Remember the load times aren't tied directly to your account/items, it's the total number. So if you have 5 items but someone that's still trying to log in has 40,000, you'll still need to wait a bit.
• The load time may actually be minimal, but there's a chance they could be long. Hence this heads up

SO..all items of every account have to accounted for before anyone loads into game....popcorn and a movie time

A short movie.

Merlin13KAGL

Since these entries are stored server-side, I fail to understand why this would have to wait until client login to run.

This could take place server-side, well before the update. It could be prioritized by recency of login, and would not have to affect clients at all.

Just amazing, once again, and not in a good way.

Elsonso

Merlin13KAGL wrote: »

Since these entries are stored server-side, I fail to understand why this would have to wait until client login to run.

This could take place server-side, well before the update. It could be prioritized by recency of login, and would not have to affect clients at all.

Just amazing, once again, and not in a good way.

I see this as a good thing, and I know nothing about why they did it the way they did. I am assuming that it is so that I did not have to wait for them to process every account, according to recency, before opening up the server. If that is the case, then they can do this all they want.

SageSecret

So I just logged in with NO trouble what-so-ever.

The character loading screen took about two minutes.

The download of the update took about 20 minutes.

WHEW.

So far nothing is missing from my inventories but I am still checking.

Sylvermynx

Anyone have any trouble just downloading? I got to 21% twice, and the download quit then restarted from scratch. I don't have that kind of bandwidth to waste. Guess I'll be out of game until I can get a friend's full install folder....

gstewy2ub17_ESO

Download was quick 12-15 minutes. Log in to Character Select about 5-10 minutes. Logging into my first toon. . . # hours and counting. 9 toons, 8 with under 20 items in their packs. 1 crafter with close to 50 items in pack. Bank 200 - 380 spots.

SantieClaws

Khajiit got an error 319 first time - failed transfer.

The second time all was well though.

Crafting done. Time for a snooze.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

DragonHeart000

sevomd69 wrote: »

Soooo...people are actually spending multiple hours to clean up their inventory to avoid a possible 2 hour load in...????

This is all just a ploy to get everyone to clean up their inventory.

LordTareq

2 hours in the loading screen now Absolutely ridiculous to be honest.

GaianSpirit

I've been waiting for more than 1 hr, I cleared away tons of trash in my inventory the night before. Others had very short loadscreen and it dosen't matter the amount of items they had. Wtf is this crap

alenae1b14_ESO

There were no problems for me and I had anticipated an over 2 hr load in. My download was appox 30 minutes and log in from character screen was between 1 and 2 minutes.

Sylvermynx

*sigh* Love where I live.... but I'd KILL for "real broadband"....

Lake

Didn't notice anything different...

EllieBlue

I left my PC online to download the patch overnight. Logged in before leaving for work, expecting 2+ hrs of loading screen but I was pleasantly surprised that it took less than 30 seconds. Crazy! Usually, its a good few minutes wait. So, yeah, I am pretty chuffed really. 🦄

unchainedzulu

load to character, less than 60 seconds. nice work guys.
switching toons to take care of mounts seems faster.

i did notice, when i started the launcher for downloading the patch, i didn't have enough space, but it didn't tell me how much space i needed. all sorted now though.

thanks for the under-promising and over-delivering! my guildies were worried, and all logged in with no issues.