What specs do you need to run the game on full settings with smooth FPS?

skywarnmc27

I get 60-100 fps at most times in nearly every major area besides cyrodil, then i get 30-40 fps (not prime time) I have an Icore 3 3220 6 gig of ram and geforce gtx 645 card. I run the game on medium, with the exception of a couple settings on high.

Vildebill

I was kinda into the same situation as you and wanted something similar, a good, not over priced, gaming laptop which I would manly play ESO on, and I went with an Acer Nitro 5, with a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti graphics card and an Intel Core i7 7700HQ CPU. Game runs great, computer is great (fan a little noisy when playing but I guess that's expected). It costs about 1000€, but I got if for 100 less on a discount. I chose that graphics card and CPU because 1050 is a great card and the Ti one gives some extra graphics, and a little juicier CPU than an i5 since ESO seems to be more CPU intensive than it should be.

Worst part of ESO in regards to hardware is what a lot of other people has said, game isn't optimized to utilize good hardware at all.

Namarkas

People discussing whether you can see the difference between 60 and 100FPS, meanwhile I get 10 frames on low settings in Cloudrest (yes I am shopping for a new rig atm).
In all seriousness, from what I saw when I put load on certain components on my PC, you need:
- A CPU with a relatively high single core power. As already mentioned, the CPU is kinda the bottleneck, and 16 Cores won't help if the game puts it's main load on only 1.
- An SSD (I bought one of the PCI connected ones, will see how it performs once everything is built). More often than not, what bottlenecks my toaster the harderst is my HDD when I do anything else beside ESO, plus this part should help the most when it comes to loading Addons. (as others mentioned, apparently it needs to access a lot of storage due to bad optimization)
- then comes the usual stuff, more RAM is always nice to have (maybe get one with a higher rate, but I have honestly no idea how much difference it will make). A decent GPU, but again how strong it needs to be is probably hard to say for this game.

this game has bad optimization, but if you are happy with steady 30 FPS as minimum, that should be doable.
(Fiber internet should also help ofc).

xenowarrior92eb17_ESO

Qbiken wrote: »

MLGProPlayer wrote: »

Skwor wrote: »

Nyladreas wrote: »

MLGProPlayer wrote: »

Specs won't help you in this game. It's poorly optimized. You'll still be dropping to 30 FPS in crowded towns with an i7 9800K and RTX 2080TI. You'll never exceed 30-40% GPU/CPU usage since the engine is effectively only using a single CPU core and only a fraction of your GPU's processing power (since there is a CPU bottleneck).

The only thing that can improve FPS is reducing view distance and turning off reflections.

Are you sure? AFAIK multi-core support was brought in and confirmed sometime during summerset...

MLGPro has no clue what he is talking about. I have an octicore I7-6900 and all 16 threads are used by ESO. Also run a GTX 1080 game settings maxed. I typically run at 70 FPS and rarely go below 50 even in crowded cities and this is with me running close to 40 mods at the same time.

Only time things slow down is large pvp fights but that is much more on eso side.

70 FPS in a game from 2014 is awful, especially a game with texture quality as low as ESO.

I also average 70+ FPS in overworld (I have almost the exact same build as you). That has never been the problem with this game.

The problem is the game runs like horse *** in a ton of different content (trials, populated towns, PvP, etc.).

And "using" multiple cores doesn't mean using them efficiently. Run diagnostics while you play this game and you'll see. Neither your GPU nor CPU usage will exceed 40%. The optimization is horrifyingly bad.

If you think this is "good" performance, you haven't played many video games before.

Ngl, I would kill for 70fps in PvE content XD

people dont properly comprehend the difference between open world pve dead zone and heavy populated content...