Does your game stutter after few hours of playing?

RouDeR

Ever since Dragonhold DLC whenever i play for more than 1-2 hour the game is getting choppy and stuttery without any obvious reason, i may be in the middle of nowhere or in the battlegrounds or IC, it does not matter.... the only solution is to restart the game, disabling addons does not help.

RouDeR

Yes I have this issue and have to restart the game every few hours

It would be good if you guys post what
CPU, RAM and Windows version you are using, especially the ones that does not have this problem.

I`m with:
i7 7740x
DDR4 2x8GB @3600 mhz
Windows 10 pro 19018 build (inside preview build)

ArchangelIsraphel

Yes I have this issue and have to restart the game every few hours

Yes, it's was happening to me ever since Southern Elsweyr was implemented. (I did not have this issue on the test server, oddly) I actually had to restart the game every single time I change maps because the stuttering coming off the wayshrine was intolerable, and then I had to restart it once every 20-30 minutes because the stuttering would build up.

Core i7 7700
8GB DDR4
GeForce GTX 1050Ti
Windows 10

An extremely recent driver update to my graphics card actually resolved most of the issue, but I still get some intermittent stuttering coming off wayshrines that I wasn't having before. The game usually runs smoothly with no issues. I still suspect something is wrong with the game itself as the two other people living with me who each play ESO and have different computers updated their drivers and the issue was NOT resolved for them.

JumpmanLane

No I don't have the issue

Nope never stutters. GSync (or Free-sync or whatever).

I7 7700
32 Gb ddr4
GTX 1650 OC
Win 10 Pro
60 Hrz Samsung Curved monitor

I’ll drop 1 FPS under 60 and go up to 60 intermittently after a few hours of constant play. Otherwise 60FPS everywhere except Cyro if a huge Zerg strolls through.

And yup I chose a 60 hrz monitor over say a 144hrz monitor because I like to play on all high settings everything on except water reflections even in Cyro. Things look better at 60hrz as opposed to 144 (0r 100 or whatever).

Maybe memory leak is back...if it ever went away.

Slayer62

Yes I have this issue and have to restart the game every few hours

I have this issue since 2017 and i dont have any addons.
7700K
Gtx1080
32ram
144hz(gsync)

srfrogg23

No I don't have the issue

I don't think I have this problem. I have a 5 year old computer, so it's getting a bit dated. I get framerate drops when the game is loading a lot of textures and then it smooths out. Frame rates are around 50 in eldenroot and rawl kha but 75 or more out in the wild.

I5-4690
GTX 970
8 GB RAM
4 GB vRAM
1TB storage
Asrock Fatal1ty H97 Killer
21 inch monitor w/ 75ghz refresh rate.

Check your task manager and make sure there aren't a bunch of programs running in the background. Anti-virus programs and firewalls can be obnoxious for game performance.

BackAndAngry

Yes I have this issue and have to restart the game every few hours

worst performance in last 3 years...

Stebarnz

Yes I have this issue and have to restart the game every few hours

Whatever they 'fixed' they need to refix, as per usual tbh.

Useless potatoes!

Sergykid

after a few hours of computer playing eso u should be the one starting to stutter. Get up to some squats open the window etc
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Aznarb

No I don't have the issue

Don't have any problem about lag or FPS drop.
And it get better for Ryzen user with the last patch !

Win 10
AMD Ryzen 1600X
AsRock AB350 K4
16 go Ram DDR4 1.20 GHz
NVIDIA GeForce 1060 6GB OC

All maxed, 80-100 FPS everywhere
Very crowed dragon area 30-50 FPS (can back to 80-100 if I put view range from 100 to 40)

precambria

Yes I have this issue and have to restart the game every few hours

Yes, but I am having to restart the game every 40 minutes anyway because of BG queue bug,

Ryzen 5 2600, OC to 3.9Ghz
Radeon Rx570 MSI armour 8g DDR5
32Gib GEIL DDr4 running it at 3600ghz
On a 970 pro NVME drive,
6 fans. Water cooling. Ultrawide LG.
Still runs like a piece of garbage.

Sylvermynx

No I don't have the issue

I have the game running from 7am to about 4pm every day. I never have issues, and I never have to restart the client.

richo262

Yes I have this issue and have to restart the game every few hours

i5-8600k
16g DDR4
1660ti

Yes, it was more noticeable when hunting dragons, but it has appeared randomly when in overworld in other zones. Frames would drop from 60-70 down to 13 in some situations. It would recover pretty quickly.

On a side note. I also started to hear a strange click noise coming from my PC. OS and ESO are both on SSD's so it is unlikely the HDD. It only happened when playing ESO. It seems to have stopped atm.

Cavedog

Yes I have this issue and have to restart the game every few hours

i9 9900k
GForce RTX 2080Ti
64 gig crucial Ballistix
1TB Samsung SSD HD

....and still massive issues with lag and fps drops. And no, it's not my connection either. I know how to run traceroute. It's the ZOS servers. They can make what ever excuse they feel like making that day, but it's the ZOS servers and always has been.

RouDeR

Yes I have this issue and have to restart the game every few hours

I`ve seen @FENGRUSH streams suffer from this issue on a regular basis after the latest patch, the dude literally has to restart his game every hour or so

Sylvermynx

No I don't have the issue

I wonder if it has to do with playing in "prime time"? Because I just do not have this issue, and even on my old satellite (not nearly as good as this one), never had this issue either. I don't play in "prime time" for a variety of reasons.... mostly related to not wanting a bajillion people around me all the time - and the fact that my agreement with husband is that I will play during the hours I listed above, and not in the evening.

I also don't do group content....

Abyssmol

Yes I have this issue and have to restart the game every few hours

On Xbox x, after an hour or so the game starts to stutter heavily. It looks like ZOS created a memory leak on the software with the new update.

Lumenn

Yes I have this issue and have to restart the game every few hours

Xbox one x here as well and same.

FierceSam

Other

Random lag, FPS drop to single figures, freezing in combat then jumping forward like The Matrix, jumping back in time and space.

Happens randomly, outside, in dungeons, cities, Dragonfights.

It’s noticeable that more areas in the game are behaving like the middle of big cities like Alinor. Much more frequent and pronounced on PC EU than on PC NA (obviously)

I am not feeling any of these promised ‘performance improvements’.

Trancestor

Yes I have this issue and have to restart the game every few hours

The people who answer no probably never enter cyrodil, it's the worst there.

Major_Lag

Other

I haven't noticed the problem yet... probably because my ESO client tends to crash often enough to prevent the issue from visibly surfacing

ACESsiggy

No I don't have the issue

No issues. The only concern I've had since playing is the server ping.

LuxLunae

Other

Have you tried an SSD?

Major_Lag

Other

I have an NVMe SSD (one of the fastest available) and it DOES. NOT. HELP.

The LED on it only blinks sporadically, even when the game "is dying", so I'd say it's not a disk access bottleneck.

Aznarb

No I don't have the issue

Trancestor wrote: »

The people who answer no probably never enter cyrodil, it's the worst there.

I've. Since people was always crying about cyro, I've play one week almost all the day to see how horrible it really was.
But I see nothing, still full FPS with everything maxed.
FPS drop by half only when 2 big zerg are fighting. So yeah, I don't see any issue.

Yormula

Other

This used to happen often this year, especially when I engaged in VFX-heavy activities like wearing Thurvokuun when tanking.

To clarify: once stutter started, it remained no matter what I did next.

The problem disappeared completely after my planned GPU upgrade.