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  • luen79rwb17_ESO
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    Is there any way to watch the cinematic online? I'd love to see it but definately gonna skip it when I launch my client. Those blue screens of deaths are too scary for me. :confounded:
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  • Reverb
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    I didn’t have issues with the cinematic. This is notable because I did for the last two, I never saw the Greymoor or Elsweyr cinematics because my system would hard crash when they played. I had to go into my user settings and edit it to make the game think I’d seen it, so it would stop trying to play and crash.

    The only difference I can think of is a change I made to my settings to address my high GPU usage at character selection, discussed here: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/7270971

    I don’t know if that’s related to my suddenly being able to play the trailers when I couldn’t before, but i haven’t made any other changes to my system or game settings.
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  • barney2525
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    I dunno. I always restart my computer after any major update, and before actually running the game.

    The cinematic ran fine for me.

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  • Starlight_Whisper
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    Is there any way to watch the cinematic online? I'd love to see it but definately gonna skip it when I launch my client. Those blue screens of deaths are too scary for me. :confounded:

    https://youtu.be/QexKwsE9x2M

    Happen to get it in my google feed
  • 16BitForestCat
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    Count me in as one of the people who was surprised to see a game launch-era ESO cinematic with the Michael Gambon VO when I was expecting something for Blackwood! :D

    And yes, it was super choppy. Almost unwatchable in places.
    Edited by 16BitForestCat on June 1, 2021 10:14PM
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  • Arunei
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    I'm glad it wasn't just me; I thought it was my computer lagging during the cinematic.
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  • L_Nici
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    @16BitForestCat No way....I never actually realised that its Michael Gambon. Propably because my game is german anyway, and in german the prophet wasn't actually synchronised by Wolfgang Hess (the second german Dumbledore voice) but of course now that you say it I can't unhear him. Great now I always imagine the prophet as Dumbledore.
    Edited by L_Nici on June 2, 2021 9:12AM
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  • Klad
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    Anyone else?

    Was at the scene with the dolmen.

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    Had the same issue, was fixed when I updated my graphics driver. Hope it works for you.
  • Serenez
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    The entire cinematic although I quite enjoyed it, was very choppy for me as well.
  • Sarannah
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    For some reason my GPU went nuts when the cinematic was playing. After the cinematic ended, the game ran normal as always.

    Edit: RTX 2080 ti gaming x trio.
    Edited by Sarannah on June 1, 2021 11:09PM
  • phaneub17_ESO
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    Mine gets super choppy when it pans over to the White Gold Tower part, every time.
  • 16BitForestCat
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    L_Nici wrote: »
    @16BitForestCat No way....I never actually realised that its Michael Gambon. Propably because my game is german anyway, and in german the prophet wasn't actually synchronised by Wolfgang Hess (the second german Dumbledore voice) but of course now that you say it I can't unhear him. Great now I always imagine the prohet as Dumbledore.

    @L_Nici In our house, we've been referring to the character for years as Albus Aquilarios. XD
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  • Cireous
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    I'm confused... is there no Blackwood-specific Cinematic? I'm not complaining, I just kind of expected there to be something Oblivion/Blackwood related when entering the zone.
  • Tommy_The_Gun
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    Hi all, we want you to know that we have seen this thread and are investigating.
    I am no expert, but every time there is a patch, the 1st time you boot the game and login, game loads VERY slowly as it is processing something. It is only the 1st time when you login after new patch. You can logoff & then login back without turning the game off and it will load normally.

    What seems to be happening is that the intro cinematic is being played AT THE SAME TIME when game is processing the update, so CPU & hdd is kinda busy.

    I watched the intro and it was "choppy", but only during 1st half. After that time, game managed to process update files and intro was playing normally. Also, once I hit the button to watch cinematic again - it is working normally as it should. I might be wrong, but as far as I remember previous intros were playing the moment you reach character selection screen, while this intro plays sooner, during loading screen (not just regular loading screen, but 1st loading after patch so it is even more CPU / hdd - hungry).
    Edited by Tommy_The_Gun on June 2, 2021 12:12AM
  • ArchMikem
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    Hi all, we want you to know that we have seen this thread and are investigating.
    I am no expert, but every time there is a patch, the 1st time you boot the game and login, game loads VERY slowly as it is processing something. It is only the 1st time when you login after new patch. You can logoff & then login back without turning the game off and it will load normally.

    What seems to be happening is that the intro cinematic is being played AT THE SAME TIME when game is processing the update, so CPU & hdd is kinda busy.

    I watched the intro and it was "choppy", but only during 1st half. After that time, game managed to process update files and intro was playing normally. Also, once I hit the button to watch cinematic again - it is working normally as it should. I might be wrong, but as far as I remember previous intros were playing the moment you reach character selection screen, while this intro plays sooner, during loading screen (not just regular loading screen, but 1st loading after patch so it is even more CPU / hdd - hungry).

    That's a very logical conclusion. People's CPUs are probably being taxed.
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  • dsalter
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    FPS bogged down to 2fps when first loading up, had to skip the new cinematic just because of it.
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  • Hallothiel
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    Cireous wrote: »
    I'm confused... is there no Blackwood-specific Cinematic? I'm not complaining, I just kind of expected there to be something Oblivion/Blackwood related when entering the zone.

    ^^this^^

    Kinda pointless if the original one.....
  • StevieKingslayer
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    I didnt get one. I assume because I didnt buy the chapter yet
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  • NoSoup
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    Crashed my PC too, I have a duel monitor setup with the game only running on one monitor, when game/computer crashed AMD displayed an error message saying a video driver timeout has been detected

    Edit: updated drivers and ran super smooth there after
    Edited by NoSoup on June 2, 2021 9:40AM
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  • 16BitForestCat
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    https://youtube.com/watch?v=s36tayDTjTs

    The "missing" cinematic? :D It was posted by the Bethesda Softworks account the day Blackwood dropped. It's actually called "Gates of Oblivion Launch Cinematic" which doesn't specifically reference Blackwood, but the description says this:
    The Gates of Oblivion year-long adventure continues with The Elder Scrolls Online: Blackwood.
    Edited by 16BitForestCat on June 2, 2021 12:10PM
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  • Alurria
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    https://youtube.com/watch?v=s36tayDTjTs

    The "missing" cinematic? :D It was posted by the Bethesda Softworks account the day Blackwood dropped. It's actually called "Gates of Oblivion Launch Cinematic" which doesn't specifically reference Blackwood, but the description says this:
    The Gates of Oblivion year-long adventure continues with The Elder Scrolls Online: Blackwood.

    Thanks for posting that wish it would have played after the intro yesterday to set up the story but oh well. Still the into was only a bit choppy for me. I'm on PC NA and I have observed my fps getting better over the past 4 weeks or more. However yester day at times my fps would soar to 135 or more only to go back down to below 60 fps. Overall the game ran smooth, my companion disappeared a couple times and had to recall him. Over all it actually was not bad for me. I suspect I have a shorter ping route then many people. I was pleased with launch. The intro didn't play for me I actually called it up after I was in so I could watch it, it was laggy in spots but otherwise watchable.
  • Seravi
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    Mine was choppy at the first and near the end. The rest of it played fine.
  • magnusthorek
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    Didn't notice anything wrong nor I had any crash and I play with a potato PC
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  • Starlight_Whisper
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    https://youtube.com/watch?v=s36tayDTjTs

    The "missing" cinematic? :D It was posted by the Bethesda Softworks account the day Blackwood dropped. It's actually called "Gates of Oblivion Launch Cinematic" which doesn't specifically reference Blackwood, but the description says this:
    The Gates of Oblivion year-long adventure continues with The Elder Scrolls Online: Blackwood.

    👀 Doesn't got the voice of gods from original one.
  • Mix
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    I also got the original ESO cinematic and it was choppy, which was strange...
  • Dovahkiin02191973
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    Cinematic seems to be fixed now. I've played it on a major potato PC and a mid ranged PC and both played flawlessly. On day one my potato PC was screaming at me. I barely got past the video. I get 20 fps on that machine in low settings no matter what I am doing and Yes it is playable. My mid range PC gets 60 fps with vertical sync turned on and over 100 fps without it in high settings but I can't stand the screen tearing so I leave it on. Both machines are now playing the video just fine. Somewhere along the line they fixed whatever was causing the slow down.
    Edited by Dovahkiin02191973 on June 6, 2021 7:57PM
  • Girl_Number8
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    Anyone else?

    Was at the scene with the dolmen.

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    Santie Claws

    I thought this was either going to be something funny or heart warming because it is Santie Claws but ;-;

  • SantieClaws
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    Ah no this was a geuine trauma sort of post yes!

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    Speaking of trauma ... Stibbo ...

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  • Girl_Number8
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    Ah no this was a geuine trauma sort of post yes!

    Usually reserved for days when we get permission to travel to a new place.

    Speaking of trauma ... Stibbo ...

    If you know then you know yes.

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  • JessPushToPlay
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    I ran into the same issue today on PS4 after our Blackwood launch. Why is there no option to re-watch cinematics? Very disappointing.

    But thanks@Starlight_Whisper for sharing your clip of the video up above! I thought I was watching the intro to the main quest video for a min!
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