PC NA server unstable past hour

shadelon

New problem. Joining groups is failing constantly.

newtinmpls

Load times to get to my house are back to "horrible and kick you out of the game half the time"

About 2 in 3 guild store searches are working, though delayed

WhiteCoatSyndrome

Lag was really bad today. At first I thought it was just the mass of people at the Auridon Dolmens but then I joined a normal Rockgrove run and it was just as bad.

It really kills the fun of double XP when I can’t do anything more complicated than grind mobs.

RedTalon

Any signs of it clearing up yet?

aussie500

I was doing fine till the daily reward showed up (11am AEST), went downhill rapidly after that with all the extremely long load times, disconnects, time outs not being able to stock my guild store shelves or do the guild banking, timing out while logging in, not being able to teleport any where without the game losing connection (and blaming it on my internet) I would not dare try a trial or dungeon or any group content.

I always had long load times, but now most of the time since the last update the game is unplayable.

DigiAngel

Yea honestly it's a joke right now:

Error 304 Already logged in
Error unable to connect to game server, please make sure you have a valid internet connection

I mean...let's face it...that patch roached this game. Hope it gets fixed Monday....

TimeViewer

Bank seems ok but Guild Bank is just pure lag, can take extremely long to update the numbers

Mr_Bear

Error 108
Error 200
error 201
Error 304, already logged in.. even though I can't log in
Error 334
Would be nice to actually play the game with double XP bonus

Elvenheart

I have to admit it does seem odd to suddenly have the explorers event right in the middle of all of this.

SimonThesis

Still having trouble logging in even after deleting all addons. Fix the game!

oldbobdude

I don’t usually complain. Stuff happens. This is pretty bad though. I’m retired so play in daytime and evening. Daytime play is slow with login and loading screens and some other minor stuff but as soon as people start logging in after work in the evening it gets really bad. I quit playing for tonight. Zone change loading screens go on forever. Guild store, dungeon finder (even with group already preformed) just not working right. It’s been 5 days, hope a fix is on the horizon.

Marcusorion1

PC NA West Coast Canada - coming up to 9 pm here and its getting worse for lags and disconnects. Shame not to be able to open a door or bank. Nice to have a surprise event, but at this point the surprise would be if the game worked properly.

Thanks for the eventual head's up from ZOS_Kevin. hope something helps to let us enjoy the game again. Good luck all.

StevieKingslayer

It's a little ridiculous after all these years you can still do this to us ZOS. Half the game is broken right now, and we just keep getting "we're working on it". Hardly worthy of the $20 a month I pay to play your game, when I can't even login, get in a group to do a dungeon or take advantage of the "surprise" event you sprung on us with the double exp (which, while welcomed, VERY poor timing - Why have an exp event when half the players have to wait in a queue due to server instability and have to sit in a loadscreen for 8 minutes to go grind some mobs because they cant use the dungeon finder?)

Dont even get me started on the AWA rn. You messed this up big time.

Fix it ZOS. I was going to buy the new house, I don't think I will.

Edit to Clarify: I have waited until NOW from patch on purpose to give the servers time to catch up with everyone. I've learnt from the past launches to do this. And still broken. No matter what we do as players to help, You still cannot help us. GG TYFG.

Dagoth_Rac

It's not just the ouroboros spinning but nothing happening. Load screens, especially the initial character login, push my CPU to 100% for extended periods of time. I can barely even tab out and do something else while I wait for load screen to finally finish. Some kind of excessive calculation loop is going on in those load screens.

Terces

Just posting to commiserate with everyone else. Sucks to have such terrible lag spikes and disconnects during this event, until recently ESO played like a dream for me. The last few days I get booted back to the login page so frequently I feel like I've spent more time on loading screens than playing. I have so much I want to do in-game =(

agelonestar

It’s not just NA.

I’ve had trouble logging in on EU for three days - haven’t managed a clean login once.

I also crashed out 8 times yesterday. I never crash. Mostly I was doing housing stuff.

And finally, as usual, PVP was great last night……until we actually engaged with anyone. Then it was like a PowerPoint presentation. Death by flip book.

Gaeliannas

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Hi All,

We are working on addressing some of the instability issues and working toward improvements over the weekend. If we have any additional updates, we'll communicate those as they arise. Thanks for your patience.

"We are working on it" isn't really any sort of an update, as over the past 5 years it has come to mean the problems will never be resolved, and you just removed any hope I had that this may actually get fixed. An honest and open communication of what went wrong, and the steps being taken to resolve it, would be a lot more useful and shed some hope that this (or slightly better than this), isn't the new permanent state of the game.

polartx

Have the problems as above - but I am also experiencing issues with discord when I'm running eso. Roboting all the time - as soon as i stop the game, everything is fine. Getting really7 low frames down into the single digits - I admit, I'm on an old rig, but before the update, I would only get intermittent times where the game would "lock up" for a second. Now, it's hosed all over the place - sometimes it runs ok, then will drop into the teens and single digits, then back up. I should have waited to renew my subscription as its basically wasted money

jahaposada

I keep getting booted trying to level alchemy on an alt. It's like the server can't keep up with me doing multiple combines in a short period.

Sad.

Mr_Bear

jahaposada wrote: »

I keep getting booted trying to level alchemy on an alt. It's like the server can't keep up with me doing multiple combines in a short period.

Sad.

Had a friend get booted out for "spamming" when all they were doing was depositing items in their bank

And another day... still can't log in.

Pyr0xyrecuprotite

Marcusorion1 wrote: »

PC NA West Coast Canada - coming up to 9 pm here and its getting worse for lags and disconnects. Shame not to be able to open a door or bank. Nice to have a surprise event, but at this point the surprise would be if the game worked properly.

Thanks for the eventual head's up from ZOS_Kevin. hope something helps to let us enjoy the game again. Good luck all.

I'm having huge lag/latency issues post-patch, but it may just be a coincidental problem on the internet side for those of us in western Canada. Doing a pathping test shows I'm losing about 90% of packets going through the Seattle link out from my ISP's network. I put in a tech support call - let's see if that helps. Eventually.

Oh and both PC/NA and PC/EU.

zaria

jahaposada wrote: »

I keep getting booted trying to level alchemy on an alt. It's like the server can't keep up with me doing multiple combines in a short period.

Sad.

Making lots of individual potions in an short time will boot you from server, this an many year old bug.
Only get int learning the incidences as its require making hundreds of potions, makes batches then leveling
Making hundreds of spell power pots at once is safe but making potions hundred times will kick you.
Solution I found is to make 1/4 of the teaching one then do something else like an quest, delve or dungeon, even on another character then return. Leveling I do in batch mode so far fewer create potion so safer.

daniel.13b16_ESO

Horrible performance for me on PC-EU. Constant disconnects, lag everywhere (even in instanced sotry quests). Painful to play.

jahaposada

zaria wrote:

Making lots of individual potions in an short time will boot you from server, this an many year old bug.
Only get int learning the incidences as its require making hundreds of potions, makes batches then leveling
Making hundreds of spell power pots at once is safe but making potions hundred times will kick you.
Solution I found is to make 1/4 of the teaching one then do something else like an quest, delve or dungeon, even on another character then return. Leveling I do in batch mode so far fewer create potion so safer.

This is around the 15th character I've leveled alchemy on and never had an issue like this. (I will say, I've experienced what you describe turning in 100+ master writs). I'm talking about making a couple of combines of 10 or 20 potions and getting booted.

Brymstone

Day 4...
No improvements, poor communications

I cannot blame the mod's they have a very hard job

What makes me very disappointed is that the players that are not having these issues are getting twice the xp and resourses that I can gather during the event.

Basically a game we pay a monthly fee for has almost been impossible to play for almost a full week, will we get compensated NO!

Seems to be a lot of western Canada players effected, I am in northern British Columbia. Maybe ZOS is sacrificing Canadians to increase other areas performance?

Tevalaur

Brymstone wrote: »

Day 4...
No improvements, poor communications

I cannot blame the mod's they have a very hard job

What makes me very disappointed is that the players that are not having these issues are getting twice the xp and resourses that I can gather during the event.

Basically a game we pay a monthly fee for has almost been impossible to play for almost a full week, will we get compensated NO!

Seems to be a lot of western Canada players effected, I am in northern British Columbia. Maybe ZOS is sacrificing Canadians to increase other areas performance?

I did notice another player mention western Canada and specifically lost packets through Seattle... which made me wonder considering I live about 4 miles south of Canadian border and a few hours outside Seattle which is our nearest major USA city. But I have no way to know if that's where the similarities end as I don't know how to test for lost packets and routing and it is only affecting this game not my internet as a whole.

Iselin

Pyr0xyrecuprotite wrote: »

Marcusorion1 wrote: »

PC NA West Coast Canada - coming up to 9 pm here and its getting worse for lags and disconnects. Shame not to be able to open a door or bank. Nice to have a surprise event, but at this point the surprise would be if the game worked properly.

Thanks for the eventual head's up from ZOS_Kevin. hope something helps to let us enjoy the game again. Good luck all.

I'm having huge lag/latency issues post-patch, but it may just be a coincidental problem on the internet side for those of us in western Canada. Doing a pathping test shows I'm losing about 90% of packets going through the Seattle link out from my ISP's network. I put in a tech support call - let's see if that helps. Eventually.

Oh and both PC/NA and PC/EU.

Yeah I'm in Vancouver and have been having horrendous issues for a few days. I had to resort to using a VPN just so I can route around the bad route which is happening for me always at the same IP between Seattle and just before the Zenimax Dallas. Not sure if that bad node is also Zenimax and just not identified as such.

For me that bad node is always at 4.69.210.141 and the packet loss can be anywhere from 80-95%.

Iselin

Tevalaur wrote: »

Brymstone wrote: »

Day 4...
No improvements, poor communications

I cannot blame the mod's they have a very hard job

What makes me very disappointed is that the players that are not having these issues are getting twice the xp and resourses that I can gather during the event.

Basically a game we pay a monthly fee for has almost been impossible to play for almost a full week, will we get compensated NO!

Seems to be a lot of western Canada players effected, I am in northern British Columbia. Maybe ZOS is sacrificing Canadians to increase other areas performance?

I did notice another player mention western Canada and specifically lost packets through Seattle... which made me wonder considering I live about 4 miles south of Canadian border and a few hours outside Seattle which is our nearest major USA city. But I have no way to know if that's where the similarities end as I don't know how to test for lost packets and routing and it is only affecting this game not my internet as a whole.

This ESO support page tells you how to run a pathping and tracert to their server: https://help.elderscrollsonline.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/30903/~/how-do-i-do-a-pathping-and-tracert-to-the-servers-to-test-my-connection?

And for me like you, my internet for absolutely everything else is 100% fine. Mt connectivity problems are with ESO and nothing else.

I'll be curious to see if you're routed the same way as us and if the same node which I posted i my other message just above this one is also the culprit for you.

So let us know how your ping and route goes.

Hoghorn

Hi Iselin, I'm out in the Valley and having the same issues as you, would it be helpful to post my pathping and tracert? I have no idea how to interpret the results.

Brymstone

Hmmm, VPN might be the answer good call!

And I might have to apologize to ZOS, but let's not get to far ahead of this

I started myu VPN at home, usually just use it on the road. I typically have a pinf in the low 100's (95-110)

With VPN off the last week has been a low of around 350-400 and a high of 6-7000ish and a spike and DC at 11,000+

With VPN on and set to the US I have an average of 120-140 and never over 200 unless a zone change for a few seconds and then back to 125-140, very playable!

Would be nice to see others try