Invisible NPC's

Pang

Running into lots of invisible NPCs most of which are quest NPCs so its pretty game blocking. Tried everything from /reloadui, re-logging and even changing graphics settings but lots of NPCs just don't show up.

Pang

OK well, only i thing found to fix it is to completely exit out of the client and re-start.

Not sure what causes this to happen though.

Hexcaliber

Thanks for the tip on exiting completely, I am being hampered by this bug, killed three times by attacking npc's I cannot see. I expect bugs during the launch of a new game, but this one really should not have made it in, as its so obvious.

Tazila

I'm still having this problem, I'm hoping that the maintence fixes it. But yea, NPCs (only two) and invisible mobs have been the problem for me, other than this, the game is going swimmingly.

moonshinemicky

I started getting this bug yesterday. Both NPC's and PC's were invisible, but I could see everyone's horse. The only thing that righted this completely (for a time) was completely exiting game.

Reloadui worked to make the npc's in my immediate area appear temporarily, if I walked away then came back, they'd be gone again.

It is either a bug or our horse overlords are taking over. (I bet the latter)

mikey_n391

ive tried everything nothing seems to work. im constantly being killed by invisible npcs to the point where im unable to complete any quests. is this an na server specific problem or is the eu server having the same issue?

p.s /reloadui does not help neither does repairing or reinstalling

Encognito

Same problem the last couple days as well. Tried everything, even uninstalling the few addons i use. Nothing helps. Just keep running into invisible mobs and getting killed. Even rocks and other items are extremely slow to load. Sometimes the E interaction button does nothing or I get kicked out for unknown error. This is pretty frustrating. I spend most the time just browsing guild store or looking around in safe zones. Cant do many quest outside of cities cause I cant see the enemy, then all of a sudden, I hear a bunch of battle sounds and Im dead. Back to the wayshine to pray that they will fix this very soon before i cancel my sub.. Love the game, but its not enjoyable like this..

ZOS_PierreL

Hello all,

If you find an invisible NPC, don't forget to report it directly in game with /bug.
If it's an important NPC who blocks your quest, you could ask for help from a GM.

Thank you.

slackmare

Encognito wrote: »

Same problem the last couple days as well. Tried everything, even uninstalling the few addons i use. Nothing helps. Just keep running into invisible mobs and getting killed. Even rocks and other items are extremely slow to load. Sometimes the E interaction button does nothing or I get kicked out for unknown error. This is pretty frustrating. I spend most the time just browsing guild store or looking around in safe zones. Cant do many quest outside of cities cause I cant see the enemy, then all of a sudden, I hear a bunch of battle sounds and Im dead. Back to the wayshine to pray that they will fix this very soon before i cancel my sub.. Love the game, but its not enjoyable like this..

ALL of these events are happening to me ever since last patch. So frustrating. Soooo much of my gold goes to the repair man! Recently i just log in to feed my horses and load researches. And the load screens......gah, load screens all the time.
smh

mikey_n391

An otherwise awesone game plagued with bugs hopefully we get a fix soon.

Encognito

ZOS_PierreL wrote: »

Hello all,

If you find an invisible NPC, don't forget to report it directly in game with /bug.
If it's an important NPC who blocks your quest, you could ask for help from a GM.

Thank you.

All the npcs are invisible ! The fix for me and many others (a seperate thread here talking about the same issues) was to turn sound off.. Now the npcs rez.. Altho its takes away from the atmosphere of the game, its a workaround till its fixed... I believe its the ambient sounds that are lagging everything. I can turn on just the npc voice part in sounds and zero the rest, and my npcs still rez.. I had noticed before that when it rained, etc, the sound kept cutting out and lagging the game.. So if you are having this issue, try to turn your sound off. cheers.

Con64

Hmm?... Yes there is a significant sound lag for me as well...sound lags about 3-4 seconds after the fact. There has always been a sound delay for me in this game but it has got worse over the last patches.

IcyDeadPeople

I have been experiencing this issue when attacking enemy keeps in Cyrodiil during the past few days. My frame rate drops from 25-30fps down to about 7-10fps, and then a little bit after that, it drops again down to between 1 to 3 fps, at which point enemy NPCs in the keep and enemy players sometimes become invisible.

I noticed also that oil pots are invisible when this happens, even oil pots I put down myself.

If I exit the game and restart, my frame rate goes back up, and everything is visible again, but it drops again as soon as I am near enemy players, and the enemy players and NPCs eventually become invisible again when the frame rate is around 2fps.

In my case, turning off the audio settings did not improve the frame rate or the invisible character models.

DogFaceInBananaPatch

This is still a major bug for me.

And to make it far worse I play without a Compass, Map, or Quest Pins so when this bug occurs (easily 1 out of 20 quest turn-ins) it can ramp up the time it takes to "find" the NPCC from 10-30 minutes (remember no Meta info at all) to 10+ hours. Why? Because I have no idea that the NPC is invisble or under the world until I give up in complete exhaustion and turn the addons off that are removing the meta [to only find the NPC is bugged and under the world].

DogFaceInBananaPatch

Do people truly not have this issue with Quest NPC's? They're either invisible or underground. (Note: compass does not show (above) or (below)).