ZOS, Massive Spike in Ping/LAG in Recent Days - What Gives?

TechMaybeHic · June 13

Lag has been majorly bad tonight. Kind of funny as it does not effect all my friends at the same time. Like half a group at a time

AzuraFan · June 13

TechMaybeHic wrote: »

Lag has been majorly bad tonight. Kind of funny as it does not effect all my friends at the same time. Like half a group at a time

I wasn't affected tonight, but I was this morning. It's weird that a player is either really affected or not at all.

Photosniper89 · June 13

Ungodly bad tonight for our entire group. 5-10 seconds skill delay.

Just_Attivi · June 13

Cyrodiil 2077 2024, Final Chapter

Our hero, a brave Nightblade who definitely doesn't abuse invisibility and Spec Bows to remove combatants from the field in any sort of cowardly manner, approaches Fort Glademist, where the Elder Scroll of Mnem is being held in foul Covenant hands... a massive brawl at the west side of the Fort wages on
---

*sees an exciting Fight! goes to jump in! FOR THE DOMINION!!!*

let me pre buff, 1,2,3, bar swap!
...
*character stares coldly into the breach before him*
hmmmm *blows out NES style server Cartridge* Pre buff! 1,2,3 Bar swap!
...
*Characters eyes glaze over, drool forming at the corner of his mouth*
hmmm... *checks the hamsters food and water, spins its exercise wheel, the hamster flopping over repeatedly, its been gone from this world for many months already, but surely some excitement like this fight will bring it back!*
...
Sun sets over Cyrodiil, the fighting ends, bodies litter the fields, but there is finally peace in Tamriel after a thousand years... but that brave hero stands there still, overlooking the Fort, glazed eyes, a puddle of drool at his feet, standing stoic.... or maybe just brain dead, still waiting to this day for his buffs to cast...

-End Scene-
May I officially submit this to be canon events in the elder scrolls lore? I think there are a great many denizens of Tamriel who bore witness to the events above.

but forreal the lag is unplayable from about 7pm EST to... well.. sometime tomorrow. 4-10 second delays on skills followed by rubberbanding or sudden speed ups of everything, 2 days in a row now that I've gotten to witness. PC NA Grayhost. Even in unpopulated areas (a resource with 2 AD and 5 EP) was a slide show for all involved, across the map from any large fights. The earlier hours of the days have been tremendously better than weeks prior (dare I say.... 'normal' performance) but as the server fills, its... genuinely some of the worst performance I've ever seen. Sometimes Ping wil lstay stable while this happens, other times youll get the dreaded 999+ repeatedly or even consistently.

These issues do persist in PVE though it isnt as noticeable for me as it was in prior weeks (things feel... floaty in the evenings EST, not unplayable but noticeable. But I havent done any serious PVE stuff, either, mostly just towns/flower picking)

KiltMaster · June 13

Photosniper89 wrote: »

KiltMaster wrote: »

Still awful lag/skill firing/rubber banding EVERYWHERE and yes especially Cyrodiil.

If I crash, FINE, but at least let me log back in.

Embarrassing.

Give it about a minute before you try to log back in - let the game register you got kicked. If you try to log in too quick you'll get the error that keeps you from getting back in.

Thank you I'll try that next time

Kainarel · June 13

Been through some lag spikes last night while being in remote area doing nothing but gathering and riding around while gathering.
Experiencing fps spikes when coming to Galen's city wayshrine and in Skyrim Castle -- fps jump rapidly from 60 to 40 to 20 to 13 and back to 40 etc. It creates stuttering. Only been happening in those two locations for me out of the whole game, which is strange. I read some reports about the Skyrim Castle where people had the same thing happen to them, so I know it's definitely something in the game and not on players' side.

Some quests become bugged when/if you do them with a friend, for example couldn't finish Ember's quest while paired with a friend also doing it -- the last of sheep-men gave me no option to cure them. Had to abandon and disband from group to actually do it. It's very frustrating. My other friend had the same experience while we were doing Western Skyrim storyline together two weeks ago -- a quest object (some scroll or letter) simply didn't appear for her on a table. She had to abandon the quest and start from beginning because no amount of relogging, quitting and returning and travelling back and forth made it work.

My ping is still higher than it should be, 130 instead of 80-100. And some hiccups and delays with using powers still happening.

Haven't been trying battlegrounds or Cyro because people keep reporting lag and our last time a few days ago was very unpleasant due to the said lag, so still waiting on a fix and hoping for it, @ZOS_Kevin

Photosniper89 · June 13

Just_Attivi wrote: »

Cyrodiil 2077 2024, Final Chapter

Our hero, a brave Nightblade who definitely doesn't abuse invisibility and Spec Bows to remove combatants from the field in any sort of cowardly manner, approaches Fort Glademist, where the Elder Scroll of Mnem is being held in foul Covenant hands... a massive brawl at the west side of the Fort wages on
---

*sees an exciting Fight! goes to jump in! FOR THE DOMINION!!!*

let me pre buff, 1,2,3, bar swap!
...
*character stares coldly into the breach before him*
hmmmm *blows out NES style server Cartridge* Pre buff! 1,2,3 Bar swap!
...
*Characters eyes glaze over, drool forming at the corner of his mouth*
hmmm... *checks the hamsters food and water, spins its exercise wheel, the hamster flopping over repeatedly, its been gone from this world for many months already, but surely some excitement like this fight will bring it back!*
...
Sun sets over Cyrodiil, the fighting ends, bodies litter the fields, but there is finally peace in Tamriel after a thousand years... but that brave hero stands there still, overlooking the Fort, glazed eyes, a puddle of drool at his feet, standing stoic.... or maybe just brain dead, still waiting to this day for his buffs to cast...

-End Scene-
May I officially submit this to be canon events in the elder scrolls lore? I think there are a great many denizens of Tamriel who bore witness to the events above.

but forreal the lag is unplayable from about 7pm EST to... well.. sometime tomorrow. 4-10 second delays on skills followed by rubberbanding or sudden speed ups of everything, 2 days in a row now that I've gotten to witness. PC NA Grayhost. Even in unpopulated areas (a resource with 2 AD and 5 EP) was a slide show for all involved, across the map from any large fights. The earlier hours of the days have been tremendously better than weeks prior (dare I say.... 'normal' performance) but as the server fills, its... genuinely some of the worst performance I've ever seen. Sometimes Ping wil lstay stable while this happens, other times youll get the dreaded 999+ repeatedly or even consistently.

These issues do persist in PVE though it isnt as noticeable for me as it was in prior weeks (things feel... floaty in the evenings EST, not unplayable but noticeable. But I havent done any serious PVE stuff, either, mostly just towns/flower picking)

I'm not gonna lie.... I hate your build but also jealous of your build. The amount of times you've near one shot me is just... GG lmao.

This write up made me bust out laughing but agreed with everything here. I'm not sure if a tweak was made around Monday/Tuesday but since then it's been 10x worse than the week prior.

blktauna · June 13

Levelling an alt account on PC NA with no CP or anything most of Wednesday and the skill delay was opressive. And I was just gathering skyshards, not even questing or in cyro. Doing a sewer run/IC run on EU primetime was skill delay, rubberbanding and high latence.

RomanRex · June 13

I had to stop playing last night due to disconnects during loading screens. It was exhausting.

Aurielle · June 13

Ping spikes were initially rare after the chapter launched, but we're back into 400+ range now on the regular, even while doing basic things like writs in underpopulated areas.

drip_fromtheinkwell · June 13

This morning I was trying to get some quests done on my day off, and was booted four times over about 20 minutes. I'm trying again in the afternoon, and constant disconnects still seem to be an issue. I'm not sure if other people are having the same issues, but it's really been a problem today.

Krestina · June 13

I’m having the same issue on PS5/NA. I was disconnected from the game about 4 times w/in a 10-15 minute period this morning around 11:15-11:30EST. I didn’t get the “normal” lag spike where everyone/everything stops moving, server catches up and I fire everything off in half a second, then get disconnected. It was just straight to title screen with no warning and no errors and I was able to log back in right away until the final disconnect when I got the good ol’ “An unexpected internal error has occurred. Please contact customer service….” After that error I have to wait 5-10 minutes before I think about logging back on.
This has been on ongoing issue for me for the past 3-4 weeks, however, it’s not affecting everyone I play/group with as some of them haven’t experienced any issues whatsoever.
I finally submitted a ticket for it this morning: 240613-003415.

twev · June 13

LaintalAy wrote: »

TaSheen wrote: »

I don't know that anyone wants to hear this.... but I'm not having any issues like the rest of you are reporting, at all. I haven't the entire time you all have been having the issues - which would be since the first wee in May (in this thread) through current day.

I always have a higher ping than people who live in an area with "real broadband" rather than a satellite connection. But I don't have disconnects, lag problems with skills firing, none of it. I wish you all some help with the issues ASAP!

My area has no fibre. There's copper, but ADSL plan pricing is prohibitive.
Satellite suppliers view gamers as less important than GPS farmers so ping's never less than 999.

I'm tethered to my mobile's internet access.
400+ ping.
Max 24 fps.

The Firror hardware upgrade made some real improvements for me, especially the frame rate.

Other people don't know how good they have it.

I believe Matt said in his post back then that the hardware replacement was mostly to 'refresh' some older components that were running out of spec due to age and uptime, as well as precautionary replacement of other old stuff that was nearing end of life.

He made a point of it saying it was not being replaced to 'increase performance' and at the time we shouldn't expect much if any performance boosts due to 'performance upgrades'.

I took that to mean that any resulting performance increases were going to be due mainly to the servers being put back into service at 'specs the servers and software were designed to run at launch'.

I'm going by memory of posts I read a while ago, so there could be more nuance than I recall.

Photosniper89 · June 13

Aurielle wrote: »

Ping spikes were initially rare after the chapter launched, but we're back into 400+ range now on the regular, even while doing basic things like writs in underpopulated areas.

This.

Just_Attivi · June 13

Ping spikes to 999+ starting again... bout the same time as yesterdays started. 5+ second delays on skills/interactions.... just noting the time it begins

Jaraal · June 14

It was crazy in GH PC/NA tonight. 10 second mount delay, entire clusters of people rubberbanding around the hammer, and zone chat was full of people complaining about the lag and ping.

Just_Attivi · June 14

Photosniper89 wrote: »

Just_Attivi wrote: »

An Epic Tale

I'm not gonna lie.... I hate your build but also jealous of your build. The amount of times you've near one shot me is just... GG lmao.

This write up made me bust out laughing but agreed with everything here. I'm not sure if a tweak was made around Monday/Tuesday but since then it's been 10x worse than the week prior.

lmao everyone hates the build, but I rarely get to play with the OP stuff before its nerfed, so Im having a blast xD (there is a thread regarding how busted it is, and I 100% agree, needs to obey the one proc per second rule better, but not gonna derail this thread lol)
but the hate whispers/claims of macros/hax/insults to me and my heritage are pretty hysterical. Makes me wish I recorded gameplay just to show my POV lol.

Glad the post was laugh worthy! But yea right after chapter launch things felt great, but ~7pm EST past 3 days now its just gone to the toilet. Early hours its not too bad for me, though others I have seen complaining while I was fine (but without knowing... *everything* involved, cant say much about what might be going on)

Photosniper89 · June 14

Just_Attivi wrote: »

Photosniper89 wrote: »

Just_Attivi wrote: »

An Epic Tale

I'm not gonna lie.... I hate your build but also jealous of your build. The amount of times you've near one shot me is just... GG lmao.

This write up made me bust out laughing but agreed with everything here. I'm not sure if a tweak was made around Monday/Tuesday but since then it's been 10x worse than the week prior.

lmao everyone hates the build, but I rarely get to play with the OP stuff before its nerfed, so Im having a blast xD (there is a thread regarding how busted it is, and I 100% agree, needs to obey the one proc per second rule better, but not gonna derail this thread lol)
but the hate whispers/claims of macros/hax/insults to me and my heritage are pretty hysterical. Makes me wish I recorded gameplay just to show my POV lol.

Glad the post was laugh worthy! But yea right after chapter launch things felt great, but ~7pm EST past 3 days now its just gone to the toilet. Early hours its not too bad for me, though others I have seen complaining while I was fine (but without knowing... *everything* involved, cant say much about what might be going on)

Yeah, it's unplayable right now. I had to log off because I couldn't take the stuttering anymore. Whatever fix they tried def made it worse (assuming it was an attempted fix and not something else that is causing it).

edward_frigidhands · June 14

Krestina wrote: »

I’m having the same issue on PS5/NA. I was disconnected from the game about 4 times w/in a 10-15 minute period this morning around 11:15-11:30EST. I didn’t get the “normal” lag spike where everyone/everything stops moving, server catches up and I fire everything off in half a second, then get disconnected. It was just straight to title screen with no warning and no errors and I was able to log back in right away until the final disconnect when I got the good ol’ “An unexpected internal error has occurred. Please contact customer service….” After that error I have to wait 5-10 minutes before I think about logging back on.
This has been on ongoing issue for me for the past 3-4 weeks, however, it’s not affecting everyone I play/group with as some of them haven’t experienced any issues whatsoever.
I finally submitted a ticket for it this morning: 240613-003415.

Hey I was having this issue but only while using dodge roll, streak or mist form. Basically anything that made me move several spaces in the game.

Do you recall if you were using any of the above when you got disconnected with that message?

The only difference is I was not able to login right away. It took a bit. The entire time my Internet was fine and other games worked fine during this period of disconnectivity from the game.

ClandestineQueen · June 14

I have been experiencing the same, especially after the update. My character is either laggy or rubber banding all over or there is an actual delay in what I'm seeing. I'll be fighting, and then suddenly just be dead. It's annoying.

Luna13 · June 14

Things actually got a lot better right after the Gold Road release, but starting around June 10th it's been the worst I've ever experienced! Extreme stuttering, delay in even vendoring and the bank, terrible in cities but still bad even in the middle of nowhere doing gathering.
It only goes away when I'm doing housing, so that's pretty much all I'm doing.
It was (literally) unplayable in Northern Elsweyr; I couldn't move to get to the guild vendors. Logged off after that.

PC/EU

React · June 14

PC NA. Logged in last night in elden root around 9:30PM EST. Accepted a duel near the wayshrine. Both of us were rubberbanding and stuttering everywhere, along with many people outside of our duel aswell. Signifcant ability delays. Asked /y if anyone else was experiencing this and multiple people confirmed that they were.

I've never seen cyrodiil-esque performance issues present in other areas of the game before. What is happening?

Photosniper89 · June 14

React wrote: »

PC NA. Logged in last night in elden root around 9:30PM EST. Accepted a duel near the wayshrine. Both of us were rubberbanding and stuttering everywhere, along with many people outside of our duel aswell. Signifcant ability delays. Asked /y if anyone else was experiencing this and multiple people confirmed that they were.

I've never seen cyrodiil-esque performance issues present in other areas of the game before. What is happening?

Same, Cyro is hitting PvE and it's kind of mind blowing. It's almost like the games being played now at .25x speed or something... everything just feels extremely slow and delayed.

Bammlschwamml · June 14

React wrote: »

... I've never seen cyrodiil-esque performance issues present in other areas of the game ...

This happened before the hardware refresh on Playstation EU. And also a couple of other times. Trials, dungeons, even overland was lagging and stuttering. And still is sometimes. Players of the Ps4 version still have freezes when friends come online, go offline or just start the phone app.

In ESO the same problems come back again and again and again and again... It's like they don't fix anything but just rotate what's broken the most. I bet endless loading screens will have a comeback soon.

Just_Attivi · June 14

Mega lag has returned, approx 6pm EST PC NA. past 5 min or so has been consistent 999+ ping and 8 second ish delays for many players.

Just noting the time of events.

KiltMaster · June 15

Crashing on back to back port attempts. Fun! Love this game!

Edit: several hours later, same issue. Just ... trying to port somewhere.

Jaraal · June 15

Lost lobby connection three times just porting around in West Weald.

That's a new one on me. Internet connection smooth as butter. Definitely game related.

LordGavus · June 15

Over the last couple of hours I keep getting kick out of game when when trying to port out of dungeons and public dungeons.

Anifaas · June 15

LordGavus wrote: »

Over the last couple of hours I keep getting kick out of game when when trying to port out of dungeons and public dungeons.

I am getting dropped (lost lobby connection) a lot this morning, which is not normal. In the last hour, I've been disconnected 6 times. No other games or apps seem to be affected, just ESO.

anadandy · June 15

Weapon swap delay in the new public dungeon Silorn. Swap, hit a skill, realize I was still on Weapon 1, swap again only to then have the original swap fire and be stuck in this loop of weapon swaps. PC NA.