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

Eva13 · July 16

Here we go again. 10 years and nothing changes. Same lags, same 'booted from server' messages, same silence from zoses

Photosniper89 · July 16

Eva13 wrote: »

Here we go again. 10 years and nothing changes. Same lags, same 'booted from server' messages, same silence from zoses

I have faith @ZOS_GinaBruno will give us some official statement soon.

M33tr3 · July 18

@ZOS_Kevin

Its been 15 days since your last update. [snip] is going on?

[edited for profanity bypass]

VinnyGambini · July 18

M33tr3 wrote: »

@ZOS_Kevin

Its been 15 days since your last update. [snip] is going on?

Checked steamcharts today. Player count dropped dramatically.

[edited to remove quote]

Katzenzunge · July 18

Still horrible on PCEu.

Can't do a single dungeon without getting kicked out by the "unexpected internal error" message at least once. IF I can get into the queue at all.

Regularly can't interact with NPCs, wayshrines. Can't queue up for stuff without getting yeeted.

It's not just me. Random pugs complaining, getting kicked off and coming back, people in the guilds I'm in had to reschedule raids because half of the squad couldn't get in, or disconnected every now and again. Even in zone chat there have been people complaining about the hamster-servers.

I double and triple checked everything on my end.
My rig is pretty damn good, quite new as well, barely a year old.
My interet connection is stable, if not quite as fast as it could be. Literally everything else works, except for this game.

Why hasn't there been a single statement? Nothing?
Should we just pretend it's normal? I don't understand that. At all.

Kainarel · July 19

Yes, it's still deteriorating on PC EU.
FPS are dropping during combat significantly (especially in Necrom delves and Bastion Nymics) and stay lower than they should. Latency is still higher than it should be. Still glitchy and laggy in Battlegrounds and we get the event next week.

Today when I was exiting the game, the black screen lingered for longer than usual and made me think I'd have to terminate ESO process manually when it finally stopped by itself. Didn't happen before.

Just overall it really feels things are getting worse with servers. Please, please, we beg you, @ZOS_Kevin , send us some message, we're getting desperate the longer you keep silent. Please.

runa_gate · July 19

wow tonight is bad suddenly
even the forums lagging like crazy
hit me 10 seconds after beating tho'at 3 good timing to let me know I got lucky and go to bed

licenturion · July 19

Same here. Can't get in to grab my daily stuff

Login queue - logging in - unable to connect to game server...repeat
Then I finally get in an get a never-ending 'character loading...'

Weird because it is morning in the EU region so it can't be number of players.

method__01 · July 19

same prob here, suddenly i cant log in ,endless loading screens

Ahkanji · July 19

Same issues on PS5 EU, game is completely unplayable today

Shara_Wynn · July 19

licenturion wrote: »

Same here. Can't get in to grab my daily stuff

Login queue - logging in - unable to connect to game server...repeat
Then I finally get in an get a never-ending 'character loading...'

Weird because it is morning in the EU region so it can't be number of players.

method__01 wrote: »

same prob here, suddenly i cant log in ,endless loading screens

Ahkanji wrote: »

Same issues on PS5 EU, game is completely unplayable today

Not sure the last three issues are related to the original post. Seems there is just a general problem today 19th July with connection issues. Not sure if related to the world wide windows update catastrophe or not.

Enigmatic · July 19

Still experiencing higher than usual ping on PC-NA as an Australian player.

Game has just kicked me and now getting error 103 trying to log back in which is then followed by Error 201 (7:4:182:429) when I retry

method__01 · July 19

i just logged in after 10-15 min ,ping is a bit high today but ok
guess many ppl try to log in for daily,crafting areas are packed atm

Shara_Wynn · July 19

Can't log in at all and while lag has been bad since U42, this is something else.

**Edit**

Guess it was a temp glitch, after getting into PC NA without issues, I was then able to then get into PC EU.

manukartofanu · July 19

Shara_Wynn wrote: »

Not sure the last three issues are related to the original post. Seems there is just a general problem today 19th July with connection issues. Not sure if related to the world wide windows update catastrophe or not.

Windows updates on Tuesdays.

Photosniper89 · July 19

Absolute radio silence from @ZOS_GinaBruno on this. This is one of the top threads on the forums PERIOD and nothing from them.

@ZOS_Kevin any update or did they get to you?

Sluggy · July 19

Yeah it's getting absurd now. I've tried to pop in during the early morning when few are on and it's actually worse than at primetime! It's almost like they throttle down the servers when the population gets low to cut costs. Like, in a ten second fight I can realistically expect maybe four light attacks and three skills will actually go off and I keep getting stuck in animations for the light attack.

M33tr3 · July 19

Happened again yesterday around 8p eastern time. Grouped with my S/O. We were in different zones and her ping spiked to 999 on the ingame monitor, mine was aroun 98ms. A few seconds later she got a load screen, after which her ping stayed at/near 999. we zoned into a dungeon and after about 2 minutes her ping finally came down to 'normal' levels.

Your radio silence on this is beyond frustrating at this point. Seriously considering cancelling my ESO+ after 8ish years

Tandor · July 19

manukartofanu wrote: »

Shara_Wynn wrote: »

Not sure the last three issues are related to the original post. Seems there is just a general problem today 19th July with connection issues. Not sure if related to the world wide windows update catastrophe or not.

Windows updates on Tuesdays.

Nobody's talking about Windows updates, are you not aware of the major global outage affecting business users of Windows running CloudStrike?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cnk4jdwp49et

manukartofanu · July 19

Tandor wrote: »

manukartofanu wrote: »

Shara_Wynn wrote: »

Not sure the last three issues are related to the original post. Seems there is just a general problem today 19th July with connection issues. Not sure if related to the world wide windows update catastrophe or not.

Windows updates on Tuesdays.

Nobody's talking about Windows updates, are you not aware of the major global outage affecting business users of Windows running CloudStrike?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cnk4jdwp49et

What are you arguing about? The man literally wrote 'Windows update,' and I answered. You can only explain who this 'nobody' is that is talking about Windows update.

manukartofanu · July 19

Photosniper89 wrote: »

Honestly at this point I think the gaming community needs to take this above ZOS head and start pining Microsoft leadership that ZOS reports to because this is just embarrassing.

Any success with this?

Photosniper89 · July 19

manukartofanu wrote: »

Photosniper89 wrote: »

Honestly at this point I think the gaming community needs to take this above ZOS head and start pining Microsoft leadership that ZOS reports to because this is just embarrassing.

Any success with this?

Honestly, been so busy I haven't reached out. Was hoping to give ZOS a bit more time to say something here but think we are past that point. I'll type something up and send it out later tonight/tomorrow.

Bammlschwamml · July 19

manukartofanu wrote: »

The man literally wrote 'Windows update,' and I answered.

Not really. Im am pretty sure the post was about "wide windows" or something. I hope this answers your questions.

SeaUnicorn · July 20

Gamers, I found a solution for my issue with lag spikes that log you out.
Swapped DNS from default to Cloudflare (1.1.1.1/1.1.1.2) and now I still get lag spikes, but at least I do not get kicked! Google DNS might work too (8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4)

Photosniper89 · July 20

SeaUnicorn wrote: »

Gamers, I found a solution for my issue with lag spikes that log you out.
Swapped DNS from default to Cloudflare (1.1.1.1/1.1.1.2) and now I still get lag spikes, but at least I do not get kicked! Google DNS might work too (8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4)

I've been using cloudflare for years.

Photosniper89 · July 21

So... I have no idea why this is the case but I switched to controller today and the lag is noticeably better. Like.. 100 fps and 120 ping with hammer up and everything. I made a comment in zone and multiple people said the lag got better for them too when they switched to controller on PC/NA.

Not sure why but hope this is some good info @ZOS_Kevin

Destai · July 22

@ZOS_Kevin It's been a few weeks since your last update. Please better align your updates with our requests. Once a week doesn't seem so unreasonable, especially with the severity of the issue. Is the team still working on it? And if so, what work has been done so far? How far along are we? These are really basic questions that we should be getting frequent updates on. Feels like it's been forgotten.

Photosniper89 · July 22

Destai wrote: »

@ZOS_Kevin It's been a few weeks since your last update. Please better align your updates with our requests. Once a week doesn't seem so unreasonable, especially with the severity of the issue. Is the team still working on it? And if so, what work has been done so far? How far along are we? These are really basic questions that we should be getting frequent updates on. Feels like it's been forgotten.

Also wondering this @ZOS_Kevin @ZOS_GinaBruno. I still haven't had a single view on the 7 videos I submitted with tickets so I'm curious just how much "work" has gone into trouble shooting this.

Jaraal · July 22

Photosniper89 wrote: »

Destai wrote: »

@ZOS_Kevin It's been a few weeks since your last update. Please better align your updates with our requests. Once a week doesn't seem so unreasonable, especially with the severity of the issue. Is the team still working on it? And if so, what work has been done so far? How far along are we? These are really basic questions that we should be getting frequent updates on. Feels like it's been forgotten.

Also wondering this @ZOS_Kevin @ZOS_GinaBruno. I still haven't had a single view on the 7 videos I submitted with tickets so I'm curious just how much "work" has gone into trouble shooting this.

Gina got a new position with Zenimax, and I haven't seen anything introducing the new person who took her place. Kevin posted the latest patch notes, and a community manager whose name I've never seen before edited them.

joseayalac · July 22

Yeah I was in overland last night and had massive ping spikes and screen freezes consistently through my gaming session.