ESO Background Process Never Closes After Update

Seravi

I log out of the game and close it. There is now and ESO process listed in BACKGROUND PROCESSES that will not close and eats up system resources. Screenshot of one process below. Why is this happening and what are you doing on my system after I close the program??? I should not have to end this process manually in Task Manager.

I really don't want to hear the "update your graphics driver" or "update your bios and all system programs" and then "uninstall WIN 10 and reinstall then get back to us" stuff. I didn't have this issue before the update today.

No addons and I launch the game from the exe not the launcher. I only use the launcher on patch day and the launcher DID update today before the game updated.

N00BxV1

I just closed my game then checked Task Manager, and there are no ESO processes running. So I don't know why that would be happening to you.

I use the Official ESO Launcher, but only open the launcher when the game needs updating, and I start the game directly from the eso64 executable.

Would you happen to have Background apps enabled in Windows Settings? Settings > Privacy > App permissions > Background apps > Let apps run in the background. (And there is a list of apps underneath to enable/disable individually).

I disable all background apps in Windows. If I'm not currently using it then I don't want it running.

Edit:
If it only happened once then the program could've hung while closing?

TaSheen

N00BxV1 wrote: »

I just closed my game then checked Task Manager, and there are no ESO processes running. So I don't know why that would be happening to you.

I use the Official ESO Launcher, but only open the launcher when the game needs updating, and I start the game directly from the eso64 executable.

Would you happen to have Background apps enabled in Windows Settings? Settings > App permissions > Background apps > Let apps run in the background. (And there is a list of apps underneath to enable/disable individually).

I disable all background apps in Windows. If I'm not currently using it then I don't want it running.

Edit:
If it only happened once then the program could've hung while closing?

This.

Seravi

It happens every time I close the game since the update. Now grant it I am one of many that have to use Alt F4 sometimes as the game will not close after exit. If I use Alt F4 that "should" end the process totally and not leave it hanging eating up CPU. I dunno just irritates me....ugh...

EDIT
Just verified I have no background apps running and it is not enabled.

Jaraal

It's probably the PTS 28 gig update loading in the background.

I found this out the hard way yesterday, as when they updated the launcher, it resets all your settings. Previously, I had turned off the setting to "automatically update" both the Live and PTS patchers, as sometimes that would hog resources when I was trying to do other stuff on the internet. So I set it up so that I could download and apply the updates when I was asleep or AFK.

Well, after they updated the launcher, I failed to notice that the PTS was not listed as an available game mode, since it was not active at the time and I wasn't thinking about using it. So I tried playing on Live yesterday, and kept getting timed out, "Lost lobby connection," "Unable to connect to server," etc. I checked the patcher to see if it was downloading, no, it said Running or Play. Then it dawned on the that the PTS was up, and it was probably downloading that in the background. But how could that be, if it wasn't even displayed on the launcher?

So I had to look around in the patcher settings, and found the "Show PTS environment" setting an turned it on. And sure enough, I then saw that it was downloading the huge update. I paused it, went back to Live, logged in, and had no problems after that.

Sepultura_13

Jaraal wrote: »

It's probably the PTS 28 gig update loading in the background.

I found this out the hard way yesterday, as when they updated the launcher, it resets all your settings. Previously, I had turned off the setting to "automatically update" both the Live and PTS patchers, as sometimes that would hog resources when I was trying to do other stuff on the internet. So I set it up so that I could download and apply the updates when I was asleep or AFK.

Well, after they updated the launcher, I failed to notice that the PTS was not listed as an available game mode, since it was not active at the time and I wasn't thinking about using it. So I tried playing on Live yesterday, and kept getting timed out, "Lost lobby connection," "Unable to connect to server," etc. I checked the patcher to see if it was downloading, no, it said Running or Play. Then it dawned on the that the PTS was up, and it was probably downloading that in the background. But how could that be, if it wasn't even displayed on the launcher?

So I had to look around in the patcher settings, and found the "Show PTS environment" setting an turned it on. And sure enough, I then saw that it was downloading the huge update. I paused it, went back to Live, logged in, and had no problems after that.

With all of the issues that PTS was causing me, I stopped using it a little over two years ago.

Jaraal

Sepultura_13 wrote: »

Jaraal wrote: »

It's probably the PTS 28 gig update loading in the background.

I found this out the hard way yesterday, as when they updated the launcher, it resets all your settings. Previously, I had turned off the setting to "automatically update" both the Live and PTS patchers, as sometimes that would hog resources when I was trying to do other stuff on the internet. So I set it up so that I could download and apply the updates when I was asleep or AFK.

Well, after they updated the launcher, I failed to notice that the PTS was not listed as an available game mode, since it was not active at the time and I wasn't thinking about using it. So I tried playing on Live yesterday, and kept getting timed out, "Lost lobby connection," "Unable to connect to server," etc. I checked the patcher to see if it was downloading, no, it said Running or Play. Then it dawned on the that the PTS was up, and it was probably downloading that in the background. But how could that be, if it wasn't even displayed on the launcher?

So I had to look around in the patcher settings, and found the "Show PTS environment" setting an turned it on. And sure enough, I then saw that it was downloading the huge update. I paused it, went back to Live, logged in, and had no problems after that.

With all of the issues that PTS was causing me, I stopped using it a little over two years ago.

I'll bet it's still downloading in the background, as they reset the hidden settings when they updated the launcher. You may need to go back in and turn the PTS auto-update off again.

Seravi

I don't see any indication PTS is on my system. It better not download that mess..ugh!