Delayed texture loading - what can I do about it?

AnduinTryggva

I often have the effect that textures - mostly armor textures but sometimes player model textures as well - load with a delay of roughly 10s which is a lot. This can happen to textures of other players around or my own companions. Is there something I can do about it e.g. by tweaking some of my settings? If so which one should I tweak?

kmufc77b16_ESO

Thats sounds like a caching issue with loading within the Hard drive. Are you using a standard HDD or SSD, i assume you are on PC?

Do you use any addons as this could cause issues and would need troubleshooting ie turning them all off and then adding 1 at a time to eliminate the issue ?

Has this problem just appeared? are the temperatures on your CPU - GPU within acceptable temps if on PC?

freespirit

I have a relatively small and old ssd when it goes over around 75-80% full, I start seeing other players totally black as I load in.

Clearing some space always fixes it, although I would say that it doesn't take 10 seconds to render the players even when it is bad.

zaria

freespirit wrote: »

I have a relatively small and old ssd when it goes over around 75-80% full, I start seeing other players totally black as I load in.

Clearing some space always fixes it, although I would say that it doesn't take 10 seconds to render the players even when it is bad.

Get an larger SSD and an M2 if possible, on an desktop you can get cheap PCIe card to mount them on if motherboard don't support M2. Also more memory. 8 GB is low, lots of memory compensates for slow discs and system memory is many thousand times faster than even an high end M2 SSD.

AnduinTryggva

What is M2?

JeroenB

AnduinTryggva wrote: »

What is M2?

Not an expert, but this is my personal understanding:

SSDs come in two main form factors: as 2.5" cases that you connect to a data and power cable, and as 22x80 mm or 22x33 mm "M.2" plug-in boards that you typically plug into your motherboard or a PCIe daughter-board. Look up the Samsung 870 EVO and the Samsung 990 EVO, and compare the pictures.

Then there's two datacommunication types, SATA and NVMe, which you can mostly forget about, other than to note that there are two types of M.2 drive, and you need to make sure the drive and the slot match. NVMe is much faster than SATA. The 2.5" ones are always SATA, but the M.2 ones can be either SATA or NVMe, and the M.2 slots to plug them into can be either as well. So you need to check that you have a matching M.2 drive and slot, ideally NVMe.

If you're uncomfortable doing stuff in your computer and don't know a friend who can help, connecting a 2.5" drive will feel a lot safer, but they are a lot slower than an M.2 NVMe drive. Still should be more than adequately fast to load a game unless there's something else wrong in your system.

And then whatever type of SSD you have, try to keep around 20% free space to let the controller do its own optimisation thing, which helps read speeds.

edit:
Important thing I forgot: you don't need to replace your current drive, you can usually just add the new drive as an additional drive. So if you currently have, say, a 512GB "C:" drive, you can add a 2TB "D:" drive. You don't need to move the operating system and all your data to the new drive. (Though that may be generally advantageous if the old drive is SATA and the new drive is NVMe.)

And as mentioned up-thread, if your current drive is a traditional harddisk with spinning magnetic discs, then any type of SSD, even the 'slow' 2.5" SATA, will be much, much faster, and you really should move your operating system over to SSD even before a game like ESO.

whitecrow

This has always happened for me, with clothing when I am looking at a character close-up. I always figured it was normal.

freespirit

zaria wrote: »

freespirit wrote: »

I have a relatively small and old ssd when it goes over around 75-80% full, I start seeing other players totally black as I load in.

Clearing some space always fixes it, although I would say that it doesn't take 10 seconds to render the players even when it is bad.

Get an larger SSD and an M2 if possible, on an desktop you can get cheap PCIe card to mount them on if motherboard don't support M2. Also more memory. 8 GB is low, lots of memory compensates for slow discs and system memory is many thousand times faster than even an high end M2 SSD.

I didn't say I had 8GB of memory, I have 32GB infact. Looked at getting a bigger ssd but in the end just moved everything to my hhd, only have the game and os on the ssd now...... if I took less screenshots I'd have no issue!!

I have 3 people capable of building PC's here, really it's just laziness on my part!

DemonicGoat

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls_Online#Improving_texture_pop-in

Go to the configuration file location. [Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\live\]
Open UserSettings.txt.
Change the SET MIP_LOAD_SKIP_LEVELS "0" value to SET MIP_LOAD_SKIP_LEVELS "-3".
This may cause reduced performance on lower end hardware. Under 2 GB of VRAM, use "-1" instead of "-3"