When are the EU servers moving to Europe?

Jade1986

Good to see this discussion is getting attention. while I understand it will not the be the silver bullet to fix everything, it is a huge contributing factor. No matter how great the tech is, having to travel cross oceans is going to have a negative effect on gameplay, no matter how you twist it.

d.zid.816b16_ESO

Out of curiosity what methods are you all using to check your connection to the server? As i'm yet to find any way to do so in game. Wouldn't mind being able to keep an eye on mine!

Jade1986

You can check it in your task manager I believe. But its more than obvious that the connections are really messed up atm, through some simple in game combat tests.

dzugarueb17_ESO

Guys, have you tried setting graphics to minimum? I did that, and besides nice Morrowind graphics got the combat lag completely fixed... Which is not a solution, ofc, I can play BF4 on my PC just fine, and I want that High graphics.

Jade1986

there is a difference between framerate issues, and real time combat lag. I have a solid 60fps at all times mostly, this is flat out latency issues. Appreciate the input tho.

dzugarueb17_ESO

No framerate issues, 50 fps lowest, I play with /fps. High graphics - sound lags, skill lags, etc. (fps stays the same, I know what I'm saying). Minimum graphics - lag fixed. That's it.

Jade1986

Tried it, didn't do anything, there is still a big delay between blocking and whatnot. Not to mention the game looks terrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrible then. Its a latency issue, plain and simple, which would be mostly remedied by them moving the servers to Germany. Instead of in Texas.....

Frail_Old_Man

I hope they'll be moved to EU asap, the latency has killed me so many times now.

Daggers

GossiTheDog wrote: »

The several-seconds-to-hit latency issues aren't megaserver location related - they're other issues, largely.

The EU megaserver is currently hosted in Dallas, Texas. They're planning to move it at a later date. Note, this will require downtime to move and is a big job as they don't have EU datacenter built yet.

I LOL'd when I read that (pictures giant crane lifting a datacenter onto a freighter).

murklor007neb18_ESO

You can even tell that the lag is a latency issue as the problem gets worse and worse the longer you play in the evening - ie the more into US primetime it become.

I really hope they get their arses in gear and move the EU server to the EU soon. Very soon. Of course its completely unacceptable for a subscription game not to offer full service for both EU and US customers, ie servers in respective areas of the world. I am not really seeing the result that ZOS said a common datacentre would have so it would be nice to see an article in the future on how great it was and what problems where solved quickly by doing it this way.

Ragnar_Lodbrok

After the Russians finish conquering Europe.

GossiTheDog

murklor007neb18_ESO wrote: »

You can even tell that the lag is a latency issue as the problem gets worse and worse the longer you play in the evening - ie the more into US primetime it become.

Later into evening = more users = more load on servers. That isn't network latency.

Daggers

GossiTheDog wrote: »

murklor007neb18_ESO wrote: »

You can even tell that the lag is a latency issue as the problem gets worse and worse the longer you play in the evening - ie the more into US primetime it become.

Later into evening = more users = more load on servers. That isn't network latency.

It's all the same to a frustrated Argonian waiting 40 minutes for /g1 replies.

Hatti

playing meele is really frustating atm especially at peak times i have pings up to 400 to the gameservers.. this is totally unacceptable and not playable.
The game just feels very unresponsive and blocking or interupting is nearly impossible.
The info, that they will move will not be enough.. we really need a date, how long we need to take this latency issues. 200-400 pings are really unacceptable. Think PvP wont be any fun with this...

oeb17_ESO

Latency is just terrible currently, so i hope there is an eta soon when they get switched.

saki

I just tried PvP and its horrible. Its ok when you are running around and there are couple of players but when there is a massive battle and everyone is casting and all those catapults and balistas fireing, low settings dont help there, lag is huge. I have r9 280x and on low fps drops to 15 in those battles. Slideshow.

randomaffliction66

Never, I hope that helps you out

Jade1986

murklor007neb18_ESO wrote: »

You can even tell that the lag is a latency issue as the problem gets worse and worse the longer you play in the evening - ie the more into US primetime it become.

I really hope they get their arses in gear and move the EU server to the EU soon. Very soon. Of course its completely unacceptable for a subscription game not to offer full service for both EU and US customers, ie servers in respective areas of the world. I am not really seeing the result that ZOS said a common datacentre would have so it would be nice to see an article in the future on how great it was and what problems where solved quickly by doing it this way.

I have noticed this as well, the later in the evening it gets, the worse the connection gets because we have to compete with the traffic from the US AND the EU....which is just not acceptable.

Hatti

saki wrote: »

I just tried PvP and its horrible. Its ok when you are running around and there are couple of players but when there is a massive battle and everyone is casting and all those catapults and balistas fireing, low settings dont help there, lag is huge. I have r9 280x and on low fps drops to 15 in those battles. Slideshow.

LAG has nothing to do with bad FPS and we are not talking about FPS related issues. LAG is only a latency issue.

laced wrote: »

I have noticed this as well, the later in the evening it gets, the worse the connection gets because we have to compete with the traffic from the US AND the EU....which is just not acceptable.

Its only affects the evening for EU cause the routing nodes will be on heavy load. I think the ESO servers are just fine. Its just the transatlantic routing which causing us so much trouble. Thats why the EU servers should be moved to the EU ASAP!

silvestru_liviueb17_ESO

For me, lag is affecting all full/almost full campaigns. no matter if evening, morning, after-noon, whatever...So i tend to bealive that one campaign is not proper optimized with that amount of ppl in it. And i am not talking about the amount of ppl implied in a battle, but the total amount in that campaign.

d.zid.816b16_ESO

Well apparently im getting pings of around 140-160 at best, average during open world pve (while in combat) is around 200... and at worst with multiple other players all casting spells around me I get anywhere between 300-420...
PvP campaigns are completely unplayable for me, as a large battle gets me as much as 600.

And just to compare, 25-40 ping is my 'usual' when playing online games.
Yeah I won't be be subbing until there are actual EU servers located in in the EU!

FezzikVizzini

You can see your latency on the game by doing the following.

Open resource monitor. You can do that directly from the windows menu (or type "resource" into the program search box) or you can start task manager and click on the resource monitor in the performance tab (4th tab on task manager).

When resource monitor comes up click on the 5th tab labelled Network. Wait for all the various parts of the window to be populated with data.

Now, we are interested in the 3rd frame down. The one labelled TCP connections. In the 1st column marked image scroll down and you will find 4 entries for ESO all marked as eso.exe. If you then scroll the frame as far to the right as it will go you will see your latency in the last column (labelled Latency(ms)).

The column before latency also is important as it shows any packet loss. If you have anything other than 0 in thyis column then things will not be good for you as data packets are being lost between your pc and the server.

I am in EU and normally have latency of 130-150 ms or there abouts.

Hope this is of some use to people.

Con64

C'mon ZeniMax...place the EU servers in Europe...why was it placed in North America? We in Europe are paying for a service that's not delivering what was promised at time of purchase. lag free please!

AlexDougherty

GossiTheDog wrote: »

The several-seconds-to-hit latency issues aren't megaserver location related - they're other issues, largely.

They might not be purely Location related (since US has bad lag too) but the lag from location adds to the other sources of lag, rendering European players at a severe Disadvantage in PVP. It also means we suffer from more lag too, and it is a quality of life issue.

The EU megaserver is currently hosted in Dallas, Texas. They're planning to move it at a later date. Note, this will require downtime to move and is a big job as they don't have EU datacenter built yet.

True, but it shouldn't take more than a couple of hours, they can get the new server set up, with most of the records set up, update the files with a direct download from old server, and start it up.

Also they really should have had the EU Datacentre built by now, they've known they were going to do it for over six months, and even in Europe they can build and wire a building in six months.

Sunrock

Jmundi wrote: »

Even if it takes you 5 seconds to react it still doesn't matter when that reaction takes 240ms to register on your screen (needs to do a roundtrip from you to the server and back to you) and 240ms is 240ms, it is not 40-50ms! Also 120ms ping in this game i've seen like 2-3 times only, i'm mostly having 170 ping and above.

Last night i logged on, played for an hour or more precisely tried to play for an hour and logged off. Like others here said, it doesn't matter how good their technology is, physics is physics. Unless they learn how to create mini wormholes for the signal to travel instantly from/to.

We want our EU servers. I just hope this doesn't turn out like Neverwinter with regards to the servers.

Actually with the new research in quantum mechanics it will be possible in a near future to have 1ms ping to any server in the world no matter where you are physically.

PS. http://www.bloomberg.com/video/quantum-computing-charlie-rose-02-10-EZWtK6A_SVSBpFoVAvEwZw.html

ZOS_HugoP

Greetings folks,

As there is already a thread about this topic here: When will eu server will come to eu ?, this one is now closed to avoid duplicates.

Thank you for your understanding.