Horrid Lag / Mobs not visiable / Players not visiable

Durham · July 2014

1st
After the last update this happened everynight since ... I will be running along and then suddenly Im being attacked but I see nothing on my screen.... Then I all the sudden I am dead. Then at that point the mobs appear....

2nd
Frame rates at times go down to 2fps...

3rd
Sometimes a loading screen appears randomly....

4th
Wierd buggs on how the player moves... Casting while the staff is still on my back. No casting animation

I have stopped RVR since the last update since I cant see the opposing players until it is too late....

Not sure what is causing it...Game was fine until the last update... The game is almost unplayable at this point ...

Computer is a little dated but it was running the game fine until the latest update...
Core Duo 3.2 ghz
750 GTX
8 Gigs of Ram

Any suggestions on how I go about fixing this? By the way I really like this game however the bugs are really starting to wear me down!

loki547 · July 2014

I had every single one of these issues today as well, you are not alone my friend.

Hypertionb14_ESO · July 2014

Is your CPU showing 100% load due to the game as well? i suspect it might on that model... i have been having issues caused by a overused CPU since the last update.

Grimlaken · July 2014

Im experiencing the same, I have a pentium i5 3.8Ghz with 16G Ram and 4GB GTX 610, my cpu load never goes above 30% and Ram never goes above 20% usage while playing, it is becoming very discouraging, I doubt I am ready to wquit at this point but did cancel my sub so it reminds me to reevaluate the game before paying again!

Seravi · July 2014

Same game issues here. CPU is fine on mine. Just having the invisible mobs, casting issues, texture loading issues, etc. I submitted a ticket and also posted a thread on the forums. I hope they figure out what this is. Just showed up after 6/30 small patch for me.

Hypertionb14_ESO · July 2014

i finally got on, right now i am having a brand new hell with lag...

I can drop abiltiys but they dont display, mobs can launch an attack but no animation will play and after a bit it finally damages me..

hell 90% of the time i use Puncturing strikes in combat the visual effects flat out fail to render...

Panda244 · July 2014

Same problems, invisible mobs... invisible mob AoEs... Which really sucks when your fighting the Balrog Titan boss in Vet Elden Hollow. Fire + Adds = Death

Only had this issue since the patch, can't level with it cause all the mobs are invisible and can't do PvP cause FPS and can't stand around doing nothing cause thats just plain boring

Beesting · July 2014

This morning in vuhkel guard i went from the crafting station to the bank, on a horse,.
As soon as i pressed sprint on the horse i got a auridon loading screen. Luckily i still had all the stuff i crafted still in inventory when the game continued.

Then in the bank it took 2 minutes for the walls and chests to load. I started openening dressers and cubboards and had to wait for the rest to appear.

If this happens in a bank i dont even want to find out what happens in a dungeon.
Never had this before, thought i would share it.

Con64 · July 2014

Yep...they Phucked it up now...It's a total train wreck and no one is showing up to try to save it!? No response what so ever!!!

Darzil · July 2014

When walls etc take ages to load you wonder what is going on. Surely they don't have to be told where they are by the server? So how can they take so long to load from a fast disk into graphics and display? Only thing I can think of is that they haven't indexed the texture database or something crazy like that, so each time they add content it slows everything else down.

meaghs · July 2014

same experience. monsters not loading. even the sound is laggy. sure hope they fix it.

Malthorne · July 2014

All the same problems here as well. Can't see enemies/spell effects. Happened at dolmens twice last night, and prior to that it happened at the anomalies.

LawfulEvil · July 2014

I have this problem also. Game was running ok for the most part with a Athlon x2 4 gigs of ram and a 750 ti before patch, now unplayable. Good news is I built HTPC with a Kaveri 7850k a month ago and runs the game very nice. Installed ESO last night out of frustration to see if the game would play better.

Pmarsico9 · July 2014

I ran a diagnostic yesterday and there appears to be large, frequent memory leaks following this patch in regards to ESO.

It is enhanced in group content. I'm running an (older) i7-920 with a 660GTX and 12GB RAM using Vista Home Premium 64 and I could run Crysis and Skyrim at full without major issues.

THIS IS A MAJOR ISSUE. THE GAME IS UNPLAYABLE AT THE MOMENT.

Pmarsico9 · July 2014

How many of you are using Vista? Are you all on Windows 7 or 8?

Also: I had to relog to get my game to render the interior of the Daggerfall Bank.

Beesting · July 2014

smd_929 wrote: »

All the same problems here as well. Can't see enemies/spell effects. Happened at dolmens twice last night, and prior to that it happened at the anomalies.

I had this since last weeks patch. Died many times since then due to invisible mobs at dolmens, reported in game together with 5 other missing things like the blue light at wayshrines, light from runes, light from keen eye, no attack sound and effect from heavy attacks restoration staff and flame staff.
Reboot fixes it shortly then after 20 mins the same things happens again.

Equite · July 2014

Yeah, same here. Besides invisible aoe and players, i experienced the movement issues in cyro: When i run forward and move the mouse, i keep run straight forward without any turning. When i release movement button, i still run for 2-3 sec. It's impossible even to dodge invisible aoe from siege weapons, say nothing of straight PvP
PS. I was running the game pretty fine on medium graphics presets before the update. And now i have all these issues even on low presets

brandon · July 2014

I've been getting this since 1.2.3. I haven't played the game that much for this very reason.

Ragnar_Lodbrok · July 2014

In before the TESO defense Force sets a flamethrower to this thread

GorbGuy · July 2014

Two different machines (both Windows 7, Intel i7's, 16GB RAM, GTX680 vid,) and same issues as have been mentioned above. Since last week's update, lag issues after PvP'ing for a while (15 to 20 minutes seems the common number.) Frame rate will drop to less than 10, then finally 2 before I have to close the app completely and come back in. Just reloading UI and logging out and back in does not fix it, even when in an area with no other PC's around.

Seems to have the classic signs of a memory leak as has been previously mentioned. Memory balloons and CPU usage spikes up to 100% and down to 20'ish% every second until the app is closed out completely.

brandon · July 2014

@ZOS_AmeliaR @ZOS_JessicaFolsom @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_TristanK
@ZOS_JasonL

Blade_07 · July 2014

I'm having some of the same problems.

tinythinker · July 2014

Yeah, I encountered similar issues in Cyrodiil last night during any sized combat encounter:

-choppiness starts and worsens, sometimes to the point of feeling like I am watching an old film that is skipping badly.
-some players are invisible (I've been next to allies who were all chopping at the same spot and I saw nothing and got no response when I attacked the same spot).
-damage doesn't show up in health bar, or it is delayed.
-weapon graphic doesn't change when I swap - sometimes the weapon swapped out is stowed on my back and I am holding an invisible weapon in my hands.
-spell animations are missing more often than not.
-items activated with "e" randomly stop working.
-the "world freeze" issue where everyone else seems to be in stasis and no abilities work, then the game crashes.

Both in and out of combat there were frequent and brief loading screens.

I jumped on for 10 minutes today to see if it was any better. There was no drop in animation rate during combat, but all enemy players were invisible until my second or third respawn (you die quickly when you don't know if you're running toward or away from large groups of the enemy in battle), and during the random loading screens you are apparently helpless because I wasn't in combat going into a loading screen and my character was dead when it went away.

Malthorne · July 2014

Beesting wrote: »

smd_929 wrote: »

All the same problems here as well. Can't see enemies/spell effects. Happened at dolmens twice last night, and prior to that it happened at the anomalies.

I had this since last weeks patch. Died many times since then due to invisible mobs at dolmens, reported in game together with 5 other missing things like the blue light at wayshrines, light from runes, light from keen eye, no attack sound and effect from heavy attacks restoration staff and flame staff.
Reboot fixes it shortly then after 20 mins the same things happens again.

I experienced those same issues last night as well. I was also dying to invisible mobs in the open world & in one solo dungeon. No way to defend against that

ArconSeptim · July 2014

WHY THEY DONT FIX THIS

brandon · July 2014

ArconSeptim wrote: »

WHY THEY DONT FIX THIS

Because the devs are incompetent

Seravi · July 2014

Same issues here. I am on Win 7 Ultimate. I submitted a ticket and they responded it was being sent up the ladder. I've repaired and done everything else I can think of. There is a memory leak I think. If I sit on the character select screen I can watch eso in task manager click away adding memory for no reason. The game is using more memory than it use to before the patch playing as well.

Seravi · July 2014

Just logged in and went to the bank in Riften. Missing backpack and table noted by arrows. The desk on the other side of the room was gone as well. At least today the floor is wood. Most of yesterday my floors in buildings were the sky.

Garkbit · July 2014

I'm have the same issues ....
Random loading screens in towns and countryside
Scenery taking ages to load up
Mobs not loading .. and getting killed by the invisible sods too

Loads of lag on combat too.

NoirJ · July 2014

Been experiencing this for weeks now am sorry more people are getting hit with this issue. I and other people have highlighted this issue several times on this very forum to have absolutely no coherent response from ZOS.

May I suggest that everyone that posts on this thread does an @ZOS Mod/Community Manager that way they will get a notification at least as I don't think they come here much these days...might have to deal with Customers /shudder, but it may improve our slim chances of getting some sort of meaning full response from ZOS.

Would that be correct @ZOS_GinaBruno ?

Or should we just give up on ever being able to play this game as I assume it was intended to be played, not as some sort of Zoetrope, whereby we just watch ourselves die repeatedly in a parody of a naff stop motion cartoon to entities we cant see?

brandon · July 2014

@ZOS_JessicaFolsom @ZOS_GinaBruno
Can you please say something about this issue already