Game performance is horrible since the update

Drazhar14 · August 2014

Bow animations breaking and damage being delayed up to 10 seconds. Weapon swapping bugging and not working. Attacks freezing while in combat preventing you from using other attacks. Random crashes (I have crashed 6 times this evening, the last time I crashed in ESO before the update was over a month ago). Everything ran smooth before the update.

I don't understand how after a month of testing, there can be so many problems. Is there a possibility that all of this is caused by addons that no longer integrate properly, or were things just not tested properly on the PTS? Either way, I hope these kinks can get ironed out soon.

On a positive note, I am having fun swinging my bow around like a sword.

xMovingTarget · August 2014

Everything worked fine on PTS. The Live Server environment is different by alot. PTS was stable. But theres also not that much stress on the PTS if you will.

babylon · August 2014

Lockpicking is also broken, it's suddenly laggy and unresponsive.

Evergnar · August 2014

To be expected I guess but not happy about the new latency.

kijima · August 2014

PTS was good, but since not many use it compared to live it's a little pointless.

I wish more would use PTS to help in the testing. *hint *hint

Drazhar14 · August 2014

I did log on PTS a couple times to try and test/preview the guild stuff, but I could not find other people to make/join a guild with. You guys are probably right, since it doesn't have the same player load, the stress tests aren't as effective.

And to add to my original post, the performance hits come in random intervals. The game will run fine for 20 minutes or so, then the next 10 it will enter oblivion until I either crash or am forced to relog.

Skillgannon · August 2014

Just see how it runs without addon's, they can make a lot of problems when not compatible

I55UE5 · August 2014

I have never downloaded any add-ons, and still do not use any. Have avoided any FPS issues and game breaking bugs since launch. This patch butchered my gameplay however.

GamerzElite · August 2014

Launch was smooth, all happened after patch 1.2.3

YakoTaki · August 2014

kijima wrote: »

PTS was good, but since not many use it compared to live it's a little pointless.

I wish more would use PTS to help in the testing. *hint *hint

No ty ,I pay a subscription to play not to test the game.

Audigy · August 2014

babylon wrote: »

Lockpicking is also broken, it's suddenly laggy and unresponsive.

Cut your finger nails, I had the same issue before!

@‌ topic

PTS was fine indeed, keep in mind though that on the live server much more players will play, so this might be a general hardware issue and not the patch itself.

Zorgon_The_Revenged · August 2014

Drazhar14 wrote: »

Bow animations breaking and damage being delayed up to 10 seconds. Weapon swapping bugging and not working. Attacks freezing while in combat preventing you from using other attacks. Random crashes (I have crashed 6 times this evening, the last time I crashed in ESO before the update was over a month ago). Everything ran smooth before the update.

I've been experiencing this laggy combat for over a week on the EU side, the odd crash and error 318 even reared it's confusing head. Server move didn't make any difference, seemed worse if anything but that could be more people logging on to get ready for the latest update. Hasn't been bad/frequent enough to make the game unplayable but certainly immersion breaking at times.

ferzalrwb17_ESO · August 2014

These are bugs affecting everyone using bows. Nothing related to stress. This isn't the same code that was on the PTS. They throw a bit on there, make some changes, don't test it then slap it live. Every time. And every time it goes belly up like this. They just don't learn to TEST THEIR CODE. It's programming 101. Their development process is a joke.

Two seconds testing bows in any test environment with this code would have raised flags. They made changes to bows. You'd think they'd test them?

Naaah. Skirts and sticks!

Gythral · August 2014

ferzalrwb17_ESO wrote: »

These are bugs affecting everyone using bows. Nothing related to stress. This isn't the same code that was on the PTS. They throw a bit on there, make some changes, don't test it then slap it live. Every time. And every time it goes belly up like this. They just don't learn to TEST THEIR CODE. It's programming 101. Their development process is a joke.

Two seconds testing bows in any test environment with this code would have raised flags. They made changes to bows. You'd think they'd test them?

Naaah. Skirts and sticks!

Yer but programmers went out the window, games companies employ "artists"

Ninnghizhidda · August 2014

ferzalrwb17_ESO wrote: »

Naaah. Skirts and sticks!

All that matters in ESO.

rich_nicholsonb16_ESO · August 2014

GamerzElite wrote: »

Launch was smooth, all happened after patch 1.2.3

Agree with this

Ojustaboo · August 2014

While I agree with most of whats been said,

Sadly most people don't use the PTS to test anything. They simply want an advanced peek of whats coming.

Rumor had it that some guilds actively hunt out exploits/things not working as intended and rather than bug them, they eagerly wait for the patch to go live so they can take advantage of it.

I also agree with the person who says they pay to play, not test. If people choose to test fine. They should have a team of paid testers that try these things out.

Many people want to experience the game they pay for when its live, they do not want to try the content out on the PTS and spoil the experience/surprise and I fully support that way of thinking.

Sindala · August 2014

This was happening before the update went live so it has nothing to do with that.
If your on the Euro server it has been known and steadily getting worse since they migrated the server.
The game on the Euro server was almost un-playable yesterday and we were all hoping the re-start of the server would help the problem.....apparently not.

a.grespinrb19_ESO · August 2014

Yeah there has been significantly more lag and crashes since the EU server moved to Frankfurt

Swampster · August 2014

Yup game has been pretty unplayable at time since moving to the EU server, wouldn't surprise me if this update made it even worse!

MornaBaine · August 2014

I kept lagging and freezing BADLY last night. About to go into game this morning and see if the situation has improved and if we have guilds back yet.

Moonshadow66 · August 2014

Drazhar14 wrote: »

Bow animations breaking and damage being delayed up to 10 seconds. Weapon swapping bugging and not working. Attacks freezing while in combat preventing you from using other attacks. Random crashes (I have crashed 6 times this evening, the last time I crashed in ESO before the update was over a month ago). Everything ran smooth before the update.

I don't understand how after a month of testing, there can be so many problems. Is there a possibility that all of this is caused by addons that no longer integrate properly, or were things just not tested properly on the PTS? Either way, I hope these kinks can get ironed out soon.

On a positive note, I am having fun swinging my bow around like a sword.

A friend of mine who uses a bow had the very exact same problem with it, and on my end the game crashed 4x after the update, before it happened about once a week, if not less.

Slurg · August 2014

I'm on the NA server and crashed several times last night, in different zones (including Cyrodiil), usually when trying to interact with an NPC. I didn't have that problem before the patch.

I do not use add-ons. I don't even have any downloaded, so it's not that.

I'm not on the Euro server, so it's not that.

I don't use a bow, so it's not that.

Something changed due to the patch and I'd like to know what I'm supposed to do about it.

SirenofEntropy · August 2014

My game has been crashing often since the update as well. Before this, it crashed maybe once a week at the most. The game was also a bit more laggy than usual, low fps in places I generally wouldn't experience that. Please fix this ZOS, it really kills my desire to play when I have to constantly worry about crashes.

I suspect some sort of memory leak crept back in again.

Devlinne · August 2014

I NEVER had issues. Now in pvp. my fps drops to 20ish....
Clearly something changed in the patch.
Please undo it or fix it if possible.

Drazhar14 · August 2014

So I stopped using my bow, and combat is going much better. However, I am still crashing, mostly on loading screens now.

kargen27 · August 2014

I've crashed eight times since the patch in not a whole lot of playing time. A couple of them happened while doing a screenshot. The others though I was just running across the countryside doing nothing and the video would go out, with the sound still going until after a few seconds I get the dreaded tell us what you were doing message. Also have had people that I was fighting along side at Dolmans get disconnected leading to my almost immediate death.

That wasn't happening before the patch. Only add-on I use is SweetFX so I don't think there is an issue there.

Tigeracer · August 2014

I use a bow and it doesn't show any damage to the enemy health bar, though the enemy still dies eventually. Magnum shot is playing up too.
I also use dual daggers, which seem to be working fine apart from concealed weapon. When I use concealed weapon it stuns the enemy but I can't knock them down with a heavy attack.
All of my add-ons are outdated (obviously) and none of them work since the new patch, which isn't a huge issue anyway.
My hundings rage set of 5 doesn't give me the extra weapon damage.

Aside from all of this, I haven't had any crashes and I love the new dyes. Hope they fix the rest soon.

Drazhar14 · August 2014

Just crashed again from opening my friend menu...

@Tigeracer‌ As for addons that don't work, do you have allow out of date addons checked off? Also, a number of major addons have been updated already since update 3.

Tigeracer · August 2014

@Drazhar14‌ I do have "allow out of date addons" checked, but I shall update them soon anyway I guess.

tinythinker · August 2014

GamerzElite wrote: »

Launch was smooth, all happened after patch 1.2.3

Yeah, the freezing, crashing, and low fps have been around for a while, and some people never experience it, some only do after a particular patch, and some have been dealing with it for several weeks. There seems to be some underlying issue that gets exposed on certain client-side computers when changes are made to the game code. The previous fixes have treated the symptoms for some but haven't seemed to correct the deeper issue(s).

I had to go from high graphics to minimum a few weeks ago and then last week I had to go from wifi to hardline only just to be able to play at all (unless of course I am the only player around). I was just getting terrible FPS and world freezing (everyone stops moving) crashes but now random crashes with the"What were you doing?" box have been added since Update 3.