Is there any chance at all, that Cyrodill will become playble ?

jespertorpb16_ESO · August 2014

I have an ASUS G750J, gamer laptop

it has 24 GB RAM, Intel Quad core I7 - 4700HQ, 2,4 Ghz cpu, and a GeForce GTX 880M (4GB) graphics card. My internet is 100 Mb - and i still lag like *** in Cyrodill.

It cannot be right ..

FPS drops to between 12-17, ability activation has a lag of several seconds, and sometimes abilities simply will not activate. I just love it when my 2H stampede makes my char run on the same place, with her axe liftet high in the air, instead of actually charging the enemy, as she is suppose to.

4 months after release, this must now be categorised as a disaster. Nothing good happened by moving the servers to EU, it only introduced 10 minute returning crashes.

Bugs and game flaws, like chraphics that wont update (like when i shoot my bow, with two daggers ) and people having 68% crit chance - i can live with that, because that just poor skills by the developers, but cant be fixed.

The lag, however - im not sure we will ever see fixed. Either, they simply cannot fix it, or they will not spent the money, to put more power in the servers, i dont know - but it is really unplayble.

I often wonder, all those people that run around in Cyrodiil, do you guys just live with it, or are there actually some people, not having these issues ?..if so - please let me know.

Oldtimer209 · August 2014

It seems many players actually have no problems at all, Good for them. My pc is a beast also but I still experience many of the same issues you describe and others on a regular basis.

Morvul · August 2014

well, my PC is not nearly as beastly as the OPs - but when the game launched I could play decently in Cyrodiil... Now I can't... so obviously something changed for the worse.

(yes, I am aware it is just the opposite for a number of people)

Skafsgaard · August 2014

I have all the issues in previous Auriel's Bow and now Bloodthorn. I've been hanging in Hadrus couple of days after the update, and if you can avoid the big red zerg and find some interesting skirmishes it is fun and playable - oh, if it wasnt for the hourly CTD that is.

Morticielle · August 2014

jespertorpb16_ESO wrote: »

I often wonder, all those people that run around in Cyrodiil, do you guys just live with it, or are there actually some people, not having these issues ?..if so - please let me know.

I have the same problems as you, those lags are very annoying and take the fun out of PvP. My playtime is running out in September and if the game hasn't improved a lot until then I will be gone.

I honestly don't think that Zenimax will get a grip on this problem, they will continue to implement new content and will pretend that everything is fine. I feel strongly remembered of the desaster with Age of Conan in 2008. AoC was worse than TESO at release and producer funcom would make it worse with every single patch. I left after being very patient for 8 months.

This time with TESO I won't wait 8 months to leave. Subscription is cancelled. I would be sad to actually leave, because Cyrodiil is the most beautiful PvP area I've ever seen (and I loved DAoC), and PvP here could be the best PvP in all MMORPGs, but with those lags, bugs and imbalances I can't continue to play.

It's a shame how epically Zenimax is failing.

Xsorus · August 2014

jespertorpb16_ESO wrote: »

I have an ASUS G750J, gamer laptop

it has 24 GB RAM, Intel Quad core I7 - 4700HQ, 2,4 Ghz cpu, and a GeForce GTX 880M (4GB) graphics card. My internet is 100 Mb - and i still lag like *** in Cyrodill.

It cannot be right ..

FPS drops to between 12-17, ability activation has a lag of several seconds, and sometimes abilities simply will not activate. I just love it when my 2H stampede makes my char run on the same place, with her axe liftet high in the air, instead of actually charging the enemy, as she is suppose to.

4 months after release, this must now be categorised as a disaster. Nothing good happened by moving the servers to EU, it only introduced 10 minute returning crashes.

Bugs and game flaws, like chraphics that wont update (like when i shoot my bow, with two daggers ) and people having 68% crit chance - i can live with that, because that just poor skills by the developers, but cant be fixed.

The lag, however - im not sure we will ever see fixed. Either, they simply cannot fix it, or they will not spent the money, to put more power in the servers, i dont know - but it is really unplayble.

I often wonder, all those people that run around in Cyrodiil, do you guys just live with it, or are there actually some people, not having these issues ?..if so - please let me know.

Don't have any lag issues at all.

Dleatherus · August 2014

i have a 32GB i7 - i think it's quad core- am afraid i don't stay up with those details - dual grafix cards etc and i still have hassles

yesterday we were defending a keep and the smurfs rolled in and started the pulsar batswarm fest - i swear i have to laugh because they look like baton waving cheerleaders in some weird hi speed conga line dance

- i couldn't even move - weirdest was they went right past me - i couldn't so much as hit a single ability - but also wasn't hit by theirs - it's like i was in a parallel universe and they kept running past me and weren't able to see me

they took the upper balcony where i was, some stayed right beside me and started dropping oil - flipped both flags, took the keep, after which i managed to jump down and get outside the walls where i was killed by a few of them coming out the postern door

CRASH - (add a few minutes for having to politely re-craft my words to the 'what were you doing when you crashed' report ('EFFYING TRYING TO PLAY THE EFFING GAME!!!!' probably won't give them much to go on)

relog

welcome to ESO - you are #148 in the queue for Thornblade - great - back to picking effing flowers in effing craglorn for an hour while i wait!

D.

smtdbplus · August 2014

I had the same problems for a long time and did a lot of things trying to mitigate the issues. Just share with you and see if this would help.

1. Lag
2. Low FPS
3. Unresponsive mouse

In my case, these are separate issues and each of them took me some time to fix it. Even today, I am not sure which one fixes which one, I just don't want to fiddle it again.

Lag
I am NB, and my lag was about 1 sec in Cyrodiil. NB going to Cyrodiil with lag = suicide. I was really having hard time.
What I changed...
1.1 - IP network change, I changed TCPAckFrequency, TCPNoDelay and "Limit Reservable Bandwidth" in registry. You can search for "ping time + keyword" on internet for more information, change at your own risk 8-)
1.2 - I used Asus (ROG) motherboard, and it came with a network shaper. There is retail version. But I doubt this help a lot. Anyway, I have it setup and just let it be.
1.3 - I paid for the game ping enhancer. (I tried the free-period for 3 of those. One of them is good for my location)

Low FPS
Mine is GTX780. In Cyrodiil, normally I have 50-60. When siege, lots of magic animations and that's when my FPS drops to 10-20 FPS.
2.1 - If I "/reloadui" that would fix the problem for about 10+ minutes. That's the indication of the PC issue rather than the internet.
2.2 - I got the latest (beta at that point of time) driver, and that seems to be better. Currently, it never drops below 25 FPS.

Unresponsive mouse
You probably don't have this issue, may be just my PC. During siege, in some situations, my mouse kind of freezes up for ~1-2 seconds while I am pressing forward "w", seems something is holding up the hardware interrupts. This made me look like an idiot when I am crashing myself onto a wall during PVP.
3.1 - I tried stopping different processes in the task manager to isolate what was going on. And finally removed 1 trouble program (which allows me to change the resolution without going into the screen property. (I need this for my work...))
3.2 - This one, for sure fixes my mouse issue, I raise the eso.exe process priority to high in task manager (right after I login to the game). I am sure this one actually help my mouse issue, but not sure why.

Please don't give up. If other people are fine, most likely, there is something different in your machine, just be patient and may take some time to sort it out.

Cheers

Krinaman · August 2014

For every one person I hear is fine, I hear 100 say it's unplayable. For me the question comes down to how many players are near.

When zero I get FPS of 50+

The more players near, the lower it gets. Since the last patch that can be 4 or 5 FPS in PvP. Very large groups it's stand there with no skills working and no one taking damage.

When so many people are having problems it isn't their machine's it the game.