Unresponsive Gameplay / Latency

jrgray93 · August 2014

Sometimes, this game is so very unresponsive. I particularly find spells with long animations to cause followups to not register. Templar's Focused Charge and Blinding Light / their morphs give me plenty of trouble. I guess some of this being addressed sooner or later, according to the Quakecon report, but I wonder if any of this is server-side. It certainly isn't me. My internet is by no means fast, but it's more than enough for gaming and my latency is superb:

Anyway, any other abilities that seem to give similar results? Feel free to share.

Also, I'd love to have a chat command for latency readout, much like we have FPS.

smeeprocketnub19_ESO · August 2014

I feel like everything does this, assuming the bar doesn't just grey out, or I can't swamp weapons for whatever reason (which is more recent.)

This is my number one current complaint with the game. It is hard to play competitively when I can act faster than my character registers the changes.

Skafsgaard · August 2014

If nothing can be activated suddenly, i've found doing a roll dodge clears the bar up so u can use stuff again. Of course it sucks to waste stamina mid fight for a roll dodge that doesnt get you out of red cricles etc, but still better to be able to cast again.

Not a solution per se, but you should check it out next time it happens

smeeprocketnub19_ESO · August 2014

Skafsgaard wrote: »

If nothing can be activated suddenly, i've found doing a roll dodge clears the bar up so u can use stuff again. Of course it sucks to waste stamina mid fight for a roll dodge that doesnt get you out of red cricles etc, but still better to be able to cast again.

Not a solution per se, but you should check it out next time it happens

yea I'm not exactly dodging red circles when this happens to me. In pvp wasting stamina like that is a bad idea. Lately, it seems like if I move some, it will clear up. I just block until then, which I would have done anyway, though that also wastes stamina while I simply block and make no attacks.

Soloeus · August 2014

Try updating the drivers on your Video Card.

Skafsgaard · August 2014

smeeprocketnub19_ESO wrote: »

Skafsgaard wrote: »

If nothing can be activated suddenly, i've found doing a roll dodge clears the bar up so u can use stuff again. Of course it sucks to waste stamina mid fight for a roll dodge that doesnt get you out of red cricles etc, but still better to be able to cast again.

Not a solution per se, but you should check it out next time it happens

yea I'm not exactly dodging red circles when this happens to me. In pvp wasting stamina like that is a bad idea. Lately, it seems like if I move some, it will clear up. I just block until then, which I would have done anyway, though that also wastes stamina while I simply block and make no attacks.

Well, I only pvp and as I said recircle etc so as not to list; dodging projectiles, talongs and many more things.. now just thank me since I at least provided an option.

Nestor · August 2014

jrgray93 wrote: »

Also, I'd love to have a chat command for latency readout, much like we have FPS.

Windows Task Manager can provide that. Just bring it up, launch the game, then you can Alt Tab to the Task Manager.

See the 4th post in this thread

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/comment/1156350

smeeprocketnub19_ESO · August 2014

Skafsgaard wrote: »

smeeprocketnub19_ESO wrote: »

Skafsgaard wrote: »

If nothing can be activated suddenly, i've found doing a roll dodge clears the bar up so u can use stuff again. Of course it sucks to waste stamina mid fight for a roll dodge that doesnt get you out of red cricles etc, but still better to be able to cast again.

Not a solution per se, but you should check it out next time it happens

yea I'm not exactly dodging red circles when this happens to me. In pvp wasting stamina like that is a bad idea. Lately, it seems like if I move some, it will clear up. I just block until then, which I would have done anyway, though that also wastes stamina while I simply block and make no attacks.

Well, I only pvp and as I said recircle etc so as not to list; dodging projectiles, talongs and many more things.. now just thank me since I at least provided an option.

No I refuse to thank you, you have not helped at all.

Good day, sir!

I said, good day, sir!

*slams the phone down*

jrgray93 · August 2014

Nestor wrote: »

jrgray93 wrote: »

Also, I'd love to have a chat command for latency readout, much like we have FPS.

Windows Task Manager can provide that. Just bring it up, launch the game, then you can Alt Tab to the Task Manager.

See the 4th post in this thread

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/comment/1156350

Ahhh cool, didn't know I could do that. ESO is sitting at 40-75. That's way higher than it should be.

NorthernFury · August 2014

jrgray93 wrote: »

Sometimes, this game is so very unresponsive. I particularly find spells with long animations to cause followups to not register. Templar's Focused Charge and Blinding Light / their morphs give me plenty of trouble. I guess some of this being addressed sooner or later, according to the Quakecon report, but I wonder if any of this is server-side. It certainly isn't me. My internet is by no means fast, but it's more than enough for gaming and my latency is superb:

Anyway, any other abilities that seem to give similar results? Feel free to share.

Also, I'd love to have a chat command for latency readout, much like we have FPS.

My skill lag/weapon swap lag/ability lock has gotten really bad in Cyrodiil since the last patch as well.

GnatB · August 2014

This may seem like a stupid question, but are you actually pinging the ESO servers, (or at least a location close to them) or did you just click the default location in the speed test? (which is simply the closest node to where you happen to be)

Unfortunately I can't seem to find any information about where the ESO servers actually are, but the location you pinged was apparently Dayton Ohio (less than 50 miles from where you are), so I *strongly* suspect you simply clicked the default node. (fwiw, google search showed some people thinking the servers are in Maryland, some in Texas. No sign of Ohio. But nothing I could find seemed official.)

So your ping of 1 ms (the only statistic there that would really matter for gaming) probably gives no indication as to what your actual ping is to their servers.

gunplummer · August 2014

I don't think this is a player-side issue. Before the last up date I have had a total of 3 fails or qtd were a ZoS report popped up, however since the latest update I have had around 10-11, 6 just this past weekend.

I have been very fortunate with very little if any bugs or glitches to the game or launcher. I have had a few quest bugs, the bank slot problem, but nothing game-breaking, yet.

Nestor · August 2014

jrgray93 wrote: »

Ahhh cool, didn't know I could do that. ESO is sitting at 40-75. That's way higher than it should be.

That is actually a great Ping Latency. It can take 40 Ms to just get out of your ISP's cloud. Anything less than 100 is not going to cause any issues on an online game. It is not until you approach 200 that gaming becomes frustrating.

jrgray93 · August 2014

Nestor wrote: »

jrgray93 wrote: »

Ahhh cool, didn't know I could do that. ESO is sitting at 40-75. That's way higher than it should be.

That is actually a great Ping Latency. It can take 40 Ms to just get out of your ISP's cloud. Anything less than 100 is not going to cause any issues on an online game. It is not until you approach 200 that gaming becomes frustrating.

Poor phrasing on my part. I should have said the responsiveness is way worse than that ping indicates.