Anyone else hang on the 1st login after any patch?

kip_silverwolf · October 2014

Yes, I get this after every patch. I've learnt to leave it hang on the first attempt until the theme music reaches a certain point, then close it down and relaunch.
It usually loads fine on 2nd attempt (sometimes on a major update it'll be a 3rd).
I've never had any problems with crashes etc doing it this way.

onlinegamer1 · November 2014

ZoS incompetence continues in Patch 1.5.

Moonshadow66 · November 2014

I'm waiting for almost an hour now to get past the loading screen (even BEFORE the character selection window).
Usually after an update, it takes a few minutes maximum. Don't know why it's different this time.

Hypertionb14_ESO · November 2014

got the character screen, currently at 4minutes or so on the load into game

Rylana · November 2014

Every time, also after every change to shadows in the video settings

What is happening, I surmise based on watching my perfmon in windows, is that the client is opening every dat file via pagefile.sys and creating a new shader.cooked file from the results, essentially "caching" your shaders

Due to the sheer size of the game's dat files and the time it can take to process the read/write (literally youre being bottlenecked by your hard drive speed here) it can take anywhere from 5 - 20 minutes, and it is annoying as all hell.

Not to mention that you will see massive spikes in CPU useage during this time. I have never once before this game seen a game do this.

onlinegamer1 · November 2014

Rylana wrote: »

Every time, also after every change to shadows in the video settings

What is happening, I surmise based on watching my perfmon in windows, is that the client is opening every dat file via pagefile.sys and creating a new shader.cooked file from the results, essentially "caching" your shaders

Due to the sheer size of the game's dat files and the time it can take to process the read/write (literally youre being bottlenecked by your hard drive speed here) it can take anywhere from 5 - 20 minutes, and it is annoying as all hell.

Not to mention that you will see massive spikes in CPU useage during this time. I have never once before this game seen a game do this.

Its sad that a player was able to diagnose this with nothing more than a windows service, while ZoS has been 100% unable to even comment on this thread, much less actually fix this issue.

LadyCallipyge · November 2014

I have noticed this hang is connected to one of the loading screens. It is the night shot with the ruins and a solitary person.

If you get any other loading screen, the log in goes thro just fine. Or so it has been for me today.

Naivefanboi · November 2014

onlinegamer1 wrote: »

Everytime there is a new patch (full release, point release, or even hotfix), my 1st login attempt hangs. By "hangs", I mean, I put in credentials, press "Log In", and I never get to character select screen, it just hangs on the screen with the desert pic.

I alt-F4, log in again, and everything is fine from then on... until the next patch, when it happens again, 1st time only.

Anyone else hitting this bug?

yup happens to me almos everytime too lol, i dont mind tho cause usually nevver does it more then twice then works fine
sometimes i just have to let it load for like 5mins then it fine after that

MissBizz · November 2014

Every. Single. Time. Kind of happy its not just me. I'm one of the people that has to close it down and try again.

Moonshadow66 · November 2014

Rylana wrote: »

Every time, also after every change to shadows in the video settings

What is happening, I surmise based on watching my perfmon in windows, is that the client is opening every dat file via pagefile.sys and creating a new shader.cooked file from the results, essentially "caching" your shaders

Due to the sheer size of the game's dat files and the time it can take to process the read/write (literally youre being bottlenecked by your hard drive speed here) it can take anywhere from 5 - 20 minutes, and it is annoying as all hell.

Not to mention that you will see massive spikes in CPU useage during this time. I have never once before this game seen a game do this.

On my end, the CPU useage is at about 25% only, but I was waiting for an hour and I still can't get past the loading screen. At the second try it was the same, but I killed the process after about 10-15 minutes again since I know it will lead to nothing anyways. Now I'm just waiting for another "fix"..