Cyrodiil

Craglorn is getting laggy as well.

I had cases where the GAME froze, not just my client. Three times the whole game froze (music played) and when the action started again it was like no freeze had happened, it was NOT 'server lag' in the usual sense, the game itself had frozen. I posted a thread yesterday where I described it as pressing 'pause' on a video and then hitting 'play' again.

I also had two occasions when the freeze-up never ended, after 1 minute or so I had to use Task Manager to kill the process. I could witch to desktop and work fine (so it wasn't a low-level kernel lock-up) but as soon as I went back to the game the lock-up continued.

Craglorn last night everything was stopping for a few seconds at a time.

Cyrodil. Not only terrible lag but whole game freezes. Was in a group where all of us, 14-16 people, froze at once in middle of battle and had to log back it.

Every freakin where I went. At the very least once an hour I'd freeze up. Lag no matter if I was in town or out exploring. I have never had such severe issues running ESO.

Kragorn wrote: »

I also had two occasions when the freeze-up never ended, after 1 minute or so I had to use Task Manager to kill the process. I could witch to desktop and work fine (so it wasn't a low-level kernel lock-up) but as soon as I went back to the game the lock-up continued.

This, every time I froze up I had to run task manager, it would never unfreeze by itself.

This was by far the worst lag I've ever experienced in the game. Normally on weekends there's a little but it was REALLY BAD. ZOS needs to get this worked out BEFORE 3/17 as that's going to be a massive problem for all players with the extra people joining the game then. Combine this with the nerf XP they did so people can only gain 1 CP per day is going to cause A LOT of people to quit and go do other things. The XP issue didn't affect me as I'm a casual gamer and was only getting 1 CP per day on the weekend anyway. I do know a lot of other people that was affected by this and they weren't happy. Hopefully ZOS ups the XP for end game content. That's what the CP is for anyway otherwise you would be gaining it for Levels 1-50 imo.

I had extremely bad lag in Coldharbour. It was so bad that eventually I couldn't pick anything up, couldn't use any skills and just had to log out (which took like 5 minutes). Was honestly the worst lag I've had to date in ESO and I've been playing since launch I still experience skill lag...

Cas

Cyrodiil.

Game periodically freezes up and I have to reboot to break free. it can happen anywhere, any time.

Happened again after this morning's maintenance.

tinythinker wrote: »

Haven't logged in to test 1.6.6 yet, but over the weekend I had latency spike at times to 500 and up to 999+ and frame rate rarely got much above 20-22. This seemed to be correlated with loading screens, especially when sprinting my horse in a city, after which I could only dismount by riding into an area that caused auto-dismount, clicking on a wayshrine, or re-logging. Not as often I had delayed weapon swaps and interactions with my environment, such as talking to NPCs or opening doors...

Just tried the game with 1.6.6. It's worse now, actually, I have been trying to get inside to see a Treethane for a few minutes and can't even get the door to acknowledge I am clicking on it, let alone open.

EDIT: Progression on VR3 Greenshade on the NA server is attrocious. Just died because everything froze in a battle for 60 seconds. Apparently the server side was still killing my character while my computer showed my opponent and I in mid-strike. I could move around but that was it.

RE-EDIT: Apparently I thought all of my add-ons were turned off but some were not, and disabling all of them caused my experience of vet Greenshade to go from constant extreme lag/world freezes to just annoying lag where it takes a second for Endless Fury to hit/display rather than being an instant kill. Haven't had time to test which one yet, but, hooray!

Just FYI I tend to use Foundry Tactical Combat, Kill Counter, Garkin's Skyshards (just saw a newer update as of today for this I need to grab), Garkin's Lorebooks, and Wykkyd's Outfitter. Odds are that one of these is the culprit making my lag so much worse.

Im on EU and got 500 ms spikes every thirty seconds or so (low level deshaarn).

And then once I got a whopping 23411 ms. And that was when I gave up.

Saturday night (NZ time). Major lag spikes & game freeze while roaming around Bangkorai.

Unsure whether or not this is related. Last night while having to re-download the entire 1.6 update, my download speeds were as low as 70kbps. Normally they average at 1.12 mbps. Ran a speed test at my end & everything was normal, no isp issues either.

Hello @ZOS_GinaBruno,

I reviewed the Patch notes for 1.6.6 and it doesn't address any of the Lag isses a lot of people are experiencing within the game mentioned in this thread. Do you have any information available on what steps will be done to resolve this issue as it's only going to get worse with more players being added to the game.

Thank you for your time.

Saturn wrote: »

The freezing could be because of the high amount of CPU usage ESO has. Try opening your taskmanager while the game is running, it will show how severe it is. I have had rare freezes and at those moments the CPU gets very close to a 100% usage. The game undoubtedly needs more optimisation so that people that aren't running really high end CPUs won't have these problems.

Just for clarity I run an Intel i5-4440.

Sorry, no, this was not simple 'lag'.

'Lag' doesn't last for 15 seconds and when the freeze ends you carry on playing exactly at the point you were at when it paused: a 15 second 'lag' ends and you're dead. On all three occasions I had problems I was fighting mobs which if my character had gone on to auto-pilot would have lead to him dying.

Never, ever seen that before the weekend in the 14 months I've been playing this game, nor have I had it at the same time many others did, judging by the posts in this thread and others.

This is on an i7-2700 @ 3.5Ghz, 8Gb RAM and an Nvidia GTX-580 (not a bleeding-edge gfx card but still able to run ESO at Ultra everything more or less) and also on an i7-4770, 8Gb and an Nvidia GTX-780.