FOR THOSE EXPERIENCING PVE LAG OR GAME FREEZES, post your issue here, server and home location.

Fi'yra · March 2015

UK - Currently playing on the EU.
Had some odd freezes in DSA, which was annoying. Caused for our first and only death of the run.

The game froze for everyone (Everyones internet was fine) ping spiked up to 15,000 and then started dropping down.
(Happened twice, but thankfully we survived somehow) - the biggest issue was when too many mobs were doing AoE effects, and caused us to freeze.

example; The centurions in the 8th round started their synergy, and so did the boss, which I believe caused us to lagy immensely.

Nebthet78 · March 2015

NA Server - Ontario, Canada

Getting:
Mobs lagging.
Players lagging.
Animations lagging.
Skill execution lagging. (up to 5 second delays)
Animations disappearing.
Animations freezing.

o_0 · March 2015

This is all great information and i hope ZOS takes notice. The more descriptive the better. Especially when determining if what people are talking about is graphical lag, connection lag etc.... Some of what i have read so far would indicate graphical (frame rate) lag. What i'm interested is connection lag only, where there is no change in graphics but only connection. Maybe we need to use a different word other than lag to help be more descriptive. Such as rubberbanding, action delay etc...

Robbmrp · March 2015

BigM wrote: »

NA Michigan, thanks for making this post. Maybe we should also put addons we use?

You can list Addons if you like but that could give ZOS an excuse to say those are the cause. I've had these issues with no Addons before so I know they aren't related, for me anyway.

Robbmrp · March 2015

@ZOS_GinaBruno, @ZOS_JessicaFolsom, @ZOS_PaulSage,

Hello @ZOS,

The main reason for this thread is to help you see that people's ISP's are NOT the issue with regards to PVE LAG. There are all sorts of us all over the world having the same issues at the same time. We want to help you identify the issues as well as eliminate some of the probable causes. Since these aren't all the same ISP, the issue shouldn't reside there. It could be a bottleneck of some sorts with where your data is being routed to which could explain why everyone has lag issues.

Would you be able to let us know what you are currently looking at for this daily lag issue and let us know what we can do to help. We all love this game and want to help in any way possible so it's the best one out there!

Thank you all for your time.

emre.as.aslanb16_ESO · March 2015

Running Darkshade Caverns. Massive lags and Meteor spams. Playing on EU server.
Greetings from Germany!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbBOXu3SOss

ZigoSid · March 2015

France.

Morning and afternoon it's more or less ok, more lag than before 2.0.2 but still playable. But when the night come it's lag fest with ubber lag spikes, in PVE or PVP and the game is totally unplayable.

Maciek · March 2015

Poland, EU server.

Darkshade Caverns completely unplayable today. Dozens of similar reports coming from loads of other people from different countries.

Rydik · March 2015

Russia, EU, Laging everything, seems like more people=more lags.

Robbmrp · March 2015

emre.as.aslanb16_ESO wrote: »

Running Darkshade Caverns. Massive lags and Meteor spams. Playing on EU server.
Greetings from Germany!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbBOXu3SOss

Awesome video. I love it how at 1:50 seconds into it you guys ran up, said hello to the boss, hung out for about 5 seconds before they even acknowledged your presence. All while standing next to the boss. Lovely lag spikes in there for sure. This will help ZOS a lot.

Lady_Rosabella · March 2015

NA here, Virginia, brand new gaming systems and 105/mps internet plan. Been playing the game since last July 4th and never had any of these issues until the 1.6 update and especially the opening of TU, I and several others I group with and in almost every dungeon/delve especially public/group all experience:

Mobs lagging.
Players lagging.
Animations lagging.
Skill execution lagging, some times everyone in group dying by the time they execute.
Animations disappearing.
Animations freezing.

In open world:

Falling through world in Rawl K'ha, when you are even able to travel there.
Freezing up while riding mount in Auridon and Belkarth, with an "ESO IS NOT RESPONDING" msg.
Unable to dismount horse causing me to have to quit and restart (has happened to several friends also)
Unable to go through doors, can hit "E" over and over and even walk away and come back and still nothing.

Please @ZOS do something soon, this is making the game not very enjoyable for both my husband and I and we are seriously reconsidering whether to keep our Plus membership.

Update:
This has happened to me three times today in Auridon
http://gyazo.com/94a0e5789827cb5b5a435a72f05ddbfe

Rydik · March 2015

emre.as.aslanb16_ESO wrote: »

Running Darkshade Caverns. Massive lags and Meteor spams. Playing on EU server.
Greetings from Germany!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbBOXu3SOss

I tryed 4 times today with different groups, totaly unplayable.

likewow777 · March 2015

NA server for me, California. Darkshade was fine for us last night, but Spindleclutch was almost completely unplayable a few days ago. It was me in the U.S. and guild mates in Australia.

diinem_ESO · March 2015

I playing out of Phoenix AZ area, on *** cable, ping times are normally about low 80's to low 100's then about every 2 or 3 minutes jump to 999+, lag out completely for a few seconds and then comes back again. Doesn't matter area of the game world, I have a full compliment of characters and tried on them all. As a note I played for the first 3 months after game was released never had an issue, no hardware changes on my end, tried with no addons loaded same deal.

I checked pings in order mmo's I play and they are very steady never really see them change much at all.

Currently wanted to come back and check out the game but its very unplayable now, characters get killed in most combats due to lagging out.

Khivas_Carrick · March 2015

New Jersey lag is still laaaaag

yake82 · March 2015

Summary: server cant handle primetime.

Menelaos · March 2015

There's athread with a ZOS answer and they are asking for input. It can be found here:
forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/159381/whats-with-the-pve-lag/

I play on the EU server in Germany. My input was/is:

I have seen it in

Veteran Spindleclutch
Veteran Darkshade Caverns
Veteran Crypt of Hearts
Veteran Elden Hollow
Elden Hollow regular dungeon
Volenfell regular dungeon
Aetherian Archive normale mode
Hel Ra Citadel normal mode
Sanctum Ophidia normal mode

Generally, lag in these instances seems to build up, until it reaches a certain threshold where people get thrown to their login screen, game freezes for x seconds, red telegraphs are desynced (ppl dying/taking dmg well outside of them) or skill/potion activation becomes unresponsive. Sometimes, it's even all of these :-)

Hope you guys can fix this! :-)

Aquanova · March 2015

Hawaii(USA). I've had intermittent red +999 latency for that past couple of months. Had my internet checked quite a few times and changed modems, cables, routers as well. Lag has only gotten worse over time.

jmrakasb14_ESO · March 2015

Oregon here, super fast connection here(100Mbps) lots of lag tonight between 12:00-2:30 PST. Pretty much unplayable. In fact for a while now, I will say, the Lag always seems worse late at night which I find even more odd. Most common "game" related ports are open on my router.

Shader_Shibes · March 2015

UK on EU server here. DSA last night around 9pm-10:30pm consisted of lag spikes of 999+, skill bars locked out, spell graphics not showing, graphical anomalies on players, crashes and HP bar bugs.

I have 90Mbps tinternet, high end pc and router, so yeah, definitely not an issue on my end.

Sanrai · March 2015

NA, Texas

Much lag when trying to use staff (any spell), E wouldn't work (looting), died due to freezing... both in delve/dungeon and outside. Auridon. Not prime time. Disabled newly added add-ons (only two) and it made no difference.

Not fun ....

Valymer · March 2015

Players living in multiple states and countries connecting to two physically distinct servers and using vastly different hardware configurations, ISPs, and addons...I think it's safe to say the problem lies within the game code itself, and that there is nothing that we, the players, can do to fix it.

andreasv · March 2015

EU server playing in London. Used to have around 70-80ms. At good times it's around 100 right now, but going up to 400-500 as soon as there are 4 or 5 players around.

Sir_Xalvador · March 2015

Valymer wrote: »

Players living in multiple states and countries connecting to two physically distinct servers and using vastly different hardware configurations, ISPs, and addons...I think it's safe to say the problem lies within the game code itself, and that there is nothing that we, the players, can do to fix it.

USA VA...
I totally agree my wife and i play and at the same time and different times either one of us can have lag at different times
we play with different people from different states and countries as well and we play with a lot other people that live in a different states and we may not be experiencing lag but they will or vice versa so i agree with Valymer it has to be in the code somehow ?
please fix this issue

Robbmrp · March 2015

@ZOS_GinaBruno, @ZOS_PaulSage, @ZOS_JessicaFolsom,

Hello @ZOS,

Has there been any progress on the recent Lag Spikes that are hitting PVE Daily? This thread shows that the customer location doesn't matter. We have people in the USA, Russia, Poland, Germany, Finland, South America and many others that are all experiencing this horrible lag at the exact same time. Any update you can provide on this would be extremely helpful.

This isn't PVP lag. It's PVE that's causing problems in all dungeons/trials and general questing.

Thank you for your time.

Robbmrp · March 2015

@ZOS_GinaBruno, @ZOS_JessicaFolsom, @ZOS_PaulSage,

Hello @ZOS,

Here's yet another post about the daily lag in PVE. When will we get some information on what's being addressed on this? Friday's Twitch episode only addressed the "horrible US Internet Infrastructure" by Mr. Leeper. There are countless posts from people all over the world that are experiencing this same PVE lag so it's not the "US Internet Infrastructure" causing the issue. Please let us know what's being done to research this PVE Daily Lag issue.

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/162021/lag-in-pve-since-2#latest

Thank you for your time.

Nestor · March 2015

I am in in Western Colorado. I get lags, disconnects, kick outs, freezes, hard locks. About the only thing I don't get is a CTD.

It really sucks when the problems occur when I finally get to the boss of a dungeon or quest hub. And this has happened frequently in the past couple of weeks, not occasionally. I almost approach these things with the thoughts, will my game stay up until I finish this, not, will I be able to beat this Boss in a fight.

I was quite surprised last night when I was able to do Skuldafen (final boss area in Eastmarch) without an issue. First boss area that has not locked up on me.

Ocelo · March 2015

Costa Rica, NA server.

PvP

999+ and 1 fps in PvP near other other players, either 1 or 50+ players on screen is the same lag spike and fps drop (at least I know when there are players near...), in battles is normal that the action freeze, sometimes I can move freely and see everyone doing nothing, static in their spots, until the game stop working. Textures take a long time the render and long loading screens.

PvE

Outside of Cyrodiil again latency problems and fps drops (less severe), sometimes the textures don't load properly, the enemies too, sometime I take damage and I don't know what is attaking me and when I start attacking I can't see my attacks until the battle ends ( sound effects are affected too).

Also "teleporting" enemies and players are common.
The <<1>> error kicking me out of the game (specially when I'm teleporting to Rawl'Kha)

Robbmrp · March 2015

@ZOS_GinaBruno, @ZOS_JessicaFolsom, @ZOS_PaulSage,

Hello ZOS,

Here's another thread about the games lag causing issues and making it unplayable.

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/162166/cyrodiil-unplayable-for-me-right-now#latest

Robbmrp · March 2015

@ZOS_GinaBruno, @ZOS_JessicaFolsom, @ZOS_PaulSage,

Hello ZOS,

Here's another thread on the PVE Lag making the game unplayable.

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/162205/game-is-unplayable-today#latest