Teeeeechnically, you didn't pay for the upgrades to get the visual changes, you paid for them to get the upgrades themselves.

That aside, this riding bug is pretty annoying when you're trying to get somewhere in a hurry (to a Dolmen in the distance, away from a pack of mobs too strong for you to take, etc). Luckily I tend to only ride my mount once in a while, as I get too much enjoyment running around and pilfering every mat node I see, but it still is an irritating issue.

Ride the mount of your choice, any where in the world, it will slow to stop and you sit up right on your mount, then it takes off again.

Turelus wrote: »

Everything with mounts is becoming a downward spiral.

I would also love if the mounts went back to how they were before and didn't start at their max speed. I hate pressing A to move left and instead of my mount slowly turning like in the past it shoots off forwards.

I know there are a few who like this max speed at start change but I personally can't stand their sudden jolt forwards. *grumbles*

The worst thing about the change for me isn't the bolting off at max speed right away but the change that your mount doesn't stop when you let go of the button so I constantly overshoot my target unless I force dismount by hitting an ability or crouching. The second worst is the stop-start-stop-start..

Hasn't this issue been in game since alpha/beta/launch?

dietlime wrote: »

Something's interrupting your sprint key's input. It could be anything, it could be the game, it could be your keyboard, it could be the way the game reads your keyboard, it could be specifically the networking component of the game, it could be windows, it could be that occasionally you're momentarily possessed by an inter-dimensional being that reads your mind for a moment without your noticing causing you to release the key, regardless:

I haven't ever experienced it, and I know a lot of people who haven't, I would say they're the majority of people playing the game: so for your own sake try a different keyboard, try moving that bind somewhere else...

Odd that all the people in all my 500 person guilds have been complaining about this too. Ill check my modem and swap my keyboard out...brb.

Yup, I get this too, horse stops dead while sprinting and sometimes does it three or four times on the go, the screen zooming in and out while its doing it is also annoying.

Grao wrote: »

Sigh... My Guar looks so lame without its awesome armor....

Some of my characters' Guars do have armor, but I want it disappear since it takes away their cuteness.. Too bad we cannot disable the visual upgrades (single-wise, I want to keep the other 2).

Happens to me as well, since Tamriel Unlimited *laughs* launched.

Given that it happens more when on wifi (a LOT more), a networking issue seems most likely.
This would also explain why ZOS haven't been able to reproduce it and are asking questions: they just aren't getting the latency or packetloss or whatever it is.

Not sure how to test this, though - maybe a ping -t while riding, and see if high pingtimes are associated with stops...
Not that I can tell, but that doesn't mean anything. My ping times to Google are 55-65ms, to ZOS 65-85ms, but occasionally double or triple that. The larger times (packetloss) suggest I am getting collisions or packetloss on my wifi, but they do not synch to the horse stopping. That doesn't prove whether the stop-starting is due to the movement packets getting delayed for a second, but it's a possibility.

It's not happening much for me at the moment though, so that's not saying much. I have to ride about for five minutes to get one stop.

If you click the gear icon in the launcher, click "About", then click "Game consultant", you can run some tests. Down the bottom of the report.txt, it describes the packetloss. I'm suspecting that when we're experiencing this issue, we are also experiencing packetloss.

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farrier_ESO wrote: »

Given that it happens more when on wifi (a LOT more), a networking issue seems most likely.
This would also explain why ZOS haven't been able to reproduce it and are asking questions: they just aren't getting the latency or packetloss or whatever it is.

Not sure how to test this, though - maybe a ping -t while riding, and see if high pingtimes are associated with stops...
Not that I can tell, but that doesn't mean anything. My ping times to Google are 55-65ms, to ZOS 65-85ms, but occasionally double or triple that. The larger times (packetloss) suggest I am getting collisions or packetloss on my wifi, but they do not synch to the horse stopping. That doesn't prove whether the stop-starting is due to the movement packets getting delayed for a second, but it's a possibility.

It's not happening much for me at the moment though, so that's not saying much. I have to ride about for five minutes to get one stop.

If you click the gear icon in the launcher, click "About", then click "Game consultant", you can run some tests. Down the bottom of the report.txt, it describes the packetloss. I'm suspecting that when we're experiencing this issue, we are also experiencing packetloss.

Unless you consider 77 ms a high ping response. That's not the cause. Please look at the detail on my screenshots above. Each one has my FPS and ping response when it happened. I'm not using WiFi and I'm practically sitting next to the NA megaserver in terms of hops. There's no concernable packet loss.

My theory is that it's server-side, but it wouldn't be the first or last time I was wrong either.

dietlime wrote: »

Something's interrupting your sprint key's input. It could be anything, it could be the game, it could be your keyboard, it could be the way the game reads your keyboard, it could be specifically the networking component of the game, it could be windows, it could be that occasionally you're momentarily possessed by an inter-dimensional being that reads your mind for a moment without your noticing causing you to release the key, regardless:

I haven't ever experienced it, and I know a lot of people who haven't, I would say they're the majority of people playing the game: so for your own sake try a different keyboard, try moving that bind somewhere else...

Err yeah....pre 1.6 no issue ever ....post 1.6 persistant horse stumble.
I guess everyone keyboard is failing at the same time with the same update.

I get the same thing and it's really annoying.

I too personally believe that it is network related as it happens far less at 07:00 than 19:00.

My pet theory is that the stopping is just hiding a rubber band effect as that would be even more annoying!

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/1686542/#Comment_1686542

I have a couple of vids uploading.
FPS remains the same
Latency remains the same.
I go over the same spot many times...and it only does this once.
An audible clang is made as it halts.

SO....I am definitely hitting something which doesn't exist and moves around.
[or their is a timer on horse sprinting]
This was done simply lapping coldharbour town.
PVP or PVE doesn't matter.
Location doesn't matter.
Terrain doesn't matter.

Long shot... Are we stopping in areas where deer and other old 'scenery' has been removed for lag reduction?