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Constantly poor performance on a high spec PC, will optimisation ever be improved?
tobymcdaidb16_ESO
Soul Shriven
Every few months I come back to ESO with the hope that maybe the game receives a major update with regards to performance improvements and overall optimisation, yet after more than a year no change has been made (or none that have actually made significant difference). In terms of what the game offers I very much like ESO, but I just find the performance unplayable.
Since release, hardware utilisation has been extremely poor, at least for me, and despite people saying the game is CPU intensive I still only get 30% utilisation whilst playing, even upgrading to an i7 4790k made minimal difference to my frame rate. I'm also running two GTX 970's in SLI, I'm lucky to get more than 50% utilisation on each GPU, usually it sits at 30%. Turning SLI on and off makes no difference, yet the game supposedly supports SLI?
Quite often in city zones I sit at about 40-50fps, and about 50-75fps in rural areas, not to mention the camera constantly stutters and every so often ping will jump to '999+' and frame rate drops to 1, I have to do /reloadui to reset it. I know some people would see 40-75fps as being fine, and I don't mean to be picky, but for me using a higher Hz monitor it feels very choppy and my hardware should be performing far better. The only way I can push my hardware to beyond 50% usage is by upscaling my resolution to 3840x2160 (4K) from 2560x1440, the usage increases but frame rate remains identical even at 4K...
I have spent hours and hours browsing the web for solutions, and I've tried everything I can think of or have seen on forums. Changing graphics options, altering UserSettings, closing the launcher, ensuring Windows is set for maximum performance, fiddling with SLI, unparking CPU cores, installing the game to an SSD, disabling addons, sorting out system drivers, you name it.
I just don't know what there is I can do anymore, if I can't sort out the stuttery mess it's in then I'm going to have to finally stop playing the game for good, and this isn't something I'd like to do. I doubt I'll get any miracle solutions here, but I just thought I'd give a last ditch attempt at asking on the forum.
Sorry for the long post.
Since release, hardware utilisation has been extremely poor, at least for me, and despite people saying the game is CPU intensive I still only get 30% utilisation whilst playing, even upgrading to an i7 4790k made minimal difference to my frame rate. I'm also running two GTX 970's in SLI, I'm lucky to get more than 50% utilisation on each GPU, usually it sits at 30%. Turning SLI on and off makes no difference, yet the game supposedly supports SLI?
Quite often in city zones I sit at about 40-50fps, and about 50-75fps in rural areas, not to mention the camera constantly stutters and every so often ping will jump to '999+' and frame rate drops to 1, I have to do /reloadui to reset it. I know some people would see 40-75fps as being fine, and I don't mean to be picky, but for me using a higher Hz monitor it feels very choppy and my hardware should be performing far better. The only way I can push my hardware to beyond 50% usage is by upscaling my resolution to 3840x2160 (4K) from 2560x1440, the usage increases but frame rate remains identical even at 4K...
I have spent hours and hours browsing the web for solutions, and I've tried everything I can think of or have seen on forums. Changing graphics options, altering UserSettings, closing the launcher, ensuring Windows is set for maximum performance, fiddling with SLI, unparking CPU cores, installing the game to an SSD, disabling addons, sorting out system drivers, you name it.
I just don't know what there is I can do anymore, if I can't sort out the stuttery mess it's in then I'm going to have to finally stop playing the game for good, and this isn't something I'd like to do. I doubt I'll get any miracle solutions here, but I just thought I'd give a last ditch attempt at asking on the forum.
Sorry for the long post.
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Trollwut✭✭✭TL;DR, didn't read it.
i7-4790K
GTX 970
My setup. Though CPU usage was very low and GPU usage also, I got a MASSIVE increase of FPS (~20 FPS) by setting ESO to one specific CPU core (as it only uses one hard) and overclocked it.0 -
tobymcdaidb16_ESOSoul ShrivenTL;DR, didn't read it.
i7-4790K
GTX 970
My setup. Though CPU usage was very low and GPU usage also, I got a MASSIVE increase of FPS (~20 FPS) by setting ESO to one specific CPU core (as it only uses one hard) and overclocked it.
Do you mind sharing how you assigned the game to one core? Might as well give it a shot0 -
SirAndy✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭ESO's lack of performance has (almost) nothing to do with your PC and has (almost) everything to do with the poor client/server implementation ...
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tobymcdaidb16_ESOSoul ShrivenESO's lack of performance has (almost) nothing to do with your PC and has (almost) everything to do with the poor client/server implementation ...
I thought that might be the case, it's just very frustrating when you pay good money hardware and have to play the game at half the potential1 -
wolfydog✭✭✭Does sound strange. I just have a gtx 760 and i5, not even a K version and I get 60fps most of the time (vsync on)
In busier areas I can fluctuate 45-600