Extremely long loading screens

darock55 · September 2015

1 minute 15 seconds to transfer in between zones, and Imperial City. I thought this was going to be fixed in todays maintenance ? Is it even scheduled or possible to fix ?

Ezareth · September 2015

I'm only at around 30-45 seconds between zones on an SSD but that is still 15 seconds longer or so than it used to be. I wonder if the issue has to do with file fragmentation from the insanely large patch?

Jules · September 2015

Seriously. It's always been this way in PVE zones since I can remember. But Cyro's load screens were always significantly shorter (other than that first one). With the release of IC, these load screens are so much worse.

Lamiai · September 2015

Ezareth wrote: »

I'm only at around 30-45 seconds between zones on an SSD but that is still 15 seconds longer or so than it used to be. I wonder if the issue has to do with file fragmentation from the insanely large patch?

this could actually explain the long loads, mine as well has increased also and was hoping this is fixed or addressed soon at least

Ghostbane · September 2015

I'm still on a loading screen from Saturday.

Psilent · September 2015

Last week I was to anxious to play the new content that I didn't perform my usual post download ritual.

Usually I download the patch, then login for the extremely long load screen. When I get to the character select screen I exit out of the game and perform a disk cleanup followed by a defragment. Reboot my entire system and then login to play.

I found I crash hardly at all when I do this nor do I have long load screens, except the first one in Cyrodiil. The only time load screens begin getting longer is if I'm in a group outside of Cyrodiil; I always figured that was because the Megaserver was making sure my friends and I ended up in the same instance of the zone. Just because when I was solo it would load very quick.

pmn100b16_ESO · September 2015

With an ssd mine are currently around 60 secs for zoning, pretty sure they used to be 20 secs top.

IxSTALKERxI · September 2015

Reminds me of back in beta when the loading screens would last 20 minutes and you would be booted to the log in screen from inactivity. *shivers*

Master_Kas · September 2015

Be glad you can play. I cannot even enter the game. Error 301 when everything else works.

Sometimes I do get in, but when I try to choose of my chars, it gets stuck, logged out, back to error 301.

#rektbyzos

ThyIronFist · September 2015

Yeah I gave up, will not bother logging in until I see they've fixed these performance issues. It's absolutely pathetic.

Lamiai · September 2015

Master_Kas wrote: »

Be glad you can play. I cannot even enter the game. Error 301 when everything else works.

Sometimes I do get in, but when I try to choose of my chars, it gets stuck, logged out, back to error 301.

#rektbyzos

Either can't get into my character or i load in and fall through the map, hope this is fixed soon, usually like to log in a few mins before i go to work to check sale etc but unable atm, hope this is sorted sooner rather than later

Elsonso · September 2015

My SSD load times for changing zones is also 30-45 seconds, which is about a 2x change.

frozywozy · September 2015

The only reason why the loading screens would be longer than 30seconds is because you are trying to enter a pvp zone with a massive aoe fight happening inside. You DON'T wanna be there anyway. And even if you do, please do everyone a favor and go do your daily quest in another district.

autoexec · September 2015

I have a simple pattern to show the bug: (At least on my PC.. non SSD )

Take 2 characters, Level 3 with nothing on him ( skills/items/etc ) and log him into Stonefalls. Takes around 20-30 secs to load.
RIGHT after, take a vr16 character with alot of items and skills (or whatever, maybe its because I have a costume in my invetory who knows...) and log into the SAME Stonefalls. Takes around 2-3 minutes to load.

So please, don't try to say this was always there, its new since last patch and its not related to a given zone.

Whats even more funny, is the suggestions of updating graphic drivers to the latest version to fix this. I tough they learned from last time when they suggested to reboot your router to fix Cyrodill lag.

Ezareth · September 2015

autoexec wrote: »

I have a simple pattern to show the bug: (At least on my PC.. non SSD )

Take 2 characters, Level 3 with nothing on him ( skills/items/etc ) and log him into Stonefalls. Takes around 20-30 secs to load.
RIGHT after, take a vr16 character with alot of items and skills (or whatever, maybe its because I have a costume in my invetory who knows...) and log into the SAME Stonefalls. Takes around 2-3 minutes to load.

So please, don't try to say this was always there, its new since last patch and its not related to a given zone.

Whats even more funny, is the suggestions of updating graphic drivers to the latest version to fix this. I tough they learned from last time when they suggested to reboot your router to fix Cyrodill lag.

Last night I took an hour before I went to bed porting to every zone on various alts looking for something from a guild trader. The load times were the same on my V15 AD Sorc as they were on my V16 NB as they were on my L10AD dragonknight or L7 EP nightblade. None of the zones except maybe craglorn have a longer load time no matter what character I'm using.

They are still all noticeably longer than 1.6 however.

autoexec · September 2015

Ezareth wrote: »

Last night I took an hour before I went to bed porting to every zone on various alts looking for something from a guild trader. The load times were the same on my V15 AD Sorc as they were on my V16 NB as they were on my L10AD dragonknight or L7 EP nightblade. None of the zones except maybe craglorn have a longer load time no matter what character I'm using.

They are still all noticeably longer than 1.6 however.

Really? My main does not load fast in ANY zones. But my level 3 alts do. Just tried it like now. Maybe i'm trying to find patterns where there are none. I just smoke more now because of the loading screens. haha

DaveMoeDee · September 2015

Load times in PvE are horrible since patch.

My understanding is that fragmentation if not handled by SSDs in a way that makes any intuitive sense for those who are thinking in terms of hard disks since there is a lot of low level peculiarities.

Elsonso · September 2015

autoexec wrote: »

I have a simple pattern to show the bug: (At least on my PC.. non SSD )

Take 2 characters, Level 3 with nothing on him ( skills/items/etc ) and log him into Stonefalls. Takes around 20-30 secs to load.
RIGHT after, take a vr16 character with alot of items and skills (or whatever, maybe its because I have a costume in my invetory who knows...) and log into the SAME Stonefalls. Takes around 2-3 minutes to load.

So please, don't try to say this was always there, its new since last patch and its not related to a given zone.

Whats even more funny, is the suggestions of updating graphic drivers to the latest version to fix this. I tough they learned from last time when they suggested to reboot your router to fix Cyrodill lag.

If you remove and delete all addons and all saved variables for all of the addons (except the ZO one), does this still repeat? Just curious.

Ezareth · September 2015

DaveMoeDee wrote: »

Load times in PvE are horrible since patch.

My understanding is that fragmentation if not handled by SSDs in a way that makes any intuitive sense for those who are thinking in terms of hard disks since there is a lot of low level peculiarities.

Sequential reads are always going to be faster on any drives (No fragmentation). The biggest difference of an SSD is the vastly reduced seek time where a hard disk has to physically move the needle to the correct position on the platter which when dealing with fragmented files has significant performance degradation.

This almost feels as though they didn't optimize the build package itself however. Like the number of files you need to load for each zone is now coming from a ton of different sources. If I had to guess I'd say it has to do with the way they designed IC as DLC content which may have required them to physically segregate those files and thus greatly increased the number of files required to load with a zone.

Elsir · September 2015

It seems that every iteration of a loading screen has increased for different people in different ways. For me, my zoning loading screens are in no way different to pre-IC update, but loading a character's loading screen has definitely turned into about a 5 minute wait, which as you can imagine makes jumping on each character for the daily mails a very loooong process in this patch.

However, a friend of mine reports that their biggest offending loading screen is the zoning one at about 2 minutes each zone, while their character loading screens have only increase marginally compared to mine, theirs sitting at about 1 minute to 90 seconds at worst.

The load times and where they are do seem sporadic across the playerbase but the constant is that it IS a loading screen issue regardless of where we each feel our new-found pain.

Cathexis · September 2015

Its definitely a pain in the ass that the first 30 minutes are basically load screen simulator. 5 load screens, a queue, and gank saturated horse ride to get to ic? 6 to a district? We get it -- the imperial city base is in the sewers. Can we get a direct access queue PLEASE?