Artemisshrikes wrote: »iv never had that my load screen last only bout 15-20 seconds
I get it daily, sometimes many times a day. It's very much a huge problem, but it doesn't seem to affect everyone. Loading screens are between 1-3 minutes for me most of the time as well. It was 5-10 seconds prior to IC DLC, 5-10+ minutes for a couple weeks after that update. It's gradually improved after that point to where it is now and has been for about 3 weeks. I know I've changed my game time significantly because of it... no more bouncing between characters without careful thought ahead of time due to the loading screens everywhere....
Nope, in UK.ESO servers are located in German
They need to add more servers. A few days ago I played with one German dude and his loading screens were almost instant. ESO servers are located in German. I get always unusually long loading screens when I go from Sewers to IC, for example. Bad servers, IMHO, probably why Cyrodil is such a lagfest too.
Keepercraft wrote: »
Every time I zone in to any place, or log in, I get the initial loading screen with the picture of the area and the quote for about 1 minute. Then I get another reload screen for about a few seconds, then again for a split second, and again for a split second.
Is this being patched in Orsinium? Does this even happen to anybody else?
It's funny when yellow and blue want to kill me and put CC aoe on each other.Keepercraft wrote: »
Ahahaha, you were there?
Every time I zone in to any place, or log in, I get the initial loading screen with the picture of the area and the quote for about 1 minute. Then I get another reload screen for about a few seconds, then again for a split second, and again for a split second.
Is this being patched in Orsinium? Does this even happen to anybody else?
I get that occasionally. Mostly after a PC reboot as the RAM and cache is cleared so it's naturally going to be prolonged. What gets me is that after a brief period when I login, you often fall through the floor and then another short loading screen appears and i am back where i was.
Artemisshrikes wrote: »iv never had that my load screen last only bout 15-20 seconds
My loading screens rarely take more than 30 seconds or so, and the longest has probably been under a minute. A couple of times in the last year or so I've been running through a city and had a loading screen appear and instantly disappear with no ill-effect. I've never fallen through the floor. I think I've had 2 crashes to desktop since the PC launch (one of them I reckoned was almost certainly sound-related as it happened when two NPC's speeches over-lapped).
If these sorts of things are down to the servers including the need for more of them, why do some players get the problem and not others when both are playing on the same servers? Does anyone have experience of resolving such issues by doing anything at their end e.g. changing ISP, adding more RAM, or upgrading/clearing a hard drive etc? Even if the problem is server-side (and for some reason only affecting some players), has anyone found any such change at their end to work at least by way of a workaround?
Incidentally, I've never used any addons, and my Nvidia drivers are over 3 years old. If it ain't broke I don't fix it!
My loading screens rarely take more than 30 seconds or so, and the longest has probably been under a minute. A couple of times in the last year or so I've been running through a city and had a loading screen appear and instantly disappear with no ill-effect. I've never fallen through the floor. I think I've had 2 crashes to desktop since the PC launch (one of them I reckoned was almost certainly sound-related as it happened when two NPC's speeches over-lapped).
If these sorts of things are down to the servers including the need for more of them, why do some players get the problem and not others when both are playing on the same servers? Does anyone have experience of resolving such issues by doing anything at their end e.g. changing ISP, adding more RAM, or upgrading/clearing a hard drive etc? Even if the problem is server-side (and for some reason only affecting some players), has anyone found any such change at their end to work at least by way of a workaround?
Incidentally, I've never used any addons, and my Nvidia drivers are over 3 years old. If it ain't broke I don't fix it!
One big misconception is that there is one server and one world. That is not the case. There is a megaserver on the back end which has access to the entire pool of players but that doesn't mean it serves everyone in the same place at the same time inside Tamriel, it would be unplayable. What the server does is that it creates, deletes, merges multiple virtual instances with a target to have a consistent load in each shard.
Thus there is only one server on the logon screen but the megaserver splits everyone on the back end to make the game playable. And while the megaserver technology looks like "one server" it is in fact multiple machines and they are not necessarily using the same IP address or domain. That part is obfuscated to players.
Another proof that not everything is on the same machine and that there are in fact multiple machines (with their own physical limitation) on this megaserver technology is the recent Ravenspire lag. This particular zone was severely impacted and it was only Ravenspire alone and not the entire server. One can thus assume the megaserver technology probably includes dedicated machines for specific zone and load is passed between servers as the player moves around. It would make sense as it would make it easier to optimize the server for the specific content it is hosting.
I'm spurting a lot of speculation right now but one thing that is for sure is that the "megaserver" is NOT one big machine with one big IP address. It's clearly a cluster and it's bound to have normal technical issues like load balancing, switch configuration problem, firewall rules, etc. After all, it's still a bunch of dudes maintaining a bunch of hardware with lots of cables and sometimes *** happens.
I'd lean towards the opinion that the problem is either based on: 1) a server internal desync/delay issue with instancing (or micro-queueing) currently logged on players that are switching zones, 2) money-savings that ZOS might have decided to do on the servers that affected the final performance.However, there's nothing to suggest that people who have the problem are all on the same server, and that those who don't have the problem aren't also playing on the same servers as those who do have the problem.
DaveTheMinion wrote: »If I am playing my Sorc I don't have an issue with the loading screen but if I swap to my NB I get longer screen loading times and sometimes the double load???