Loading screens takes too long - after latest patch

Jimboo84 · October 2015

For me(PC version) the long loading screens only apply when traveling in groups to every location. When I play solo I don't have this issue anymore.

Detector · October 2015

ZOS, please fix loadscreens!

tordr86b16_ESO · October 2015

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Jura23 · October 2015

lol my loading screens got worse after this last maintance, gj.

Keepercraft · October 2015

Jura23 wrote: »

lol my loading screens got worse after this last maintance, gj.

Servers overpopulated, need better servers....

Jura23 · October 2015

Keepercraft wrote: »

Jura23 wrote: »

lol my loading screens got worse after this last maintance, gj.

Servers overpopulated, need better servers....

What do you do when you don't have enough servers for your game? Call them megaservers! It's creative I give them that.

F7sus4 · October 2015

ZOS_BrianWheeler wrote: »

This is an issue we're tracking and have some fixes in the works for next weeks patch.

A fix in a form of additional 3 minutes per screen, huh?

Belidos wrote: »

It's not something they can fix right away without breaking other stuff

Too bad it's something they screwed up so easily with 1.7.

Keepercraft wrote: »

Jura23 wrote: »

lol my loading screens got worse after this last maintance, gj.

Servers overpopulated, need better servers....

I don't really believe this is an actual thing. The game is empty when compared to the player-base we had 8-10 months ago (pre-1.6). And somehow the servers weren't overpopulated at the time, but now they "are". Meh!

Keepercraft · October 2015

Jura23 wrote: »

Keepercraft wrote: »

Jura23 wrote: »

lol my loading screens got worse after this last maintance, gj.

Servers overpopulated, need better servers....

What do you do when you don't have enough servers for your game? Call them megaservers! It's creative I give them that.

At first year ESO megaserver works very well. It was not perfect, but good. At now is boring level. :P
So your opinion about megaserver is baseless.

Messy1 · October 2015

Any threads out there on how to fix the loading screens from the client side? Is it firewall related?

UltimaJoe777 · October 2015

Messy1 wrote: »

Any threads out there on how to fix the loading screens from the client side? Is it firewall related?

People are so hellbent on griping about the current server-side issue that I honestly do not know if anyone experiences issues client-side. I'd say you're on the right track though: Just go through the usual lag-reducing procedures and see if it helps. If not, see if anyone has suggestions beyond that.

Jimboo84 · November 2015

When dying in Cyrodiil also long loading screens. This is not a client-side issue.

PaddingtonBear · November 2015

lol @ people crying for load screen nerf.

Deal with it haha 30 sec load screen here

L2LoadScreen

Sotha_Sil · November 2015

PaddingtonBear wrote: »

lol @ people crying for load screen nerf.

Deal with it haha 30 sec load screen here

L2LoadScreen

You know 30s is still quite long for a MMO right ? and that we used to have loading screens shorter than that before 1.7?

hydrocynus · November 2015

PaddingtonBear wrote: »

lol @ people crying for load screen nerf.

Deal with it haha 30 sec load screen here

L2LoadScreen

Bwahahahahaha

hydrocynus · November 2015

I think by now they know what the issue is with the long loading screens. Its quite simple for them to add code that will trace all the timings of all the different things that are being done while the screen is loading, and they would have very easily been able to isolate the exact area of code that is taking too long. All they then need to do is to optimize that piece of code to do it faster and it should all be fine.

Unfortunately the amount of time that has passed since this error occurred, means that they either have no idea of actually how to fix it or the cost involved in fixing it is just too high that ZOS are just ignoring all reference to this issue as if it does not exist.

nathan_bri · November 2015

PaddingtonBear wrote: »

lol @ people crying for load screen nerf.

Deal with it haha 30 sec load screen here

L2LoadScreen

I've tested several other MMOs, including WoW, Rift, LOTRO, GW2 and Neverwinter and the loading screens are almost never over 15 seconds. Even 30 seconds is too long.

Pangnirtung · November 2015

ZOS needs to be constantly reminded about how laboriously slow the loading screens are.

How is it that server performance has actually DEGRADED since beta instead of becoming better?

ZOS is anyone listening? ZOS who is trying to solve this problem? Anyone?

Caligamy_ESO · November 2015

I saw the ZoS post on this thread without looking at the date on it and got excited gdi...

nimander99 · November 2015

Its unacceptable that a fix isn't even mentioned as maybe possibly coming within the next year or so...

Hey @ZOS_JessicaFolsom or @ZOS_GinaBruno do you all think loading screen wait time is good to go?

I'm beginning to suspect the folks think we are imagining the 1 to 3 minute zone load times or that it's not a big deal...

Sneaky-Snurr · November 2015

Don't mind me. I'm just here to vent out my frustrations that the loading screen is unbearably annoying.
This has been the case for far too long and FFS ZOS please just PLEASE fix this loading screen issue. I'm not even asking for an animation cancelling fix (though that would be lovely).
Just.. do it.. please.. *dies*

nimander99 · November 2015

I have time to minimize my game, log into forums, post a complaint about loading screen times then bring back up my game window with it still loading...

nathan_bri · November 2015

I just did a test with 2.2.5 and the loading screen for my VR16 is still between 85 and 95 seconds from either the character screen or when teleporting to another zone, including to Vulkhel Guard in Auridon, which for this character is a VR1 zone which should make it fairly bereft of other players "clogging it up."

I also did a test on a second account (I have three)—using a brand-new character—and that character takes between 21 and 25 seconds to log in. I have a level 17 on that account and she takes between 32 and 37 seconds. I tested back and forth several times, both to the lowbie version of Vulkhel Guard. It seems that the more junk your character has or the more things they've done seems to make things take longer. Perhaps they are now queuing all your character data to be copied from the central repository to the zone channel rather than splitting duties. Whatever they did with the IC patch, it broke things pretty badly.

Wollust · November 2015

ZOS_BrianWheeler wrote: »

This is an issue we're tracking and have some fixes in the works for next weeks patch.

@ZOS_BrianWheeler Yeah you guys did an awesome job with fixing this. Don't you feel ashamed for lying all the time at paying costumers like this?

WebBull · November 2015

They have actually gotten worse.

Uberkull · November 2015

twistedmonk wrote: »

Can we at least get an official State of the Game from the "guy who is in charge' who made the decision to release this mess?

I would pay 1500 crowns for this. The CEO should step up to the plate and tell us wtf is going on with this game.
- What exactly is the direction for this game?
- Are you just trying to keep the game alive or actually taking the feedback from the community and applying it in game?
- Why PTS if you just release whatever is there with no fixes?
- What was the point of IC if there are no objectives after you collect your stones and get the gear you want?
- And wtf is the deal with these loading screens? They have been here now for 2 months. Seamless MMO my ass. These loading screens make this the experience so...well...crap.

Iluvrien · November 2015

They deployed process monitoring code in a patch a couple of weeks ago.

Since then? We just get told that they are monitoring.

What this suggests to me is either:

a) They still have no idea what the problem is even with the new monitoring routines but don't want to say that they have no idea (so they won't look incompetent) or that they need to add even more monitoring before they can work it out (thus making their first attempt at monitoring look half-assed).

b) They do have an idea what needs fixing, but either it is a fundamental issue that can't be fixed (and they don't want to admit having made an error like this)... or is so complex that a fix is months away at best (and the response to announcing that would be less than pleasant).

At this point, given the lack of recent and substantive information on the issue... I really can't see any other possibilities being plausible anymore.

CtrlAltDlt · November 2015

It seems like they're incapable of figuring out what or it's causing it, or the simply don't know how to fix it.

James-Wayne · November 2015

I have noticed that the first loading message at the bottom stays on for about 2 secs and then the second message remains on for the entire time.... is something happening when it goes to the load screen to cause this, perhaps causing longer then usual screens, I really want to read all the Wrothgar lore ones but its just whizzes by to quickly.

@ZOS_GinaBruno

ProfessorKittyhawk · November 2015

The changing loading screen text was introduced when the console versions were released, and after the IC update were brought over to PC. It's basically like how the loading screen info on Skyrim changed, except you actually had a chance to read what they said. Not so on ESO, where the text changes after a couple seconds. Honestly, I think that might be the problem. I seemed to experience long load times and crashes on console when it first came out. Seems funny that load screen became obnoxiously long after they introduced the changing text in the IC update.

Gidorick · November 2015

Don't you guys get it yet? The long loading screens are PART of the narrative! ZOS is setting up the next DLC where we must defeat Peryite, who is having a jolly old time disrupting our tasks!

And because it's the internet I need to explain that I'm am joking here.