Been getting fps spikes and drops all the time tonight, making the game like a slideshow sometimes....I know its something wrong with the game, eso is the only time this happens....

It's making game unplayable because only way to fix it just so you can play for 30 mins without fps drop spikes is to quit game and restart client.

I don't know how Imp city is doing for the FPS issue right now, but I do know there are a carp ton of bugs with it still, like Molag Baal not spawning on several campaigns, bugged archways, etc...

The FPS issue is still around in cyrodiil though, if that helps.

It seems very few players have this problem... I'm one of these "few" and all my guild-mates... only 3 pages, no response from any staff member, it must be just a few (no matter if everyone on the zone chat is complaining).

It started with IC for me and a couple of these "few" unlucky players, eso.exe go rampant on memory usage in the task manager, FPS drops to 0 (zero) in some zones, like Orsinium and Cyrodiil, after 2 or 3 patches the game started crashing more often but I really feel it's my fault:

1) Some folks said I have too many quests and I want to get rid of that loading screen, went to check it on a low level mule that did only the tutorial, well, it didn't work;

2) Some other folks said it could be because the addons I'm using, lemme get rid of them and see what happens... nope, didn't work also;

3) A "wise" friend said it could be some armor set that is causing the problem... I try go naked and see what comes, nope, nothing;

4) The pet? Maybe... lemme kill this thing, no pet anymore... nope, FPS still dropping to 0 (zero, nada);

5) Reload UI, hmmm, it worked for like 3 minutes then started again (BTW, does anyone know an addon that reload UI automatically after some minutes, I think I will need one of that)

6) Ohh, it could be some L2P problem, yeah, that could be the answer, I'm pretty sure is my fault.

Pomaikai wrote: »

Mac users have been dealing with a persistent memory leak since the release of IC. It supposedly will be fixed with the release of the 64-bit client (Mac/PC concurrently). This is also when Mac users will get FaceFX (All NPC's in Orsinium have zero facial movement for us, and won't until the new client is released.), as well as gamepad support.

Welcome to our world...

There's a 64Bit client set for release? When?

Now we do know and issue however I posted asking in the technical forum for PC http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/230952/fps-issue#latest asking anyone else regarding possible fixes. I ended up running all dead and necro thread fixes and still would experience the issue. Now we know the server is part of the reason HOWEVER even though my GTX970 tested fine and worked for other games however after swapping out with my older Sapphire 7850 card I found out my fps did improve immensely which is odd. More or less it didn't have random drops in fps from doing nothing.

Reason a lower end card performs better then a higher end, no idea, assuming it does with how the card pulls and reads information for the game from the server.

Yeah, this issue still remains. Had to re-log during a vMA run to get my frames under control. Would a dev please look and comment about this? I know we are expected to get a 64 bit version Q1 next year, but there is no guarantee that would fix the issue.

My FPS drops permanently to about half of what it should be around stage 7 of vet arena, and in PvP when there's a huge zergy fight that I've had to witness.

I`ve also been having my fps dropping to single digits and only in Orsinium. I`ve been looking into it since Orsinium came out and have found that when the drops happen my Gpu goes down to 0% workload and my C: went to 100%.

To cut a long story short I found that the drops happened when the game was accessing the memory but the info wasn't there so it looked in the page file/Virtual memory which was on C:, because C: was running numerous background tasks. Eso couldn't get what it wanted fast enough so the game stops.

I have moved the page file to a totally different drive (SSD) and increased the page file to just above my system memory which is 8 gig.

I am not longer getting any fps drops, I hope this helps someone.

My rig:-

Windows 10
I7 4gig
Gtx 960
8 gig Kingston memory
gigabyte z97 gamer 3 motherboard

My game runs on a SSD of which I moved the page file and my C: runs on a Sata drive.

I suspect that adding more memory would also fix the problem to prevent windows from using the page file.

You know, REALLY starting to get bothered by this. It does make the content much harder than it needs to be. The silence on this issue only makes it worse.

My question, why is this being ignored?

Pomaikai wrote: »

Mac users have been dealing with a persistent memory leak since the release of IC. It supposedly will be fixed with the release of the 64-bit client (Mac/PC concurrently). This is also when Mac users will get FaceFX (All NPC's in Orsinium have zero facial movement for us, and won't until the new client is released.), as well as gamepad support.

Welcome to our world...

thats why no one enters that world willingly, lol.

StihlReign wrote: »

Pomaikai wrote: »

Mac users have been dealing with a persistent memory leak since the release of IC. It supposedly will be fixed with the release of the 64-bit client (Mac/PC concurrently). This is also when Mac users will get FaceFX (All NPC's in Orsinium have zero facial movement for us, and won't until the new client is released.), as well as gamepad support.

Welcome to our world...

There's a 64Bit client set for release? When?

I think the intent is 1Q 2016 (Thieves' Guild).

I don't know if it will fix any memory leaks, but I will lay even odds that it will introduce a whole community of new bugs for them to fix.

Bump and updated the main post with some tips to help some of the frame drops people are having.

Still waiting for this to actually be addressed, half of the pvp lag complaints are FPS issues so fixing these would go a long way towards a happier player-base.