PC is to console as Dummer is to N'wah

That is to say: Superior.

for pvp the lag can be pretty damn bad, same for fps ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Everything is better. You even get to fight people with CE.

With ryzen coming out in the next few weeks and vega down the road. No better time then now to ditch console.

It depends, I suspect, on your server, system and playstyle. More information would be useful, although getting a consensus view will doubtless be impossible! The jury may also be out, of course, on the extent (if any) to which mods may themselves inpact on PC performance.

All any of us can do is give our own experience. In that respect, I have played on the PC EU server since launch with a medium/high spec desktop machine with a cabled internet connection, running the game on generally high settings, without any addons, and without guild membership. I am a solo/co-operative PvE player who has never been to Cyrodiil or Imperial City and who doesn't do competitive/formal group PvE content. As such, my performance has been nigh on flawless throughout the last three years such that I've never had a reason to check my fps or ping to be honest. Obviously others will have a different set of circumstances and their mileage will vary!

In particular, it does seem to me as a regular forum user that the PC NA server has more problems than the PC EU one (both now being accessible to all players from the same installation), and that the performance issues are very largely related to PvP and competitive PvE content although the significance of the user's system specs should not be under-estimated. Incidentally, I strongly recommend that you have a cabled internet connection rather than a wireless one for consistency of performance. I access the game directly through the ZOS client rather than through Steam, but don't know whether there is any significance in that.

Best of luck if you go ahead with the switch. My understanding is that you will need to get another copy of the game to play on a different platform and will need to open a new account such that your existing characters cannot be transferred. I would suggest you don't consider it without a lot more research if you are planning on using a laptop or a minimum-spec desktop. You must in any event have a DX11 compatible graphics card.

I generally get 60 FPS on my I5 4690K/ GTX 970 rig with high settings. Although you will experience lag when you get in the cities with a lot of people running around and a lot of buildings and objects. I have seen as low as 40 FPS.

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My PC is about 2 years old. It was top of the line when i built it, so i figure i can do ESO at least on medium to high.

Age means nothing, specs mean everything. "Top of the line" can mean anything, as can someone saying they built it themselves. No disrespect intended !

No offense taken. I understand where you are coming from. I know my PC can run the game. My main worry is server lag on the PC server compared to it on PS4 server. Lag seems to happen a lot on PS4.

Keep in mind, lag/latency issues are an entirely separate issue from frame rate, which manifest in the form of unresponsive skills or weapon swap, rubber banding, etc, typically when during very high traffic and near large battles. Frame rate can be high even when ping spikes and you notice the rubberbanding/latency issues, which are more about server and not caused by your hardware.

Sometimes both problems occur at the same time, but usually the frame rate has more to do with your client CPU and GPU struggling to process all the draw calls and calculating actions of many players at once, many particle effects, etc. Cyrodiil seems to be more demanding on hardware compared to PVE areas or most other games.

Just built my first desktop PC a few months ago with i7-6700K, GTX 1060 6GB OC 1797 MHz, and it can do consistent 1080p 60fps in PVE areas on Ultra, but for PVP I have to lower some settings to get smooth frame rate. Total cost was pretty cheap, $890, here is the parts list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/pp8WzM

I lower textures setting to medium, turn shadows off, grass off, water reflection off and keep subsampling high, and this improves frame rate in Cyrodiil a lot compared to Ultra settings.

I find it still drops as low as 20-30fps in large battles, but usually goes back up to at least around 45fps or so after a while. In Imperial City or Cyrodiil when there are no large battles anywhere, generally stays around 60fps. This is a lot more playable than the experience with my old laptop which would drop below 10fps in large battles at lowest possible settings, even with resolution bumped down to 1024x768.

When recording 1080p 60fps video or streaming on twitch, there is not any noticeable drop in frame rate.

To be honest, I am having close to no issues on PC. Though others have, this is most of the time due to playing on potatoes or due to bad internet I figured. I'd say ESO is a bit sensitive and needs an SSD if you want a really smooth experience.
It has been said more than once so far: don't play on a potato.

I wouldn't want to miss a lively chat, addons... oh my god, addons... inventory sorted by more than those few categories the game offers, junk handlers who unstuff for you... Buff trackers, immersion mods which turn off UI stuff, InventoryInsight, which logs all the stuff in the bags of your character and your bank, for you to look at whenever you want.

Let me share the wisdom of my wife, who is addon coder herself: addons are like toilet paper. Yeah, it's not life threatening if you don't have it, but you wouldn't want to miss it either...

As someone who played on PS4 for about a year, my experience is that lag is noticeably less on PC, but it still makes an appearance, albeit on rare occasions. I play exclusively on the EU server.

By way of comparison, I built my PC late last year. It's nothing special when compared to some of the rigs people play on (i5-6400; GTX 1050Ti), but I still get 40-45fps in populated areas and a constant 100fps elsewhere. As @Tandor has sensibly pointed out, playstyle is a factor; I also tend to focus on solo and co-operative PvE. Settings are at high / maximum. I have no complaints or regrets about moving to PC or the performance of my setup.

It's worth it alone just to play at 60+fps instead of the 30 cap on consoles.

I found people afk shootin the spots were bosses spawn .. but at least is not as sad on pc where its a infeststion