ESO GPU utilization?

Inquisitor_Wind · March 2017

Anyone else having horrible fps drops in high populated cities or in some specific regions without any players? when i check gpu utilization its always under 25 % ? does this game utilize any gpu power at all or is it just draining cpu resources ? would be great if anyone can clarify , this is how much it utilizes gpu when you are in a heavily populated keep in cyrodill ]

can we please get an optimized game engine , its 2017 and does morrowind expansion have same optimization as the base game? would be great we get an official answer

Aquanova · March 2017

This happens with a lot of their patches. Its been this way since I can remember. Optimization doesn't seem to be one of their priorities. It will eventually get fixed though.......I hope

AzraelKrieg · March 2017

FPS is not always bound to the GPU. It can also be bound to the hardware of the system. You could have a top end GPU but a bomb system and your FPS would be trash. Same goes for a top end system with a bomb GPU.

WalkingLegacy · March 2017

Hero engine likes your CPU. Especially at 1080p.

But this isn't the hero engine

Anyways, this zombie game engine is horribly optimized. Hopefully we will see them also implement Vulkan support since Bethesda said they will be supporting it more with the release of Ryzen.

Inquisitor_Wind · March 2017

WalkingLegacy wrote: »

Hero engine likes your CPU. Especially at 1080p.

But this isn't the hero engine

Anyways, this zombie game engine is horribly optimized. Hopefully we will see them also implement Vulkan support since Bethesda said they will be supporting it more with the release of Ryzen.

Vulkan would be fantastic , i remember playing doom on vulkan had 144 fps with ultra settings , fps didnt cross 100 fps when using OpenGL

KhajitFurTrader · March 2017

@Inquisitor_Wind, please refer to this comment explaining why MMOs in general, and ESO in particular, are more likely bound to be network-I/O & CPU-limited instead of utilising GPUs to the max, as single-player (or multi-player games w/ fixed player/map sizes) games are able to do.

Balticthunder · March 2017

For me it started after Homestead patch, Abahs landing and Wrothgar/Orsinium being the worst for FPS - it sudenly goes from 60 to 2 just by turning camera. Old zones is still quite ok though, even Elend Root! I guess they have no clue how to optimize and run this game unfortunately and next patches will only downgrade it even more

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Edited: On PC Eu

cjthibs · March 2017

One thing I have come to find out is that LUA memory hitting its cap can definitely cause FPS slowdowns.

And I believe the Homestead patch contributed to this because of all of the additional UI elements it added.

If you're on PC I'd highly suggest you up your LUA memory to 256 or 512. I stopped seeing the vast majority of these slowdowns after doing that.

Another option would be to download Shissu's LUA Memory addon and let it handle it for you.

Inquisitor_Wind · March 2017

cjthibs wrote: »

One thing I have come to find out is that LUA memory hitting its cap can definitely cause FPS slowdowns.

And I believe the Homestead patch contributed to this because of all of the additional UI elements it added.

If you're on PC I'd highly suggest you up your LUA memory to 256 or 512. I stopped seeing the vast majority of these slowdowns after doing that.

Another option would be to download Shissu's LUA Memory addon and let it handle it for you.

yeah LUA memory is not an issue , have it set to 1.5 gig as i run a handful of addons

Inquisitor_Wind · March 2017

KhajitFurTrader wrote: »

@Inquisitor_Wind, please refer to this comment explaining why MMOs in general, and ESO in particular, are more likely bound to be network-I/O & CPU-limited instead of utilising GPUs to the max, as single-player (or multi-player games w/ fixed player/map sizes) games are able to do.

thats a great topic but i've played few mmo's in the past like skyforge , which calls itself AAA MMO , it used around 50-60 % of gpu and gameplay was soo smooth even in openworlds or when doing large bosses or raids and the graphics were way superior ingame comapred to ESO

Freezoide · March 2017

The strange hardware utilization of this engine has also been something I've seen in SWTOR in the past. I can't put my finger exactly on what the bottlenecks are or what this engine and/or game require to run for example +144fps all time, but it is noticable that there are huge performancedrops when more and more players are put together.

Got the feeling it has something to do with the homeservers on that part; in a way that there's some restriction (or implemented limit) in outward package data per player from the mainserver towards a player? It's a total wild speculation but until I find a player who can run it always +100fps; it seems like it's something on the server itself.

Edit: Alright, ESO is probably using an heavy modified version of the Hero engine but it is worth to point out that both games with it as a startup, have the same similar problems.

KhajitFurTrader · March 2017

Freezoide wrote: »

Edit: Alright, ESO is probably using an heavy modified version of the Hero engine but it is worth to point out that both games with it as a startup, have the same similar problems.

ESO using the Hero engine has been refuted a long, long time ago. They used it for prototyping art, areas, and game design concepts while development of in-house server/client/messaging code was underway.

WalkingLegacy · March 2017

KhajitFurTrader wrote: »

Freezoide wrote: »

Edit: Alright, ESO is probably using an heavy modified version of the Hero engine but it is worth to point out that both games with it as a startup, have the same similar problems.

ESO using the Hero engine has been refuted a long, long time ago. They used it for prototyping art, areas, and game design concepts while development of in-house server/client/messaging code was underway.

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck...You get the idea.