Is there a memory leak currently in ESO?

Tapio75 · March 2017

So, is there cirrently a memory leak present in ESO, gradually reducing FPS over time?

SolidusPrime · March 2017

Yes

I have been noticing this myself as well lately.

RebornV3x · March 2017

Yes

I'm pretty sure it's still a thing especially on consoles

Potenza · March 2017

Do you think it is because of a memory leak that after playing for about an hour in Cyrodiil the game gets choppy and I have the reload ui to clear it?

mesmerizedish · March 2017

No

A memory leak wouldn't really cause a drop in FPS. In all likelihood, you wouldn't even notice such a bug until the game just up and crashes and the task manager tells you the .exe was trying to use like 10GB of RAM.

I have not personally noticed any kind of gradual drop in FPS while playing, but that's certainly not to say that there isn't a problem somewhere. It's just probably not a memory leak, a very straightforward and self-descriptive term that armchair programmers on the internet nevertheless don't seem to understand at all.

IronCrystal · March 2017

I don't know what platform you play on, but if you use PC, I've heard the launcher has a memory leak. I always close it as soon as the game launches.

Has caused "fewer" problems it seems but obviously not free of disconnects etc.

THEDKEXPERIENCE · March 2017

Other

Other.

FlyLionel · March 2017

Yes

Yes, personally using the /reloadui command in trials or pvp helps. Not everytime; but it does.

Betheny · March 2017

Yes

That's what I was wondering too, since Homestead or the patch after I noticed some new issue with the game getting choppy after some time (so I have to reload UI every so often). This is in PVE.

Never had this issue till now so would be awesome if some Devs could go fishing around the code they updated and find out what the problem is.

I don't have fps issues, it's just choppiness after some time. Though if I left it and didn't reload UI all the time I probably would start to notice reduced fps I guess.

DragonBound · March 2017

Honestly I am not sure, while I have heard this but closing the launcher seems to fix allot of the issues from what people say.

Mic1007 · March 2017

Other

I've been getting pure Ping problems. FPS stays up and Ping hits 3000 and higher.

Tapio75 · March 2017

Yes

j.murro2ub17_ESO wrote: »

Do you think it is because of a memory leak that after playing for about an hour in Cyrodiil the game gets choppy and I have the reload ui to clear it?

It should not really matter where you are, one of usual symptoms is, that FPS gradually declines, then the game might crash as well when the memory is filled with enough undumped stuff. Sometimes you can also see it by inspecting clients memory usage while playing, if the memory usage rises grradually, it can be of memory leak.

/reloadui would not help on traditional memory leak i mean, but it can help, if one is running an addon that is not well coded or includes a bug. Addons are reloaded when using /reloadui.

I play on PC. /reloadui does not help, i have to completely restart the game to get the FPS back to good numbers. Closing launcher does not help on my case.

Ajaxduo · March 2017

Yes

It was confirmed late feb that there was a memory leak in a thread in the bug forums...I'll see if I can find it.

Betheny · March 2017

Yes

I haven't noticed my memory filling up though (neither RAM nor GPU memory) so wouldn't call whatever is happening a memory leak. Haven't been able to pinpoint what's going on either - run through addons to check and it's not them, so the problem seems to be in the fundamental game code.

Draconerus · March 2017

Yes

That and the game is horribly optimized and the utilization is poor.

KimberlyannKitsuragi · March 2017

Other

I've tweaked the setting.ini file and it's freed up tons of FPS

I also close the launcher after launching the game and that helps a lot

kargen27 · March 2017

CosmicSoul wrote: »

Honestly I am not sure, while I have heard this but closing the launcher seems to fix allot of the issues from what people say.

I only use the launcher one time after an update to allow the update to load. Then I close it down and open the game by using the eso.exe file. I got in the habit of doing that on my old computer because the game wouldn't work if I used the launcher. My new computer works with the launcher, but why use it if there is a chance it is causing any problems or performance issues?

SolidusPrime · March 2017

Yes

IronCrystal wrote: »

I don't know what platform you play on, but if you use PC, I've heard the launcher has a memory leak. I always close it as soon as the game launches.

Has caused "fewer" problems it seems but obviously not free of disconnects etc.

Thanks for the tip. I do indeed leave my launcher open when I play....I'll give this a try tonight.

Betheny · March 2017

Yes

I always use eso.exe not the launcher and issue happens, so we can't blame the launcher for this one.

d0e1ow · March 2017

Yes

I lose FPS over time as well. It's stupid.

Rawst · March 2017

Yes

Meri20098 wrote: »

I've tweaked the setting.ini file and it's freed up tons of FPS I also close the launcer after launching the game and that helps a lot

Tweaked how exactly?

Also, I've got memory leak-related crashes a few times, not often or regularly. For some time now I've been using the exe file to start the game.

Rohamad_Ali · March 2017

Other

I don't know . For the last week I have run the game on completely maxed graphics and seen a steady FPS between 35-40 FPS . I experience lag spikes that lower FPS and raise ping temporarily .

Tapio75 · March 2017

Yes

I have also tweaked the usersettings.ini to get some more FPS but this is not an issue i am now getting while playing. The FPS is not bad all the time, it is almost 100 sometimes when i start the game, then i can stand in the same place for and hour or two and the FPS can be as low as 10. Full restart of the game helps, nothing else.

There is no launcher open, open launcher should not bloat the client anyways but still its not active. I also use the executable to run the game.

The gradual FPS loss looks like a meory leak to me, also the clients memory usage increases over time in proportion to FPS loss.

There is also another issue making sudden FPS drops which is not related to memory leak but actually to the number of players allowed on each instance of the current location. The game seems to allow way too many players on one instance, the FPS could be greatly improved by cutting the size of the instances to half.

KimberlyannKitsuragi · March 2017

Other

Rawst wrote: »

Meri20098 wrote: »

I've tweaked the setting.ini file and it's freed up tons of FPS I also close the launcer after launching the game and that helps a lot

Tweaked how exactly?

Also, I've got memory leak-related crashes a few times, not often or regularly. For some time now I've been using the exe file to start the game.

This link is a good start to tweaking FPS

but you can google it too.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/elderscrollsonline/comments/3jjoql/are_you_having_fps_issues_wih_eso_on_a_pc_well/

IcyDeadPeople · March 2017

I don't know enough about games to say whether it is a memory leak or not, but I have noticed from time to time since summer 2014 occasions where my fps drops over a period of time and goes back up if I restart the client.

EDIT: only seems to occur in Cyrodiil, and more recently it seems to go back up by itself without having to restart client.

Fallaryn · March 2017

Usually my FPS sits around 45, but when in more populated areas, it repeatedly drops to zero over and over again until I leave.

idk · March 2017

Yes

I do not think a poll was really needed for this unless one just likes to create polls for the heck of it.

There has been a memory leak with ESO for over 2 years. Restarting the client every couple of hours is doing anything serious is a good idea.

MLGProPlayer · March 2017

I used to get a really bad memory leak with mini-map add-ons but it appears to be fixed now.

notimetocare · March 2017

Yes

Almost every program ever has a memory leak, what matters is severity

MLGProPlayer · March 2017

Meri20098 wrote: »

Rawst wrote: »

Meri20098 wrote: »

I've tweaked the setting.ini file and it's freed up tons of FPS I also close the launcer after launching the game and that helps a lot

Tweaked how exactly?

Also, I've got memory leak-related crashes a few times, not often or regularly. For some time now I've been using the exe file to start the game.

This link is a good start to tweaking FPS but you can google it too.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/elderscrollsonline/comments/3jjoql/are_you_having_fps_issues_wih_eso_on_a_pc_well/

Most tweaks have a minimal impact on FPS (I personally haven't noticed any difference, and I've applied every possible tweak). You'll get the biggest boost by dropping view distance, but at the expense of the game world looking barren.

fgoron2000 · March 2017

Yes

take out the word "currently"...<g>

actually I'm convinced of it...until recently I had been playing on a good machine, but a few years old & showing its age. It's a 2nd gen i7, with 8gb of memory, and I had what appeared to be a lot of leakage. Now, my new machine is a 7th gen i7 with 32gb and it takes longer now, but the same thing happens...so yeah, I think there's a pretty significant memory leak...but that's just my opinion

...further, my symptoms are less related to fps and ping, which are numeric indicators of what's happening, but more with the increasing choppiness & latency that I actually experience as the time go by when I'm playing. My fps and ping seem to bounce up & down frequently, and they don't appear to have a significant correlation with the choppiness & latency that I experience...go figure...anyway like I said, with the newer machine and more RAM, it takes longer to start getting choppy but it's still happening to a lesser degree...

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