textures not loading or taking a long time (especially stairs / walls / floors)

Nemesis7884 · May 2017

Sometimes in recent weeks textures take a really long time to load or dont load proparly at all (for example stairs stay at a very low resolution and remain flat)...this effect started to appear more often in recent days... Is there anything i can do to prevent or reduce this effect? Is it related to texture quality? View distance? GPU memory?

Nemesis7884 · May 2017

ps: it happens most noticeably in cities - for example wayrest

idk · May 2017

Likely on your end as you seem to understand. It could be anything along the lines of CPU and GPU capacity, hard drive instead of an SSD and total RAM along with how cleanly our PC is runner. Several of these aspects can have an effect.

Maybe start with posting your PC specs.

Edit: I have no issues with anything loading up and resolution is always normal.

nimander99 · May 2017

I've actually been noticing this since the last patch. Eso is the only game on this PC I'm using and I only visit this website from this computer. I bought it solely for ESO I have never added anything to this PC except base Window's updates and Nvidia updates.

I have never had these texture load issues prior to our last patch...

LadyDestiny · May 2017

It's been really bad. Orsinium is the worst, wayrest, and shornhelm was horrible in rivenspire. Most major cities. Craglorn is starting to turn into another orsinium it seems. Walls are missing and doors on buildings that should not have them. Constant freezing and crashing. Things are not rendering properly. I wish they would fix this stuff before adding more dlc to the load.

Nemesis7884 · May 2017

i have 32gb ram, ssd, i5 cpu and gtx 680

I am just wondering what settings i could tweak to improve on it...it increasing view range would help or lowering graphics quality or reduce the mip loading thing or if its a gpu ram problem....or view distance

It also started after the past few patches...(also loading times increased quite a bit)

lunalitetempler · May 2017

Happened to me, had to re - install.

Whatelse73b14_ESO · May 2017

I've had the issue at times too, but just in cities when they seemed fairly packed. So, I didn't much worry about it. I also have to logout if I'm playing for more than a couple hours straight to refresh because of what I've heard is a memory leak and I lose FPS big time. But, I log back in and everything is fine after.

Rox83 · May 2017

Giles.floydub17_ESO wrote: »

Likely on your end as you seem to understand. It could be anything along the lines of CPU and GPU capacity, hard drive instead of an SSD and total RAM along with how cleanly our PC is runner. Several of these aspects can have an effect.

Maybe start with posting your PC specs.

Edit: I have no issues with anything loading up and resolution is always normal.

Happens on the Console versions too.

itehache · May 2017

This happens a lot to me but only in Cyrodiil, that's why I think it is not my pc. I play in high graphics and I have no problem at all with performance (maybe just a bit in trials or big cyro groups, but still the game is playable). I do not really mind but I would like to know why this happens.

Shadow_Viper_vX · May 2017

Part of the performance/lag issues that are well over-due for being fixed/addressed

Sleep · May 2017

you need ryzen

Nemesis7884 · May 2017

it just irritates me that it started a few days/weeks ago and wasn't an issue before, also loading times got a lot longer... i don't want to reinstall if i don't see that as a really viable option... could "repair" help?

I will upgrade to ryzen or the new intel cpu's that should be introduced end of this month, but i doubt this will help since the game uses mostly 1 core afai understand

Has anyone had any success in improving on the situation? just relogging?

SydneyGrey · May 2017

I was noticing that a lot in Orsinium today, but I suspect (could be wrong) that it's because the place was more crowded than usual today because 1) it's Saturday and 2) people are trying to finish up Orsinium quests and achievements before Morrowind comes out. Next weekend will probably be busy, too.

MotokoKusanagi34 · May 2017

It's a server issue, anyone on console remembers pre Tamriel Unlimited? That was atrocious and literally unplayable. Dunno if it was the same on PC. This still happens in places like Abah's Landing

Narvuntien · May 2017

Pretty normal for this to happen for me... I got used to it.

The worst thing is when you lag the hell out in the middle of a city when you are in a quest. For example, one of the quests has you fight a ghost in wayrest graveyard, I always lag out and die to that ghost because I am in the middle of wayrest. Also trying to do quests in Rawh'la is impossible.

Seriously stop dueling in the middle of cities!

Zypheran · May 2017

OP i dont think the problem is on your end. I and 2 others were talking about this in guildchat this week. There has been a sudden lag in the loading of textures in busy cities. It started during Jester Festival but got noticeably worse in last 2 weeks. It is most noticeable in crowded areas. Port to Elden Root or Wayrest and go straight to the undaunted camp and it currently takes considerable time for textures to load. I have a 2 year old rig with 16gb ram, i7, ssd and a gtx970. I only use it for gaming, there is very little additional programs effecting performance so i doubt the issue is on the players end.

Tasear · May 2017

Depends on your system, but if you search hard enough on the threads you will notice it's a design issue on how the textures load in. You won't notice this on higher performing in computer but it does exist.

You can do several things, change subsampling to zero, maping to zero, and such. Google esp npc loading in, and eso optimization. As to sum up this I hope this gets looked at someday.... maybe it's the true root of our eso lag @ZOS_GinaBruno

JasonSilverSpring · May 2017

I never have this problem so not sure it is a server issue.

They did change the default from the 32 bit to the 64 bit executable recently. Were you using the 32 bit before? Maybe try changing it from one to the other to see if that helps. You can change it via the gear icon in the top right on the launcher.

Also did you install the latest Windows 10 update? If so, perhaps try reinstalling your graphics driver.

Nemesis7884 · May 2017

hmmm good thing then i'll get a new pc if intel hurries the f up and releases their "next" cpu's so i can build my new system

burglar · May 2017

I started encountering this problem a lot more once I got a horse that ran faster than the game could render textures. It's kind of cool in a way

zaria · May 2017

Have it in one place a lot.

Love the rain drop splash on the non textured surface and the floating book.
Here I raced from the wayshrine to the outpost to pick up the delve quest.
Effect last for 3-5 second and I will run in place on the line and can not cross.
Picking up the dungeon quests first solve it as it give time for the far part to load, but often I wanted to save the old quests if no time for dungeon runs.