Still painfully slow...

Arthur_Spoonfondle · June 2017

I've just returned to this game, after a long break and find it remarkable that after more than three years and innumerable previous complaints, logging in and character loading still take a ridiculously long time. I was in right at the start and played the beta, this was a problem then...

Nemesis7884 · June 2017

But now with a lot more people and content to load...so i guess they improved ^^

Rawreak Rovyre · June 2017

Almost as slow as Final Fantasy 14's combat system.

Sueedo · June 2017

Wait till you stuck in one of the Cyrodiil's loading screens

Franieck · June 2017

A little piece of trivia: if you just downloaded something or changed some settings (like shadows, texture maps) the loading times are gonna be really huge ( I am not sure why). After it has loaded the first time though, loading times become pretty ok (about 15-30 sec?)

Jonno · June 2017

think it may be your system as i dont have long character loads or loadscreens

Turelus · June 2017

If we remove all loading times when will have time to post on the forums?

EnglishTea123 · June 2017

Nemesis7884 wrote: »

But now with a lot more people and content to load...so i guess they improved ^^

More content? Yes. More people? Uh... refer to that other thread about 10 mil players... lol

kagorsa · June 2017

The login server is not the same as the game server, and may not even be in the same data centre.

That being said I rarely get slow logins, the only times I can think of are when the servers come back up and there is a huge influx of people trying to log in, which all online games suffer. They may even throttle the intake at server startup to stop the login server crashing.

Jeremy · June 2017

Arthur_Spoonfondle wrote: »

I've just returned to this game, after a long break and find it remarkable that after more than three years and innumerable previous complaints, logging in and character loading still take a ridiculously long time. I was in right at the start and played the beta, this was a problem then...

My issue isn't the loading times. It's the lag.

I was hoping they had fixed this after all these years. But nope. Today for example I simply had to log because I was consistently having massive lag spikes in the 900+ range making the game literally unplayable.

Skjoldur · June 2017

Franieck wrote: »

A little piece of trivia: if you just downloaded something or changed some settings (like shadows, texture maps) the loading times are gonna be really huge ( I am not sure why). After it has loaded the first time though, loading times become pretty ok (about 15-30 sec?)

Your definition of "pretty ok" definitly differs from mine.

And since SSD's or any other local upgrades change anything, I guess it is that *** backend of theirs and / or the networking.

Kodrac · June 2017

And here I was expecting a thread about heavy attacks. Pffft.

Romo · June 2017

Jeremy wrote: »

Arthur_Spoonfondle wrote: »

I've just returned to this game, after a long break and find it remarkable that after more than three years and innumerable previous complaints, logging in and character loading still take a ridiculously long time. I was in right at the start and played the beta, this was a problem then...

My issue isn't the loading times. It's the lag.

I was hoping they had fixed this after all these years. But nope. Today for example I simply had to log because I was consistently having massive lag spikes in the 900+ range making the game literally unplayable.

this.. i can tolerate 500+ lag, but 999+ is silly...

Chilly-McFreeze · June 2017

Skjoldur wrote: »

Franieck wrote: »

A little piece of trivia: if you just downloaded something or changed some settings (like shadows, texture maps) the loading times are gonna be really huge ( I am not sure why). After it has loaded the first time though, loading times become pretty ok (about 15-30 sec?)

Your definition of "pretty ok" definitly differs from mine.

And since SSD's or any other local upgrades change anything, I guess it is that *** backend of theirs and / or the networking.

Strange. I've got no uberfast internet connection and an ordinary pc with SSD and I don't experience long loading screens. The only time they are longer than usual is after a patch.