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Skill/bar swap lag

leeshi
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Anyone else start experience skill/bar swap lag about 2 days ago. My internet is fine, <30ms pings to google (steady).. but in eso I'm getting ability lag. Not all the time but regularly. I've never had issues before. My ping in game jumps from 80 to up to 350 or so and back down to 100s. I checked my pings to the actual eso server and they were steady between 60-80 the whole time my in game ping jumped around.

So I can only think that it's the server itself. I tested on my laptop too just to make sure it wasn't my game files.

Just curious if other people are experiencing this, or more than usual? Again I've never had lag issues with eso in the time I've played it (since launch off and on) until 2 days ago (maybe 3).
  • Mondini
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    yep I noticed this so did some friends
  • madchuska83
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    Console servers are bad since Morrowind as well. Lag so bad you get booted for stacking too many button presses.
  • scrobey
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    I'm getting this as well.. I can play other games just fine.
  • leeshi
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    Yea I just did a ton of testing ... reset all my network stuff to start. Then disabled all addons. Tested on 3 different PCs on 2 different accounts.

    All have the problem.

    My pings are great to anything I test on the internet and resmon is reporting good latency to eso64.exe's network connections, but in game it jumps around ping wise and lags on switches, etc. It's not major but it's super noticeable especially since you have to animation cancel to pull good dps. So my dps has dropped.

    This started since Thursday or so, maybe earlier. Could have been related to a patch this week if there was one, maybe not.
  • Skinzz
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    This is day 2 for unplayable lag. Every session has lasted no more than 30 mins due to me rage quitting. I tested my internet at home numerous times but everything is normal?
    Anybody got a group? LFG, anybody? Hello?
  • Nyghthowler
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    Skill bar swapping has had problems since launch. It's a real PitA considering how the combat system is set up.
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  • eso_lags
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    @leeshi this is the norm on xbox.. Has been for months. So frustrating, so neglected.
  • Lirkin
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    I have been have this and high ping count causing a lot of lag issues. Sometimes as bad as rubberbanding. I get some time when I hit a key and it takes a while to happen and if I hit the keys multiple times and nothing happens I get disconnected from the server saying that I sent to many commands to the server in a certain time so I get disconnected.

    They have some major server problems this week.

    Ping counts in the 400s and higher a lot.

    I have fiber connection to the internet and have tested and I get 800 mbs up and download but a crappy connection to there servers.
  • Lirkin
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    I am using Steam so that may be something to do with it as some how the connection goes through them and that connection works like the connections for the consoles.
  • LadyDestiny
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    leeshi wrote: »
    Anyone else start experience skill/bar swap lag about 2 days ago. My internet is fine, <30ms pings to google (steady).. but in eso I'm getting ability lag. Not all the time but regularly. I've never had issues before. My ping in game jumps from 80 to up to 350 or so and back down to 100s. I checked my pings to the actual eso server and they were steady between 60-80 the whole time my in game ping jumped around.

    So I can only think that it's the server itself. I tested on my laptop too just to make sure it wasn't my game files.

    Just curious if other people are experiencing this, or more than usual? Again I've never had lag issues with eso in the time I've played it (since launch off and on) until 2 days ago (maybe 3).

    This ^^^&
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  • MarbleQuiche
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    Lirkin wrote: »
    I am using Steam so that may be something to do with it as some how the connection goes through them and that connection works like the connections for the consoles.

    That's not how it works. It's not how it works on consoles either. Any lag will be down to your net connection or Zeni's servers.

    Swapping bars has been really responsive over the past year from where it was, but it has felt a little more sluggish over the past few days. I've had a few occasions of skills not firing too. Not sure why. Everthing else appears responsive enough.
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  • leeshi
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    Lirkin wrote: »
    I am using Steam so that may be something to do with it as some how the connection goes through them and that connection works like the connections for the consoles.

    That's not how it works. It's not how it works on consoles either. Any lag will be down to your net connection or Zeni's servers.

    Swapping bars has been really responsive over the past year from where it was, but it has felt a little more sluggish over the past few days. I've had a few occasions of skills not firing too. Not sure why. Everthing else appears responsive enough.

    Yea it's messing with my animation cancels.. and my dps has dropped since sometimes the skill won't go off properly during the switch. Never had this before, it's been a few days of it now so it's probably something that changed in last weeks patch.

    I can literally sit there and spam my bar swap and most of them are fast and perfect then all of a sudden one has this stupid hiccup, usually taking 1-2s to swap, then back to normal. This happens every 5-10s where I get that lag all of a sudden. Interferes not just with swaps but light weaves too. My light attacks won't go off, just my skill. Really annoying since they kinda made the game require animation canceling to get the good dps #s.

    Edit: I mean I'm doing a db daily right now and it's happening during loots, regular skill usage, everything. Not all the time, just once every 5-10s or so. It's stupidly annoying.
    Edited by leeshi on July 3, 2017 7:42AM
  • wolfxspice
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    yup my xbox has a 30 ping 60mb download, but it takes me over a second to swap bars and healing springs hasn't been working right, it started a few days ago, this doesn't seem like the normal lag.
    I'm a casual now
  • Yarlenzey
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    All that ^^^^

    The thing I'm getting also, that no-one else has mentioned, is the scene-swap.

    I am moving; and then suddenly the scene changes to something nearby and then back to where I was again.
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  • leeshi
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    @Yarlenzey Just got that in cyro about an hour ago! They definitely broke something on that last patch.

    @ZOS_GinaBruno sorry hate to be one of those tag zos people in every post types, but this seems like a legit bug. :)
  • Kushh
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    Been having both issues for awhile now, Xbox na.
  • McCracken79
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    You can have the best internet in the world and it would not matter. It is that their servers are being overloaded and/or their net code is atrocious. This is my opinion here but I believe that the majority of these lag issues has to do with the guild stores and all the trading that is going on.

    Now I am not pointing blame at everyone that trades but hear me out. When you move an item from your inventory to your bank/guild bank or a straight up trade it requires processing power because the database needs to be updated. Now a couple hundred players doing it at once shouldn't be too much of an issues however when you have that going on, people buying from guild traders, tons of farming going on (bots), bank transfers, private transfers and emailing items this can be extremely taxing on their servers due to the amount of items being transfered. When you add that to everything else that is going on during prime time, yeah it could be bad. Ever wonder why when you send an email to someone or buy something from a guild store it takes forever to get to you unless you port to a different location? I know a little about networking since I do it for my job everyday but I lack knowledge in game development so I may be full of it here :# .

    All I am saying is that perhaps there are other issues going on besides what people think is causing this ridiculous lag. At times I can be in the middle of no where with no one around but my self and get ping spikes up to 999+, why is that? Just a thought here that maybe they could have over looked. Again, I am not pointing blame at traders I am blaming ZOS for the terrible performance and I hope they get their butt in gear soon and fix these issues.
    Edited by McCracken79 on July 3, 2017 12:00PM
  • Theodard
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    It made for some interesting moments in Cyrodiil this weekend to be sure. Found myself screaming internally "why wont you swap? why will Healing Ward not ward?"

    Meh. All in a day though.
  • Arkvoril
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    Yarlenzey wrote: »
    All that ^^^^

    The thing I'm getting also, that no-one else has mentioned, is the scene-swap.

    I am moving; and then suddenly the scene changes to something nearby and then back to where I was again.

    I also had the Scene-Swap happen to me last night.....twice. Not to mention my ping usually sits at low 100's........but recently as a few days ago, I am intermittently hitting +999. If I am PVEing, my bars will lock up and I know I am about to get booted. Dungeons seems worse now for me. Last night I waited 2:00 hours to get in a group.(I'm DPS so yes I know the times are long but not this long.) After getting in to Darkshade Caverns II I believe, i was Pinging +999 and disconnected every 5 minutes or so. I gave up and went PVEing and noticed the scene-swapping, and then my death multiple times from actually being somewhere else dying while looking like i was running to my next objective.

    Checked all equipment in my house and reset and tested everything. Still same outcome. Daughters and wife are playing other games just fine, and I can to. Just not ESO.

    Edit to add: Wanted to point out I don't always get booted from PVE. Ping will skyrocket.....sometimes i get the boot, sometimes i don't. But dungeons seems to kick me as soon as i get in almost.
    Edited by Arkvoril on July 3, 2017 12:10PM
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  • leeshi
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    So today is so bad I think I'm about done with eso. It sucks, really enjoying the game, but I just can't play like this. Spikes to over 1k all day long. Disconnects (that one's new). Internet is fine, other games fine, google fine. Pings to eso fine. Eso in game pings 1k+ spikes back to 100, back to 500, etc.

    Haven't seen any acknowledgement of server issues or a bad patch from ZOS in the last week since it started either. :/

    Gonna go check out the re-release of TSW I think. :)
  • Kram8ion
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    Yup and timed the delay worst took 8 secs to swap weapons not to mention the times it just won't swap and then it's oh *** I'm about to get kicked from server :|
    Aussie lag is real!
  • Lylith
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    i've got the bar swap blues, too. reminds me of being in a zergfest in cyrodil.

    i also get this i-suddenly-can't-attack-dodge roll-heal-interact-with-anything glitch where my stam gets drained with no regen.

    but i CAN be killed, of course. that side of the equation seems to be working as intended. :/

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