Bonzodog01 wrote: »

You know, looking at some responses, I am beginning to think that the loading screens are more a client-side issue than server side?

People with top-end hardware and top end connections (150 Mbps+) very rarely if ever see these screens, and the lower you go in bandwidth and hardware, the longer these screens get.

On the Xbox, the first one has a standard 500Gb HDD, so loading times are pretty high - plus, being on a constantly evolving bleeding edge version of Win 10 means the client is unstable and suffers memory leaks a lot.

I mean, when we do get a loading screen on the EU servers, they can be damned long. We often get them just porting around the tamriel map. Shortest I have ever seen (I have a UK VM 160Mbps link btw) for my Xbox is about 15 seconds. For cyrodiil, I average 90 second loading screens - and even then, the Xbox uses a shortest possible draw distance to save rendering too much on screen, and often other people will load in after I have loaded in, appearing as black shadows initially, then actually rendering after about a further 15 seconds.