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long load screens are back with a vengeance
Mystrius_Archaion
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Since update 17 today, any time you encounter even a normally short load screen it will last at least 2-3 minutes.
I try to zone from one wayshrine in the same zone to another and it takes this long. You can go from the Brass Fortress wayshrine to the eastern wayshrine titled "Mire Mechanica" just outside the Brass Fortress and it takes this long. Even zoning into or out of the Everwound Wellspring takes forever. This is every zone.
I'm starting to think switching to 64bit only was a mistake. The game behaved better before the update so something has to be making it worse. And the long loading screens started, even if intermittent before, around the time they announced and were making subtle changes to facilitate the change to 64bit.
That's too fundamental a change for a still running game. That should require a complete code rewrite to work properly otherwise it just causes more problems than it is worth.
Performance is everything in MMOs, even more than offline games, so this could kill the game for me with all the other issues with latency and delays for several things.
I try to zone from one wayshrine in the same zone to another and it takes this long. You can go from the Brass Fortress wayshrine to the eastern wayshrine titled "Mire Mechanica" just outside the Brass Fortress and it takes this long. Even zoning into or out of the Everwound Wellspring takes forever. This is every zone.
I'm starting to think switching to 64bit only was a mistake. The game behaved better before the update so something has to be making it worse. And the long loading screens started, even if intermittent before, around the time they announced and were making subtle changes to facilitate the change to 64bit.
That's too fundamental a change for a still running game. That should require a complete code rewrite to work properly otherwise it just causes more problems than it is worth.
Performance is everything in MMOs, even more than offline games, so this could kill the game for me with all the other issues with latency and delays for several things.
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HoloYoitsu✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭I'll second that it's been taking 2-3 min on every single character log in from char select to ingame.
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TheRealPotoroo✭✭✭✭✭
✭I rarely if ever had long loading screens until the last 24 hours. Now they are more common than not, it's noticeably slower. ZoS desperately need to hire someone who knows how to optimize.PC NA, PC EU
"Instead of taking the best of the dolmens (predictable rotation), the best of the geysers (scalability based on number of players), and the best of the dragons (map location and health indicators) and adding them together to make a fun and dynamic world event scenario, they gave us....... harrowstorms." https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/6850523/#Comment_68505233 -
eso_nya✭✭✭✭✭
✭The problem started with the changes in 3.3.2 / EU char copy.
w/ templates loadscreens werent longer than on live.
After eu copy loadscreens went up to 3~5 minutes. didnt think much of it, "its pts duhh".
Any chance the old "load all the achievments" bug found a soulgem?0 -
deano469✭✭✭Same here. Very long load screens in Auridon today. The Firsthold wayshrine would take several minutes to load. It's the only one I had a major problem with, while trying to do the dolmen run.
Hope they figure it out quickly.0 -
aeirios✭✭same thing. very rarely have i had issues with long loading screens. now the character select loading takes much longer. ingame screens are sorta hit and miss but all are longer than they were.0
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starlizard70ub17_ESO✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭I'm not getting the 5 min load screens like some people are, but I am getting a 45 sec to 1 min load screen everywhere. Everytime I go in or out of any house, dungeon, new map area, use a wayshrine, etc, I hit a load screen."We have found a cave, but I don't think there are warm fires and friendly faces inside."0 -
Slick_007✭✭✭✭✭
✭105 seconds. timed multiple times and its almost always the same. only since patch0 -
Thogard✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭With costumes you have to load twice as much stuff
If you changed texture resolution it’s 4x
Delete your shader.cachePC NA - @dazkt - Dazk Ardoonkt / Sir Thogalot / Dask Dragoh’t / Dazk Dragoh’t / El Thogardo
Stream: twitch.tv/THOGARDvsThePeasants
YouTube: http://youtube.com/c/thogardpvp1 -
Wildberryjack✭✭✭✭✭
✭Takes several minutes on average now. Sometimes longer; I had time to reheat my coffee and get a snack and the loading screen was still cycling when I returned to my computer. PC, NA. Have not tested on the EU server.
Edited for auto-correct being wrong
Edited by Wildberryjack on February 13, 2018 5:03PMThe purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. ~Pablo Picasso0 -
victoriana-blue✭✭✭✭My loading screens are worse in particular areas, especially Vvardenfell and the Clockwork City, but Stormhaven wasn't much longer than usual and Scalecaller Peak was normal. That said, I might be reading too far into a random occurrence.CP 750+
Never enough inventory space, even with storage coffers and a mule account0 -
TheRealPotoroo✭✭✭✭✭
✭The official thread: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/380707/main-thread-for-long-loading-screens/p1PC NA, PC EU
"Instead of taking the best of the dolmens (predictable rotation), the best of the geysers (scalability based on number of players), and the best of the dragons (map location and health indicators) and adding them together to make a fun and dynamic world event scenario, they gave us....... harrowstorms." https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/6850523/#Comment_68505230 -
Mystrius_Archaion✭✭✭✭✭
✭Also noticed another error. My long term mementos, specifically the Storm Atronach Aura, are shutting off when using a wayshrine to move to another part of the same zone. It was still on cooldown but no more graphics or sound, which I didn't like.
I'm not a fan of the shared cooldown for everything in the quick slot either. Sometimes you want to have a memento effect going but still need a potion.0 -
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✭✭✭✭✭same here these are the two most noticebale bugs - a huge lag when swapping bars and loading screens are much longer now then before...the average loading screen now lasts between 45 seconds and 2 minutes....Edited by Nemesis7884 on February 14, 2018 5:22AM0 -
Palidon✭✭✭✭✭
✭The load screen problem is game wide. Some zones worse than others. ZOS is aware of the nightmare they created with their new DLC and update and have a fix apparently for the next patch addressing Clockwork City and Vvanderfel. My problem is why not a hotfix now. Why do we always have to wait for the next patch. This load screen crap is totally pathetic and a problem that has been plaguing their game for years. Yet no resolve.
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