Hello! I am Lagging (or
@Shmoopy if you prefer.)
I have had unexplained crippling lag for three months now, ever since I moved to Sweden and upgraded my PC. I had it before, just not as consistently as I do now. I still play on NA. I'll try to format this to be as easy to read as possible, but I have a lot of information and a tendency to ramble.
Now when I say lag, I mean specifically
framerate drops.
My fps rarely gets over 30 inside cities and dungeons, but also drops down to around 5 consistently, essentially making other content like Trials and Cyrodiil impossible for me to play in. I've done a lot of testing to see what could be causing this, and I'd like to document it here. I would love for constructive input but please take the time to read this!
First, my specs (Sorry if wordy, pulled from my part lists):
CPU: Intel - Core i5-7600K 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor (Yes, it's been unparked, with no changes)
Mobo: MSI - Z270 GAMING M3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
RAM: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 8GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory
GPU: MSI - Radeon RX 480 4GB ARMOR OC Video Card
(BEFORE you say EW AMD?! I have already checked this. My boyfriend and I swapped GPU- his being a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti- with NO change to the fps at all for either of us)Storage:
1 Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (ESO is saved here)
1 Kingston - A400 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Unnecessary info-
PSU: Corsair - CXM 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master - Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler
Case: Fractal Design - Define R5 (Black) ATX Mid Tower CaseI cannot stress this enough- On my boyfriend's PC, which SHOULD be inferior to mine, I get a consistent 70 FPS. His specs listed below.CPU: Intel i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (It has NOT been unparked)
Mobo: Asus - Z170-A ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
RAM: I cant see what type, but it's 16GB (4x4)
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti (Currently we are swapped- he has my RX 480 and I have his 750 Ti and he had NO noticeable changes in FPS)
Storage:
1 Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (ESO is saved here)
1 ADATA - Premier SP550 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Here you can see a few things:
- Playing at the barest minimum settings (Is this really ESO?!)
- All addons disabled
- Standing in Wayrest at 2AM CST
- CPU Unparked
- High speed internet
- ESO not even using all resources according to task manager
- STILL ONLY~22 FPS
"Have you tried completely uninstalling the game and reinstalling it from scratch? Or running the repair? Or resetting your in-game settings? Or disabling your addons? Or closing all other programs while ESO is running?"
If you're asking this you're probably an automated response. Yes I have tried this you silly.
"Have you tried the ESO Performance tweaks Mega Thread suggestions?"
Yes. I've tried them all, the usersettings changes, the control panel changes, the CPU unparking, they all made NO difference.
"But Lagging, have you tried playing on the EU servers where you belong?"
The answer is yes. The result is unchanged-
https://puu.sh/zzyBl/022c06ea35.jpg"Do you lag in other games, or just ESO?"
Only ESO. I'll have the occasional spikes in other games same as anyone (more often now that I don't have my RX 480) but no where near as much consistent low FPS as I do in ESO.
"This is a waste of time- obviously ESO is just poorly made and is the cause of your lag."
I would believe this if it weren't for my boyfriend's PC getting next to no framerate lag at all, with supposedly worse specs than mine.
Are all your drivers up to date? Is your Visual C++ and DirectX up to date? Is your Windows up to date? Did you do a clean removal of drivers when you and your boyfriend swapped GPU?
Yes.
FIX ATTEMPTS TO-DO LIST:
- Try swapping RAM with boyfriend
- Try swapping CPU with boyfriend (I REALLY don't want to have to do this.. bleh)