Smasherx74 wrote: »

ESO only uses 1 core. Always has and always will.

Update 18 claims better multicore support. It's in notes.

personman_145 wrote: »

Just curious what if any differences you've noticed? Please include your system specs.

I am not seeing much improvement. I am seeing the load more distributed across my cores, but frame rate is still lower in cities. My fps was about 40-50 in Alinor with GPU usage at 50%. I tried deleting settings file and shader cache, but no improvement. Ran at Ultra-High preset.

I have an i7 5930K at 4.5 GHz, 32 gb mem, Titan X (Pascal), 1440p

So summerset has the multicore support and not update 18? Just curious, because if I have to wait for summerset for it, I'll just quit downloading PTS and wait.

personman_145 wrote: »

So summerset has the multicore support and not update 18? Just curious, because if I have to wait for summerset for it, I'll just quit downloading PTS and wait.

Summerset is Update 18. There's parts of that update that will be available to everyone (including multicore support) and stuff that's paygated (the zone itself and jewelry crafting).

So, yeah, go ahead and download, see if it improves performance for you.

themaddaedra wrote: »

I can definitely notice that load is distributed across all cores, and i'm getting constant 100+(115-120 avg i'd say) fps while running with maxed out ultra settings in Summerset.

But i'm more about trial fps, can't really say anything without seeing that one.

I'm running i7 7700K at 4,6GHz, GTX 1080 Ti FTW 3 with 16 gb 3200 mhz memory.

Edit: Resolution is 2560x1440.

Edit 2: It occasionally drops down to 70s with an average of 85 in Shimmerene, where there are loads of people atm.

Hmm, this is very interesting. I would say our configs are fairly similar, though you have a newer i7, my 5930K is clocked at 4.6 GHz. My Titan X (Pascal) is comparable to your 1080 Ti as well. But, in Alinor and Shimmerene I was rarely getting 70 or more; only when fairly isolated.

I wonder what the difference is. Neither my CPU cores or my GPU were anywhere near maxed out when my fps dropped.

JasonSilverSpring wrote: »

personman_145 wrote: »

Just curious what if any differences you've noticed? Please include your system specs.

I am not seeing much improvement. I am seeing the load more distributed across my cores, but frame rate is still lower in cities. My fps was about 40-50 in Alinor with GPU usage at 50%. I tried deleting settings file and shader cache, but no improvement. Ran at Ultra-High preset.

I have an i7 5930K at 4.5 GHz, 32 gb mem, Titan X (Pascal), 1440p

As my observations, i have seen that FPS related to network connectivity. So, if you have many players on place, the system seems to "wait" some "nano seconds" to play smoother animations / positioning of other characters. This "waiting" ends in smaller framerates. If you not have this system, you will see other players "micro warping" around or seeing lag shadows.

So i dont think it is a problem in graphic engine, more a network / architecture problem of the client.

JasonSilverSpring wrote: »

themaddaedra wrote: »

I can definitely notice that load is distributed across all cores, and i'm getting constant 100+(115-120 avg i'd say) fps while running with maxed out ultra settings in Summerset.

But i'm more about trial fps, can't really say anything without seeing that one.

I'm running i7 7700K at 4,6GHz, GTX 1080 Ti FTW 3 with 16 gb 3200 mhz memory.

Edit: Resolution is 2560x1440.

Edit 2: It occasionally drops down to 70s with an average of 85 in Shimmerene, where there are loads of people atm.

Hmm, this is very interesting. I would say our configs are fairly similar, though you have a newer i7, my 5930K is clocked at 4.6 GHz. My Titan X (Pascal) is comparable to your 1080 Ti as well. But, in Alinor and Shimmerene I was rarely getting 70 or more; only when fairly isolated.

I wonder what the difference is. Neither my CPU cores or my GPU were anywhere near maxed out when my fps dropped.

your max overclock 4.6Ghz is your limiting factor. I Succesfully predicted the 10-30% reported fps increase in the following thread a while ago:

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/404462/update-18-true-multi-core-cpu-support#latest

Note that the people that will see any increase are the ones who were previously bottlenecked by the single core performance of their (weak) processors. Especially low and mid range AMD cpu's will be affected most.

Those with bleeding edge singlecore overclocks will see close to no improvement in fps, even though process monitor will clearly show a better spreading of the load across all cores

I truly believe this is the best they can do concerning this rather complex problem. For instance the typical classic challenge in mmo's of buffering, prioritizing and synchronizing of network packets to make everything seem to be happening in realtime sync for everyone is a very cpu heavy task that cannot simply be split off into different cores.

reducing load on the main utilized core is a task 100 times more complex then it would seem to an average player and these results are completely in line with a proper attempt imho

profundidob16_ESO wrote: »

JasonSilverSpring wrote: »

themaddaedra wrote: »

I can definitely notice that load is distributed across all cores, and i'm getting constant 100+(115-120 avg i'd say) fps while running with maxed out ultra settings in Summerset.

But i'm more about trial fps, can't really say anything without seeing that one.

I'm running i7 7700K at 4,6GHz, GTX 1080 Ti FTW 3 with 16 gb 3200 mhz memory.

Edit: Resolution is 2560x1440.

Edit 2: It occasionally drops down to 70s with an average of 85 in Shimmerene, where there are loads of people atm.

Hmm, this is very interesting. I would say our configs are fairly similar, though you have a newer i7, my 5930K is clocked at 4.6 GHz. My Titan X (Pascal) is comparable to your 1080 Ti as well. But, in Alinor and Shimmerene I was rarely getting 70 or more; only when fairly isolated.

I wonder what the difference is. Neither my CPU cores or my GPU were anywhere near maxed out when my fps dropped.

your max overclock 4.6Ghz is your limiting factor. I Succesfully predicted the 10-30% reported fps increase in the following thread a while ago:

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/404462/update-18-true-multi-core-cpu-support#latest

Note that the people that will see any increase are the ones who were previously bottlenecked by the single core performance of their (weak) processors. Especially low and mid range AMD cpu's will be affected most.

Those with bleeding edge singlecore overclocks will see close to no improvement in fps, even though process monitor will clearly show a better spreading of the load across all cores

I truly believe this is the best they can do concerning this rather complex problem. For instance the typical classic challenge in mmo's of buffering, prioritizing and synchronizing of network packets to make everything seem to be happening in realtime sync for everyone is a very cpu heavy task that cannot simply be split off into different cores.

reducing load on the main utilized core is a task 100 times more complex then it would seem to an average player and these results are completely in line with a proper attempt imho

Perfect written.

DisgracefulMind wrote: »

I've seen a tremendous improvement on my end. The question is: will it be the same on live.

The problem with judging improvement on PTS is that single-core live needs to be compared to multicore live, not single core live to multicore pts.

Things always look great before you try to scale them.

ZeroXFF wrote: »

People talking about the FPS they get in Alinor are comparing apples to oranges. You have to compare the same area on PTS and live for the most adequate comparison. Go to an area where you always had issues on live and see if it's any different on PTS.

I agree. Here is what I posted last night in another thread.

I have a FX8350 with a 980ti and 16gb RAM. I made sure all add-ons were completely disabled and graphics settings are the same with high textures and subsampling quality, shadows water reflection quality and grass are turned off. Particle settings set at minimum and view distance maxed.

I did a standard skeleton burn at my house next to Rawl kha. On PTS I saw an improvement through the test of 10 fps minimum up to 19.

I then went from to the wayshrine at Elden Root and rode to the wayshrine at Redfur Trading post and had pretty similar results. 10-20 fps increase.

My CPU struggles and bottlenecks most open world games and ones that demand more from the CPU and ESO has always been the worst for my setup. But I am happy with the improvements shown so far on the PTS. Like @profundidob16_ESO mentioned above. Us AMD users with similar gear should see the biggest benefit from these changes.

I noticed a real difference in performance, not on a grand scale mind you but I was able to multi-task much better.
I have a Intel Core i7-3630QM @ 2.40GHz Number of Cores: 4 (2 logical cores per physical) which is not all that powerful, but performance on this PTS appears to be a lot better.

What will also be interesting is if fights with a lot of effects going at once have overall smoother game play. I doubt wandering around towns is particularly taxing for most setups.

Also interested to see if this is a performance improvement for my laptop which has 4 logical cores, but a slower clock than my PC.

I would guess that anybody with a clock speed over 4GHz will not see that much difference.

DisgracefulMind wrote: »

will it be the same on live.

that is my concern as well.