graphic stutter on PC EU after the Summerset launch

dalgrimar187 · May 2018

Ye i noticed my general fps has decreased allot to.
When in a low populated zone like Greenshade i used to have like 144fps after launching the game and just standing still.
Now its max 90-100fps.

Eyran · May 2018

@ZOS_BillE , It's a long topic with multiple users reporting the same issues. A response (and hopefully a fix) would be nice

Korax · May 2018

Mine goes down to a constant 12 FPS and its been like this since 3rd May. It would be smooth then go down to 13 and stay there. Briefly fixed if I min/max and returning a minute or less.

The fix seems to be to opt not to plat this beta game for a month or two and see if its fixed or not. Most of the time I find you are battling the game technology rather than the game world itself. I'm not a numbskull, I'm running a clean and tidy machine as I need to for my software development purposes.

ZOS_Bill · May 2018

An update has been posted here about the graphical stuttering players are experiencing. We are working on resolving the micro-freezes happening since the update.

wavingblue · May 2018

ZOS_BillE wrote: »

An update has been posted here about the graphical stuttering players are experiencing. We are working on resolving the micro-freezes happening since the update.

Thanks for the update, when is this issue going to be resolved? Really was hoping to play a fair bit this weekend but the stuttering and massive FPS drops are bad enough to seriously bugger things.

Meld777 · May 2018

@Dyride any luck with your addon experiments?

Rydik · May 2018

Constant fps drops, lags after patch and around ~1 sec slutters from time to time. And basically tons of other bugs here at there... For what is PTS testing exist i dont know...

Kainarel · May 2018

My windows 10 game mode isn't active while I play, and I have no add-ons, so those possible reasons aren't my case. It's the patch, something in that patch degraded our fps scores so it started to drop suddenly and drastically causing freezes.
We hope it will be resolved, because playing the game with them is not all too enjoyable.
I have been trying to play all these days, and nothing changed. Still same bad fps all over the maps, no matter where and when you are.

Spacefish2323 · May 2018

They had my stuttering and huge FPS drop fixed between Wednesday and Friday, and now I logged in today (Sunday) and it's back. Is this a live game that's been online for years? Because it sure feels like a closed beta right now.

KOkoMah · May 2018

Spacefish2323 wrote: »

Because it sure feels like a closed beta right now.

No, it's actually an open beta. PTS is the closed beta, this is why they failed to find the performance issues.

With that clarified, I am experiencing the same problems as everyone else here. Usually I am running almost stable 60 fps and never had such performance drops until the Summerset update. For me it drops to 10~20 fps for a few sec and the ping jumps to 180+ at the same time (my usual ping is below 100). Hopefully they will fix it rather sooner than later or I will seriously reconsider which gaming service deserves my money.

With all that said, the new zone is gorgeous, you can't deny that. Multi-levels/layers buildings, dungeons and what not is amazing solution for what initially looks like a rather small map.

Stormshaper · May 2018

KOkoMah wrote: »

With all that said, the new zone is gorgeous, you can't deny that.

It is a gorgeous zone...when I'm standing perfectly still so my graphics aren't glitching in a new and extremely aggravating manner.

Kainarel · May 2018

Stormshaper wrote: »

KOkoMah wrote: »

With all that said, the new zone is gorgeous, you can't deny that.

It is a gorgeous zone...when I'm standing perfectly still so my graphics aren't glitching in a new and extremely aggravating manner.

Precisely that.
It's very beautiful, very enjoyable - IF ONLY not for all the issues with performance.
I can't ride through Alinor without freezing. And it kicked me out two times when it froze too bad. It doesn't add much enthusiasm to play around before this FPS issue is fixed.

VadimAleks · May 2018

This is not a problem for the graphics card, drivers or PC. This problem is that the ZOS have changed the algorithm for loading textures and now during the fast movement (sprint run) they do not have time to load, which leads to freeze.
Once I clicked on the sprint when I entered the Daggerfall Outlaw Refuge. And loaded only those textures that were in my field of vision. If i turn the camera - there were no textures. And this effect lasted until i exit location.
And its not my hard drive - i use SSD and everything was loaded perfectly UNTIL this damned patch!
Every major update (Morrowind, now Summerset) ZOS breaks down one of the basic game mechanics and there is no chance of fix. The broken mechanics of the werewolf buff and animation howl they did not fix for a year (after Summerset I did not check yet).

Kainarel · May 2018

VadimAleks wrote: »

This is not a problem for the graphics card, drivers or PC. This problem is that the ZOS have changed the algorithm for loading textures and now during the fast movement (sprint run) they do not have time to load, which leads to freeze.
Once I clicked on the sprint when I entered the Daggerfall Outlaw Refuge. And loaded only those textures that were in my field of vision. If i turn the camera - there were no textures. And this effect lasted until i exit location.
And its not my hard drive - i use SSD and everything was loaded perfectly UNTIL this damned patch!
Every major update (Morrowind, now Summerset) ZOS breaks down one of the basic game mechanics and there is no chance of fix. The broken mechanics of the werewolf buff and animation howl they did not fix for a year (after Summerset I did not check yet).

That sucks. And it makes sense, the textures truly don't load as usual anymore. My friend was doing a quest the other day and went into the dungeon for it - and no textures loaded. Just a whole empty grey space. She was only able to fix that by logging out completely and then back again.
This needs to get fixed. It breaks the game for so many of us.

Korax · May 2018

Why am I getting EXACTLY and CONSISTENTLY 13 FPS?
No variations.

Kainarel · May 2018

Korax wrote: »

Why am I getting EXACTLY and CONSISTENTLY 13 FPS?
No variations.

Because they didn't fix it. There is no fix for fps issue in the latest patch - not that I saw, anyway, so there we have it.

Korax · May 2018

Seems to be the case...

Kainarel · May 2018

My fps doesn't even get to 60 anymore when outdoors. It's dancing between 20 and 40 with stuttering and freezing.
So it's totally not fixed yet.

Korax · May 2018

Sometimes I get my normal FPS rate until I change zones or change chars. Then the same area I was getting a more normal rate for my hardware of around 45 fps, it just drops to 13... like very specific 13 fps, like its locked to it. In exactly the same area I was getting a much higher playable rate.

Kainarel · May 2018

Somehow it's unplayable for me today, too many drops, and it barely rises above 20 at all. I can't even walk in Alinor without having problems.
How much longer should we suffer? When is the patch we need coming out?

Kainarel · May 2018

Also, this happened.
Textures fail with their new algorithms. It needs to be fixed as soon as possible. It's not an improvement, it's a fail.

Eyran · June 2018

Is there any update on when that fix is going live. Feels like it's taking a bit long...

arasysb14_ESO · June 2018

It seems problem is not just with EU server, I never had any issues like this since ESO's early beta and issue started with Summerset's launch. I play on NA server and have decent 180 MB connection, decent graphics card that has 16 GB ram, even so I either:

I- Get disconnected to login server, or game crashes

or

II- FPS drops to 30s or 20s from 100. I lowered graphics settings (even turned off grass and game looked like UO

) even then game ended up disconnecting.

Kainarel · June 2018

arasysb14_ESO wrote: »

It seems problem is not just with EU server, I never had any issues like this since ESO's early beta and issue started with Summerset's launch. I play on NA server and have decent 180 MB connection, decent graphics card that has 16 GB ram, even so I either:

I- Get disconnected to login server, or game crashes

or

II- FPS drops to 30s or 20s from 100. I lowered graphics settings (even turned off grass and game looked like UO ) even then game ended up disconnecting.

Thank you for your input. Yeah, I do have the fps spikes, they're sudden and drastic, and the freezes they cause can disconnect the game.
Turning graphics down does NOTHING, because it's not the source of the problem. I tried it, too, and then ended up returning to my high/ultra settings because nothing depends on that.
It's what one of the guys here in the thread explained: apparently there's an "improvement" introduced with Summerset that loads graphics differently than before, and that new algorithm produces our stutter and fps issue.
And no, no fixes have been introduced thus far. So I haven't played for days because it's just not gratifying a bit to fight through the performance issue of the game.

Silent84 · June 2018

I think my eso plus is going more on the greed side than fixing the game, i see people freezing close to me on dolmens, sometimes i freeze too, i don't wanna know, people with low pcs how they play this game man, when i start playing this game, i always ask myself, how people pay eso plus, with this slow servers, i never understand a game with this bad engine and the slowest servers charge people with 13 euros man, i am very sure 90% of the people pay eso +...i am very disappointed....this game has one of the best gameplay ever made it, they did beautiful things in this game, but the main problems they never fix it, you just load this game with so many dlcs, this game can have all the people in this world playin it, but this servers will push them away....

apologize for my english

Kainarel · June 2018

Well, tomorrow another patch maintenance seems to be scheduled. Here's to hope they fix something for us, because this has been ridiculous. All the hype for new zone went for nothing because the game doesn't perform as it should to let us enjoy it.

patents · June 2018

post summerset is horrible to play

the fps is so bad, same config same pc

not sure what's wrong

AishavariStarling · June 2018

Kainarel wrote: »

Also, this happened.
Textures fail with their new algorithms. It needs to be fixed as soon as possible. It's not an improvement, it's a fail.

What OS are you using, no one else seems to be mentioning it and I'm on W7

Kainarel · June 2018

AishavariStarling wrote: »

What OS are you using, no one else seems to be mentioning it and I'm on W7

I believe I wrote it in the very first post in this topic. I'm on Windows 10 latest version, everything is up to date.

VadimAleks · June 2018

So, who has a freeze after today's patch? It seems that it was caused by an integrated spyware, because I did not have them anymore . Played for about an hour in different locations - everything was fine, except for not loading textures, of course

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