I confirm the 760 issues fps drop.

did not happen on CBT nor on PST! only since launch i have those issues
nothing on my pc has changed since then

Nicor wrote: »

Its not affecting my 600 series card. So my assumption, which could be totally wrong. Is that this issue is only with 700 series drivers. I run this game maxed out. High/ultra and all sliders up without any issue. Far as the AMD guys go though from what i'm told AMD releases driver less freqently than nvidia. AMD guys might just have to wait it out.

My 690 seems fine also. The game is running on only one GPU though, so I will try out new drivers if/when NVidia supports an SLI profile for ESO.

rlaurengeb16_ESO wrote: »

I have a GTX TITAN and an i5 3570 and I have horrible fps in ultra high settings in cities (around 30) and never goes more than 45-50 in open zones. Whenever there is lots of people, fps drops. In most interiors, fps goes up to 100 but spikes greatly depending on how many people are there.

GPU stands around 50% use... so I would guess there's something wrong with the game itself, cause all my other games takes full advantages of my gpu. ESO is far from being able to make a GTX TITAN sweat, and although my proc is not the best, I've seen people with far better proc having this issue.

I'm going to try latest nvidia beta drivers and see what happens.

Also, having a true fullscreen mode will help to gain some more stable fps.

Exactly the same issue on my gtx 670. It sits at about 45 to 50% use.

So something is not right with the game.

I have 760GTX and I run game on high with zero issues... I have i7 processor 16 GB RAM

Would love to get some official acknowledgement that this issue is noticed. It seems that we are nothing but an ignored voice crying in the wilderness. Neither Zenimax or Nvidia etc has commented.

anyone attempted using really old drivers to combat this problem? like ones that were around from early beta?

I know I'm grasping at straws here, I just really want to play this game.

Hello guys! I might have found the answer to those similar issues you guys are having. First of all my PC spec is, Intel Core i5 3570k @ 4.4GHz, 16 GB of RAM, Geforce GTX 560 Ti 448 cores and ASUS z77 Sabertooth Mobo. I had serious fps issue even at the starting point in Wailing Prison it was at about 30 fps on high/ultra setting and I tried to lower my video setting to medium/low and I was able to barely get 50 - 60 fps. I knew something was wrong with this because I was able to play Skyrim at 60 fps flat on Ultra setting. I also realize that this game is heavy CPU based so I suspected that it had to do with my CPU and I did recall enabling Intel virtualization technology for virtual machine. So I decided to go to BIO setting and disabled this feature. Now my fps improved greatly and I was able to get 60 fps flat on high/ultra setting with vsync enabled.

I felt like I wanted to express this because I am the only one who had the answer to this issue that nobody on this forum have ever mentioned of this.. Hope this helped! Cheers!

seems that latest NVIDIA beta helped but I couldn't test much and I had ESOhead activated which caused massive stuttering so I will try again tomorrow without it.

I'll take a look at this Intel virtualization technology but I'm not sure where to look to see if it's there or not.

rlaurengeb16_ESO wrote: »

I have a GTX TITAN and an i5 3570 and I have horrible fps in ultra high settings in cities (around 30) and never goes more than 45-50 in open zones. Whenever there is lots of people, fps drops. In most interiors, fps goes up to 100 but spikes greatly depending on how many people are there.

GPU stands around 50% use... so I would guess there's something wrong with the game itself, cause all my other games takes full advantages of my gpu. ESO is far from being able to make a GTX TITAN sweat, and although my proc is not the best, I've seen people with far better proc having this issue.

I'm going to try latest nvidia beta drivers and see what happens.

Also, having a true fullscreen mode will help to gain some more stable fps.

You guys with $800 titans should have no issue as long as the rest of your rig is up to par. I run basically lag free on ultra with this setup

AMD FX-8320 3.5Gz eight core, 2TB SATA III 7200 RPM HD, 8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz memory, LG BLU-RAY player, Gigabyte GA-970a-DS3P MoBo, EVGA Supernova 750w PSU, Samsung 840 evo series 120GB SSD, XFX AMD Radeon Radeon R9 270x 2GB PCI-E 3.0.

Nicor wrote: »

wonder is this is an issue like diablo3 had. where people using mechanical drives had massive stuttering due to asset loading. I'm running the game on a samsung830 SSD. Also will confirm that the new beta nvidia drivers seemed to give about an average frame boost of 4-5 fps in ghratwood. so now we have people saying that the 600 series are having problems as well. this does not seem like a driver issue to me now. Seems there might be something else, being as not all 600/700 series cards are affected.

Not only are all cards of those series not affected, some people with the exact same model of card are experiencing drastically different things. Myself and a friend both are running a Zotac GTX760 AMP! with the exact same clock settings(We ordered them together). He gets a flawless 60fps no matter what, I get a very unstable experience most notably in cities and in Cyrodiil pvp.

The only notable differences in his and my computer are that my game is on a Samsung 840EVO 120gb SSD (He only has a HDD) and his computer is running a 4.2GHz AMD FX series CPU where as I am running a AMD Phenom II X4 965 clocked at around 3.7GHz. All other parts are identical, specs wise.

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I've decided to take this as an opportunity to upgrade my 5 year old CPU. I will be seeing if this makes a noticeable difference, and if it does I will be sure to let people know. It is possible that this is a CPU related issue, and if it is I am positive the FX-8350 Black Edition I just ordered will more than make up for it should that be the case. If not, I have been needing a CPU upgrade lately anyway so no harm done. I'm an incredibly impatient ***, and I paid for next day delivery which was conveniently the same price as the 20$ off sale it was on for, so I should have it by Wednesday sometime (US-Pacific Standard Time)

Again, if this improves my issues I will be sure to report back here when I am able. I can't possibly fathom my current CPU being a bottleneck for a game like this, but you never really know and considering the fact that it is running on 5 years now, it could be sputtering out. As always though, if anyone finds anything out be sure to let us know!

To test the potential of the issue of it being on a mechanical drive, I am intending to install it to my 2TB Seagate Barracuda tonight and try it out tomorrow from it to see if I notice a difference as well. I'm trying to cover as many angles as possible here. While running at 30fps isn't to bad by any means, knowing my card is capable of much more and its not performing to those standards bugs the ever-living crap out of me and I won't rest till I figure this out!

P.S. I decided to go back through about 8 months of drivers for my GTX760 and none made any noticeable improvement. As you would expect, the latest beta driver did in fact give the best results. I am starting to believe its an issue with other hardware combinations.

WylieCoyote1511 wrote: »

altec812 wrote: »

I would report it to Nvidia as a possible issue. I am running a 560ti with everything on high, AA and ambient inclusion and I hover at 48-55fps.

Even in the built up areas with lots of players?

Im running i7 3820 GTX560Ti and 32gb ram ,all SSD and fps is always at cap. In PvP when new zerg is met, i get a millisecond of pause and thats it for rest of night.

Settings all maxed except shadows which is at medium since theres very very little difference in medium to high. AA is off also because in PvP it moves too fast anyway to notice the very rare jaggy (screen res at 1920x1080)

The GTX 560ti is a sweet spot for cards. Takes a fare bit of cash even now to beat it.

I have a i7-2600K with 16GB of ram and a GTX 760.


I run at a constant 60fps.

I haven't been having any issues, but have a 700 series graphics card.
I have a 780ti and an i7 2600K and I'll edit this post with my driver version when I get home, but I believe it's whichever driver was released yesterday, so probably a beta driver. I have the nVidia prgram set to automatically download driver updates for me.

Full Specs:

So I've done a bit of testing, not sure if it is conclusive or not, but may help discover the issue. I am using a GTX titan and core i7 at 4.6ghz, 2x SSD in RAID 0.

All settings set to ultra, including 100 draw distance. Running the latest NVIDIA drivers released 4/7.

In caves or buildings, my GPU utilization is ~50% at 120 FPS (on 120hz monitor).

Outdoors or in cities, my GPU is at 50-60% utilization but my FPS is anywhere between 40 - 60.

If I reduce the draw distance in cities or out in the wilderness to 75 from 100, I get a pretty noticeable bump in FPS and GPU utilization. I go from 40 - 60 FPS to 70 - 90 FPS, and from ~50% utilization to ~70%.

There seems to be stress from the general game client when increasing the draw distance which results in a bottleneck that lowers the actual utilization on the GPU.

Can anyone confirm this with their own setup?


TL;DR: Draw distance is somehow capping GPU utilization and lowering FPS when in cities or outdoors.

Belrim wrote: »

FlatFeet wrote: »

There seems to be stress from the general game client when increasing the draw distance which results in a bottleneck that lowers the actual utilization on the GPU.

Can anyone confirm this with their own setup?


TL;DR: Draw distance is somehow capping GPU utilization and lowering FPS when in cities or outdoors.

Just experimented with this, was outdoors, in Deshaan just outside Mourhold.

monitored the GPU utilization with different draw-distance settings. At all tested settings between 0-100 i got utilization around 90-95%. All other gfx settings at max setting, AA on.

The framerate seems to be hard-capped at 100fps, was getting steady 100 when looking at sky.

this was tested with a rig that has GTX 660 (driver version 331.82) and i5 cpu.

Just to confirm, did you see similar results as mine? As in, when you lowered the draw distance, you were able to see an FPS gain and more GPU utilization? I can't quite tell from what you posted, sorry!


You can adjust the hard FPS cap with a value in UserSettings.txt.

To set 120fps max:

SET MinFrameTime.2 "0.00833333"

This value can be changed around to mess with the artificial FPS cap.