Maintenance for the week of April 6:
• PC/Mac: No maintenance – April 6

Console Status: CRAZY Frame Drops, Lag & Monster Pop In (VIDEO)

  • Dalsinthus
    Dalsinthus
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    method__01 wrote: »
    this terrible performance,negates everything good in game atm-and yes,imo Elsweyr chapter is worth buying-
    but 14 days passed and still no info
    why this silence from zos,when all complaining ?

    I have to agree. I love this game but situations like this, combined with statements about how they are "killing it" really put my loyalty to the test. Much of the game is only marginally playable right now.
  • Spiderg1rl
    Spiderg1rl
    ✭✭✭
    I was grouped with friends last night and this morning, and in both occasions my friends sometimes could see the enemies, other times just like this. We are on Xbox EU and wrestling Fungal Grotto and Blackheart Haven but I know people have been seeing it all over the place.

    Equally were getting load screens in these dungeons and my friend even walked into an area and it was just green grass, nothing else just green grass till it loaded in a minute later
  • Killum
    Killum
    ✭✭✭
    Well I don't play my Xbox one S much. I normally play on PCEU. I have been logging in to get the daily rewards this month on Xbox and thought it about time I started to level up a bit.

    Suddenly got a message 'lost connection to the server' I shut the game down, tested my connection (everything said it was ok) rebooted the game. Game would not launch - same message.So I shut down everything including Xbox. Guess what? got the same message again when I tried to log back in.

    Now Xbox is limited to 30 people per zone (I believe) So I am thinking that there are just so many people playing that all the servers were full.
  • Cerbolt
    Cerbolt
    ✭✭✭✭
    I've been having pretty much the same issues on EU PS4. It's getting to the point where it's unbearable.
    PS EU | AD - For the Queen!
    Dar'zhir - Khajiit Sorcerer | Vashirr - Khajiit Dragonknight | Relaryn - Altmer Vampblade | Khahan-ra - Khajiit Templar
    Zathril - Altmer Frostden | Runaril -Altmer Necromancer | Ma'zak - Khajiit Arcanist | Gaelhwen - Bosmer Bowden
  • SpankinDamob
    SpankinDamob
    ✭✭✭
    I’ve found that this lag is zone specific. As long as I’m not in Mournhold Deeshan runs great. Shadowfen is really stable as well. Rivenspire, a few others as well.

    Eastmarch, and especially Wrothgar have always been trouble spots for me. Vvardenfell used to be the worst of the worst but it seems cleaned up.

    Very odd but I’ve gotten to the point that there are some zones that I just don’t mess with unless I’m required to go there.

    The weirdest is Alkir which I’ve never had a problem with despite the 7,417 people all light attack spamming the dolmens.

    So I been playing in Alkir for a hour with no problems going to try getting skyshards in the other zones you mentioned afterwards.

    Any find any other zones not effected.

  • NinchiTV
    NinchiTV
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    They REALLY need a lower setting for console, we dont need shadows or grass moving or or tress moving, give us an option to make the game have potato graphics so the console doesnt have to work so hard to render that stuff in, ya i know such a crazy idea huh?
  • paulychan
    paulychan
    ✭✭✭✭
    Inb4 you don't have to be here
  • Hoolielulu
    Hoolielulu
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's what I've been dealing with for months and I run into it everywhere. Sometimes right out of a wayshrine, sometimes in the middle of nowhere finding mats. I get 3 second skips or freezing all together and I get kicked out.

    It's super fun and stuff.
  • eso_lags
    eso_lags
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭
    Mr_Walker wrote: »
    Overland is terible on XNA.
    Dalsinthus wrote: »
    I'm really glad to see someone finally bringing this up. Since Elsweyr launch, overland content is the worst I have seen in 4 years of playing this game. The lag spikes every time you enter combat are insane. This is in any zone and at any time of day.

    I have also been playing some battlegrounds and oddly I do not see the lag issues there. But attack a random skeever in any zone and the frame rate drops, animations are desynced, sounds don't occur for several seconds, and overall performance is just terrible.

    Please @ZOS_GinaBruno tell us you are award of the issue and working on it.

    I play on Xbox One NA.

    Bah. The best chance you've got of anyone from Zos acknowledging this thread/problem is if I hurled epithets your way. Expect nothing but static.
    Mr_Walker wrote: »
    Overland is terible on XNA.
    Dalsinthus wrote: »
    I'm really glad to see someone finally bringing this up. Since Elsweyr launch, overland content is the worst I have seen in 4 years of playing this game. The lag spikes every time you enter combat are insane. This is in any zone and at any time of day.

    I have also been playing some battlegrounds and oddly I do not see the lag issues there. But attack a random skeever in any zone and the frame rate drops, animations are desynced, sounds don't occur for several seconds, and overall performance is just terrible.

    Please @ZOS_GinaBruno tell us you are award of the issue and working on it.

    I play on Xbox One NA.

    Bah. The best chance you've got of anyone from Zos acknowledging this thread/problem is if I hurled epithets your way. Expect nothing but static.

    pretty much lol.. Hopefully everyone remembers how they have maintained this game over the years, especially on console and especially pvp, when they put out a new game. So sad.

    *Also their inexcusable, awful, lack off communication.
  • Hotdog_23
    Hotdog_23
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭
    I concur it has been pretty bad on PS4 N/A, especially for the last few weeks. I know I have lost chat since the update and nothing I do can get it back. Sounds and graphics are off all over the place it seems. Honestly no area can I go in and not experience lag.
    Edited by Hotdog_23 on June 15, 2019 11:21AM
  • Comixfan
    Comixfan
    ✭✭✭
    This week has been bad, like, really bad. @ZOS_GinaBruno - is the team aware of this?

    Yeah, it's bad enough I get the usual 200-300 ping to a US server from here in Australia, but this week has been absolutely abysmal on Xbox.

    It's made running dungeons almost impossible, from the initial loading into the dungeon where it's not unusual to get at least 1 if not more "this may be a long load time" message, to ability animations not displaying until several seconds after use, mobs not showing on screen until you're half dead already, and the sound lagging so bad that you hear nothing for an entire boss fight and then the sound all happens at once right near the end. Darn near blows my eardrums out!

    It's unbelievable that a game such as this from a major publisher can have such bad lag issues in 2019.

    Even WoW is never this bad, but then again, they have Oceanic servers...
    Edited by Comixfan on June 15, 2019 11:54AM
  • Comixfan
    Comixfan
    ✭✭✭
    Cerbolt wrote: »
    I've been having pretty much the same issues on EU PS4. It's getting to the point where it's unbearable.

    Yeah, and there's been radio silence from ZOS. Not even an acknowledgement that there is an issue let alone that they're doing anything about it.

    When they eventually do admit it, they'll likely fix PC first and console will have to wait until two weeks after that, since they seem unable to be able to deliver updates to PC and console at the same time, unlike other publishers...

  • jhall03
    jhall03
    ✭✭✭✭
    PS4 NA. Overland, and especially dungeons, are bad right now. I just PVE casually with guildies, but I would imagine more serious guilds are getting really frustrated.

    PVP Cyro is actually not too bad but the campaign I've been playing in isn't the most populated. I do think it's slightly better than usual, surprisingly.

    I'm not surprised about all of these issues. It's what ive come to expect, especially after big updates. I feel like our best hope for this game to ever be consistently playable is with the Next gen consoles
    Edited by jhall03 on June 15, 2019 1:23PM
  • SpankinDamob
    SpankinDamob
    ✭✭✭
    *Edit* Never mind went back to crap within a hour.

    I posted a thread about what found to fix it for me but wanted to make sure you all seen it too. Just copy / pasting it here.

    Think I finally got it running smooth again. Doesn’t seem quite as good as before the patch, but pretty close. I’ll post other info on stuff I did before that didn’t work and my system info. Just going to copy paste from other posts I made.

    The thing that finally got running good was when you click manage the game, delete saved game info, I didn’t realize there are two. I was deleting the one that has stuff saved to my Xbox . On Xbox if you click your avatar there’s a option to delete all saved game info everywhere . This gets rid of the back up stuff saved to cloud.

    Really only noticeable issue since I’d the sound for race against time doesn’t happen sometimes. Hope this helps someone.

    Checked my network status before logging in. Ip4 / ip6, Nat type open, latency was at 54, download speed 91.37 mbps, upload speed 15.99 mbps according to Xbox.

    Tried a bunch of different zones. Same thing on in each one. Sound for casting spells was off. Constant frame rate drops. Towards the end I’d be doing my spell rotation and the effect would show up about 3 seconds afterwards. Half the time it’d still show me attacking and the mob was dead.

    Having the same experience on Xbox One X. Tried everything I could think of. Cleaned up stuff on the Xbox, checked multiplayer connection and said it was good, have ipv6 connection, open Nat. Reset my router and Xbox. Uninstalled the game, restarted the Xbox, reinstalled, restarted game.
    Edited by SpankinDamob on June 16, 2019 12:36AM
  • Seraphayel
    Seraphayel
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    You know what’s been worse on consoles too? Deconstructing. Oh. My. God. I never experienced lags while deconstructing but it takes forever now and it’s so so slow. Super annoying.
    PS5
    EU
    Aldmeri Dominion
    - Khajiit Arcanist -
  • ApostateHobo
    ApostateHobo
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm on ps4 NA haven't experienced invisible enemies, yet, but I have been getting tons of desync/delay in both sound and visual effects. It's worse at the beginning and end of combat where the audio completely cuts out for a few seconds then everything plays at one. Visual effects for skills seem to be delayed the same way as they appear the same time the audio returns. Throughout combat though everything seems to have a general lagginess. Bar swap is slow, skill casting is delayed, trying to weave is hella wonky, etc. These issues are worst in dungeons, but they also happen in standard overland areas even during off hours.
  • Hrolthar
    Hrolthar
    ✭✭✭
    I've had the same thing. Lots more infinite load screens, freezes and server crashes when it kicks you from the server and says:

    "Unable to connect to game server. Please make sure you have a valid internet connection."

    Make sure you go through the "Troubleshooting Steps". It won't do anything, but at least then you can say you have. (I've tried multiple times over the last 12 months.)

    Also, why are my assistants walking off as soon as I summon them now? Lol
  • Dalsinthus
    Dalsinthus
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's so bad right now during prime time that I'm taking a break from the game for a few weeks. The lag, bugs, and broken group finder are just killing my enjoyment.
Sign In or Register to comment.