It must be true. My friend found it on the Internet.

Dunno if there's throttling or not, but my ping has been terrible (for me ) since Thursday. I used to range from 110-150 ms, but I'm lucky lately if I can stabilize at 150ms. The last few days, my ping has been ranging from 150 ms - 230ms, which is what I got last time I logged in to PC-EU. My average is now 160-180 ms.

Not sure what's going on.

Well actualy as a fact for a 5 years old MMO ESO have the worst peeformance i have ever seen.

MMO lunch week are even usualy bether then what we experience nowadays.

I am no network specialist but ever since I have used these DNS Servers, I never had any problems with my internet connection. Could it be connected?



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Ixilith wrote: »

sekekama21554 wrote: »

No I don’t think they forgot to throttle you. I just think you’re used to ESO. Meaning you’ve grown used to the lag, used to the really bad latency, and are ok with a lot of other things. Skwor I’m sure you’ve played other games besides ESO yeah? Tell me what is your latency in those games vs ESO?

I’m fairly newish to eso. So not used to it at all myself

Ping - 50-70
Fps 100.

High graphics.

I don’t do much cryodill, but throughout DF, battlegrounds open world and dolmen farming I haven’t had many problems

I don’t think they’re throttling The servers. I think the game just needs a stronger server set up and one not on the

It's not the servers, it's the bottleneck of the calculations they have to make.
This is the reason for lag in most MMO games, some have found ways to lesson the damage, but none have ever cured it.

I think the issue ESO faces right now is to "fix" lag they need to rework a lot of the back end, or cut out things causing calculations (CP) but in the case of the latter people are very hostile to the idea of no CP.

ESO servers suck can't argue with that, but there is also to complicated game code. Let me explain you few things.
First of all to not complicate things we consider we talk about nondistributed processing.
What can have influence on game performance? Its very very simplified but:

A. Your setup - this mostly affects fps (because when you have no latency issues with other web services we eliminate bad connection). CPU cache and clock speed could affect latency as CPU needs to process all data that are sent but lets be honest, these times are far behind us.

B. Routing - though you don't have any issues to connect to other services there could be a rare situation when one of the nodes on the way to ESO servers would fail and could cause increasing latency, this had happend few times in the past in my experience but usually these are short events.'

C. Destination point aka potato server - this is where it gets interesting. First of all server needs to recieve all the data from all clients meaning us. It has buffer that can handle certain amount of data per time unit so called window(we all have it in our PCs etc. but lets be honest, amount of data that we are sending are laughable) it is the first place when something can go wrong.

Then we have ports on server. Each app on server that provides some services has its uniqe port where the data are sent to be processed. This is the reason why sometimes we see latency in game like 300-400ms but in reality we feel it more like 2000ms. Processing data from game and ping response probably works on different ports, also the amount of data used to test latency usually is much much less than actual data processed by an app.

Then we have processing. CPUs on server need to handle all of data we sent them, need to calculate it and preserve the order of response. The amount of calculations in this game is terrifying and goes up exponentialy when we talk about multiple players in very close distance (AoE range). Thats why Cyrodiil is the place where we can observe most issues with latency. If CPUs on server side are overloaded it will increase response time. Depending on app server needs to also get data from its databases. Meaning it needs to comunicate with them, recieve the needed data and then process them. This also can increase latency depending on complexity of the queries.

Then we have again the buffer that needs handle the date that are sent back, routing, our buffer etc. etc.

I haven't check it but I am 99% sure that combat data are sent via UDP protocol meaning data can be lost. Its faster than TCP but doesn't guarantee anything - thats why sometimes we press a skill button but nothing happens.

This is nothing special, our hardware does it every day, but the amount of data that ESO server needs to handle is stunning, thats why most of the issues we see in ESO are caused by not very efficent servers.

I have ommited many protocols and communication between layers but in big shortcut. It's complicated as F.


And why situation on EU side is worse than on NA? With all do respect, German network infrastructure is one of the oldest in EU, they were one of the first to have it but it wasn't upgraded to the newest standards:

"According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, less than 2 percent of Germany's broadband connections are carried by pure fiber-optic systems."

Source: https://www.npr.org/2019/01/03/678803790/berlin-is-a-tech-hub-so-why-are-germanys-internet-speeds-so-slow?t=1561623173667

That's why I think ZOS should think about moving their EU servers somewhere else!

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/8ljfc6/fiberoptic_penetration_european_ranking/