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Major Lag spikes

  • meirj
    meirj
    Soul Shriven
    my game has start to slow down (lag) since yesterday,its sims to be a problem in the evening (overload ?),its quite impossible to play like that :(
  • TheGodless1
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    Yshaar wrote: »
    Not sure if you tried but: deactivate all your add ons. There are especially problems with ESOHEAD.

    Did you open the relevant ports in your router? (see knowlegdebase and search for ports)

    Stop...just STOP! Quit giving people this type of info. Clearly you haven't read a single thing they have said and are giving useless info. The client has server sided memory leaks. It's why it shows up in your task manager using up almost every resource available. Turning off this or that is only a temporary fix that affects the USER computer only. It won't fix lag anymore than installing a software to reduce your lag will in this case. People want an answer, not some quick fix that they have already tried a hundred times in previous posts. So you want an answer do ya? Well kiddos, the answer you are going to get ain't the answer you want. It's broken. They need to fix their client. Happens when you run off a beta build. SWTOR does/has the exact same issue. Now we address the kid attitude you all seem to have concerning money back. You know that ToS and End User Agreement you pushed that little "AGREE" button? Well that my friends, is a little disclaimer stating you bought digital goods and that no money will be refunded. You bought a digital service. There is NO physical service besides a disc. That disc becomes invalid for a refund once opened in most places. Guess what that means then? You guessed it! NO REFUNDS! Get over it. Get it out of your heads. Get rid of that entitlement attitude you have. I don't like it anymore than anyone else. Yes, it sets me off that I paid good money to play a lag and gold farmer infested game. Yes, I see your point. But it changes absolutely NOTHING. And yes...I'm a jerk and a number of other offensive names you want to call me right now. But I guess that just means it hit home and you now realize how idiotic you all sound with your "Gimme my money back or I'm leaving!" Just go! You ain't getting your money back so forget it. It's probably what the devs want to tell you ut don't. I'm not a dev so I will. GO! Don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya!
  • DuelWieldingCheesyPoofs
    Well im not sure if you guys have tried this, swing your cat around the room, kick the dog, yell at your spouse because they are annoying, scream at your kids to be quiet while your thinking, go away make 50 coffees, come back, bang your keyboard, whisper bad words under your breath, growl a little, take a deep breath, exhale, sigh, say ffs, ask people the same question 50 times ...is anyone getting lag, listen to jerks say no, go to bed.
  • rwelshmub17_ESO
    rwelshmub17_ESO
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    Initially in beta I had no issues, start of the early subscription no issues but in the last week it's getting worse my key strokes are way behind in combat and my spells are very slow to launch etc. even after the mob is dead my char will continue to swing the swords or fire bow for up to a minute after lol. In a game where movement is so critical to combat lag is killing me literally.
  • LimeFox
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    Gave up for the night. Hopefully it'll be better Monday... I went through 5 or 6 soul gems on deaths due to lag today and got booted randomly 20-25 times. It'll get better, I'm sure, but it's frustrating when it happens, definitely. :(
  • danswisher21
    danswisher21
    Soul Shriven
    I am constantly getting killed due to lagging issues. One second the enemy is 5 feet away from me and the next I'm getting hit. I cant properly defend myself because of this. It even lags when I'm not around enemies at all. I just cant enjoy it. My question is- What's the point of wearing heavy armor and pounding points into your health, and then die in just a few hits anyway? Is that part of the lagging problem or am I just missing something? I mean, I'm the same level as the enemies and they kill me so fast. It almost seems like a glitch. Is that crazy?
  • mitch_1991_05rwb17_ESO
    holy crap guys!! i found this australian website http://www.battleping.com/info.php

    and my god its amazing im using the free trial, and its fixed my massive delay problems and i now get 178 ping on a LA server. no more delay and lagg spikes :D
  • Keyll
    Keyll
    Soul Shriven
    Getting the same problem here. Can't 'do' anything, no weapons/crouching/talking/door opening/sprinting etc. etc. Can move around a whole lot but, just can't react to anything in the game lol... *sigh*
  • lukeneo
    lukeneo
    Soul Shriven
    Hi All,

    I am getting the same kind of issues as everyone else is, i have narrowed mine down to ISP. It seems that using iPrimus is causing problems for me, i have tried using internet from my vodafone mobile via hotspot and can play the game with no issues at all. As soon as i go back to my ISP iPrimus i get the issues straight back.
    Is anyone else on iPrimus in AU and would you mind trying off a cellular device if your able to do so and let me know the findings ?
  • mitch_1991_05rwb17_ESO
    did you guys try battle ping yet?? its going working perfect for me, fixed everything
  • Ventroff
    Ventroff
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    Here is my theory:

    I believe that the purpose of stress test weekends has been to find the lowest level of optimization that was passable for most people. In other words I think that they are purposely tuning the servers to save resources and money.

    I hope that I am wrong, but given that very little has changed in regards to performance in cyrodiill since stress test, it really feels like they are purposely turning down the servers in order to save money.

    I am sure there are many people here more tech savvy than I am, anyone have thoughts on this?
  • mitch_1991_05rwb17_ESO
    i agree with you 100% coz during beta i was playing like a dream, not one bit of latency lagg.
  • Wolfborn
    Wolfborn
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    Yshaar wrote: »
    Not sure if you tried but: deactivate all your add ons. There are especially problems with ESOHEAD.

    Did you open the relevant ports in your router? (see knowlegdebase and search for ports)

    Stop...just STOP! Quit giving people this type of info. Clearly you haven't read a single thing they have said and are giving useless info. The client has server sided memory leaks. It's why it shows up in your task manager using up almost every resource available. Turning off this or that is only a temporary fix that affects the USER computer only. It won't fix lag anymore than installing a software to reduce your lag will in this case. People want an answer, not some quick fix that they have already tried a hundred times in previous posts. So you want an answer do ya? Well kiddos, the answer you are going to get ain't the answer you want. It's broken. They need to fix their client. Happens when you run off a beta build. SWTOR does/has the exact same issue. Now we address the kid attitude you all seem to have concerning money back. You know that ToS and End User Agreement you pushed that little "AGREE" button? Well that my friends, is a little disclaimer stating you bought digital goods and that no money will be refunded. You bought a digital service. There is NO physical service besides a disc. That disc becomes invalid for a refund once opened in most places. Guess what that means then? You guessed it! NO REFUNDS! Get over it. Get it out of your heads. Get rid of that entitlement attitude you have. I don't like it anymore than anyone else. Yes, it sets me off that I paid good money to play a lag and gold farmer infested game. Yes, I see your point. But it changes absolutely NOTHING. And yes...I'm a jerk and a number of other offensive names you want to call me right now. But I guess that just means it hit home and you now realize how idiotic you all sound with your "Gimme my money back or I'm leaving!" Just go! You ain't getting your money back so forget it. It's probably what the devs want to tell you ut don't. I'm not a dev so I will. GO! Don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya!

    Learn to paragraph imo.
  • GossiTheDog
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    saki wrote: »
    Today is I have major lag spikes, spam ability and it reacts after 20 sec. WTF ZENIMAX?????? ARE YOU GOING TO FIX THIS BROKEN PIECE OF ***?

    PVP per chance?
  • saki
    saki
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    Nope, khenrathi roost. Runing and then spike hit and so on all the time.
  • azirri
    azirri
    Soul Shriven
    Lag has increased a lot the past few days. I'll attack, nothing happens, 20 seconds later a huge burst of activity goes through and I'm dead.
  • saki
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    Same here. I am from EU and tried to play on both servers and latency is same but as You said lag increased a lot in last days. It is becoming totally unplayable.

    Also I havent noticed before but when you need to interact with some npc and just before you press E game just freeze on 1 sec
    Edited by saki on April 17, 2014 3:45PM
  • Dovahkin
    Dovahkin
    PVP is unplayable for me in Aus, cyrodiil is really laggy and if it works it just kicks me every 2minutes anyway
  • gtholouliseb17_ESO
    This fixed my latency issues ( as well as my loading screens :P )
    http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/81707/endless-loading-screens-fix#latest
  • elrond2002
    Had major lag spikes yesterday AM. Every few minutes a 10 sec's drop out. Got wasted a few times when it untimely lagged during a battle. Later on played in the evening and everything was fine.
  • kmufc77b16_ESO
    kmufc77b16_ESO
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    Getting lag here also, im from the UK and from what i understand the EU servers are located in the US currently, there are being moved to Europe at a later date from what a GM told me last night. This might help for people from Europe.
  • mitch_1991_05rwb17_ESO
    ok this is quite strange, i find (aus time) at about 7am to 3pm i can play perfectly fine with no lag at all, but once it hits 3pm the *** starts happening and cant play.

    my internet i have no off peak and on peak, so wtf is up?
  • SadiusHunter
    SadiusHunter
    Soul Shriven
    This fixed my latency issues ( as well as my loading screens :P )
    http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/81707/endless-loading-screens-fix#latest
    Holy *** thank you for this, this actually worked

  • saki
    saki
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    I dont know what is wrong this evening but abilities just wont react. Will someone ever fix this broken game? Why dont some developer dont adress players and explain problem and tell us will it be ever fixed like in other MMOs.

    Really you are ripping us off. Gaming scam of a century.
  • michaelpatrickjonesnub18_ESO
    Cyrodiil is a nightmare. So many deaths caused by lag.
  • WitchAngel
    WitchAngel
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    KerinKor wrote: »
    blackwolf7 wrote: »
    I know this because i am a team leader of a gaming company here in my country. I know the ins and out of the gaming industry.
    OK, so that makes you an expert in the problem and gives you inside knowledge that Zenimax are doing nothing about it and ignoring the problem.

    Correct?

    You do realise that 'Early Start' is a free period of play time and that teething problems like this are to be expected, in spite of a large-scale beta stress testing test series?

    If you're not happy to deal with this sort of early problem then maybe Early Start isn't for you?

    Maybe they should rename it to early alpha, instead of early start. Early start implies a finished product.

    That other developers releases borked games (the usual comparisson given when a bugged game is released), is no excuse for ZoS to do the same. Just as it is no excuse for a kid to be a bully, just because all the others are. In the end, they are doing something wrong.
  • shammon22ub17_ESO
    shammon22ub17_ESO
    Soul Shriven
    I don't know if you're describing the same issue as me. To be clear I'll be running to a group of people in cyrodiil. As I'm on my way there, normally from a keep to another keep, the world will look worse and worse. The grass will stop loading, then eventually the terrain get's uglier and uglier (kind of like bitmap loading but stays at the first lowest graphics stage). Rocks will stop appearing and become invisible. Then of course players are invisible to me. Eventually I'll lose all my health and die, that's when everything will load instantly and I see the zerg I ran into. I've never had this problem before and now it seems like it's here to stay. I have a fairly powerful pc, and I play on high graphics with 60fps. I didn't even have this issue in the beta. I have an AMD processor if that makes any difference, seems like it might. One fix is just to wait at a spot where everything is ugly and eventually it loads everything and I can continue. I can't imagine this being a computer issue as I've never had this problem before and my FPS remains constant. If I'm wrong please correct me. I've tried everything OP as and still no avail. I'll try and take a SS next time this happens.
  • Tristis Oris
    The same problem, ideal internet but horrible lag. Delay rendering skills, actions and etc.. This occurs most often in the evening (8 PM, +4 GMT).
  • Zolyok
    Zolyok
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    Same here the game is more and more laggy
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