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How do you deal with Cyrodiil lag?

  • Marcus684
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    As others have said, disable unnecessary addons, turn down graphics settings, and avoid the highest population times, unless you have one of those magical super PCs that the people who say they have no issues have.
  • L_Nici
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    If it lags ignore it, just do your rotation like nothing would be different, if you are lucky you get a macro slice and your enemy dies in one strike, well at least it looks like that. The bad siede is that you could die in the same one strike, but you definetely die if you stop proceeding like usual.
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  • kelseaux
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    @ZOS_GinaBruno yall seeing this right? Cyro lag hasn’t been a thing just recently. Can it be addressed since it’s gotten way out of hand since the Dragonhold update?
    Not Mr Sivy
  • Alienoutlaw
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    1 load screen at a time
  • Dojohoda
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    When it's bad, I reboot the game to clear the memory. I've seen the computer's memory usage triple in cyrodill.
    Fan of playing magblade since 2015. (PC NA)
    Might be joking in comments.
    -->(((Cyrodiil)))<--
  • MentalxHammer
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    Stop playing at 4pm
  • Deathlord92
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    MajBludd wrote: »
    Log out and watch a movie
    Couldn’t put it better myself
  • hobicabobjob
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    The trick is to build extra tanky, so that you don't need sub 700ms timing. Use lots of HoTs. Try to get your entire skillset on one bar, that way you don't need to wait for a barswap.

    Sprint is great in the lag. You teleport around on other people's screens, and lots of attacks will fail to register against you. Be prepared to get reported for hacking though.

    When the game completely stops for you, dodge roll 9 or 10 times while spamming HoT skills (small chance they might go off). Try to pull people into guards because they lag worse in it, and you can score some easy kills.

    Disabling addons will do nothing for your ping, just framerate.
  • hobicabobjob
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    Oh, another important tip: if you go anywhere near a contested keep, and you do not get kicked, look around for all the players who are just standing, doing nothing. They crashed. There should be tons of them. You can maybe get a kill on them every 30 seconds or so, depending on if any of your skills register.

    I think it's designed as a kiss-curse though, because there's a very high chance that you get kicked from the game as well.
    Edited by hobicabobjob on December 2, 2019 2:35AM
  • Major_Lag
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    Use a 1 bar heavy attack build. Heavy attacks are one of the only damage sources that work at all reasonably in the primetime Cyro lagfest.

    Use a resto staff instead of the usual shock staff for such a build, then you can (try to) cast heals on your front (and only) bar.
  • chaserstorm16909
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    PVP in the Imperial City.
  • Narvuntien
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    Typically I just accept that I will die repeatedly in many unfair ways and focus on playing the marco game about where to be and what to fight over and what to lose. Also manning siege.
  • Wheresthetea11
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    When it gets bad, just leave and either do some overland or play a different game. Then try again tomorrow and hope.
  • quadraxis666
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    Alt+f4
  • aetherial_heavenn
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    1. Use a VPN...that gets it down to about 360 max . When it's under 300ms I am giddy with joy and play like a non potato.
    2. Play healer in small and medium groups and full raids. Like most healers I get insulted a lot on the forums and called a zergling/healbot in game but it means I do get to have some fun PvPing with my best mates. I do wear light but play a templar so lotsa folks get triggered by my mere existence
    3a. Use a non meta build when soloing that allows for heavy attacks and dot s to do most of my damage. No point in fancy combos when cast skills don't fire and ults don't work most of the time.
    3b. As part of the above: Swallow immovable pots all the time and use similar poisons and pray they work occasionally because break free never does.
    4. Put a big heal, a dps skill and a shield on both bars (differnt ones) so when I can't bar swap I can keep playing. The source of non meta is necessity LOL
    5. Laugh with joy when others get OH MY GOD THE LAG! I JUST GOT 200 PING!! I run through entire zergs as the streamers freak because a single skill doesn't fire instantly. This is when I get my avenges on my healer LOLZ.
    6. Stop PvPing and go back to PvE when:
    • Ults fail to fire every. single. time.
    • Ball groups in Glade start to bore me to death
    • Runing from Ales to Ash or wherever because I cannot mount AGAIN just gets too tedious.
    Quoted for truth
    "In my experience, the elite ones have not been very toxic, and the toxic ones not very elite." WrathOfInnos
  • BRogueNZ
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    PvP in general I see as a live stream without any obligation to follow or sub. Spectator mode enabled.
  • Aznarb
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    I've played for 1 consecutive week even in prime time, didn't get any lag.
    Still the same each time I go cyro, don't know how you guys get so many problem.
    Only when we were 2 full raid vs 2 other I drop to 23FPS but was still fine with no shuttering or lag.

    Also I don't use any combat add-on and all my video setting was maxed.

    I don't said problem didn't exist, just pointing out that some people don't have any trouble.
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  • RobZha
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    Uninstalled the game about half a year ago partly due to this and looking at the responses here have no plans on returning currently. It's good to see that there's a plan to improve performance after checking ESO news so will keep looking back on that each quarter. If those changes don't make anything in Cryo improve though I'm not sure if I'll play again.

    If I get a better pc I'll probably give it a go to see if anything's different but that'll be at least another half a year away I think. If the performance changes work though along with a better pc will maybe start playing again.

    I miss playing with DC a lot and I miss my Guar. It's depressing thinking about it actually, maybe I'll download and have a quick go from time to time if it bugs me too much.
    Edited by RobZha on December 2, 2019 7:21AM
  • bmnoble
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    By only visiting when the Golden vendor is there.
  • MajBludd
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    Log out
  • Thrasher91604
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    Exit the client and restart it before entering Cyrodiil. There are major memory management problems there (and during trials, and big dragon fights, etc...) whose effects on performance are lessened with a clean client memory. At least for while, until the memory gets clogged up again. It's my experience this can happen within about an hour after a fresh start..
  • renne
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    On PS4 NA I've literally got to the point that I just can't go into the main campaign, because every. single. time. I arrive somewhere where there's even remotely something resembling a fight everyone's just standing around looking at each other because the server's crashed my game. I've lost so much AP it makes me so tired to think about, and I'm not even a fighting PvPer, just a healer!

    The only way I can get around it is instead of hitting Cyrodiil every night in the only campaign that's busy for my alliance Australian evening time like I want to, is spend Sundays running the non-faction locked campaign, because the smaller population seems to be more stable for me.
  • Revokus
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    I play within non-lag hours which sucks because when I'm off work it's not playable.. I have to play early on weekends or do something else in game or irl.
    Playing since January 23, 2016
  • Dojohoda
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    I keep on top of how much memory the game is hogging. In Cyrodiil I (have to) restart the game fairly often.
    Fan of playing magblade since 2015. (PC NA)
    Might be joking in comments.
    -->(((Cyrodiil)))<--
  • ArchMikem
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    Your only option is just get back out of kaal. Just because you cant see those other players doesnt mean the server doesnt know theyre there. Fact is the lag is much better in Laat and you either deal with the smaller pop or convince some of Kaal to come with you.
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  • renne
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    ArchMikem wrote: »
    Your only option is just get back out of kaal. Just because you cant see those other players doesnt mean the server doesnt know theyre there. Fact is the lag is much better in Laat and you either deal with the smaller pop or convince some of Kaal to come with you.

    Yeah, last weekend I ran an entire day (so peak time in the US) in Laat with only a couple of server kicks and no noticeably bad lag. Compared with Kaal on weeknights at off-peak where I'll try for half an hour to an hour then quit after half a dozen.
  • technohic
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    Yeah, its absolutely awful right now on Kaal.

    There are some good players on Laat but the problem is the big fights and the players you want to kill are the ones that are going to stack more. I mean, what are you going to do with just a handfull of small man groups trying to lure each other to the towers they are running around?
  • SweepsAllClowns
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    One simply learns to enjoy the Zenilag or uninstalls the game, sell me more lag plz!
  • Mr_Walker
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    I go play PvE.
  • Edziu
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    not playing this at all :v
    not playing, no lag, simple

    if you want to play so much, go play something else like PVE, other content, other game xD
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