Awful ping + lag spikes

MilkJugg24 · May 2020

I played for about 8 to 9 hours on late Saturday/early Sunday morning. I had one instance where I was doing a public dungeon in Summerset, and all the players and monsters stopped moving. My whole game basically disconnected, but I didn't get booted back to the login screen on my end. I manually logged off after 30 seconds of nothing happening, and was able to re-log exactly to where my character seemed to disconnect at.

Aside from that one instance, most of my solo grind seemed fine. I did do a few dungeons the previous day, and noticed that at least one of every party had some kind of issue connecting or loading into the instance. As for my latency, it was fairly consistent at 110ms (which is unfortunately normal...). It seems like my issues are triggered primarily by group content on NA. I'm not sure about EU, as I have never played on that server.

MilkJugg24 · May 2020

Going to just attach this closed thread to the list of people having issues. Originally submitted by @betonidas yesterday.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/525258/terrible-ping-on-eu-server

Tammany · May 2020

Is there any way to kick these Frankfurt hubs ?
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[Edit for bait.]

Paske · May 2020

So its not on my end ...

Came back late from work, fired up the game and getting crashes on loading screen - constantly.

Nothing changed on my end, so was kinda confused.

NVNNN · May 2020

Haven't had a single lag spike of today without VPN.

Route doesn't seem to have changed.

*confusion*

Tammany · May 2020

Two days without lags as well, god bless.

Tammany · May 2020

Lag spikes are back, and its not even a peak time >.>

betonidas · May 2020

Tammany · May 2020

It's not even a peak time, why 300+ms in towns, whats wrong with your game >.>

No, its not a problem on my side: logged wow and bdo, first one 70ms, second one 90ms, never jumped higher than 100ms for last 10 minutes

HowardMoon · May 2020

I bought eso plus I received ping 999, thanks for playing!

Alexium · May 2020

I can confirm it. Some ping problem with NA server. Latency is 300+, 500+ and over 999+

_Kaziel_ · May 2020

Same here on NA server.

I've been playing the last month or so with 300-325 ping which is playable for me.

However, I started the game up today and ping has been constantly spiking to 999+ which is unplayable. While doing Vet Darkshade Cavern I was kicked to Login Screen twice during those spikes and had to quit the group so they could find a more functioning player.

So I can't do any pledges today and questing is just not fun with constant every 5 second 999+ lag spikes.

HowardMoon · May 2020

VPN helped me through Germany

randallkn · May 2020

I'm in Boston and my latency is hardly ever < 99ms, where other games self-report in the 20-40ms range. I did a traceroute once and it looked like my packets were dying somewhere in Texas. I'm no network engineer, but I wonder if it's possible to have geographically disparate servers with a dedicated high-speed backbone between them. That way my poor packets don't have to make the long haul down south(west).

fatman29 · May 2020

So it appears that this issue really isn't limited to a single user and is widespread enough to safely assume that this is a problem on ZOS' end. Since I started this thread (3 months ago), there has been absolutely no improvemen. If ZOS staff could at the very least acknowledge there's a problem and that they MAY have started looking at it rather than feeding us condescending scripted answers, that would be great.

SiR_DoNKeY · May 2020

Hello

I bought the game 4 years ago when it first came out, played a little (Didnt even get to level 10) and stopped as I was in a different mindspace.

I have now just picked the game up again after trying my hand at WoW (but those rng on rng on rng on rng grinds are just plain anti-fun). I'm here just for the story and lore and all things elder scrolls, mainly has a single player.

This input delay, high ping and general laggy gameplay is making it very difficult to play the game smoothly. Im level 20, and had plans to start a sub and really get into it all from 1 June, but if this lag carries on, im going to drop those plans and look for something else.

The lag/latency was almost non-existent on Sunday/monday when I started up again.

Aloha · May 2020

Lag/latency, FPS drops are not really impact your game when you go full solo... but in trials and PvP the performances... are awful

SiR_DoNKeY · May 2020

Oh, there is definitely lag/latency in solo. I'm not in solo instances, I'm only level 21 now and the overworld is lagging a LOT.

I have just completed exited the game because the lag is completely ruining my fun. Maybe the next server maintenance will fix it.

jstgermain · May 2020

Ever since Greymoor I can't parse or do any combat without my frames dropping to zero. I've done everything they suggest and even reinstalled the game. I've been playing since the beginning but this might be the end for me, can't pay a subscription fee for a game I can no longer play.

Yvarhna · June 2020

My ping normally sits between 250ms to 280ms on the NA server. Now I am at 340-350ms and staying at that. It's been two days straight now being stuck at that ping. I am oceanic so it's a known fact we all struggle with ping issues but why why why has it suddenly changed? Even with the Greymoor release and all the issues that came with it, I still had moments where I went back down to my normal ping when it was later in the evening.
I am so unhappy about this. I do a lot of trials, I don't want to play at that stupid ping! I'm so over this right now.