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999+ Ping for no reason. why?

scottii
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As titled.

On speed test, my ping is 1-4 ms. On https://pingtestlive.com/eso-status, ping is about 200. Why does the game have 999+ ping?
Praying the Daedric Gods will make Cyrodiil great again.
  • mairwen85
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    double thread posting? /s

    Seriously though, it happens a lot. No one really knows why other than that it happens, usually at the most inopportune times. I feel you though, I'm usually ~180-200 and I get struck by 999+, sometimes for several minutes.
    Edited by mairwen85 on July 8, 2020 11:56AM
  • twev
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    mairwen85 wrote: »
    double thread posting? /s

    Seriously though, it happens a lot. No one really knows why other than that it happens, usually at the most in opportune times. I feel you though, I'm usually ~180-200 and I get struck by 999+, sometimes for several minutes.

    I've hit 4K ping a number of times, too, while just walking in the middle of nowhere harvesting nodes.

    If it lasts more than a few seconds I tend to /reloadui and it generally clears up.
    It's annoying AF, but I'm still doing it because (so far) I'd rather look at the loading screen for a few seconds than watch my toon display 1 out of every 1000 frames for 10+ seconds.

    Now I just automatically hit my hotkey for /reloadui if my ping hits 500 for a second anymore.


    Edited by twev on July 8, 2020 11:55AM
    The problem with society these days is that no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.

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  • mairwen85
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    twev wrote: »
    mairwen85 wrote: »
    double thread posting? /s

    Seriously though, it happens a lot. No one really knows why other than that it happens, usually at the most in opportune times. I feel you though, I'm usually ~180-200 and I get struck by 999+, sometimes for several minutes.

    I've hit 4K ping a number of times, too, while just walking in the middle of nowhere harvesting nodes.

    If it lasts more than a few seconds I tend to /reloadui and it generally clears up.
    It's annoying AF, but I'm still doing it because (so far) I'd rather look at the loading screen for a few seconds than watch my toon display 1 out of every 1000 frames for 10+ seconds.

    Now I just automatically hit my hotkey for /reloadui if my ping hits 500 for a second anymore.


    Is it possible to bind a key to reloadui? I have broken menus and textures going into dungeons quite often which is an annoyance only fixed by doing that.
  • scottii
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    mairwen85 wrote: »
    twev wrote: »
    mairwen85 wrote: »
    double thread posting? /s

    Seriously though, it happens a lot. No one really knows why other than that it happens, usually at the most in opportune times. I feel you though, I'm usually ~180-200 and I get struck by 999+, sometimes for several minutes.

    I've hit 4K ping a number of times, too, while just walking in the middle of nowhere harvesting nodes.

    If it lasts more than a few seconds I tend to /reloadui and it generally clears up.
    It's annoying AF, but I'm still doing it because (so far) I'd rather look at the loading screen for a few seconds than watch my toon display 1 out of every 1000 frames for 10+ seconds.

    Now I just automatically hit my hotkey for /reloadui if my ping hits 500 for a second anymore.


    Is it possible to bind a key to reloadui? I have broken menus and textures going into dungeons quite often which is an annoyance only fixed by doing that.

    Could probably setup a macro. Even those ZOS is against it, something like this is harmless.
    Praying the Daedric Gods will make Cyrodiil great again.
  • twev
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    mairwen85 wrote: »
    twev wrote: »
    mairwen85 wrote: »
    double thread posting? /s

    Seriously though, it happens a lot. No one really knows why other than that it happens, usually at the most in opportune times. I feel you though, I'm usually ~180-200 and I get struck by 999+, sometimes for several minutes.

    I've hit 4K ping a number of times, too, while just walking in the middle of nowhere harvesting nodes.

    If it lasts more than a few seconds I tend to /reloadui and it generally clears up.
    It's annoying AF, but I'm still doing it because (so far) I'd rather look at the loading screen for a few seconds than watch my toon display 1 out of every 1000 frames for 10+ seconds.

    Now I just automatically hit my hotkey for /reloadui if my ping hits 500 for a second anymore.


    Is it possible to bind a key to reloadui? I have broken menus and textures going into dungeons quite often which is an annoyance only fixed by doing that.

    If you have the Librarian addon - theres a /reloadui keybind inside controls/addons.
    The problem with society these days is that no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.

    PC/NA, i7 with 32 gigs of ram, nVME cards and an nVidea 1060 over fiber.
    I don't play through Steam, ever.
  • Thorntongue
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    That happens when the gerbil takes a drink...
  • mairwen85
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    twev wrote: »
    mairwen85 wrote: »
    twev wrote: »
    mairwen85 wrote: »
    double thread posting? /s

    Seriously though, it happens a lot. No one really knows why other than that it happens, usually at the most in opportune times. I feel you though, I'm usually ~180-200 and I get struck by 999+, sometimes for several minutes.

    I've hit 4K ping a number of times, too, while just walking in the middle of nowhere harvesting nodes.

    If it lasts more than a few seconds I tend to /reloadui and it generally clears up.
    It's annoying AF, but I'm still doing it because (so far) I'd rather look at the loading screen for a few seconds than watch my toon display 1 out of every 1000 frames for 10+ seconds.

    Now I just automatically hit my hotkey for /reloadui if my ping hits 500 for a second anymore.


    Is it possible to bind a key to reloadui? I have broken menus and textures going into dungeons quite often which is an annoyance only fixed by doing that.

    If you have the Librarian addon - theres a /reloadui keybind inside controls/addons.

    Awesome. Will give that a look at. Thank you.
  • kargen27
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    Today I had a ping hit 16k+

    It only lasted a couple of seconds and I wasn't around evil doers so all was good.

    One day earlier in the week (forget now which day) I was getting 800+ ping in almost every fight. Again only lasted a couple of seconds but that seems like a long time when it happens.

    Have also had the game freeze on me several times over the last couple of days just for about three or four seconds. Happened quite a bit fighting dragons so always a rush wondering if I will still be alive when the game kicks in again.
    and then the parrot said, "must be the water mines green too."
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    We are closing this thread as another discussion is already ongoing about latency issues. You can post in the thread below along with finding troubleshooting.

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