Error disconnects and endless loading screens

Parsifal · April 2014

I have been having two big issues while playing the game. The first I have had since day 1. I constantly get disconnected...previously it would say "Unknown error", but now it just says "error", and says to wait a few minutes before logging on. I have seen various "fixes" for this issue, but none of them have worked for me. One of the people suggested doing a ping to google.com to see if any packets were lost, but after doing this for 8hrs overnight it still said 0 lost, so I don't think that my internet is doing anything funny from my end.

The second issue is getting stuck in endless loading screens. This only started happening with the most recent patch. The only way I've found to get out of the loading screen is to alt/f4 from the game and restart. It seems to happen nearly 50% of the time when I change zones, and is extremely annoying! The only solution I've seen is to add ESO to your windows firewall list of trusted programs, but I did that and it didn't help at all.

Does anyone have any suggestions on things I can try to prevent these errors? I absolutely love this game, but it is very frustrating to play with all of the hassle from these bugs.

jmoore59 · April 2014

Same problem with the random drops and endless loading screen. Fire wall fix did not help. Sometimes it happens when I die and release not just changing zones.

rich-dragonb14a_ESO · April 2014

yeah this is driveing my nuts i've been trying to log onto my alts for the past 20 mins and getting nonstop endless loading screens at this rate i'm just gonna wait till the patch for the US servers

Dryyab · April 2014

I hear ya man I also have the loading screen problem and sometimes disconnects also its been a while since i've entered cyrodiil since every time means alt-f4... I really hope this will be fixed soon

gimarwb17_ESO · April 2014

Long loading screens to alts is especially frustrating when the bank space bug is still active and you have to log into your alts to store stuff with them. I play for 20 min maximum and have to go to alts to distribute stuff like the provisions to my food crafter, etc.
Lost all my stuff and gold in the bank bug so i am doubly frustrated.

I think the long loading and crashes is due to this being a 'megaserver' and anybody who plays the game, especially now all new people doing the same quests, there are too many people bunched together at all times doing same quests etc so the quests break, too many ppl in general so long loading screens.
With multiple servers at least when a game comes on the market new it spreads out all the people to different servers.

The only way I can see out is to go away and maybe come back later. But somehow I never get around to going back to a game once I leave.

Kitaelia · April 2014

I am also having both of these issues.. None of the fixes seem to work. My game crashes constantly.. It crashed every now and then before the patch, but now it has increased to every 5-15 minutes.

Evergnar · April 2014

I only had these endless loading screens occasionally but now it's constantly occurring in Cyrodiil or trying to get in/out of it. Nothing has changed on my end.