Optimal Pc for ESO

Th3M3nt0r · September 2020

Hey ppl.

Im playing ESO on my old MSi GE72 laptop..... Tired to play my fav game on low resolution with lags.... looks like it time to get better PC.

Any suggestion what kind of configuration should i looking for to get high and stable FPS in game (im mostly in PVP area).

My current configuration ( what i'm going to buy in few weeks)

NZXT H510i
Gigabyte Z390 UD
Intel i5 9600K
MSI GTX 1660 Ti Ventus XC
Seasonic Focus Gold 550W
16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 RAM
Samsung 860 EVO 250GB SSD
Arctic Freezer 34

Th3M3nt0r · September 2020

Not so expensive, i can afford 1K-1.6K USD atm

MrTrenbolone · September 2020

ESO is poorly optimized, no matter how good your PC is, ESO is unable to make use of multiple cores as one example.
Do not invest into a better PC just for ESO, it's not worth it.

Th3M3nt0r · September 2020

So ESO just one of my fav. I suppose if my PC will be good for ESO it will be BEST for other games

I play WoW on 3 it boring as well

Can't play new games on good settings.... LOW and MEDIUM is my max

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Curious_Death · September 2020

for pvp? i would look for AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT + 2080 S/ti (can be bought rly cheap from some1 who will change it for 3080)
ram ~16GB+
good Motherboard with at least 2 slots pcie x16 and up to 32/64 GB ram
and rly rly good power supply ~750W
pc like this will be enough even for cryengine 3 games

ps. if u get 2080 cheap u can buy second in future making ur pc a beastmode.
or u can just wait for rtx 3070 and get 1 new and another in future.

rem NEVER... NEVER buy a cheap motherboard or power supply.. just never

Rungar · September 2020

get the pci express version of the ssd if you can (and motherboard that can use it). That might help a bit.

LadyLethalla · September 2020

I wish my 2014 laptop could run ESO... given it was built the same year as the game released, but nooooooo -___-

Banana · September 2020

Wait until AMD have released all their new stuff. Next month. Then make a decision

Rowjoh · September 2020

Basically you'll need a powerful processor, decent graphics card and 16gb Ram.

You'll also need a SSD (hard drive) with an absolute minimum 500gb capacity.

Its quite easy to research and settle on the key components you need...

I knew next to nothing about PC's having been a Mac user for many years. Then decided to go for a bespoke gaming PC, did my research and learned what I needed and why.

I can now play ESO (and other AAA games) without any glitches and at highest settings on a 32inch gaming monitor in ultra HD, with silky smooth highly detailed graphics, high stability and awesome sound.

Sylvermynx · September 2020

Rowjoh wrote: »

Basically you'll need a powerful processor, decent graphics card and 16gb Ram.

You'll also need a SSD (hard drive) with an absolute minimum 500gb capacity.

Its quite easy to research and settle on the key components you need...

I knew next to nothing about PC's having been a Mac user for many years. Then decided to go for a bespoke gaming PC, did my research and learned what I needed and why.

I can now play ESO (and other AAA games) without any glitches and at highest settings on a 32inch gaming monitor in ultra HD, with silky smooth highly detailed graphics, high stability and awesome sound.

Similar for me - but my bespoke machine is nearly 7 years old now. Looking at a new one from the same folks next spring (well.... assuming we don't have to either replace a diesel engine or the entire truck - don't ask).

Recapitated · September 2020

I'm playing with this:
- AMD 3200g
- Asrock b450m pro4 (defective and support is not responding fyi)
- 16gb RAM
- EVGA bronze PSU

It plays fine, still problems compared even to my 2015 Macbook Pro but that's not changing until ZOS improves multicore support. With up to 1.6k (that's double my budget and I was paying Canadian dollars) I would think about what other games you might want to play and optimize based on that or just not spend so much.

I don't think the game is hard on your GPU and it's poorly optimized anyways to I don't see the point of getting a 2080ti or something like that.

Ruder · September 2020

You nees the following configuration to get most of ESO.
CPU:
Intel i5 10600k - 270$ or
Ryzen 7 - 3700x -275$
RAM:
2x8GB 3200mhz+ CL16 (3600mhz in best case) -90$
Motherboard: 100-150$
GPU: RTX 2070S (second hand) 300$
Power Supply: 650W Gold- 100$
PC case: 100$
CPU cooler: 75-100$
SSD 512GB - 70$
All arround 1300$

And i Strongly suggest you to spend another 300$ for decent 144hz 1440p monitor.

MoonlightShadow · September 2020

LadyLethalla wrote: »

I wish my 2014 laptop could run ESO... given it was built the same year as the game released, but nooooooo -___-

I am playing on a laptop from 2012! (https://www.asus.com/ROG-Republic-Of-Gamers/ROG-G46VW/specifications/)

Gythral · September 2020

Time travel to 2100, buy PC - return
maybe has a chance

zvavi · September 2020

I have recently upgraded my laptop myself. Double the ram. Better CPU. Better gpu. And I will be honest with you. The game doesn't run much better.

gatekeeper13 · September 2020

Dont spend your money on hardware for a single video game. Not worth it.

Besides, ESO is so poorly optimized you will still get framedrops even if you buy a quantum computer.

But if your decision is final, then you should focus more on buying a good CPU than gpu. ESO is more cpu than gpu based.

hakan · September 2020

Mine is this and i play on the highest available which is high or very high, i dont remember.

ryzen 2600, 8ram 3000mhz, b450m-k, gtx 1660ti. a curved 144mhz monitor 1ms.
30-40fps in pvp, trials. around 60for other stuff like running around in zones. sometimes lower or higher. sorcs and templars destroy my fps though.

and playing with res/options doesnt help.

Th3M3nt0r · September 2020

Hmmm.... don't sound too optimistic

Hopefully Microsoft will improve optimisation in this game

Almost sure it will be available only for Windows 10 and Xbox from now

JTD · September 2020

gatekeeper13 wrote: »

Dont spend your money on hardware for a single video game. Not worth it.

Besides, ESO is so poorly optimized you will still get framedrops even if you buy a quantum computer.

But if your decision is final, then you should focus more on buying a good CPU than gpu. ESO is more cpu than gpu based.

All this is sadly true for ESO.

Xargas13 · September 2020

Running on:

GPU: Radeon RX 580 Series
RAM: 8GB
CPU: Intel Core i5 - 9400F

Game is on Kingston SSD, and I have no idea what people are talking about when it comes to performance, I never had a *** up. There is desync and lag from time to time, but it server related. Running with everything almost on max settings.

lozq · September 2020

I second everyone who has said 'don't bother' lol.

I upgraded from a daggy old 2014 gaming/multimedia laptop last year, and I think the only benefits of my homebuilt are better cooling (because space for CPU coolers and fans) and the game loading better from an SSD instead of a HDD.

System diagnostics show the highest load on the CPU, and R/W from the SSD is usually very busy. GPU seems to chug along happily regardless of settings.

RX580 4?G VRAM
Ryzen 5 2600X
16G RAM (single channel because my mobo hates me)

Seriously, I'd try and play the game on a better computer before you shell out big dollars. You'll probably be pretty underwhelmed.

Luke_Flamesword · September 2020

Performace of this game is more depending on server performance than your PC. You can have the best computer in the world and fastest Internet connection but you will still experience low fps and lags, because game server can't handle whole game in some situations.

Ruder · September 2020

Luke_Flamesword wrote: »

Performace of this game is more depending on server performance than your PC. You can have the best computer in the world and fastest Internet connection but you will still experience low fps and lags, because game server can't handle whole game in some situations.

pls don't talk jiberish,

Only latency is server dependent,
FPS is ENTIRELY PC hardware (client) dependent.

manny254 · September 2020

The specs you posted sound pretty reasonable to me, but don't expect ESO to run much better. The only thing you might want to reconsider is the size of the SSD. With how big games are, you really should try and just save up for a 1TB SSD.

As others said, timing of new hardware releases is always something to consider.

FriedArgonians · September 2020

Banana wrote: »

Wait until AMD have released all their new stuff. Next month. Then make a decision

I agree wait until AMD's news. So far seems like their new cpu is really good and big navi will be cheaper and can compete with a 3080. What resolution would you like to play at?

FriedArgonians · September 2020

oh..not just big navi..the smaller navi's should be pretty good also.

JanTanhide · September 2020

MrTrenbolone wrote: »

ESO is poorly optimized, no matter how good your PC is, ESO is unable to make use of multiple cores as one example.
Do not invest into a better PC just for ESO, it's not worth it.

Not accurate. Run MSI Afterburner and turn on CPU core monitoring and whatever else you wish to see in OSD.

I have tested this many times including 2 minutes ago and all 16 cores on my rig are utilized and pretty much balanced. The game engine was upgraded a few years ago to handle multiple cores and threads and does so quite well.

I run two 1080 Ti's in SLI and they are also utilized by ESO at 50%/50%.

rpa · September 2020

ESO runs reasonably well with my many years old I5-2500 @3.3GHz 16GB RAM potato. Main updates I've done is
- A cheap 2560 x 1440 screen to replace my cheap full hd screen
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 to replace old Nvidia something50 which fried
- 1TB SSD for system & applications

Dunno about optimal but I recommend 1TB SSD, those are getting pretty affordable. ESO alone is about 73.1GB and likely not getting any smaller. ESO and ESO PTS is 148 GB (159,484,620,800 bytes size on disk).

Th3M3nt0r · October 2020

Heh looks like editing this line help a lil bit

SET MaxCoresToUse.4 "-1"

atm.

So will stick with my initial configuration coz all suggestion is totally trash.

HumbleThaumaturge · October 2020

The computer you propose to buy should be great for running ESO, assuming your network is adequate.

Zenimax has stated many times that certain Add-ons can adversely impact game performance. One might try disabling all Add-ons, then re-enable them one at a time while monitoring performance (fps and CPU cores). Or, Google (Add-ons ESO Performance) and see if you find any info on Add-ons known to injure performance. When I play Cyrodiil, I turn-off most Add-ons.

We are running ESO on two gaming computers: (1) from 2012, i7-3770k CPU with GTX 680 video card; and (2) from 2018, i7-8700k CPU with GTX 1080 video card. Both computers run great, with all settings at maximum. The 2012 computer runs ESO at a little over 60 frames per second (fps), while the 2018 computer can run ESO at up to 100 fps (have not changed the UserSetting to run higher than 100 fps). From my experience, ESO performance is primarily limited by CPU, not by video card. While our gaming computers have 32 GB RAM, as an experiment I have played for hours with 8 GB of RAM, with no loss of performance.

Suggestions:
- Turn-on continuous monitoring of fps and latency. Type /fps. Type /latency. Or go to Settings. While some might aspire to 200 fps on a 60-inch 4k monitor, we are fine playing at 60 fps or higher (even drops to 40 fps is not bad). Frame rate used to drop unacceptably low in Cyrodiil, but has not done so in the past year or so. I guess ZOS performance improvements worked.
- Install a CPU-monitoring application, and glance at it from time to time during game-play. If you see fps dropping, look at CPU monitors and see if one or more of the CPU cores has hit 100 percent.
- Prior to Cyrodiil campaigning, we reset the modem and router, this seems to help occasionally, so what the heck.

Improving performance without new hardware:
Google for things like: ESO fps improvement or ESO performance. There are also YouTube videos on the subject. You can do things that reduce the burden on your computer, in addition to disabling Add-ons. Obviously, one can lower Settings (as you mentioned for your old laptop). In additions to regular Settings (Low, Medium, High, Ultra), there are other Settings that can impact performance. Like, (1) lower setting on "Maximum Particle Systems"; (2) lower setting on "View Distance"; (3) change "Grass" setting to LOW or OFF; (4) etc.

You can even edit your UserSetting parameters (Google: ESO Increase Performance). We only did a couple of these on our two gaming computers. You might try the top four.
SET PARTICLE_DENSITY “3” edit to “0”
SET DistantFoliageEnabled “1” edit to “0”
SET HIGH_RESOLUTION_SHADOWS “1” edit to “0”
SET SHADOWS “4” edit to “0”
SET SIMPLE_SHADERS “0” edit to “1”
SET REFLECTION_QUALITY_v3 “2” edit to “0”
SET ANTI_ALIASING_v2 “1” edit to “0”
SET CachedRLREnabled “1” edit to “0”
SET CachedReflectionResolution “4” edit to “0”
SET CachedShadowFiltering “5” edit to “0”
SET GPUSmoothingFrames “10” edit to “0”
SET MIP_LOAD_SKIP_LEVELS “0” edit to “1”
SET RAIN_WETNESS “1” edit to “0”
SET CHARACTER_LIGHTING “1” edit to “0”
SET DETAIL_MAPS “1” edit to “0”

L_Nici · October 2020

ESO needs more power from the CPU than anything, its obviously no Witcher 3 Graphics.

I play with an AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six core and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB, if I play the normal PvE Game the CPU is at around 55% while the Graphics card barely reaches 40%. In PvP that changes, there my CPU goes up to 70%, while the graphics card doesn't change at all, even with way more stuff happening on screen.
RAM is not really worth of mentioning I have 16GB and its never used even halfe during playing ESO.