DovahkiinHeart wrote: »

Vernilon wrote: »

I'm surprised that nobody wrote about it but there is actually a solution (for those who own Nvidia graphic card). Set MinFrameTime.2 to 0.00000000, then go to Nvidia Control Panel and set desired Max Frame Rate number. It works for me.

Thank you very much for this. This is exactly what I did.

My pc just updated. I noticed immediately that in vvardenfell, while doing my writs, my FPS would sit at 64-63 ish when it usually was at 100, as that is what I had set my Nvidia refresh rate to. Luckily I found this thread, and I went to check what exactly went down through my view update history. Lo and behold, 'Feature update to Windows 10, version 2004' successfully installed on 9/15/20.

Thanks for the solution. Was really wondering if I made a mistake by upgrading my Ryzen 5 2600X with a Ryzen 5 3600X. Coz I hadn't this issue with my previous CPU.

Changing minframetime solved my fps issue but i still ve some stutter

Pajor wrote: »

None of those work for me

yeah, for me neither. minframetime does absolutely nothing on my end and i still get 30 fps...

Okay, it's a long shot, and I'm still not 100% sure if this would consistently work for me: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/74932/quick-fix-for-fps-stuttering

But I tried this fix and played a character for two hours, a mix of fullscreen and windowed fullscreen, and no permanent fps drops or stuttering in all that time!

I plan to experiment further to ensure the results are consistent.

I must warn you, I ran into a monitor issue when I restarted after disabling all but the one sound device I needed. But then, I also got a new monitor, and learned that I didn't need to plug a cable each into the Motherboard and the GPU lol, not the way I had to with my ancient GL2440. So, I suppose, just exercise some caution there.

I wish you all lots of success with this method.

EDIT: Well, this time round it failed. Twice on EU, twice on NA, both times, around 40-odd mins, the perma-drop in fps returned.

What basically happens is this: The game functions normally, then between 30-60 minutes later, sometimes over 60, but certainly not reaching 90, but what happens then is sudden and persistant fps drop, massive drop, accompanied by persistent stuttering.

When I log out of a character, in character select, that stuttering persists, because you can see it happen, especially when you try to spin a character. You can also see it in the main menu, that rolling text near the buttom stutters when you move the mouse when it moves.

I have tried playing with no addons, reinstalled addons and refreshed savedvariables files, refreshed usersettings, I've reinstalled the game twice now, tried it on a different PC with Windows 10 1909 (yeah, Windows 10 version makes no difference). All these attempts, and the fps perma-drop/stuttering still happens.

I have wondered whether it might be a Windowed Fullscreen thing, but I don't think so, because no other game gives me grief for playing Windowed Fullscreen the way ESO has, so I don't think it's that, either.

Whatever it is, it's not on my end.

My first question, what will that app destroy?

Before I do anything like that, I'm going to run one more test, this time with Fullscreen proper.

It would be nice to understand if there is a similar fix from AMD, and in which version of the drivers it was implemented

ESO is hard locking to never going past 32. No frame rate limiter is set to 32. No v-sync is on. No addons. This makes no sense.

I'm posting this here because I believe this is now the de facto "fps issue" thread.

The game has had issues with performance degradation over time and memory leak-like issues for years now. It runs fine when you first start the application, but over the course of an hour or two, performance gets worse to the point of near unplayability. It's not just fps loss, it's frame pacing too. Even if you can maintain 50+ frames per second, it becomes an awful-performing stuttery mess.

For myself and many others with this problem (perhaps everyone with my specific problem), closing the application and restarting it fixes the issue immediately, without fail. The game's performance goes back to where it was when you first started playing initially. Just restarting the game takes me from 30-50 fps with terrible frame pacing back up to the smooth 100 fps I started playing with. That's telltale memory leak/ memory-related issue, from my layperson's experience.

I just want to be clear that this isn't normal frame drops that occur in an mmo while in crowded cities or big battles. That's totally expected. This performance loss issue can occur when you're out in the world alone, with virtually nothing going on on the screen. Normal frame rate drops due to player-dense areas don't also come with frame pacing issues and terrible stutters. When this game is running as it should, I can be doing a dolmen with 30+ players and the game remains buttery smooth, even if the fps decreases.

Running the repair tool on the launcher doesn't fix this problem, nor does lowering the graphics settings.

The fact that this issue has persisted as long as it has is super disappointing. You're now owned by Microsoft, a trillion-dollar valuation company, and the set of monetization methods for this game has grown to be extremely robust. The issue needs to be fixed. I've seen previous posts in which a ZOS employee acknowledged the memory leak issues (they said it was fixed in a previous patch) -- I hope they aren't now pretending it doesn't exist.

My gaming PC is under 3 months old, has no issues with any other software applications, and I use no add ons when playing Elder Scrolls Online. I don't have a bunch of applications running in the background and eating up RAM. When the game is running as it should, I can play on ultra at 5120x2160 and maintain near 100 fps everywhere but densely populated towns and battles. The problem isn't my rig (RTX 3080, i9-10850k, 32 GB DDR4 @ 3200mhz, 1 TB M.2 NVME SSD), and to reiterate, I'm not just whining that I can't always play at a perfect 100 fps. Normal performance dips in games are expected -- this issue isn't normal.