I’d like to know too. I usually play on an Xbox one x and went back to my PC characters recently after about a year of just playing the Xbox and... there’s a bigger difference than ever between console and pc. I was getting 100 FPS most places, 40 FPS at the super crowded dolmens in alikr, half the amount of people would have been a slide show on Xbox. The new consoles are both superior to my pc so it should be as good or better.

@Austacker

Thanks for the info... that’s disappointing, but not really surprising to learn that the frames are capped. If the “next gen” patch is capped at 30 that would be devastating and I’d really have to consider moving to pc.

Austacker wrote: »

I'm in Australia so we're one of the early crowd.

I got the Series X and moved my ESO Install to the internal Hard drive.

Zero Improvement.

Let me repeat - ZERO improvement.

I know some games definitely need a 'next gen' patch to make them perform better and some games can just ride brute force updates to run better.

But ESO on my Xbox One X and Xbox Series X today ran basically the same. No improvement at all, even on the 'load times' which heavily depend on your network speed and being in Australia, it's always been bad anyway.

I KNOW this game has a 'next gen patch' on the way, but for it not to be here at the next gen launch, what else can I say except...

... my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

I'll go back to just doing the dailies and not bother with this game until the patch drops. There's so many other games on the Series X that run at 60fps or better day one, it literally makes my eyes bleed to look at ESO in this state on a next gen console.

Just guessing the configuration files are the same from one platform to the next, so those capped frame rates and graphic configurations you got on your old hardware are still the same you get on the upgraded hardware.

Clearly the game needs to run a platform check on install/start and set configuration default accordingly. Over here on PC we can of course fiddle with the config files manually so it's not as much of an issue.

happyhughes2001 wrote: »

I’ve seen big improvement in loading times and better/consistent frame rates. Xbox One X to Series X. Can’t wait for the patch.

I think main difference is that you went from an standard harddrive to an very fast SSD.
If op ran the game on an SSD, going to an fast one is less of an improvement.
Not sure about frame-rates on console. It might be that series X run in some sort of comparability mode as default.

I just made a thread about this but the game finally finished installing on the Series X and I played 10-15 minutes. Its bonkers how much better the game FEELS. It loads way faster, it doesn't have frame drops anymore and everything from the menus to the map and everything in between is snappy. It does need the true next gen patch though so we can run it at 4k/60fps. When that happens it will be a perfect port...(mods someday pls)

Can confirm the load times for the core game are better, the new HDD/SSD hardware will naturally bring a boost.

But the network lag no next gen console will fix. Services in US / Euro only - none in Asia pacific = same old lag as ALWAYS.


I'm not as concerned with the network lag as I know no update will fix the fact they don't have local servers, but the ingame FPS performance is rubbish atm which is really disappointing when you note that a lot of the BC titles day one (even without a 'next gen patch' get big FPS boosts due to the fact they're not locked on frames).

I think the biggest improvement for this game will no doubt come with an unlocked frame rate. 60fps 4K on the Series X should definitely be achievable with that sort of GPU grunt and maybe even 120fps for 1080p?

Let's see, but yeah... this is ZOS, not getting my hopes up.

I just wish we would get max settings on the Series X. One X was already very nice, but I know that the PC version still looks superior - if the Series X version of ESO is on par that would be fantastic.

Ruder wrote: »

On Series X and PS5 4k@120fps is achievable for ESO, their GPUs are on par with GTX 1080ti in terms of performance and I had this card, it can do 4k120 (ultra) in ESO.
I also had GTX 10603gb which was doing 1440p@120hz in ESO (high settings with shadows to medium)

120hz VRR is the way to go for ESO since as a MMORPG there is no way to achieve consistent 60 or 120.

Yeah, I'm not holding my breath anything like that will happen in the short term.

For sure the Xbox Series X is capable of 120fps @ 4k - but I think that would be really pushing it.

If you could get a locked 60fps @4k and / or 120fps @1440p / 1080p that would be more reasonable.

But right now, this game can't even perform 30fps @ 1080p reliably right at the moment, even on the Xbox Series X.

Yes, it's running purely in BC mode as we speak (so the only improvement atm is on the better SSD speeds), but even with brute force the game cannot perform any better right now.

Kinda tells me that at the moment, this game client has a locked frame rate and it shows.

Hopefully when Microsoft takes over officially we'll see a far better focus on performance than the current 'real money shop' focus we have now, but I'm not holding my breath we'll see anything real in the next 6 months at least.

Maybe by NEXT Xmas we might see something better. Right now, the game performance (like always) is just a sad joke.

Kaartinen wrote: »

Consistent frame rates and substantially faster loading on Series X conpared to my One X. Frame rate appears capped, which is expected for a non-updated version.

I feel sorry for the dude that has somehow had zero improvement.

He might have lots of latency and an SSD on the old system.

For me moving ESO to an fast SSD on an PC did not give much changes, granted I had 48 GB ram so most of the game was probably in cache anyway.

Series X made my load times negligible, framerate crashing hasn't been a thing and it looks a damn sight better but obviously still subject to server whims when it comes to general performance and skills firing.

I am in Australia and there's been a world difference in performance going from PS4 Pro to PS5. The load times are significantly improved in general, although there's still occasionally a longer one, the game in general runs smoother (even before the Markarth update was fixed - in so far as it was fixed - there were noticeable improvements).

It's really noticeable how much quicker toons and NPCs load in high volume areas like the Undaunted enclave in Wayrest for example. Now I very rarely see black silhouettes and the NPCs load in almost immediately.

I'm the first person loading into the dungeon - even on Australian internet! - instead of the last person.

Everything just... runs way smoother. Trials are way less janky outside of the usual server issues.

And when I crash, I can get back into the game so much faster! Almost too fast sometimes, since I usually play on PS-NA I have to load to the EU character load screen to get NA to forget I was logged in lmao but even then it's way faster.