Does anyone know what causes the crashes?

zaria · November 2020

ZathrasParadox wrote: »

The developers don't even know why the game is broken. I imagine if they did then they would also know how to fix it. After today's patch I've been getting nearly continuous bluescreens. I can't do anything in the game without crashing. It is far worse than it was before the "maintenance patch"
But at least we can use chairs now.

The issue happened with the optimizations done with Malcarth, as other says it happen a lot on some dungeon bosses
Now some of the issues should be easy to replicate like the 7 round in DSA who I believe is fixed.

Other might be harder to track down. Freeze on some other fights like Spindleclunch 1 last boss is another bug I belive.

ccfeeling · November 2020

Bye trial
Bye PUG
Bye solo progression
The most dark moment in my ESO life, no one, no one from ZOS say anything.

Master_Kas · November 2020

Just crashed in a little 2v4 fight when all factions are on 1 bar population. This is getting ridiculous. xD

Grey17 · November 2020

Master_Kas wrote: »

This is getting ridiculous. xD

Indeed....Here a crash, there a crash, oh wait I've crashed?....How unusual <sic>.

This has happens very day, every hour I am on. And yes I have removed ALL add-ons be they in date or out of date. Doesn't make a shed of difference.

The official silence on the matter is quite disappointing

NinchiTV · November 2020

Twice tonight I crashed going into a keep battle (once at prime time, and another just now at 12:30 am on a Tuesday...Was solo both times, both times I approached on horse to a already siege'd emp keep. You failed me for the last time zos, sub canceled - again.

Edit: Oh I got a refund too big nice.

alainjbrennanb16_ESO · November 2020

there is a memory leak and there is spikes in your gpu when playing eso, to many effects, addons like mm and others that check others peeps stuff

Miswar · November 2020

alainjbrennanb16_ESO wrote: »

there is a memory leak and there is spikes in your gpu when playing eso, to many effects, addons like mm and others that check others peeps stuff

These have nothing to do with addons. There is 0 addons on PS4 and game is broken.

Hope Sony takes a note of this mess sine it requires playstation+ to operate.

Grey17 · November 2020

Had three cashes tonight just trying to complete my set of crafting writs on my characters.
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It's actually worse now than it was last week or the week before that.

allochthons · November 2020

I've been getting the same crashes as everyone else (bosses, fishing...)
But I quite often bluescreen exactly when I accept a group invite. Usually grouping for dungeons, but today in Cyradiil as well.

Zodiarkslayer · November 2020

So I experienced one (!) crash last night during a Vet Random on the last Boss in vBC2. He has scripted text, movement/ animation and if I recall correctly also a visual effect when he enters. I am not sure since I didn't see it last night.

At the start of the fight the game froze severely and did not crash to DESKTOP! After I Crtl+Alt+Del I could bring up the explorer but then couldn't shut down the program or crash it intentionally. Since I could simply reboot via explorer, I have to assume it was the Video Card Driver, that was overwhelmed from the visual effects that the script of Rilis's appearance started.

It was my 2nd crash/freeze at all with ESO and they both were after Markarth DLC released. The other was pre hotifx in Elden Hollow 1 or 2 (?), where you need to wait for some NPCs to destroy some altar and my group just rushed on and started a fight. Just as the the visuals of the fight were starting to animate my game froze. Again a scripted event with scripted visuals, that got interrupted by other visual effects.

So the natural conclusion for me is, that they changed something with the patch they intended to, but couldn't foresee all its effects. And they need time to isolate the problem properly.
It might be the buff system changes, it might be something else. Or even a combination of several changes together, that would only appear after going live, because the mass of people on live bring the several factors to occur together more often.

I don't understand why people get all aggro against ZOS. I mean: they are trying to fix it! What more can you expect?

russelmmendoza · November 2020

Deathlord92 wrote: »

Does anyone know what causes the crashes? Because i seem to crash every time I fight a boss bare in mind I’m only playing overland content?

I dont know, it was fine and great before the recent update.

I deleted all my addons on pc.

Upgraded all those effing drivers.

Still crashes when playing bg.

Dies a dozen times just to play objective.

And were winning, but no.

Crash the game to oblivion.

For the love of all the divines.

I wanna smack some heads just to feel better.

Most hatefull times of my time playing.

For the record I also play in the ps4, its just the same, just crashes when you play.

Well at least the brotherhood of steel is just a week away, I am definitely ready to go back to appalachia.

Gythral · November 2020

Yes, but it's [redacted]

zaria · November 2020

Zodiarkslayer wrote: »

So I experienced one (!) crash last night during a Vet Random on the last Boss in vBC2. He has scripted text, movement/ animation and if I recall correctly also a visual effect when he enters. I am not sure since I didn't see it last night.

At the start of the fight the game froze severely and did not crash to DESKTOP! After I Crtl+Alt+Del I could bring up the explorer but then couldn't shut down the program or crash it intentionally. Since I could simply reboot via explorer, I have to assume it was the Video Card Driver, that was overwhelmed from the visual effects that the script of Rilis's appearance started.

It was my 2nd crash/freeze at all with ESO and they both were after Markarth DLC released. The other was pre hotifx in Elden Hollow 1 or 2 (?), where you need to wait for some NPCs to destroy some altar and my group just rushed on and started a fight. Just as the the visuals of the fight were starting to animate my game froze. Again a scripted event with scripted visuals, that got interrupted by other visual effects.

So the natural conclusion for me is, that they changed something with the patch they intended to, but couldn't foresee all its effects. And they need time to isolate the problem properly.
It might be the buff system changes, it might be something else. Or even a combination of several changes together, that would only appear after going live, because the mass of people on live bring the several factors to occur together more often.

I don't understand why people get all aggro against ZOS. I mean: they are trying to fix it! What more can you expect?

Don't think its the buffs changes, more likely optimizations who was supposed to reduce load during huge fights as in trial trash fights or huge battles in Cyrodil.

This increased the chance of crash in some dungeon fight a lot but also reduced stability.
ESO never crashed before malcart for me.

Seminolegirl1992 · November 2020

Katheriah wrote: »

Some say it's outdated add-ons
Some say it's outdated drivers
Some say it's trying to put a band aid on old, broken code and a dying server
Some say it's because you forgot to sacrifice a virgin on the last full moon

Nobody knows

I have yet to try the last one. Will let you know if it works.

NEMESIS_97 · November 2020

For me trials is unplayable for last 2x patches..was problems in dungs too but now its only trials...have uber pc..very fast net and all updated...when reinstalled windows 10 for 1month trials runs fine..then all started again..cant reach any trials 1st bosses without crash except crag trials crashes between 1and 2 bosses

Raideen · November 2020

Shoddy craftsmanship?

ZOS_Ragnar · November 2020

Hello! We have closed this thread as we already have an existing thread on this topic found here: "Crash to desktop" Please feel free to continue the discussion over there.