Starlight_Whisper wrote: »

I have never had such issues. I play with

Whatever default screen 60 to 90 frames
Latency usually around 80 to 90

To me sounds like you had momentary unstable connection.

That's the ping I get outside of Cyrodiil. Inside; I usually see 110-120 and then if I get near any enemy, player or NPC; it spikes to 200+.

I really think this game has issues with position tracking and it's puked on by it's constant in combat check between players who have healed or damaged each other from anywhere on the map.

@ZOS_GinaBruno is someone looking at position desync still? Could we also try making being in combat a timed debug that refreshes based on healing and damage?

Everyday run-of-the-mill lag can certainly account for all this when it really gets bad, but don't necessarily rule out a local issue either! What you're describing kinda sounds like it could be a hitch on your end, honestly. If your framerate is turning into a slideshow in certain environments and the interactions are delayed universally, that could well be a bottleneck with something in your setup. I've had local issues compound with lag to make it seem worse than it is, and getting my own stuff worked out did help significantly. But your mileage may vary.


Here's a few things you could try:

Get some form of Hardware Monitor app (Hardware Monitor is what I use, but even just the built-in Windows feature can work) and take a look at your various components when this is happening. Is your GPU maxed out, burning hot, spinning fans like it's prepping for takeoff? Your RAM usage topped out? CPU burning hot? etc. Just give everything the once-over to make sure nothing looks out-of-whack.

Toggle between Fullscreen, Windowed, and Windowed Fullscreen. Notice any difference? Some games / drivers / hardware combos can start fighting or whatever behind the scenes and grind your FPS to a halt. ESO has done this to me a few times in the past. Playing in the screen mode that works best for you can ease the burden on your hardware, and enhance your overall experience. But besides that, just toggling the modes around can help you identify if it's "a you problem" or "an ESO server problem" more definitively, which is obviously nice. You're mostly just trying to rule out problems on your machine, remember.

If you use addons, try toggling them all off and see how things run. (Highly recommend using the excellent Circonians Addon Selector addon for this! Way easier than having to manually click/unclick/reclick a zillion tiny checkboxes!) Reintroduce your must-haves a few at a time, and see if things bog down again. That'll illustrate pretty clearly what/where the problem is, if there is one here. If you find one that's causing hiccups but you really don't wanna live without it, check for updates, redownload a clean version, etc. just to be sure.

Then there's the obvious cliche PC tech support stuff -- turn it off and on again, make sure there's not an entire poodle's worth of hair and dirt in your case, re-seat and secure all connections, update applicable drivers, yada yada yada. A bit trite, perhaps, but that stuff hasn't been the go-to "did you try the basic stuff?" advice for computer fixing since like the 1700s for no reason! Don't wanna be that person who overlooks the obvious steps only to look like a tool later on, right?



Obviously doing any of this annoying stuff is totally up to you if you even wanna bother or not. But like I said, for me I was having slight issues on my own end, and fixing them took me from literally unplayable slideshow to annoying-but-bearable lagfest during primetime play sessions. No need to make bad server performance worse by playing through easily fixable local issues, is my thinking.

Either way, good luck! Cyrodiil is a LOT more fun when you can actually ... you know... play it and stuff. ;P