vivisectvib16_ESO wrote: »

It's very much known. For what it's worth, this issue went away for me when I upgraded to the PS5 version. Sadly, I think it's a PS4 hardware limitation.

It’s hard to believe it’s a problem with the console when it worked previously. It’s like blaming the console for all the other player characters showing as dark silhouettes now when entering an area and that didn’t used to happen.

Anyone know if it occurs in the PS4 version if you play on PS5 (not playing the enhanced version)?

Yup, been an issue for me since the last patch. It's bad enough I can't play the PS5 upgrade without crashing, it'd be nice if this version ran better.

vivisectvib16_ESO wrote: »

Trust me - I have been complaining about this issue for years. Look up any thread about it in the PS4 tech forum and it was likely started by me. I have also posted video evidence of the issue in action.

It happened for me on both the PS4 version on a PS4, and the PS4 version on my PS5. It did not resolve until the PS5 enhanced came out.

The likely reason for it to have been working previously, but getting worse over time, is for the tech spec requirements of the game to become greater as it is expanded and added upon. Just like a PC game would. I'm not saying they CAN'T fix it, but I am say it's likely related to the hardware of the PS4 and something in-game would need to be drastically tweaked to get rid of it.

This has nothing to do with hardware or memory limitation since this micro freezing issue didn’t manifest before Blackwood. I’m also not talking about taxing PvP or PvE gameplay but rather idle or non-combat activities in all zones which has nothing to do with high CPU/GPU usage or even the „spec requirements“ of the game since they haven’t changed ever since. If this was performance related we’d see a drop in framerate or frametime / if it was a memory issue then freezes should’ve been caused by ingame actions like animations or loading of assets. This is a standard situation which can be easily replicated and was verified to be an issue by all people who I‘ve asked so far. The most likely reason is the way the PSN friends/invite system has been implemented into the game where we suddenly get a PS system notification for group invites, people leaving group and disconnecting which all trigger now a system notification to be displayed now - this wasn’t the case before Blackwood so I’m guessing there’s a bug in how this was implemented and the hit on overall gameplay performance (not as in too taxing) was simply overseen. I do not know for certain since I‘m not a dev but you can make pretty good guesses when looking at the freeze causes, changes to previous game versions and possible culprits for when you take everything into consideration. This time it just seems so oddly specifically tied to PSN friends.

katanagirl1 wrote: »

Anyone know if it occurs in the PS4 version if you play on PS5 (not playing the enhanced version)?

Yes it still occurs when installed on PS5 console storage.

I, too, have experienced identical issues as others in this thread. No problems prior to Blackwood, but "hiccups" ever since. Please fix this, ZOS. It's not a figment of our imaginations.