The most recent major update is really pushing my limits of what I can tolerate, since once again, my game is running at a lower fps, and the only thing that has changed, is the game has updated.

The graphical optimization of the ESO client with Nvidia drivers, from my own experience, has gotten worse over the last year. Graphical optimization is clearly not a priority, and I believe they are updating to newer driver toolsets without actually optimizing.

Today I even tried a little experiment with my computer which is packing a Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 (on the most recent drivers). I turned off all addons, and either turned off all graphical settings or turned them down to their lowest option. So with my game looking like absolute trash, I went for a ride through Stormhaven and my fps still was dropping into the 40's.

I don't have this kind of performance on any other games I play on this machine, and I use this machine for VR, where fps stability is massively important.

Hoping there will be an acknowledgment by ZOS on this and maybe some optimization patches, but not going to hold my breath.

Same issue for me, since the update my framerate sits between 20 and 100 Fps which cause random stuttering especially in crowded area.
Usually my game runs flawlessly between 80 and 100 Fps, my GPU is NVidia GTX 1070.
Same behavior with all addons disabled.

Moreover, I have increased character loading time with my cpu reaching 100% charge (8 core + HT) for a full minute, which is very long especially when you have multiple characters.

Hoping for an hotfix please Zos, game is no more enjoyable on this state.

Same issues here. I have been experiencing fps drops (20-30 lows from flat 60 before), which as I have observed, is caused by ramping up of CPU and Disk loads on my PC on certain areas of the game, especially cities, observed mostly on vivec city as I am always there. My graphics settings are all set to low except texture and subsampling, vsync is on, multithreaded rendering is off. I have not experienced this before even if the place is crowded.

My PC is outdated, but its not an issue before.
Ryzen 5 1600x
AMD RX 480 4gb
16gb RAM
Game is in HDD

I don't play eso much but when I logged in last week it was fine and I remembered how great the game has been running ever since the MT renderer was added.

But I logged in again after this week's update and the game is occasionally halving the frame rate and then stuttering. I spend so much time troubleshooting this game it has become a real downer. It's like I just can't win.

ZOS_Bill wrote: »

You can find further troubleshooting to try for frame rate issues in the thread below.

Unusual and Unplayable FPS Issues, Other Games Running Fine

@ZOS_Bill Look at my post above, I got the issue with the game at its lowest graphical settings and no addons. This is not an issue with settings. The new build clearly has a CPU optimization issue, mainly when around other players. This thread has far more detail on the issue.

same here. been having real bad fps drops in cities even if no one is around since the last patch. it's usually like i have my average fps (say, 40-60 in Vivec crafting zone, never paid much attention to that outside here and some few trials), then suddenly my game stutters and my fps drops to smth 8-15. totally unplayable. if i stay in place long enough (idk, less then a minute i think) it becomes normal again for another few minutes.
ping is fine, no issues in trials, dungeons or actually anywhere outside of cities (not just hubs, even some smaller ones)
ryzen 7 2700
rtx2060 (6 Gb)
32 Gb RAM

Bring back U32 renderer…it’s not our hardware that’s the problem or addons or settings, etc.

yoshiluvr wrote: »

i also have been getting the same issue everyone else who has a lower computer has gotten through fine i run 60 to 144 frames fine out of any town or city but ever since i think march 15 is when it started when i walk in the city it goes from 60 to 28 back to 60 to 38 it makes it so i cant even bid on our guild trader without lag. i really wish support would stop thinking its my hardware (its not i troubleshooted with support for 5 hours last night) please assist us so we can enjoy your game

8 Core CPU ?

Edit UserSettings.txt, change SET MaxCoresToUse.4 "x" to SET MaxCoresToUse.4 "2".
Save and start the game.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/599878/fps-after-patch/p2

This technical issue since the march update has never been fixed!
It's like it is being ignored for the whole year.

Edit UserSettings.txt, change SET MaxCoresToUse.4 "x" to SET MaxCoresToUse.4 "2".

That is the only thing that stops the framerate from being so unstable but it can cause crashes. It is not a fix!

Please whoever works for ZoS, can you report this instead of asking us to troubleshoot. I sent a support ticket a month ago!

ZOS_Bill wrote: »

@Red_Feather

If you've not done so, please go ahead and open a ticket with customer support so this can be further investigated.

I did already. They assumed it was a hard drive or memory issue. It is not a hardrive or memory issue.

Here is a topic of everyone affected. It's gone on for over half a year now. It's not our computers, it's the game. The video in this post is a way of conveying how ESO runs on our computers now. It is not my video. https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/7633045/#Comment_7633045

I felt heavy lag today. I almost never have any issue. It felt like the server lagging and eating my FPS. I dropped to 4 fps at one point when I’m usually at 80-110 fps through everything. That’s when I knew for sure that I wasn’t imagining things. I also kept losing the ability to loot!!! Every now and then, I had to roll-dodge to regain the ability to see the [E] loot prompt and to be able to actually loot. It was crazy.

Been running great for me... the odd crash here and there though, although tonight the servers took a dump and I had ping spikes in the hundreds all over the shop.

Anyways... unlike most players I'll bet, I'm using an AMD Radeon GPU so if it is an Nvidia driver issue, then its not gonna affect me.