[Bug - 2023-05-25]- appalling lag since maintenance of 2023-05-23. PC-EU

Bucky Balls · May 2023

PC-EU

Since maintenance this week all aspects of game play have been affected by appalling lag with latencies of 400-999+. My internet etc is fine and, from comments from other players this is a common experience of many players grouped in dungeons and battlegrounds with atrocious lag, delays in skills firing, unresponsive interface etc etc.

It even affects overland with latency all over the place regardless of peak/non-peak times (pc-eu has very definite peak times and outwith these times the lag is still horrendous).

Please investigate and remedy this.

@ZOS_Kevin

edit: The game is jittery slide-show. For comparison pc-na is fine.

Galeriano · May 2023

Yes. I've noticed that in BGs. Sometimes matches are unplayable and lots of people in BG is lagging heavily. Delays are reaching up to 4 seconds. This is simply unacceptable.

davapoole · May 2023

I was doing VCR the evening of maintenanace and at least 4-5 players in the trial were all complaining and getting 999+ pings and one checked and his was 5000 ping. they all re logged and restarted pc and routers and made no difference and today had players in guild chat also asking if anyone else was getting very bad lag spikes.It definately was bad after yesterdays maintenance and I am playing on PC-EU server

RitaNidec · May 2023

Same.

Braffin · May 2023

Same here on PC EU. Although I have a normal gaming experience around 95% of the time, sometimes I get described lagspikes out of the blue for about 5 to 10 minutes.

For example yesterday evening game was almost unplayable for a few minutes while I was doing writs (!) in Davon's Watch.

Lots of guildies report the same problem too.

Altyrann · May 2023

Similar thing here

shaxigamingeb17_ESO · May 2023

Yes it's really horrific. People will rubberband all over town, the dungeon, the trial, the battleground, or whatever you're doing. My ping is usually within the range of 60-100 on PCEU. And it is that 90% of the time now, but suddenly it'll start spiking up to 600, 700, 800, 900 etc, etc. Something went very wrong in the latest maintenance and it needs investigation

Sarannah · May 2023

Figured I'd link the other thread here, as there are multiple threads about this same issue.
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/634537/pc-eu-starts-lagging-more-than-ever/p1

There is also one in the technical support forums.

React · May 2023

Sounds like they accidently removed more server resources than they usually do when they concluded this year's midyear mayhem event

terror_incarnate · May 2023

PC/EU Server

Terrible lag here too!

My ping varies from 54 - 500+ a lot of the time, but I've noticed that my FPS remains at around 90 (where it should be) and sometimes even when my ping is good at around 65 or so, the lag is still bad. In cities I'm seeing character animation (of players) stuttering when they move or run! Dungeon and trial runs are becoming quite difficult, especially when trying to tank or heal and abilities are sometimes stalling/lagging or out of sync. I've tried switching off all addons too, so it's not those which are causing this issue. Everyone in my guild says that they are experiencing similar problems, some more than others. It only seems to have started after the recent patch update. Can someone look into this please? Thank you.

ZOS_Bill · June 2023

As there are multiple threads discussing latency, we have decided to close this thread. Our help article linked below offers different troubleshooting you can try for latency issues while playing ESO.

Latency / Lag - Technical Support - The Elder Scrolls Online