[PC/NA] Constant Game Freezes

React · December 22

[PC/NA]

Happening to myself, my group mates, and players on other factions in both cyrodiil and imperial city each night I've played this past week. The game freezes intermittently before rubberbanding seconds later. Extremely frustrating and essentially unplayable. It is not an issue on our ends, this is very clearly some sort of problem with the servers.

Below is a video with several examples.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgYHQ9kVnA8

adamsmith42 · December 22

Was constantly getting this for the entirety of the hour and a half my prog group had on Bahsei HM tonight; needless to say, it was more bombings that progression for us tonight.

Rkindaleft · December 22

It's happening in trials too (PSNA). This was us in our Unstoppable prog 2 nights ago and last night. I posted these both in the lag thread but as of yet haven't really had any responses. The first clip is from Thursday night, a rubberband over several seconds and then 3 people getting disconnected at the same time. The second clip is from last night and literally 5 people got disconnected at the same time.

Apart from the usual inconsistent server performance the game has been *really* unplayable since the servers went down like a week ago. I've had 4 or 5 prog nights since and there hasn't been an evening we haven't had multiple people randomly disconnect (and/or rubberband).

https://youtu.be/Md7ZrI7o_nU

https://youtu.be/Ky4ssMSS-SA

React · December 22

Rkindaleft wrote: »

It's happening in trials too (PSNA). This was us in our Unstoppable prog 2 nights ago and last night. I posted these both in the lag thread but as of yet haven't really had any responses. The first clip is from Thursday night, a rubberband over several seconds and then 3 people getting disconnected at the same time. The second clip is from last night and literally 5 people got disconnected at the same time.

Apart from the usual inconsistent server performance the game has been *really* unplayable since the servers went down like a week ago. I've had 4 or 5 prog nights since and there hasn't been an evening we haven't had multiple people randomly disconnect (and/or rubberband).

https://youtu.be/Md7ZrI7o_nU

https://youtu.be/Ky4ssMSS-SA

Looks like the same exact issue.

I asked the streamer "Imperial" in his chat if he'd been experiencing any kind of freezes the past week, and he described the exact same thing featured in both of these videos without having seen them himself.

This is definitely a widespread problem.

@ZOS_Kevin @ZOS_JessicaFolsom Is the team aware of this issue?

imaslowlearner · December 22

It's just a game mechanic at this point

Desiato · December 22

Since the event began, all PVE group instances I've been in have been affected by varying degrees of lag that appears to be server-side.

Most of the time it has smaller impacts like making weaving a bit clunky or block a bit unreliable -- I've heard lots of tanks complain about that.

At its worst there is severe freezing and rubberbanding.

I normally have an excellent connection without performance issues for PVE activities.

IncultaWolf · December 22

It's happening to me on PS5 and PC. I was wondering if it was just a hardware issue on my computer so I booted up eso on my Playstation, same thing happening in pve and pvp for over a week now.

IncultaWolf · December 22

This is why arcanist is meta in pve, while the game is freezing, you're still beaming

Parasaurolophus · December 22

Same here. After the servers crashed a week ago, there were problems with delays. It's a shame, because a couple of months before that, the game seemed to have stopped having ping spikes that had been there all year.

Lylith · December 22

even running solo with no one around it's a feature.

been enjoying it for the last few days.

twinkles21 · December 23

I was going to make a post asking what's up with the lag and freezes? I've just come back after a 2 year hiatus, and I don't remember these game freezes where latency jumps to 999+ several times an hour.

huskandhunger · December 23

while crafting in a friend's house alone, simple menus began to stutter and delay just this week 🫠

Just_Attivi · December 23

Have any of you tried just turning your computer/console off and on again? it can't be the servers, problems have to be on your end

Jokes aside, yea, I popped back in to try to catch up with a friend, and PVE in non-event, relatively unpopulated zones, youll get freezes/stutters every few minutes just walking around, visiting heavily populated zones frequently seize up entirely/crash and throw an error at you. PVP in blackreach was rough, whole lot of freezes and ping spikes and it was very far from pop capped (barely reached 2 bars on any faction while I was on). Not a particularly enjoyable experience. I get that they have the 'safety net' of 'reduced performance' while they fend off the DDoS as they stated in that one post, but this feels pretty much the same as it has for the last 7 months, except its coming paired with 7 months of frustration and disappointment. Whats shown in the various videos people have linked is pretty widely what 'normal' performance is these days for many players, which is ridiculous.

Arcanasx · 4:24AM

I've been having a lot more sudden lag spikes (without disconnecting) ever since the servers crashed.