redlink1979 wrote: »

Server?
My latency has been similar to pre-patch times. I play on both servers.

Im on PC/EU. I never had this kind of issue in this game, it worked 100% ok before the patch, now its dropping like crazy and for NO reason.

A couple things that will help.

These all assume you have a reasonable GPU. They game tends to be CPU bound.

1) Make sure you have Multi-Threaded Rendering enabled.
Assuming you have any kind of CPU made in the last two decades this will drastically help in most cases as the CPU can spend less time preparing data for the next frame by splitting the workload.

2) Disable Software Occlusion Culling (probably)
This setting only helps if you have a weird case of a very good CPU and somehow a very underpowered GPU. Laptops come to mind for me here. Again, if you are CPU-bound - an you usually are on a desktop - this will only make things worse.

3) Turn off screen-space reflections.
They don't offer much and they have a bit of overhead.

4) Turn shadows to the lowest setting or off.
For me, this is the biggest culprit. It's what causes my framerate to drop of 100 fps to 25 when walking around in Glenumbra and in part it also affects my framerate in IC sewers. Shadows usually require a fair bit of extra work both for the CPU and GPU and require rendering many additional viewpoints. They also tend to be rather expensive when used for very large lights that hit wide areas when using a deferred rendering technique (what ESO uses).

If I had to take a guess though, I feel like someone accidentally copy-pasted a bunch of geometry in Glenumbra and a few other places about a hundred times because there really doesn't appear to be any obvious reason why the framerate should be dipping so hard in that one area around the stables Maybe I'll open up a tool for debugging graphics sometime and see what my GPU is actually doing.

I am experiencing the same issues, although not as pronounced. It seems to come and go at will. It hits me suddenly and a couple moments later it's smooth sailling again.

I keep my fps at 60, because that is my display's native framerate. But still I drop to 30 in some places. Weird thing is, it's not the same places. It seems to be random. Sometimes it is a dungeon. Sometimes a city quest hub. Today it was overland on the way to a world boss daily.

This is definitely not graphics connected, because I play a custom graphics mode optimised to keep my gpu temp under 50°C. That way I can stay under 100W for the entire system, which is pretty good when you are playing a long time.

Sarannah wrote: »

The latest driver versions of the nividia display drivers are having some serious issues with the 50 and 40 series. Issues important enough where some gaming companies are even telling players with a 40 series GPU to only use the 566.36 nvidia driver version as that is the most recent and last stable one. Might be worth taking a look if you are having fps issues.

That would explain it, I’m not experiencing these issues and I’m also not on the latest NVIDIA driver either.

I've been experience the issue as well, huge frame drop from 100 down to 22 or so with no explanation for why, when before I had smooth frames and only got slight drop in Cyrodiil. Every other game run totally fine except ESO with this frame drop ping spike stuff. All of these suggestion for check or alter settings? Already did it, and it's stuff I shouldn't have to even do cause I am over the specs and normally run fine without doing it. There is a major problem with frame drop and we need to figure out why

Sarannah wrote: »

Try to turn on undervolt protection in the bios, see if that helps.

It's nice of you to try and help, but I have played without issues for about 2 years on the same machine. And so, I am confident that it is neither a hardware nor a configuration issue!

At this point, my bet is on a backend issue, that creates overloads, disconnects or desyncs between server and client. Probably an unwanted side effect of their constant efforts to optimise backend performance.

I'm getting FPS drops when fighting Tidespite in Solstice.

Its difficult doing writs in west weald even when there is hardly anyone around

I have big fps drop too especially in Murkmire and Solstice

I find it amusing people complaining with 100ms while we, who play below the Equatorial line, play with at least 180-200ms

Sarannah wrote: »

The latest driver versions of the nividia display drivers are having some serious issues with the 50 and 40 series. Issues important enough where some gaming companies are even telling players with a 40 series GPU to only use the 566.36 nvidia driver version as that is the most recent and last stable one. Might be worth taking a look if you are having fps issues.

I'd reiterate this. Nvidia have been releasing drivers that do weird things to games (and Windows) for months now, with no sign of them getting any closer to sorting this mess out. Rolling back to an earlier driver if you're on an Nvidia card is a good place to start, if only to eliminate the issue from troubleshooting. I've seen problems in everything from Cyberpunk to ESO to Notepad. It's ridiculous.

namelessfrog wrote: »

Hello everybody,

i just want to confirm, that since content pass 25 there is a big issue with stutter and random fps drops (but uncommon fps drops, because its not only the drop of framerate but also everything seems to move slower for 1-2 seconds on the screen, it's like stutter in slow motion).

i run a i7 11800H and a GTX 3070 (with the newest driver). i never had any performance issues on this setup for the last 2 years of intense eso gaming.

ofc i tried to turn on /disable all kinds of settings like multithread rendering, occlusion culling etc.
ofc i tested this with all addons deactivated aswell, but the issue persists.

i have to say i would really love to play and enjoy the new subclassing system, but it is impossible.

i would like to know if anyone from ZOS is aware of this and if they are working on a solution for this. Until it's fixed i cancel my eso+ subscription.

im having this exact problem and I record things to create content for the game. Currently I have to halt all project I had in mind because the fps drops ruin it bad.

Northwold wrote: »

Sarannah wrote: »

The latest driver versions of the nividia display drivers are having some serious issues with the 50 and 40 series. Issues important enough where some gaming companies are even telling players with a 40 series GPU to only use the 566.36 nvidia driver version as that is the most recent and last stable one. Might be worth taking a look if you are having fps issues.

I'd reiterate this. Nvidia have been releasing drivers that do weird things to games (and Windows) for months now, with no sign of them getting any closer to sorting this mess out. Rolling back to an earlier driver if you're on an Nvidia card is a good place to start, if only to eliminate the issue from troubleshooting. I've seen problems in everything from Cyberpunk to ESO to Notepad. It's ridiculous.

To which driver do you suggest to revert? Because it seem like many recent driver are just bad

I am not so much suffering FPS drops, but definitely intermittent stuttering and jittering and vague 'non-smoothness' that was not present before the last update, even when the FPS is supposedly stable at 60. Sometimes even the cards in Tribute matches show this problem...

after some playtime with no issues ,today game returned to 20 fps/crash loading/character selection screen
who is responsible for this? why we are not getting support? will this get fixed anytime soon?