ZOS, Massive Spike in Ping/LAG in Recent Days - What Gives?

whitecrow · September 24

Getting quite a bit of lag in recent days. I typically don't.

erebus_79_ESO · September 26

PC/NA crashing before character loading into game. Just trying to turn in my daily writs!

blktauna · September 26

Ive been dropped from PCNA several times in the last two days.

ISCOLDSOUL · September 28

Well I have updated everything my end, still horrible lag spikes, now with added load screens as I do my daily writs, and bonus invisible enemies in dungeons, I think the time has come for me an ESO to part ways.
PS
I have cancelled my ESO plus and walking away for a while, tired of ZOS's *** attitude, the game had become frustrating, not fun, which defeats the purpose of playing

MrGarlic · September 29

I've stopped playing the game this week (other than logging on for daily log-on reward) due to the high ping (PCNA.)

I did a TRACERT and it looks normal, however there is a large disparity between the ping to the PCNA server and what is actually reported in-game. It is a difference of 280ms ping compared to ingame 340ms. The extra ping is noticeable when opening and looting containers, opening doors and collecting mats, where I get the 'Target out of range' error often.

Something is wrong ZOS at your end.

[SNIP]
6 19 ms 20 ms 18 ms ip-116-251-190-56.as55850.net [116.251.190.56]
7 32 ms 34 ms 38 ms et-0-0-2.ch-p-2.as55850.net [103.26.202.252]
8 36 ms 35 ms 38 ms et-0-0-8.cpc-p-2.as55850.net [116.251.184.250]
9 46 ms 55 ms 38 ms et-0-0-31.cpc-p-1.as55850.net [116.251.184.92]
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 281 ms 286 ms 283 ms 198.20.200.1

manukartofanu · September 29

I just ran into the weirdest bug. In Oathworn Pit, right at the end on the finishing blow, I suddenly turned invisible and everything froze. Meanwhile, I see people already typing in chat, thanking and congratulating each other. Then I get a “cannot connect to gameserver” message.
Which means that “cannot connect to gameserver” doesn’t necessarily indicate an actual connection problem — not even with ZOS servers — but it can serve as a placeholder for some unknown error.
The explanation that “your internet didn’t drop overall, but only to the ZOS servers” doesn’t hold up. Otherwise, how would I still be receiving chat messages from other players?

ISCOLDSOUL · October 6

Okay I got some advice to minimize addons, I did that and the game become playable, still sound was somewhat desynched though.
The weird thing is I had been playing with these addons for ages without any drama, TTC BANDITS etc etc'
Today was getting a lot of loading screens as I travelled thru Tamriel without the above addons inactive, nothing seems to make sense in this game

method__01 · October 6

there is def a prob atm with PC EU, cant port to IC ,forever loading screens, traders list not show or delayed
prob started 1-2 hours ago,was fine before
will switch to NA soon and check there

Seravi · November 3

I am noticing since the last update there is a 3-6 second delay in ALL actions and triggering combat. I cannot use weapons or spells without the delay. I have been questing in West Weald and Galen. I have noticed it is much worse in dungeons. Went into one in WW yesterday and I could walk past the baddies, no problem. Once I am past a few seconds they are like, "Wait was that someone we need to attack?" Sometimes they do, most of the time they don't.

I go up to a baddie, Hit my key to start slicing and dicing with my daggers and nothing happens. Okay the baddie is blind cause I am standing right here and he isn't aggro'd. Stand there and wait for the aggro THEN try to slice and dice. Oh wait delay on combat actions so take the hits THEN maybe the daggers will do something... ugh...

Serious, serious packet loss on the Akami hops. With a latency of 2-3ms this is just crazy.

PC NA No Addons

silentxthreat · November 3

Speaking as someone who has ran with 3 ball groups the only add-ons we use to track stuff is RDK and then run logs and review on ESO Logs. [/quote]

ive suspected the tracking ball groups use was the source of lag for years. I do wish zos would just ban any add on the makes the server unstable.